Zombieland - A Brilliant Fusion of Comedy and Horror!!

I love zombie movies.  For some reason seeing a rotting, disgusting former human being munching on other human beings is entertaining to me.  I know a few other people who also enjoy a good zombie movie for the same reason, so I know I'm not totally out of my gourd.

Zombieland pushes the border of good zombie entertainment. It takes a movie style that was honestly becoming a bit boring, mainly consisting of zombie movie rehashes that were so bad they were only good for sitting around and making fun of how bad they were, and infusing comedy into it and making an all around great movie.

The movie doesn't spend time setting up the zombie epidemic, instead it starts out after the major outbreak that started it, showing us a few snipets in flashback. Our hero practices his rules for surviving in zombieland, which are the things people have been shouting out at the screen since zombie movies started, and meets up with three more compatriots, the tough guy played by Woody Harrelson, who seems to be adapting well to zombieland, enjoying putting zombies down and searching for a twinkie, but we find out not all is what it seems with him, and the two girls, who were own their own running scams before, and are now using the same methods to survive. They all meet up and eventually work together to survive.

You can't say too much more about the movie without ruining it for those who haven't seen it yet. There isn't a lot of gore compared to most zombie movies, and in fact the majority of the movie doesn't have a lot of zombies in it, mainly telling the tale of how our heroes meet up, bits of their lives before the outbreak, and how they're managing to survive.

However zombie lovers don't despair, the final part of the film has the epic zombie showdown that we've come to love and expect.

So, I hope I've convinced you to give this movie a go, it's available from most online, or local video stores, or pickup a new or used copy by using the Amazon link below.

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Welcome all!!!

Hey everyone, I'd like to welcome you all to my new Horror Movie Review blog!!

I've been watching horror movies for as long as I can remember.  My first memories of watching them was on channel 11 out of St. Louis.  Every Saturday at, I believe, 11pm they'd have the Saturday Night Shocker.  It was usually an older, pre 70's horror flick, pretty tame by todays' standards, but I gotta tell ya, it was enough to send this little boy and his great aunt running into the hall to hide from the TV on more than one occasion.

Even though they scared me, I continued to watch.  I endured the teasing from my parents and brother, and now my wife, because I was terrified of the Abominable Snowman in Rupolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 

Eventually I got over my phobia or the horror movie and graduated to a fan of the genre.

I became ravenous for knowledge about horror films.  I wanted to know all about them, who starred in what, how many versions of Frankenstein were there, what were these Hammer Movies I had heard about.  Every book that my school library had about horror films had my name on the checkout cards more than once. 

Up until I was 10 or so my only outlet for these great films were the showings on channel 11 and books from the library, but in 1983 my family got our first VCR and rental locations started opening up.  All kinds of horror movies, especially ones from the late 70's and early 80's were available, and I discovered a new type of horror film.  Gone from production were most of the suspenseful, classic style of horror movie, this was the era of the Gore Movie!!!  It seems people were so unaffected by the classic horror film anymore that the industry proceeded to gross out the viewers.  It worked, but it wasn't for me, again I returned to running away, it would be another 6 years or so before I would finally see the great gore classics of the early 80's.

 By the time I was 16, all of my friends were talking about the Friday the 13th movies, Halloween and others and I decided I had to see them, and again I was hooked.  These new gory movies weren't so bad.  Some of them had great suspenseful moments like the older classics, and some were just plain bad.  However even the bad ones had their moments.

It was around this time that I decided I had to see as many horror films as possible.  I devoted a lot of time and money from my part time job to either recording or purchasing as many horror movies as possible.  I have to tell you, it wasn't long before I had a sizable collection of video tapes built up.  Luckily we now have DVD's and the age of the Video Tape has passed.  My collection continues to grow with both classic and newer horror movies.

As a side effect of this collecting horror films, I have an inordinate amount of useless horror trivia floating around in my head, and at the suggestion of a good friend and fellow horror buff, who regularly picks my brain for good zombie movies, or horror movies with a certain parts of the female anatomy present in an undressed state in them, I have decided to create this blog.

I will review both classic and new horror films and all in between.  Expect a new review hopefully every day.  I'll try to bounce from classic, to new, zombi to vampire, and mix it all up, and hopefully you'll discover a few favorites of your own.

Please feel free to comment, or if you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed before you rent, watch or buy it, let me know and I'll try to fit it in.

I hope you enjoy my reviews, I know there are a lot of review sites out there, hopefully this one will become your favorite.

So tell all your friends and fellow horror movies buffs and let the fright begin!!!