Last week we talked about what we could do to bridge the gap between seasons of the Walking Dead. The idea of watching a classic zombie movie then discussing it was floated and had a few people who were interested. I thought today would be a great time to start.
The suggestion was that the first movie could be Zombieland but it is not available for streaming through Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu plus. I wanted to pick a movie that was widely available so it should be on one of these services.
So, if the players are ready, I am going to throw out this weeks movie. For the movie I have chosen the 1984 classic “Night of the Comet.” which is available on Netflix streaming and Amazon prime.
They used the same premise as the Night of the Triffids movies, those who were physically exposed to the phenomenom were the ones affected/killed/zombified.
Both breakouts as I recall were extraterrestrial in nature too as opposed to Return of the Living Dead which was also caused by physical exposure but caused by a manmade chemical.
The older sister was played by Catherine Mary Stewart, one of my major teenage crushes. She was also in The Last Starfighter (which I watched countless times) and Weekend At Bernie’s.
Yes and looking it up he also starred in Eating Raoul which is a dark comedy that I really liked. I never realized it was the same guy. Looks like Robert has been entertaining me for years.
Mine too actually and we surely will but I didn’t want to start out with a movie that wasn’t readily available online which is why I chose this movie. That plus this is a similar type of movie as Zombieland with the girls playing the leads.
Just the other night, I was thinking of this movie. The whole ‘the people inside were saved’ thing.
First of all, it’s not as good as I remembered. But OH. THE. EIGHTIES! I had somehow blotted out the whole argyle craze. I was happy with that. But oh, no it was brought back! And the hair!
It was odd to see tool wielding zombies too. It was a fun trip to the past. I remember my friends and I in high school repeating the line, “Daddy would’ve gotten us uzis!”
For a zombie movie, there sure weren’t a lot of zombies - just two, if I recall correctly (the guy outside the movie theatre and the kid at Hector’s house - the other zombies were just in Samantha’s dreams).
The talking zombies were unsettling, though (more so than most zombies).
No, there couldn’t be many zombies since most people straight out melted and the ones who had been inside wouldn’t become zombies. Given that though I’m not sure what the rush was to find a cure since there weren’t that many who were still infected and there weren’t enough survivors to find all the infected survivors in time anyway.
