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io9MoviesArmy of The Dead‘s Most Disturbing Zombie Is Also Its Most Tragic
Though there are no in-universe connections between the worlds of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and the director’s Dawn of the Dead from 2004, one of the Netflix zombie movie’s more interesting plot points feels like a purposeful callback to the earlier film’s most disturbing scene. Soon after Army of the Dead’s hired guns … Continued
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io9MoviesSeance Offers a Reminder That Toxic Friends Are the Worst Kind of Evil
There are a lot of horror movies set at boarding schools—almost always all-girls’ boarding schools—and they tend to follow the same template: a new student realizes something is off about her surroundings. Seance starts down that same path… but it sprinkles in some unexpected elements once it gets going. Directed and written by Simon Barrett—who … Continued
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io9The Walking Dead’s Zombie Apocalypse Origin May Never Be Revealed
For folks living in the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead, only three things matter: How do I survive, how can we fix this…and why is this happening? The last question might seem like the easiest one to answer, but it’s something TWD’s chief content officer Scott Gimple says we may never know. Gimple discussed the … Continued
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io9The Walking Dead Will Return in February, and a Terminator Is Along for the Ride
Season 10 of The Walking Dead is rising from the grave. As previously announced, the 10th season has been extended for six additional episodes and now we know those will start airing on February 28. When the episodes return, there will be a few new cast members, among them Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick as … Continued
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io9MoviesColin Firth to Face Down the Undead in New York Will Eat You Alive
If there’s a zombie apocalypse, Colin Firth is in trouble. Zombies don’t care how dapper you are, after all. As reported by Deadline, Firth will be facing a fictional zombie crisis, at least, as the leading man in New York Will Eat You Alive, an upcoming film adaptation of the horror comedy comic Zombie Brother. … Continued
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io9MoviesHow the 1918 Flu Inspired Your Zombie Costume
Behind that putrefying flesh, there’s a lot of hidden depth to the zombie. As humanities scholar Jeffery Cohen puts it in his book Monster Theory: Reading Culture, “monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.” In 1918, with the Spanish Flu ravaging the U.S., we turned our fears into zombies. Many mistakenly … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Resident Evil Cinematic Reboot Has Cast Its Major Heroes and Villains
Beloved as Sony’s original Resident Evil cinematic franchise was, it always made a concerted effort to steer clear of certain narrative elements and character details from Capcom’s video games of the same name. From the sounds of things, that’s all about to change in the studio’s upcoming Resident Evil reboot. According to the Hollywood Reporter, … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe Walking Dead Semi-Finale Threw Out the Old to Make Way for the New (Craziness)
When we last saw The Walking Dead, our survivors were holed up in an assortment of buildings surrounded by the insane Beta, his remaining Whisperer minions, and approximately four kazillion zombies. How can Daryl, Carol, Judith, and the others survive such an overwhelming onslaught? I’ll give you a two-word hint: Talking Heads. It’s been more … Continued
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io9MoviesNetflix’s Army of the Dead Is Getting Its Own Snyderverse
Netflix is banking on Zack Snyder’s zombie heist thriller becoming their next big thing. The streaming platform announced that Snyder’s upcoming movie Army of the Dead is getting an expanded universe before it even takes off, with a prequel film and an anime spinoff series. Army of the Dead is the kind of movie only … Continued
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io9GamesAn Ode to the Museum Scene in The Last of Us Part II
Weeks later, I’m still completely stunned by it. I’m sitting there playingThe Last of Us Part II, and a few hours into the game it flashes back. Not too far. The scene still takes place after the events of the first game. But Joel is taking Ellie through the woods to give her a surprise … Continued
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io9MoviesPeninsula‘s Yeon Sang-ho on How Zombie Movies Can Bring Us Hope Amid Real-Life Horrors
Peninsula, the sequel to 2016 South Korean zombie sensation Train to Busan, is out today, and if you were a fan of its predecessor—or are just a fan of thrilling, post-apocalyptic, flesh-chomping action—it’s a must-watch. We got a chance to chat with director Yeon Sang-ho to learn even more about his latest. The following interview … Continued
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io9TrailersSurprise! In the New Walking Dead Spinoff, Humans Are Still the Real Assholes
Have we…considered the possibility…that there’s a chance…that…we are the real monsters? As we shuffle ever closer to our second Walking Dead spinoff, AMC has dropped a new trailer that introduces us to the world of, well, World Beyond, and its young protagonists who’ve known little more than a life of zombie apocalypse shenanigans, having come … Continued
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io9MoviesTrain to Busan Sequel Peninsula Is a Rip-Roaring, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombie-Infested Good Time
Even the most bloodthirsty horror fan could be forgiven for wondering if there’s really room in the world for yet another zombie movie. Then something like the new Train to Busan sequel, Peninsula, comes along and offers a reminder that in the right hands, the genre still has plenty of chomp left. Peninsula is written … Continued
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io9The Last of Us Head Wants to ‘Decouple’ the HBO Show From the Game Experience
There have been many attempts to turn video games into successful movies and TV shows, like Assassin’s Creed, Tomb Raider, and Super Mario Bros. Sony is still trying to make Uncharted happen. For the most part they’ve all fallen short. Craig Mazin, who’s working on HBO’s The Last of Us, shared his thoughts on the … Continued
