Dawn of the Dead

Zack Synder directed this marvelous remake of Dawn of the Dead, with a script written by James Gunn, who's currently reviving the DC Comics universe.

Sarah Polley stars as Ana, a nurse who finds herself right in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

She literally wakes right up to zombies in her bedroom, which is why she didn't even have time to put on her slippers.

With the zombies pounding on the door, Ana decides it's best to get the hell out of zombie Dodge.

Because of this quick thinking, Ana goes barefoot for a good chunk of the movie, for about the first twenty minutes or so.

Although blood-splattered, Ana hasn't been bit, which is how the zombie affliction is passed on from person to person. Sarah Polley has reportedly retired from acting, which is a shame. But she's gone on to become a great film director in her own right.

The Signal

The Signal is a horror movie that was released in 2007. It's basically a variation on the zombie apocalypse, with a group of people struggling to survive the first days of a zombie outbreak.

Anessa Ramsey is seen here bound and gagged with duct tape. She's been trussed up like this by her paranoid neighbor, who's not sure if he should trust her.

She's eventually freed, once he realizes that she's not a rabid, wild-eyed zombie.

Tristan Towne is later seen trussed up in the same way. Only this time, she's being gagged on-screen.

The zombies in The Signal are not the undead. They're live people who have been driven to a psychotic rage by a strange transmission that has re-wired their brains, turning them into non-stop rage monsters who kill anybody that crosses their path.

The Stephen King novel Cell, and the Danny Boyle horror movie 28 Days Later (which are both very good, BTW) also use the same premise of a zombie outbreak with still-living rage monsters.

The Ghost Galleon

Barbara Rey stars in a horror movie that has many names: El Buque maldito, aka The Blind Dead 3, aka Horror of the Zombies, and also known as The Ghost Galleon.

The film is the third in a series of four flicks that deal with a group of undead Knights Templar who cause a lot of problems for people.

But before she even meets the undead knights (which is the name of my new horror haunt, BTW), Babs gets kidnapped by regular humans.

She's tied up on a bed in her bikini, until a guy comes in to give her some food. He leaves her untied when she complains about something, and he goes to fix it (really nice kidnapper!).

Once he's gone, Babs takes charge by getting out of the bed (hence the swinging bare feet) and dressing herself (boo!).

But it's not long before the undead knights show up and ruin what was a nice little kidnap drama. Oh well, at least the storyline fits for Halloween.

Speaking of Zombies

In my post yesterday, I told of the bondage scene in the upcoming Korean zombie show All Of Us Are Dead. But that's not the only zombie production with a scene.

In 28 Weeks Later, Catherine McCormack spends some time strapped down to a gurney, and she's even barefoot. It doesn't end well for her character.

28 Weeks is a sequel to 28 Days Later, and both films have a different version of zombies, in that they are people who are still alive, but they're infected with a rage virus that drives them into a homicidal frenzy.

If you haven't seen them, both '28' movies are very good and are highly recommended for zombie movie fans.

28 Days/Weeks Later are on physical media (DVD/Blu-Ray), and--as of this writing--they're also both on HBO-Max.

Zombies in Bondage

Netflix, one of my favorite networks, has a new zombie series from Korea called All Of Us Are Dead. It's based on a Korean webtoon released in 2009. And there's a bound and gagged woman in the trailer.

And it looks like the bound and gagged woman turns into a zombie while still tied up. She's really having a rough day. But this still looks very interesting. The TV series makes its debut on Netflix Jan 28. Here's the trailer:

28 Weeks Later

 28 Weeks Later is the sequel to 28 Days Later, the zombie movie about England being taken over by people possessed by a rage virus that turns them into homicidal zombies. 

 Catherine McCormack stars as a woman who is strapped down in a lab. That's Rose Byrne standing by her side.

The rage virus from the first film has largely burnt itself out in England at the start of the sequel.

But once the barefoot McCormack breaks free, the rage virus becomes all the rage once more.

 Also starring Jeremy Renner, Robert Carlyle, Idris Elba, and Imogen Poots, 28 Days Later is just as good as the first film and is highly recommended for its BF bondage scene, as well as a lot more. 

Haunters get Haunted

A pair of professional haunters find themselves being haunted on the job by a very strange man in my latest Poser picture. You can see it right here.

Dawn of the Shoeless Dead

Sarah Polley stars in the remake of Dawn of the Dead as Ana, a nurse who finds herself right in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

She literally wakes right up to zombies in her bedroom, which is why she didn't even have time to put on her slippers.

Although blood-splattered, she hasn't been bit, which is how the zombie affliction is passed on from person to person.

With the zombies pounding on the door, Ana decides it's best to get the hell out of Dodge.

Because of this quick thinking, Ana goes barefoot for a good chunk of the movie.

Zack Snyder's take on Dawn of the Dead is very good, overall. It's highly recommended.

Black Summer

I hesitated to watch Black Summer on Netflix at first, because I thought it was just another zombie TV show, and I was getting tired of the whole zombie thing, overall. But I recently saw it, and I'm glad I did, because Black Summer is very good.

Taking place in the opening days of a zombie outbreak, Black Summer is a supercharged race for survival just as society starts breaking down around the characters. It's gripping, fast-paced, and (unlike other shows) doesn't get rid of the zombie threat in exchange for lame soap opera. There are no scenes of interest for "those of us," but Black Summer is still an enjoyably scary ride. Recommended.