Sunday 11 March 2012

Research into Similar Films - Zombie Land


Website- http://www.zombieland.com/



Zombie Land was made in 2009 and is an american horror/ thriller. The film is centered round a human Columbus who finds himself alone in a world being over taking by flesh eating zombies. Looking for his family he acquaintance with Tallahassee who also has survived the zombies. Traveling together. Whist on their way the two meet Wichita and her younger sister Little Rock, the sister are con artists but fail to gain the boys wepons, which leads them to steal there car. After catching up with the girls at Pacific Playland an amusement park which is supposedly zombie free. After time a battle breaks out between the 4 humans and an army of zombies and Columbus and Tallahassee find themselves trapped in the drop ride, but then Tallahessee creates a distraction and locks himself in a games booth which gives Columbus time to go after the 2 sisters. In the end the battle is won and Columbus realises what hes been missing: a family.

This film is simillar to ours because we have made the zombie relate to the ones in Zombie Land by having them run at a fast pace and the characteristics of the zombie will also be simillar.

Review - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6273649/Zombieland-review.html

The horror comedy Zombieland is smart enough to cut to the chase: the blighters have taken over, there are scattered survivors, off we go. One of these is our narrator, played by the endearingly unheroic Jesse Eisenberg, who begins the film with the list of rules he’s devised to prolong survival for as long as possible -- avoiding bathrooms, for instance, for the simple reason that the way out is the same as the way in, and sitting in a cubicle is effectively serving yourself up to the undead in a lunchbox.

He hitches a lift with a gun-toting redneck from Florida, in which role Woody Harrelson is perhaps inevitable, but still good company, and before long two sassy sisters (Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin) have joined them on the road. The destination in Ruben Fleischer’s film is never quite the point -- it has an amiable, episodic randomness, as the quartet battle and scavenge their way from supermarket to roadside boutique to Beverly Hills mansion, complete with surprise cameo from a slumming-it Hollywood legend. Eisenberg, with this and the underrated Adventureland, is carving out quite the niche in shy, virginal heroes we’re keen to see get laid; his likely partner is the hugely promising Stone (Superbad, The Rocker), a tough cookie who projects the aura of being wiser than her years.
The fact that the stakes never feel especially high ought to be an asset, but it isn’t, quite. Cultish slacker cool isn’t something you can work to achieve -- you have it or you don’t -- and Fleischer is angling for it just a tad too hard. For all the splattery takedowns of groaning extras, it’s fitting that Zombieland ends up in an amusement park, because it basically is one. You get your money’s worth.

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