Tag: Zombies

Surviving The Night of the Zoopocalypse Can Be Completely Easy–Not!

Not only is The Night of the Zoopocalypse a crazy homage to George Romero films but also, its love for B-movie cinema is perfect!

Night of the ZoopocalypseElevation Pictures
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The Night of the Zoopocalypse is ready to hit theatres! And all I can say is that the action is as gonzo as the first Jurassic Park movie and the team up which must happen must be as solid as that team from the Ice Age movies. That’s most likely because the directors Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro have an IMDB credit of having worked on that franchise prior.

As the name of the film implies, all hell breaks loose when a meteorite crash lands inside the confines of Colepepper Zoo! After one critter finds it and gets turned into a mutant like zombie, things get hopping madcap! When this film is hard to review without giving away some spoilers, a second warning is required if you don’t want to know too much.

Here, Gracie (Gabbi Kosmidis) is a wolf who sort of knows what’s going on. But as how she can survive means learning how to be a leader of the pack herself. There’s a great message hidden between the lines, and when she eventually teams up with a few other creatures, namely a mountain lion named Dan (David Harbour), that’s when the story gets good. This pair figures out what’s going on. Also, I find this mighty beast very similar to Diego (Ice Age) and performance wise, it’s perhaps one of this actor’s best voice over work.

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Night of the Zoopocalypse! All Is Not Well When Zombies Invade!

Humour and zombies are abound in this sneak preview of Night of the Zoopocalypse! So where are the Penguins?

Night of the ZoopocalypseRelease Date: March 7, 2025

These days, it’s very rare to hear about what Clive Barker is up to, and I’m certainly glad he’s not retired. And although his attempts to get some of his stories animated has been tough (I remember hearing about failing to get Thief of Always made a long time ago), it seems Viva Pictures have done what others could not move forward! Night of the Zoopocalypse is a story concept this author pitched some time ago, and the casting and trailer look awesome!

The art style reminds me of Illumination Pictures’ work (I see a lot of Scrat in it), and I fully expected the Jaws homage. As for whether this work will carry some of that dark edge Barker is famous for, hopefully this film will balance what’s needed to make this work accessible for all ages.

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In Guy Maddin’s Rumours, What’s Amazing is That There’s No Secret Societies At Work Here

There’s lots of absurdist moments in this polticial satire set during the apocalypse in Rumours. What’s offered is more than just a movie review here, but also an analysis about what it all means!

Guy Maddin's Rumours Movie PosterNow playing at select theatres
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When Guy Maddin’s Rumours gets heavy with absurdist humour and presents a group of world leaders as inept, this movie may well be his most bizarre to date. That’s because of the setup: these folks have gathered to deal with some unknown global crisis. And as for whether the mud people they discover is part of it or not, that’s a mystery they’ll have to figure out, if they don’t kill each other first! I suspect these subplots had the help of co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson during filming, and reminded me of the classic soap opera, Dark Shadows.

By the time everyone agrees on how to enact a plan against some strange mauraders, it’s too late. Here, we meet German premier Hilda Orlmann (Cate Blanchett) trying to keep it together, but I suspect she’s ready to crack. And the people who are there to represent other extremes include Antonio Lamorle (Rolando Ravello) from Italy; Maxime Laplace (Roy Dupuis) from Canada; Sylvain Broulez (Denis Ménochet) from France; Tatsuro Iwasaki (Takehiro Hira) from Japan; Cardosa Dewind (Nikki Amuka-Bird) from the UK, and US President Edison Wolcott (Charles Dance). While most of them are caricatures of certain leaders we know in our world, the folks who don’t get lost in the shadows.

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To Die Alone is a Fear Much Worse Then Facing an Unknown Future

When the future of humanity is uncertain, to Die Alone is much worse since that thought must have crossed the minds of many during the COVID-19 pandemic. When humans are social animals, we can’t just simply isolate ourselves from the world at large.

Die Alone Movie PosterLowell Dean is really knocking it out of the park with two releases this year. His latest, Die Alone, concerns how to go on with life when that soulmate goes missing. In what Dark Match (movie review) offered was a look at trust amongst teammates in a literal fight against one another to the death in order to summon a demon. Both movies play on what’s most important, relationships, and add in the terror later.

Ultimately, it’s more of a survival drama seen through Ethan (Douglas Smith)’s eyes. He doesn’t know what’s going on because, during part of the narrative, he’s questioning why he can’t leave the farm. As a person who has moments of memory loss, that can be dangerous. He wants to be reunited with his wife, Emma (Kimberly-Sue Murray), but Mae (Carrie-Anne Moss) is keeping him close, and he’s not comfortable with that.

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The Zombie Wedding is Nothing to Moan Over When Crazy Feuding Familes Agree

The talents recruited to participate in The Zombie Wedding is nothing but spectacular. They come from all “walks” of the entertainment industry! And The Monkee magic certainly helps.

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Just how much of the undead virus exists in Zack (Donald Chang) depends on who you ask. I wouldn’t know he’s a zombie until it was stated, and when he wants to marry Ashley (Deepti Menon), nobody from their family is going to stop them from having The Zombie Wedding of the year! The media is even having a field day asking, how is it possible?

What I love about this comedy is that it really belongs in the same universe as A Little Bit Zombie. Although this work is over a decade old, I feel there are shared ideas. For this latest, director Micah Khan and writer Greg D’Alessandro crafted a fantastic satire on multiculturalism and how to get along.

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People Have to be Deliberately Slow When Treating, if Not Handling the Undead. As There’s No Advice In How to Do So

When some mysterious sound is loud enough to awaken the recently deceased, just how one deals with Handling the Undead is well explored here.

Handling the Undead Movie PosterPlaying in select theatres beginning June 7th (please check local listings)

I’m not entirely sure if Judgment Day has come in Thea Hvistendahl‘s genuinely creepy film, Handling the Undead. Unlike other zombie films where they’re treated as the villain or just creatures of happenstance, here, they don’t attack the living. Instead, they simply linger. They exist in the last place they knew as peaceful.

John Ajvide Lindqvist‘s 2005 novel may offer some explanation. When considering he wrote Let the Right One In, and I really loved the cinematic adaptation of this work, I had high hopes going in. What’s presented isn’t too different in style, but as for that origin story, we’re left in the dark for why it started. The few people who are asking questions are perplexed and this story doesn’t really dive into it. Shame on me for not reading this book, but after watching this film, I’ll be picking up a copy to get answers to some lingering questions I have.

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