Tag Archive | shaun of the dead

Research Study Reveals “Ideal” Hideout Spot During a Zombie Apocalypse
From Phys.org: A team of Cornell University researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests heading for the hills, in the Rockies, to save your “braains” from the “undead.” Reading World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (reviewed on The G.O.R.E. Score previously, click here) by […]

“Doc of the Dead” premieres at SXSW, spans the life of the zombie trend
From USA Today: The living dead have had movies and TV shows. Now they have their own documentary. Doc of the Dead, directed by Alexandre Philippe (The People vs. George Lucas), covers the zombie genre from silent films through The Walking Dead. The film had its premiere at the South by Southwest festival with showings Monday and […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Boy Eats Girl
Boy Eats Girl (2005) Original Release Date: April 6, 2005 Run Time: 77 minutes This is the first viewing I’ve ever had of a zombie movie that came out of Ireland, and I must say, I was pleasantly surprised. “Boy Eats Girl” was clearly made in response to the success of 2004’s smash zom-com hit […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Woke Up Dead
Woke Up Dead (2009) Original Release date: October 2, 2009 Run Time: 84 minutes (compilation of 22 “webisodes”) In the classic 1985 film “The Breakfast Club,” Principal Vernon tried to intimidate one of the students under his Saturday-School jurisdiction by saying to him, among other things, “Don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Slither
Original Release Date: March 31, 2006 Run Time: 95 minutes There’s a fairly standard sci-fi/horror trope that a lot of stories use: semi-sentient alien organism visits Earth and takes over individual humans by entering our bodies through our mouths/ears/noses/butts/any other orifices they can wriggle into. Many times, the aliens “kill” the humans or incapacitate their […]