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Originally posted by thebland
To me, Zombies are the most horrible and scary of all fictional creatures.
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I haven't seen H1000Z, but your post is interesting. I USED to think that zombies were scary, until some time in the last decade or so when zombie movies stopped even trying to be scary and instead became adrenaline-fueled, heavily-armed war movies.
It's hard to put a finger on when it all started (Evil Dead 2, maybe?), but the pattern is all the same (a pattern started by Aliens): first half of the film displays the zombie problem and inserts occasionally a few jump scares. Then about half-way or 2/3 through, you have the obligatory scene of the fed-up cast arming themselves (Schwarzenegger style) with enough weapons and ammunition to bring down a small country. Then someone (usually the hot tomboy female) says something like "let's kick some zombie A". And it's at this point when the flick stops being scary and turns into some kind of action violence revenge flick aimed at 13 year olds who dream of wielding automatic weapons.
Now, que the techno/rock/punk/rap music. Doesn't matter which. And we sit back and watch the cast systematically go through and blow zombies to pieces until there's some big explosion/fire to end the madness. Sure, one or two won't make it when s/he is eaten by a zombies after (somehow) running out of ammo, or getting stuck in a corner or something. But there's never any doubt that they will prevail.
And that's the key right there: the people fighting back against the zombies aren't scared anymore, so we have no reason to be either. There's no more tension.
I swear it's true. There's actually another zombie flick called
House of the Dead coming out that looks EXACTLY THE SAME. Watch the trailer on the link and see! And it's not just zombie movies.
To be fair: I have not seen 28 Days Later, so maybe it is more original.