I think it’s supposed to make me feel like holing up in a basement, wielding a baseball bat and a dwindling supply of shotgun shells, to get away from the tiresomely relentless assault of new zombie media vehicles.
How else can I explain it? It’s been going on for years now, and shows no sign of letting up.
I just heard about Gahan Wilson’s micro-budget “Cowboy Zombies.”
For fuck’s sake. Can we please put a bullet in this trend’s head already and put it down for 50 or so years?
And while we’re at it, I have a crate full of freshly-sharpened stakes for the fucking vampires, too. There is no need for ANY kind of new vampire-based story for at least another century.
But the world’s mythologies are so rich with horrifying beasties! Why (oh, why?!) do we have to keep going back to the same old well over and over and over and over and…?
To be more precise, when are we going to get a good Lovecraft adaptation? I know, Re-Animator kicks ass but it’s far from faithful and The Call of Cthulhu is too obscure…
Because it’s easy. Audiences understand zombies. So you don’t have to waste time explaining the idea to them. You can just start the movie and five minutes later you’re in the gore zone.
Make a movie about cambions or jumbies or selkies, you’re going to have to stop and have a bunch of exposition to explain what’s going on.
I too would like to see some good work done with Lovecraft. Ignoring the difficulty of depicting the new color, “The Color Out of Space” could be amazing in the hands of a director skilled in atmosphere and body horror.
If someone would make a film of “The Wendigo” that captured the awesome terror of the unpeopled forest, it could be amazing. But everyone’s so addicted to plot - I see the existing movie of it adds a ton of characters and interpersonal conflict. Bullshit. You need vast, creepy wilderness and an awesome actor to play Defago, and it could be chilling.