The zombies are back in style Halloween with this "The Walking Dead" Premiere at the AMC and the British miniseries "Dead Set" at the IFC. Frankly, not a moment too soon. We all have, but all other goods destroyed monsters, vampires and werewolves turning perfectly decent sad eyes pin-up boys (and girls), reducing the size of the evil and corruption that once represented the fear of eternal youth.
But zombies, well, there are many things you can do to make a zombie. You can experiment with their land and the speed of there (the global pandemic? Transfers in hell?), But there is no way to make a sexy zombie. The mopey, Bella seasonal disorder that affects a man whose jaw is covered by a wire destroyed.
Which is not to say that the zombies are not complicated. While sex is about the mythology of vampires, werewolves and embody the animal in every man, zombies are more socio-political. Originally created by voodoo zombies, Haiti, working in the field - the proletariat final. They shook their chains in 1950 by the "Tales from the Crypt" comic and the novel "I Am Legend", but it was not until 1968 that found its true leader. In "Night of the Living Dead George Romero appear to be turned into consumers of energy, and the Rosetta stone of this kind.
"The Walking Dead" and "Dead Set" share the story under a Zombie Apocalypse and clammy, saturated grisliness detailed graphics (fake blood and evisceration technology has certainly improved since "The Night of the Living Dead" or "Braveheart"), but very different ambitions, the message and implementation. "Dead Set", broadcast in Britain last year, a quintet, 21 / 2 hour series, is a small, sharp social commentary. When news of zombies fill the air, the crew of "Big Brother" and is quickly forgotten story of Charlie Brooker is the "reality show" imagination from the inside out - the house is now one of the few safe places shrinking the world and still work to survive.
Although it is not as wide as a wonderful satire on the 2004 film "Shaun of the Dead," "Dead Set", a manual on how ordinary people can be in a job situation zombie, so brilliant send senseless act. If you like Big Brother zombie walk, your eyes show logos are equal and in one particularly touching scene, a literal stripping is accompanied by a metaphoric - Brooker is not a fan of reality shows.
Based on the popular comic novel, "The Walking Dead" is more ambitious in scope and tone. Writer-director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile ") without problems of big block American traditions, including Western theater of separated families and, of course, post-apocalyptic story, the creation of the epic zombie First, the patterns of expansion, the characters and the archetypal images to rival "Gone With the Wind."
Our hero is Rick Grimes Southern sheriff (Andrew Lincoln), meeting in a more open society, we, as a man in the discussion of the relationship with her partner Shane (Jon Bernthal) is active. After the shooting was part of a wounded Grimes. As with the hybrid zombie "28 Days Later" is a state of coma, which can save you - Grimes wakes up in an empty hospital in ruins and a world gone mad. On the way home through a maze of dead bodies and zombies, finds his wife and son disappeared. Father and son, survivors take in the nature of the "Wanderer" - have a good tradition zombies, do not move very fast, but are dangerous in packs, which can only destroy their brains are killed.
On why and when they are unbearable and elliptical Grimes less interesting. But when he learns of an emergency center in Atlanta, decided that he and his family, after spiking the guns and a horse.
I can not help but think that the image of a police horse clip rattling along a deserted road in the direction of a city overrun by zombies jump started this project as a whole - is a great game, even more terrible silence as each mesentery gum could be. Darabont understands the horror, the speed is everything, and the first two episodes, which uses nature is beautiful - Hide the green fields, forests and parks, the chaos that humanity today, while the empty streets and statues remind us the futility of the rubble of the property.
Except, of course, firearms. The weapons are the key - to Grimes, the messy group of survivors gathered in the city and the other survivors in the forest. The disadvantage of zombies, their method of destruction. Vampires and werewolves at least a small amount of ritual and anticipation, just shoot the zombies in the head. It requires more scenes reminiscent of a video game and a question or the entire zombie genre was not dreaming as a way to justify the inclusion of a group of people in the head, without guilt. (The only thing that is morally less difficult for a zombie Nazis, an area popular call of duty to kill.)
In the first scene we see the emotional toll of the killings and take in some cases, Grimes and another tribute to the humanity of their former enemies. But zombies are not yet clearly human. Or rather, is the nightmare version of humanity to fear that our friends and family not to be trusted because they can run with us.
The same fear is played among the survivors - the suspicion that some of tourism, we just have the habit of any change in the order of things hidden executioners and tyrants, murderers and rapists and robbers shows. "Living Dead", as it does any good horror story, or the interests of the samples, the exact alignment of the clash of fundamental human decency to stop four-times-in the morning when we are convinced that all the world is trying to eat us alive around us.