Can Be Funny Too
Zombieland
If Jesse Eisenberg can survive the zombie
apocalypse, so can you. Ditto for snogging
Emma Stone. There’s nothing about this movie
not to love – gore, production value, scripting,
casting. It’s just fucking awesome.
Just remember: Rule 1. Cardio.
Fido
The over-saturated over-stylized 60’s
technicolour tale of a boy and his pet zombie
(Billy Connolly) in a Canadian Pleasantville town
that has managed to tame the flesh-hungry,
but not themselves. The treatment gets a little
tiresome, but the premise and old-school
horror filmmaking references are entertaining
enough to keep you gleefully watching.
Shaun of the Dead
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Lesbian. Vampire. Killers. Fullstop.
Piranha 3D
Prehistoric piranhas find their way to the
surface; and create the context for the best
paragliding scene ever.
Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
This title has been on every must-see list since
its release in 2004. There’s a reason; it’s fucking
hilarious. Largely due to the Wright, Pegg and
Frost trifecta. The last of the Three Flavours
Cornetto Trilogy (the second being 2007’s Hot
Fuzz), The World’s End is releasing in South
Africa next month.
Peter Jackson in schlock form pre-Tolkien and
adulation; though he still shared a body with
Michael Moore.
Factoid: Dead Alive held the previous record
(broken this year by Evil Dead) for using the
most fake-blood in a movie.
Young Frankenstein
Snakes on a Plane
The hammy 1973 parody of the 1930’s classic
(even utilizing the original set and props). The
plot follows the great-grandson of the famed
mad scientist who inherits the estate and,
after reading his great-grandfather’s journals,
decides to carry on the Fronk-en-steen legacy
by grave robbing a deceased criminal and
unwittingly transplanting a clearly-marked
abnormal brain (A-b) creating a creature thus
named Abby (Peter Boyle of Everybody Loves
Raymond). The cast and crew had so much
fun making the movie they kept adding scenes
to prolong the necessity to wrap. Reason
enough to watch it. It’s Mel Brooks (who wrote
and directed Spaceballs and The History of
the World Part I) so it’s ridiculously silly which
makes it brilliant.
Snakes. On a motherfucking plane. Who
target genitals. As snakes do. Richard
Attenborough must be kicking himself for not
thinking of it first.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The feature-length origin of the series.
The movie was like, totally fluffier than
screenwriter Whedon originally intended.
The series was created to be more in line
with his grittier vision, and hence spawned
1000 post-feminist undergrad theses. It’s
still fantastic though; in that early-90’s
Californian kinda way.
Strigoi
Astoundingly, one of the best indie vampire/
zombie hybrid flieks produced in recent
years – and it’s Romanian. A down-onhis-luck guy goes back to his village
to see his father, only to find its
inhabitants acting strangely after
committing vigilante justice
on the local patriarch. With a
social commentary throughline touching on land reform,
capitalist ideologies and sugared
with the distinctively twisted
Eastern-European humour,
it’s a gem of a movie, and an
interesting take on the genre.
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