OOC: Updates and moawr Dead Island

I've been lazy, but hell, now it's summer and I've been writing lots of material with all the free time I've gotten. But anyway, will be back on the blogging grind, and also, moawr wootness for Dead Island as it's set to get released on September 6, 2011 with E3 and other blog updates on a special edition with an exclusive arena and a blue print to assemble a special weapon.


None the less, I'll be vibing out to this brilliant theme.

Review: Rammbock (Siege of the Dead)

Still somewhat trying to find the spark to really get Willford up and going again, but at the moment, I am partaking in an array of different media outlets that are pertaining to zombies/automatons/undead and the relating ilk. Here I stumbled upon a movie from Germany that's actually really good.

The original title is Rammbock, but so far the only English outlet it has been released in at the moment (United Kingdom) has dubbed it Siege of the Dead. While the latter title is more accurate, I love the formers because it's already a simpler title to remember, foriegn or not and it doesn't give off the stench of trying to relate to Romero's Dead Trilogy like so many films have used in their titles.

When Michael arrives in the city to visit his girlfriend, he soon realises that a terrible virus has spread across the city, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Trapped in his girlfriend's [apartment], he teams up with Harper, a teenage plumber, as hordes of infected zombies begin to swarm the building. [Synopsis from UK site]

The film clocks in at a meager sixty minutes, barely scratching a full-fledged feature billing, but this is where it's actually a good thing. In a sub-horror genre that's already been done to death, sometimes trimming the fat is what helps make a body more lean and better. The movie does retread on familiar territory that the genre has covered many times already, but the time it takes for this movie to move and how the events unfold, the creators behind this film nail everything almost right to make it a quick thrilling adventure.

Gone are the prolonged drama of that one token character having to fuck things up because they're too up in themselves to give attention to the other surviving others who've probably helped each other survive longer than they would have alone. There's also no time that the film meager between actions as the original title's literal translation in English sets itself as a literal battering ram that keeps on trudging till breaking through to the end. Even if it's partially unrealistic to have an Odyssey sort of deal happen in real life where the next move to progress the story comes in right after the last hurdle. It's a movie first and foremost, not a documentary. This is something the viewer will have to accept as the protagonist goes from his ex-girlfriend's apartment room towards the roof top in twenty minutes.

The best thing about this film is that it keeps you on your toes. Again, reiterating the short running time, it helps, especially for safely assuming a number of well-seasoned zombiholics who might be eyeing this after finishing [REC 2] or another viewing of Shaun of the Dead. I actually liked how this film handles their take on the zombie/infection mythos. Following the rabies trend that has been made popular from 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead 04, they add in a plot device that makes the film all the more enthralling to see what happens next if the virus gets agittated within the victim. Not much else to say for this shortie, but it is a must-see to notify to all. Rammbock will satisfy anyone with a need for a good quick apocalyptic/epidemic horror.

9/10 Official UK site: http://www.siegeofthedead.com/

OOC: Dead Island

Well, I know Willford has been dead (not literal) for awhile, but yaw, got lazy and had a shit time registering new semester classes and dealing with other chores at hand. Also, since season one of The Walking Dead finished, I wanted to take a break from zombies, but after seeing this trailer, I think I found my muse to write about the undead again.

This is probably one of the most well done trailers yet and the graphics are just so lush even for a CGI scene cut. The music as well as the events unravelling are just pure moving brilliance. Really interested on this game coming out, and apparently film rights have already been snatched up by IGN's reports. Anyway, coming back soon with regular stuff...

OOC: What have I seen?

Yeah so I usually have a jonesing for a new zombi/zombi-ish film/show and I have a horrible time keeping track of what I've seen to date. To make sure I don't get recommended the same stuff/crap I've seen already I've decided in no order (since I will be including generally panned zombi films in the mix as well as not really remembering when I saw which at what time) here's what I've seen so faaaaaaar... and it will be updated whenever I remember to or remember that I made such a list :p

? = not sure if year is accurate

Night of the Living Dead(1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Night of the Living Dead (2008?)

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

Dawn of the Dead (2008?)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Land of the Dead

Diary of the Dead

Survival of the Dead

Dead Set

[REC]

Resident Evil

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Extinction

Resident Evil: Degeneration

The Zombie Diaries

Return of the Living Dead

Return of the Living Dead II

Return of the Living Dead III

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis

Zombie Strippers

Beyond Re-Animator

Braindead/Dead Alive

Undead

Dead & Buried

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue/Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Zombi 2

The Beyond/Gates of Hell

City of the Living Dead

House by the Cemetary

Automation Transfusion - Currently stands as WORST zombi film I've ever seen X_x

House of the Dead

House of the Dead 2

28 Days Later
Burial Grounds

Zombi Holocaust/Dr Butcher MD (Medical Deviant)

Shaun of the Dead

Flesh Eaters

White Zombi

King of the Zombis

Outpost

The Plague

Children of the Living Dead

Zombieland

Boy Eats Girl

All Souls Day

Evil Dead 2

Army of Darkness

Days of Darkness - overtly religous boy was homosexually repressed

Pontypool

Dead Snow (Dod Sno)

Deathwatch

Fido

Forest of the Dead

I Sell the Dead

Night of the Creeps

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary II

Planet Terror

Quarantine
They Came Back (Les Revenants) - this film would even make the undead weap in sorrow ;(

Scooby-Doo on Zombi Island

Severed

Slither

Versus

- Yeah so that's probably just a tip (and by tip I mean a thumbtack on the iceberg that mobbed the Titanic) of all total zombi films in existence I've seen. I still know a good deal of zombi films that I've yet to see or even see released at all (ie: Worst Case Scenario... soooooo wanted to be one of their zombiz when they still had that sign-up) Anyway, thanks to The Walking Dead currently airing, I'll be held over till I get to see [REC]2 and The 4th Reich :B

OOC: The Walking Dead - motion comic

Just in case you're wondering about the 'OOC' in this post title, it refers to 'Out of Character' in which I'll do some occasional posts not affiliated with the ongoing entries of this blog's plot. They'll probably be few and far in-between.

Anyway, I ended up hitting this lovely AMC online promotional and it's pretty sweet. I loved the animation given to the comic as well as the voices fitting. If the live action series didn't look so awesome already, I'd probably go for this, but it's a nice appetizer till October for the series premier.

There's no HD-version of the TV series trailer yet online, but there's other cool stuff at AMC's page like behind-the-scenes material and interviews.

I guess I can count this blog as a partial fansite. Just don't expect me to post about other zombie series all the time. Every once in a while, a fun tidbit of things that may be floating under the radar...

[click here for AMC's official site] <--- click here as an alternative if video does not show up