Every now and then news comes our way of a concept so sky-high, so perfect in it’s conception, that the final product can’t possibly live up to the promise -hey, just look at Snakes on a Plane if you want proof – but the latest project from Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg (the team behind Pulp Fiction, among others) just might break the cycle.
The project?
Zombie Beatles!
Yep, word has it that we’ll be following John as he zoms out Ringo, Paul and George and they embark on a worldwide brain-munching tour in the world’s first Zom-rom-musi-com (apart from Happiness of the Katikuri’s obviously…). And who can stop the fearsome four? Why the world’s best zombie hunters: Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono!
This sounds willfully idiotic and awesomely amazing in equal measure, and hey, it’s got to be more entertaining than any of Paul’s recent albums right?
Zombie apocalypses may be all the rage these days, but it’s heartening to see that other cretures that go bump in the night aren’t being completely ignored. Witness the new trailer for Daybreakers, with the always value for money Sam Neil leads a particularly stellar cast fighting a Vampire plague ridden Earth.
Let’s face it-any movie with Willem DeFoe firing a crossbow at Dracula has to be worth a look right?
Shuan of the Dead made its inherent, twee middle-Englishness a strength, knowing it could never match the apocalyptic imagery of zombie Ravaged American cities of its US counterparts.
Sometimes you can be forgiven for suspecting the movie you’re about to sit through is going to be woeful claptrap. Cemetery Man seems, from the cover, to satisfy every criteria for this kind of low expectation. It stars Rupert Everett, for Christ’s sake. But then, through sheer insanity and stupidity, it three-sixties into one of the most wonderfully over-the-top showcases for madness you’re ever going to see. When a film goes so far out of its way to make you look at the screen aghast, it has to have something going for it. And it’s this kind of care-free idiocy that marks Cemetery Man as a cut above other overlooked zombie flicks. It simply doesn’t seem to care what you think of it. It’s a bloody-minded lunatic of a film.
