To begin, let’s establish a baseline of sorts. Sang ho-Yeon’s Train To Busan, while it promotes itself as a zombie movie, isn’t. It’s actually closer to “infected” movies like 28 Days Later, Rec, The Girl With All The Gifts and The Night Eats The World than a traditional zombie movie. And while George Romero didn’t […]
Looking at Dominique Rocher’s The Night Eats The World in a somewhat cursory fashion, you might assume that it’s a copy of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Sure, it takes place in Paris, while 28 Days Later calls the UK home. The latter revolves around a man named Jim (Cillian Murphy), who wakes up in […]
Because let’s be clear, 2016’s The Girl With All The Gifts isn’t a zombie movie in the same way 2002’s 28 Days Later and it’s sequel also aren’t zombie movies (a zombie is by definition undead–as in dead, yet still walking. In either movie that’s not the case) but it does follow the tropes of […]
Alex Garland‘s (the writer of Sunshine, 28 Days Later, The Beach, etc) directoral debut, Ex Machina, looks at least superficially like it covers similar territory as Transcendence, though hopefully more successfully. That being said, I assume it’s only coincidence that Ex Machina feels very similar to another film that came out earlier this year, The Machine, the trailer which […]
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