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Zombie
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A zombie is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works, the term comes from Haitian folklore, where a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but often invoke science fictional methods such as carriers, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, viruses, scientific accidents, etc. The English word zombie is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi and zumbi. One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the zombie was The Magic Island by W. B. This is the account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti. Time claimed that the book introduced zombi into U. S. speech, Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein drawing on European folklore of the undead. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, a film starring Bela Lugosi. Here zombies are depicted as mindless, unthinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician, a new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian folklore, has also emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. This zombie is taken largely from George A. Romeros seminal film Night of the Living Dead, the word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead but was applied later by fans. The zombie apocalypse concept, in which the world is brought low by a global zombie infestation. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, in Haitian folklore, a zombie is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. The concept has been associated with the religion of voodoo. How the creatures in contemporary zombie films came to be called zombies is not fully clear, the film Night of the Living Dead made no spoken reference to its undead antagonists as zombies, describing them instead as ghouls. Although George Romero used the term ghoul in his original scripts, the word zombie is used exclusively by Romero in his 1978 script for his sequel Dawn of the Dead, including once in dialog. According to George Romero, film critics were influential in associating the term zombie to his creatures and he eventually accepted this linkage even though he remained convinced at the time that zombies corresponded to the undead slaves of Haitian voodoo as depicted in Bela Lugosis White Zombie. Zombies are featured widely in Haitian rural folklore as dead persons physically revived by the act of necromancy of a bokor, the bokor is opposed by the houngan or priest and the mambo or priestess of the formal voodoo religion. A zombie remains under the control of the bokor as a personal slave, the Haitian tradition also includes an incorporeal type of zombie, the zombie astral, which is a part of the human soul
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George A. Romero 's
Night of the Living Dead is considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.
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The actor T. P. Cooke as Frankenstein's Monster in an 1823 stage production of the novel
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Tor Johnson as a zombie with his victim in cult movie
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
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A young zombie (Kyra Schon) feeding on human flesh, from Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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Zombie walk
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A zombie walk is an organized public gathering of people who dress up in zombie costumes. Participants usually meet in a center and make their way around the city streets. Zombie walks can be organized simply for entertainment or with a purpose, originating in North America during the 2000s, zombie walks have occurred throughout the world. Zombie walks are relatively common in cities, especially in North America. Some have been established as annual traditions, though others are organized as spontaneous flash mob events or performance art, the complexity and purpose of zombie walks varies. As an advanced technique to heighten interest and realism, some zombie mobs will eat victims to create new zombies, in sight of onlookers. Some participants occasionally dress up as soldiers who are called in to contain the outbreak, some events are staged as spoof political rallies organized to raise awareness of zombie rights, with participants carrying placards. Some zombie walks have also staged as hunger marches with the intent of raising awareness of world hunger. The earliest zombie walk styled event on record was put together rather last-minute at the Gen Con gaming convention in Milwaukee in August 2000. The event was created to poke good-natured fun at the Vampire, The Masquerade LARPers that were taking large portions of the convention. Michael Yates, Mark Stafford, Jacob Scowronek and several others organized the event with roughly 60 participants, the event was later recorded in the book 40 Years of Gencon with photos and recollections from the organizers. While it was rumored that the organizers were arrested and thrown out of the convention for their flash mob of zombies, another early zombie walk was held in Sacramento, California on August 19,2001. The event, billed as The Zombie Parade, was the idea of Bryna Lovig and it was held again on July 27,2002, and has since become an annual event, drawing over 1,000 participants in 2012. The streets in downtown Sacramento comprising the walks route are shut down by the city in order to accommodate the large numbers of participants. The first gathering specifically billed as a Zombie Walk occurred in October 2003 in Toronto, organized by local horror movie fan Thea Munster and with only seven participants. A zombie demonstration occurred in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on November 1,2003, organized by a grassroots organization. Another zombie march was organized the year by the same group in Sherbrooke. In subsequent years, the Toronto Zombie Walk has grown tremendously in size, the Zombie Walk has spread to Vancouver, creating the zombie walk tradition in that city
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A 2012 zombie walk in
Toronto
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A zombie wearing a 'mock' political shirt. During a Zombie Walk in
Toronto 2011
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Nottingham Zombie Walk in 2008
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New Jersey Zombie Walk in 2010
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Apocalyptic literature
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Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians. Apocalypse is a Greek word meaning revelation, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known, as a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors visions of the end times as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a considerable period, Apocalyptic elements can be detected in the prophetical books of Joel and Zechariah, while Isaiah chapters 24–27 and 33 present well-developed apocalypses. The Book of Daniel offers a fully matured and classic example of genre of literature. The non-fulfillment of prophecies served to popularize the methods of apocalyptic in comparison with the non-fulfillment of the advent of the Messianic kingdom. Some believe that the Messianic kingdom was not necessarily predicted to occur at the end of the seventy years of the Babylonian exile, but at some unspecified time in the future. The only thing for certain that was predicted is the return of the Jews to their land, thus, the fulfillment of the Messianic kingdom remained in the future for the Jews. This period was approximately 70 years, as prophesied by Jeremiah, the Book of Enoch, however, was not considered inspired Scripture by the Jews, so that any failed prophecy in it is of no consequence to the Jewish faith. The Greek empire of the East was overthrown by Rome, the fourth and last empire was declared to be Roman by the Apocalypse of Baruch chapters 36–40 and 4 Ezra 10, 60–12,35. Again, these two books were not considered inspired Scripture by the Jews, and thus were not authoritative on matters of prophecy, thus, it might be interpreted that Daniel was saying that Rome would be the last world power before the kingdom of God. Such ideas as those of the day of Yahweh and the new heavens, thus the inner development of Jewish apocalyptic was conditioned by the historical experiences of the nation. But the prophecies found in Jewish scriptures, which have not changed over time, another source of apocalyptic thought was primitive mythological and cosmological traditions, in which the eye of the seer could see the secrets of the future. Thus the six days of the creation, followed by a seventh of rest, were regarded as at once a history of the past. The object of literature in general was to square the righteousness of God with the suffering condition of His righteous servants on earth. Early Old Testament prophecy taught the need of personal and national righteousness, later prophecy incorporated an idea of future vindication of present evils, often including the idea of an afterlife. Apocalyptic prophets sketched in outline the history of the world and mankind, the origin of evil and its course, and the final consummation of all things. The righteous as a nation should yet possess the earth, either via an eternal Messianic kingdom on earth, or else in temporary blessedness here and eternal blessedness hereafter. Neither the prophets nor the authors are without conflict between their messages, however, and there are significant similarities between prophecy and apocalyptic writings
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Jewish mysticism
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Richard Matheson
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Richard Burton Matheson was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and he adapted his 1971 short story Duel as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as motion pictures — The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels — Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, to Norwegian immigrants Bertolf and Fanny, who divorced when he was 8. Matheson subsequently was raised in Brooklyn, New York by his mother and his early writing influences were the film Dracula, novels by Kenneth Roberts, and a poem he saw in the newspaper The Brooklyn Eagle, where at age 8 he would publish his first short story. After returning home, he attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and it is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, cast as the creatures diary in poignantly non-idiomatic English. Later that year he placed stories in the first and third numbers of Galaxy Science Fiction and his first anthology of work was published in 1954. Between 1950 and 1971, he produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the fiction, horror. He was a member of the Southern California Sorcerers in the 1950s and 1960s, which included Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Jerry Sohl, Duel was adapted into the 1971 TV movie of the same name. Mathesons first novel to be published, Someone Is Bleeding, appeared from Lion Books in 1953, in 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. It was filmed in 1967 as The Young Warriors though most of Mathesons plot was jettisoned and his other early novels include The Shrinking Man and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend. Matheson wrote screenplays for television programs including the Westerns Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel. His Death Ship episode was a metaphysical statement that went well beyond pure television entertainment. For all of Mathesons Twilight Zone scripts, he wrote the introductory. He adapted five works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Cormans Poe series, including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum and he wrote the Star Trek episode The Enemy Within. Three of his stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror. Other Matheson novels turned into films in the seventies include Bid Time Return. In the 1980s Matheson published the novel Earthbound, wrote several screenplays for the TV series Amazing Stories, Matheson published four western novels in this decade, plus the suspense novel Seven Steps to Midnight and the blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It
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Matheson in 2008
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I Am Legend (novel)
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I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the genre of fiction. The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, Robert Neville is the apparent sole survivor of a pandemic whose symptoms resemble vampirism. It is said that the pandemic was caused by a war, and that it was spread by dust storms in the cities and an explosion in the mosquito population. The narrative details Nevilles daily life in Los Angeles as he attempts to comprehend, research, and possibly cure the disease, to which he is immune. Nevilles past is revealed through flashbacks, the disease claimed his wife and daughter, Neville survives by barricading himself by sunset inside his house, further protected by garlic, mirrors, and crucifixes. Swarms of vampires, led by Nevilles neighbor, Ben Cortman, regularly surround his house, during the day, he scavenges for supplies and searches out the inactive vampires, driving stakes into their hearts to kill them. He finds brief solace in a dog that finds its way to his house. Desperate for company, Neville slowly earns the dogs trust with food, despite his efforts, the dog proves to be infected and dies a week later. After bouts of depression and alcoholism, Neville decides to out the scientific cause of the pandemic. He also discovers that the vampires are affected by the garlic, mirrors, and crosses because of hysterical blindness, driven insane by the disease, the infected now react as they believe they should when confronted with these items. Even then, their reaction is constrained to the beliefs of the person, for example, a Christian vampire would fear the cross. Neville also discovers more efficient means of killing the vampires, other than just driving a stake into their hearts and he is now killing such large numbers of vampires in his daily forays that his nightly visitors have diminished significantly. After three years, Neville sees an apparently uninfected woman, Ruth, in daylight. After some convincing, Ruth tells him her story of how she, Neville is puzzled by the fact that she is upset when he speaks of killing vampires, he thinks that if her story of survival was true, she would have become hardened to the act. He attempts to test whether she is a vampire by exposing her to garlic, at night Neville is startled awake and finds Ruth fully clothed at the front door of the house. Suspicious, he questions her motives, but relates the trauma of his past, Ruth reluctantly allows him to take a blood sample but knocks him unconscious when the sample reveals that she is infected. When he wakes, Neville discovers a note from Ruth confessing that she is actually infected, Ruth admits that she was sent to spy on him
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First edition cover
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Vampires
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A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence of the living. In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and they wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from todays gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. However, it is Bram Stokers 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the vampire novel. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, the vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. Vampires had already discussed in French and German literature. After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, officials noted the practice of exhuming bodies. These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity, among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *ǫpyrь and *ǫpirь. Another, less widespread theory, is that the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for witch. Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes Slovak verb vrepiť sa, or its hypothetical anagram vperiť sa as an etymological background, and thus translates upír as someone who thrusts, bites. An early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise Word of Saint Grigoriy, dated variously to the 11th–13th centuries, the notion of vampirism has existed for millennia. Cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires. It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour, these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open. It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, although vampires were generally described as undead, some folktales spoke of them as living beings. The causes of vampiric generation were many and varied in original folklore, in Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead
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The Vampire, by
Philip Burne-Jones, 1897
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Vampyren, "The Vampire", by
Edvard Munch
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“The Vampire”, lithograph by R. de Moraine (1864).
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Lilith (1892), by
John Collier
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The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)
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The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 Italian-American science-fiction horror film based on the 1954 Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. The film was directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, the script was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as Logan Swanson. William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona were the other writers and it was filmed in Rome, Italy, with some location shots taken at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures, in the 1980s, the film fell into the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP film catalog, in the year 1968, every day is the same for Dr. Robert Morgan, he wakes up, gathers his weapons, and then goes hunting for vampires. Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned them into undead, vampiric creatures that cannot stand sunlight, fear mirrors and they would kill Morgan if they could, but fortunately, they are weak and unintelligent. At night, Morgan locks himself inside his house, during the day, he kills as many vampires as he can, burning the bodies. A flashback sequence explains that, three years before, Morgans wife and daughter had succumbed to the plague, before it was known by the public that the dead would return to life. Instead of taking his wife to the same public burn pit used to dispose of his daughters corpse, when his wife returned to his home and attacked him, Morgan became aware of the need to kill the plague victims with a wooden stake. Morgan hypothesizes that he is immune to the bacteria because he was bitten by a vampire bat when he was stationed in Panama. One day, a dog appears in the neighborhood, desperate for companionship, Morgan chases after the dog, but does not catch it. Some time later, the dog appears, wounded, at Morgans doorstep and he takes the dog into his home and treats its wounds, looking forward to having company for the first time in three years. He quickly discovers, however, that it, too, has infected with the plague. Morgan is later seen burying the dog, which he has impaled with a wooden stake, after burying the dog, Morgan spots a woman in the distance. The woman, Ruth, is terrified of Morgan at first sight, Morgan convinces her to return to his home, but is suspicious of her true nature. Ruth becomes ill when Morgan waves garlic in her face, Morgans suspicion that Ruth is infected is confirmed when he discovers her attempting to inject herself with a combination of blood and vaccine that holds the disease at bay. Ruth initially draws a gun on Morgan, but surrenders it to him, Ruth then tells him that she is part of a group of people like her — infected but under treatment — and was sent to spy on Morgan. The vaccine allows the people to function normally with the drug in the bloodstream, but once it wears off, Ruth explains that her people are planning to rebuild society as they destroy the remaining vampires, and that many of the vampires Morgan killed were technically still alive
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Theatrical release poster
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Vincent Price
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller and he appeared on stage, television, radio, and more than one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures, and one for television, born and raised in the Saint Louis, Missouri area, he has a star on the Saint Louis Walk of Fame. Price was an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history and he lectured and wrote books on the subject. He was the founder of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California and he was also a noted gourmet cook. Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price, Sr. president of the National Candy Company and his grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented Dr. Prices Baking Powder, the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, Price was of English descent and was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Colonial Massachusetts, being born on the Mayflower while it was in the harbor of Massachusetts. Price had some Welsh ancestry as well, Price attended St. Louis Country Day School. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in art history from Yale University, after teaching for a year, he entered the University of London, intending to study for a masters degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934 and his acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welless Mercury Theatre. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housmans play, Victoria Regina, Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura, opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the genre, for which he became famous, was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film Tower of London. The following year Price portrayed the character in The Invisible Man Returns. In 1946, Price reunited with Tierney in two films, Dragonwyck and Leave Her to Heaven. There were also many villainous roles in film noir thrillers like The Web, The Long Night, Rogues Regiment and The Bribe, with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and his first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the 1950 biopic The Baron of Arizona. He also did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar and he was active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947-51. In the 1950s, Price moved into films, with a role in House of Wax
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in the trailer for
Laura in 1944
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As Mr. Manningham in
Angel Street, in which he had a three-year run, photo by
Carl Van Vechten, 1942.
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The Omega Man
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The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by the American writer Richard Matheson, the films producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science fiction film Soylent Green in 1973. The Omega Man is the adaptation of Mathesons novel, the first being The Last Man on Earth which starred Vincent Price. A third adaptation, I Am Legend starring Will Smith, was released in 2007, in 1975, biological warfare between China and Russia kills most of the worlds population. U. S. Army Col. Robert Neville, M. D. is a scientist based in Los Angeles, as he begins to succumb to the plague, he injects himself with an experimental vaccine, rendering himself immune. By 1977, Neville believes he is the plagues only immune survivor, the Family seeks to destroy all technology and kill Neville, who has become a symbol of the science they blame for humanitys downfall. At night, living atop an apartment building equipped with an arsenal of weaponry. One day, as Neville is in a department store helping himself to new clothing and he pursues her outside, but later decides he is hallucinating and dismisses the sighting. On another day, the Family finally captures Neville, after a summary trial he is found guilty of heresy by the familys leader, Jonathan Matthias, a former news anchorman. Neville is sentenced to death and nearly burned at the stake in Dodger Stadium and he is rescued by Lisa, the woman he had earlier dismissed as a hallucination, and Dutch, a former medical student. Lisa and Dutch are part of a group of survivors, some of whom are children, although their youth has given them some resistance to the disease, they are still vulnerable to it and will eventually succumb to mutation. Neville realizes that if it is possible to duplicate the original vaccine. However, he believes it may be possible to extend his immunity to others by creating a serum from his own body, Neville and Lisa return to Nevilles apartment where they begin treating Lisas brother Richie, who is succumbing to the disease. Neville and Lisa are about to have an evening together just as the generator runs out of fuel. The Family then attacks, sending Matthias second-in-command, Brother Zachary, Neville leaves Lisa upstairs as he goes to the basement garage to restart the generator. Neville returns to the apartment to find Zachary right behind an unsuspecting Lisa, Neville shoots him and he falls off the balcony to his death, dropping his spear on the balcony as he goes. If the serum works, Neville and Lisa plan to leave the city with the rest of the survivors and start a new life in the wilderness. Neville is successful in creating the serum and administers it to Richie, once cured, Richie reveals the location of The Familys headquarters to Neville, but insists that the Family are also human and that Nevilles cure should be administered to them as well
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Theatrical release poster
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Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash about to kiss in a scene from The Omega Man
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Charlton Heston
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Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years and he played Moses in the epic film, The Ten Commandments, for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He also starred in Touch of Evil with Orson Welles, Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid and he also starred in the films The Greatest Show on Earth, Secret of the Incas, and The Big Country. A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a political action committee. Hestons most famous role in politics came as the president of the National Rifle Association. After being diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2003, he retired from acting and the NRA presidency. Heston died on April 5,2008, aged 84, from pneumonia, Charlton Heston was born on October 4,1923, to Russell Whitford Carter, a sawmill operator and Lilla. Many sources indicate he was born in Evanston, Illinois, Hestons autobiography, however, and some other sources, place his birth in No Mans Land, Illinois, which usually refers to a then-unincorporated area now part of Wilmette, a wealthy Chicago suburb. Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood, Heston was partially of Scottish descent, including from the Clan Fraser, but the majority of his ancestry was English. His earliest immigrant ancestors arrived in America from England in the 1600s and his maternal great-grandparents, William Charlton and Mary Drysdale Charlton, were English. They emigrated to Canada, where his grandmother, Marian Emily Charlton, was born in 1872, in his autobiography, Heston refers to his father participating in his familys construction business. When Heston was an infant, his fathers work moved the family to St. Helen and it was a rural, heavily forested part of the state, and Heston lived an isolated yet idyllic existence, spending much time hunting and fishing in the backwoods of the area. When Heston was 10 years old, his parents divorced, shortly thereafter, his mother remarried and the new family moved back to Wilmette. Heston attended New Trier High School and he recalled living there, All kids play pretend games, but I did it more than most. Even when we moved to Chicago, I was more or less a loner and we lived in a North Shore suburb, where I was a skinny hick from the woods, and all the other kids seemed to be rich and know about girls. Contradictions on paper and in an interview surround when Charlton became Hestons first name, the 1930 United States Census record for Richfield, Michigan, in Roscommon County, shows his name as being Charlton J. Carter at age six. Later accounts by sources and movie studio biographies say he was born John Charles Carter, interestingly, Charlton was his maternal grandmother Marians maiden name, not his mother Lillas. This is contrary to how 20th century references read and what Heston said, when Hestons maternal grandmother and his true maternal grandfather Charles Baines separated or divorced in the early 1900s, Marian Baines married William Henry Lawton in 1907
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Heston as President
Andrew Jackson in
The President's Lady - 1953
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Charlton Heston as
Moses in
Cecil B. DeMille 's
The Ten Commandments (1956)
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In
Touch of Evil (1958)
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In
Ben-Hur (1959)
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I Am Legend (film)
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I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic horror film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith, who plays US Army virologist Robert Neville. Neville is immune to the virus and he works to develop a cure while defending himself against the hostile mutants. Warner Bros. began developing I Am Legend in 1994, and various actors and directors were attached to the project, production began in 2006 in New York City, filming mainly on location in the city, including a $5 million scene at the Brooklyn Bridge. It is the third adaptation of Richard Mathesons 1954 I Am Legend novel, following 1964s The Last Man on Earth. I Am Legend was released on December 14,2007, in the United States and Canada, the film was the seventh-highest grossing film of 2007, earning $256 million domestically and $329 million internationally, for a total of $585 million. The effects of the virus vary in species, animals that coexist with humans, like rats and domestic dogs, are infected. The city has fallen into ruins and overgrown vegetation covers crumbling buildings, Nevilles daily routine includes experimentation on infected rats to find a cure for the virus and trips through Manhattan to hunt for food and supplies. He also waits each day for a response to his continuous recorded radio broadcasts, at night, he barricades himself and Sam inside his heavily fortified Washington Square Park home to hide from the Darkseekers. One day while waiting for survivors, Sam follows a deer into a dark building, Neville cautiously goes in after her and finds the deers corpse along with Sam, but the building is infested by a colony of Darkseekers. Both manage to escape unharmed and the attacking Darkseekers are killed by the sunlight, back in his laboratory in the basement of his house, Neville treats the female without success. The next day, he is ensnared in a similar to the one he used to capture the female, and by the time he manages to escape. Neville and Sam manage to kill them, but Sam is bitten in the fight, Neville brings Sam home and injects her with a strand of his serum, but when she shows signs of infection and tries to attack him, Neville is forced to strangle her to death. Heartbroken and driven over the edge by loneliness by his dogs death, he ventures out, Neville angrily argues that no such survivors camp exists. Neville, Anna, and Ethan retreat into the basement laboratory, discovering that the last treatment was successful, Neville tries to assess the situation as the alpha male deliberately rams himself against a glass door to break in. Neville draws a vial of blood from the woman he cured and gives it to Anna, before shutting her and he then takes a grenade and kills the Darkseekers at the cost of his own life, saving the cure. The next day, before dusk, Anna and Ethan discover that her theory is right as they arrive at the camp in Vermont. They are greeted by military officers and other survivors and Anna is shown handing the cure to a man. The alpha male suddenly ceases its attack after Neville asks him to out of panic
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Theatrical release poster
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Washington Square on October 31, 2006: The area is being set up for an evening shooting. In the background is the house where Will Smith's character lives.
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The
Brooklyn Bridge, where a $5-million scene was filmed
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Marcy Avenue Armory
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Will Smith
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Willard Carroll Will Smith Jr. is an American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood, Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards. In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince, in 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular NBC television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which ran for six seasons until 1996. After the series ended, Smith transitioned from television to film, Smith has been ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. As of 2016, his films have grossed $7.5 billion at the box office. For his performances as boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali and stockbroker Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness, Smith received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Willard Carroll Smith Jr. was born on September 15,1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Caroline, a Philadelphia school board administrator and he grew up in West Philadelphias Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. He has three siblings, sister Pamela, who is four years older, and twins Harry and Ellen, Smith attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. His parents separated when he was 13, but did not actually divorce until around 2000, though widely reported, it is untrue that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he never applied to college because he wanted to rap. Smith says he was admitted to a program at MIT for high school students. According to Smith, My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, but I had no intention of going to college. The trio was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably Parents Just Dont Understand and they gained critical acclaim and won the first Grammy awarded in the Rap category. Smith spent money freely around 1988 and 1989 and underpaid his income taxes, the Internal Revenue Service eventually assessed a $2.8 million tax debt against Smith, took many of his possessions, and garnished his income. Smith was nearly bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the show was successful and began his acting career. Will Smith set for himself the goal of becoming the biggest movie star in the world, Smiths first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation and the action film Bad Boys in which he starred opposite Martin Lawrence. In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerichs Independence Day, the film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest-grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. In the summer of 1997 he starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J, in 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State
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Smith in 2012
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Smith at the Emmy Awards in 1993
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Nobel Peace Prize Concert December 11, 2009, in
Oslo, Norway: Smith with wife Jada and children Jaden and Willow
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George A. Romero
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His other works contributed include The Crazies, Creepshow, Martin, Monkey Shines, and The Dark Half. Romero was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx, to a Cuban-born father and his father has been reported as born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of Castilian descent. His father worked as a commercial artist, Romero was raised in the Bronx, and would frequently ride the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after graduating in 1960, he began his career shooting short films and commercials. One of his commercial films was a segment for Mister Rogers Neighborhood in which Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy. With nine friends, Romero formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, the movie became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema. Among the inspiration for Romeros filmmaking, as told to Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was the 1951 British film, The Tales of Hoffmann. It was the filmmaking, the fantasy, the fact that it was a fantasy and it had a few frightening and it was really a movie for me, and it gave me an early appreciation for the power of visual media—the fact that you could experiment with it. He was doing all his tricks in-camera, and they were sort of obvious and that made me feel that, gee, maybe I could figure this medium out. It was transparent, but it worked, three films that followed were less popular, Theres Always Vanilla, Jacks Wife / Season of the Witch and The Crazies were not as well received as Night of the Living Dead or some of his later work. Like many of his films, they were shot in or around Pittsburgh, in 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with Dawn of the Dead. Shot on a budget of just $500,000, the film earned over $55 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly in 2003, Romero made the third entry in his Dead Series with Day of the Dead. Romero updated his original screenplay and executive produced the remake of Night of the Living Dead directed by Tom Savini for Columbia/TriStar in 1990. Savini is also responsible for the makeup and special effects in many of Romeros films including Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Romero had a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demmes Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 as one of Hannibal Lecters jailers. In 1998, he directed a commercial promoting the videogame Resident Evil 2 in Tokyo. The 30-second advertisement featured the two main characters, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, fighting a horde of zombies while in Raccoon Citys police station. The project was obvious territory for Romero, the Resident Evil series has been influenced by the Dead Series. The commercial was rather popular and was shown in the weeks before the actual release
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Romero in Venice, 2011
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Romero attending a
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Night of the Living Dead
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Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film, directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones and Judith ODea. It was completed on a $114,000 budget and premiered October 1,1968, the film became a financial success, grossing $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. It has been a cult classic ever since, Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release for its explicit gore. This is the most easily recognized version of the dead, to the point where people gather in mass quantities for conventions dressed as zombies, complete with makeup. Barbra and Johnny Blair drive to rural Pennsylvania for a visit to their fathers grave. Barbra is attacked by a man walking in the cemetery. Johnny tries to rescue his sister, but the man throws him against a gravestone, after a mishap with the car, Barbara escapes on foot, with the stranger in pursuit, and later arrives at a farmhouse, where she discovers a womans mangled corpse. Fleeing from the house, she is confronted by strange menacing figures like the man in the graveyard, Ben takes her into the house, driving the monsters away and sealing the doors and windows. Throughout the night, Barbra slowly descends into a stupor of shock, Ben and Barbra are unaware that the farmhouse has a cellar, housing an angry married couple Harry and Helen Cooper, along with their daughter Karen. They sought refuge after a group of the same monsters overturned their car, Tom and Judy, a teenage couple, arrived after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal murders. Karen has fallen ill after being bitten by one of the monsters. They ventured upstairs when Ben turns on a radio, while Barbra awakens from her stupor, Harry demands that everyone hide in the cellar, but Ben deems it a deathtrap and continues upstairs, to barricade the house with Toms help. Radio reports explain that a wave of murder is sweeping across the eastern United States. Ben finds a television, and they watch an emergency broadcaster report that the deceased have become reanimated and are consuming the flesh of the living. Experts, scientists, and the United States military fail to discover the cause and it returned from Venus, and was deliberately exploded in the Earths atmosphere when the radiation was detected. Ben plans to obtain medical care for Karen when the listed local rescue centers offering refuge. Ben and Tom refuel Bens truck while Harry hurls molotov cocktails from a window at the ghouls. Judy follows him, fearing Toms safety, Tom accidentally spills gasoline on the truck setting it ablaze
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Cinematic Release Poster
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The zombies swarm around the house, searching for living
human flesh.
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The Cooper family hiding in the cellar.
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Ben, played by
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Living Dead
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The loosely connected franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. After the films success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should head. The term may refer to the reanimated human corpses that feast on the flesh and/or brains of the living seen in the films. As of its latest installment, Survival of the Dead, Romeros Dead series includes six films all written, labeled Trilogy of the Dead until Land of the Dead, each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another, the fifth film does not continue the depiction of the progress of the world, instead it goes back to the beginning of events from the first film, but is nonetheless contemporary as the sequels are. The films deal with how different people react to the same phenomenon ranging from citizens to police to army officials and back again. He explained this in an interview with Telegraph film reviewer Tim Robey saying, You know, I’ve made six zombie films, but that’s not what people want these days. I don’t know if that’s part of this mentality, where people tune in every week to see the same thing. Romero does not consider any of his Dead films sequels since none of the characters or story continue from one film to the next. The one exception is that the officer from Diary of the Dead. George A. Romero rewrote the screenplay, the group secures the mall, then heads to the roof where they see another survivor, Andy, who is stranded alone in his gun store, across the zombie-infested parking lot. The next day more survivors arrive at the mall and are let in, Directed by Steve Miner, the story is located in Leadville, Colorado, where the couple of Trevor and Nina find themselves in a town suddenly sealed off by military forces. People begin acting strangely and the come back to life, with the couple. There are currently two distinct franchises utilizing the Living Dead moniker, the first was Return of the Living Dead, which originated as a novel written in 1978 by John A. Russo. It was later adapted to a film by Dan OBannon, which spawned its own series of movies, with a total of four sequels. This could be more as a spin-off of Night of the Living Dead rather than sequels. OBannon discarded Russos script in its entirety and rewrote it, retaining only the title and changing the rules significantly. Although Russo and OBannon were only involved with the first film in the series
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The original poster for Night of the Living Dead
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28 Days Later
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Successful both commercially and critically, the film is credited with reinvigorating the zombie genre of horror film. The film spawned a 2007 sequel,28 Weeks Later, a novel titled 28 Days Later, The Aftermath, which expands on the timeline of the outbreak. In Cambridge, three animal liberation activists break into a research laboratory. A scientist in the lab desperately warns them against releasing the captive chimpanzees, ignoring his pleas, the activists release a chimp, which infects a female activist. She then attacks and infects everyone else present,28 days later, in London, Jim, a bicycle courier, awakens from a coma in St Thomas Hospital. He finds the hospital deserted. He wanders the streets of London, finding it deserted as well, Jim enters a church and finds a priest, who turns out to be infected. Jim flees, attracting attention of more infected, but Selena, at one of their safehouses, they explain to Jim that while he was in a coma, a virus spread among the populace, resulting in societal collapse. They claim the virus has been reported in Paris and New York City as well, the next day, Selena and Mark accompany Jim to his parents house in Deptford, where he discovers they committed suicide in bed together. That night, the three are attacked by more infected, Mark is bitten, and Selena kills him. She curtly explains that the virus spreads through blood and saliva and she warns that should Jim become infected, she will kill him in a heartbeat. The two see some blinking Christmas lights from Balfron Tower and head there and they discover two more survivors – cab driver Frank and his daughter Hannah – who allow them to take shelter. The next day, Frank informs them that their supplies – particularly water – are dwindling and he plays them a pre-recorded radio broadcast from a military blockade near Manchester, claiming they have the answer to infection and promises to protect any survivors who reach them. The group board Franks cab and head to Manchester, bonding with one another throughout the trip, at the deserted blockade, Frank is infected when a drop of blood falls into his eye. He is killed by the soldiers, who take the remaining survivors to a fortified mansion under the command of Major Henry West. West reveals to Jim that his answer to infection entails waiting for the infected to starve to death and luring female survivors into sexual slavery, the group attempts to flee, but Jim is captured and chained next to Sergeant Farrell, a dissenting soldier. Farrell shares with Jim his speculation that the virus has not spread beyond Great Britain, the next day, the soldiers prepare the girls for gang rape, while two soldiers lead Jim and Farrell to execution. When his executioners argue after killing Farrell, Jim escapes and spots a NATO aircraft flying overhead, Jim lures West and another soldier to the blockade, where Jim kills the latter and leaves West stranded for arriving infected
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UK release poster
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Zombieland
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Zombieland is a 2009 American comedy horror film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, the film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25,2009 and was theatrically released on October 2,2009 in the United States by Columbia Pictures. Unaffected college student Columbus is making his way from his college dorm in Austin, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio and he encounters Tallahassee, another survivor, who is particularly violent in killing zombies. Though he doesnt appear to be sociable, Tallahassee reluctantly allows Columbus to travel with him, Tallahassee mentions he misses his puppy that was killed by zombies, as well as his affinity for Twinkies, which he actively tries to find. The pair meet Wichita and her younger sister Little Rock in a grocery store, the sisters are con artists, and trick Tallahassee and Columbus into handing over their weapons by pretending that Little Rock was infected by the disease, then steal their Escalade. The two men find a yellow Hummer H2 loaded with weapons and go after the sisters, however, the girls spring another trap for them and take them hostage. Tallahassee steals his gun back and has a stand-off with Wichita, until Columbus lashes out in anger that they have problems to worry about. The sisters reveal that they are going to the Pacific Playland amusement park in Los Angeles, after learning his home town has been destroyed, and his parents likely killed, Columbus decides to accompany the others to California. Along the trip, Columbus persists in trying to impress and woo Wichita, when the group reaches Hollywood, Tallahassee directs them to Bill Murrays mansion. Tallahassee and Wichita meet Murray himself, uninfected but disguised as a zombie so he can walk safely around town, Murray is killed when Columbus shoots him, mistaking him for a real zombie during a practical joke while watching Ghostbusters with Little Rock. Columbus realizes during a game of Monopoly that Tallahassee has not been grieving for his puppy, Wichita becomes increasingly attracted to Columbus, and Tallahassee bonds with Little Rock, with whom he was previously at odds. Despite Wichitas attraction to Columbus, she fears attachment and leaves with Little Rock for Pacific Playland the next morning, Columbus decides to go after Wichita, and convinces Tallahassee to join him. At Pacific Playland, the sisters activate all the rides and lights and begin to enjoy the park, a chase ensues, and just as the sisters are trapped on a drop tower ride called Blast Off, Tallahassee and Columbus arrive. Tallahassee lures the zombies away from the tower, creating a distraction for Columbus to get to the tower ride, Tallahassee eventually locks himself in a game booth, shooting zombies as they arrive. In thanks, Wichita kisses Columbus and reveals her real name, Tallahassee raids a deep fried Twinkies stand in search of his snack. During this, Columbus is startled by the noises of a rat and accidentally shoots at the last remaining box of Twinkies in the pantry, destroying all the cakes, luckily, Little Rock has gotten a Twinkie beforehand and gives it to Tallahassee. The movie ends with the group leaving Pacific Playland as Columbus realizes without relating to people, that you might as well be a zombie, and that he now has what hes always wanted. By the end of the film, his list has thirty-three rules, a series of promotional videos starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg expanded on the list presented in the film
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Theatrical release poster
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Zombie design for Zombieland, in a scene from the film's climax. Characterized by tousled hair, blood markings on the face, and ragged clothing, the makeup was used to maintain a balance of comedy and horror.
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Left 4 Dead
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Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game with survival horror elements, developed by Valve South and published by Valve Corporation. The game uses Valves proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, the digital retail disc version was released in North America and Australia on November 18,2008, and in Europe on November 21,2008. Set during the aftermath of a pandemic, the game pits its four protagonists—dubbed the Survivors—against hordes of the infected. In all modes, an intelligence, dubbed the Director, controls level pacing and item placements, in an attempt to create a dynamic experience. Left 4 Dead was well received by the media upon its release, with praise given for its replay value, focus on cooperative play. Several criticisms were aimed at limited level selection and the lack of a narrative, the game has won several publication awards, as well as distinctions from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and British Academy of Film and Television Arts. As was done with Team Fortress 2, Valve supplemented the game with downloadable content. The first, called the Survival Pack, was released on April 21,2009. The second piece of DLC was charged for on Xbox Live and came in the form of a new Campaign entitled Crash Course, Left 4 Dead was released for the Mac on October 28,2010. The popularity of the led to the development of a sequel, Left 4 Dead 2. A new map for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, called The Sacrifice, was released on October 5,2010. In July 2012, all Left 4 Dead campaigns were ported over to Left 4 Dead 2, pennsylvania suffers an outbreak of Green Flu, a highly contagious pathogen causing extreme aggression, mutation to the body cells, and loss of higher brain functions. After narrowly avoiding these new infected, along with hordes of others, fighting their way through the citys streets, subway and sewers, they are rescued from the hospitals roof by the pilot, only to discover he is infected. With Zoey forced to kill him, the helicopter lands in an industrial district outside the city. Finding an armored truck, the group uses it to make their way to the town of Riverside. However, they find the road blocked, and travel the rest of the way on foot, after an encounter with an infected lunatic in the local church, they discover that the town is overrun, and decide to head to a nearby boathouse for rescue. Contacting a small fishing vessel, they manage to reach the city of Newburg on the side of the river. Despite this apparent rescue, it crashes as well, and the once again find themselves alone on the outskirts of Allegheny National Forest
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Cover art for Left 4 Dead
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In Left 4 Dead, the four survivors must fight off infected humans while trying to escape or make their way to a safe house.
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The final design of the survivors, shown on the poster for the "No Mercy" campaign. Left to right: Francis, Bill, Zoey, Louis
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In Left 4 Dead, the AI Director computes each player's "stress level" based on a variety of factors to better pace the game and provide a fair challenge.
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Carleton University
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Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act,1952, S. O and it was founded on rented premises in 1942, and grew to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontarios first private, non-denominational college. It would expand further in the 1960s, consistent with government policy that saw increased access to education as a social good. Carleton is a university that offers more than 65 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines. It is named after the former Carleton County, Ontario, which included the city of Ottawa at the time Carleton was founded, Carleton County, in turn, was named in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an early Governor-General of British North America. As of 2016, Carleton has enrollment of more than 22,000 undergraduate, the university is represented in U Sports by the Carleton Ravens. I learned very early the lesson that it is people, not buildings. And if we put our hearts to it we can do something worthwhile, – Henry Marshall Tory Carleton College, a non-denominational institution, was founded in 1942 at the height of the Second World War by the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning. It began in a building and only offered night courses in public administration. When the war ended in 1945, the college began expanding to meet the needs of veterans coming home, the Faculty of Arts and Science was established, which included courses in journalism and first-year engineering. In 1946, the moved to First Avenue in The Glebe neighbourhood. Its first degrees were conferred in 1946 to graduates of its programs in Journalism, for nearly a decade the college operated on a shoestring budget, with funds raised mainly through community initiatives and modest student fees. During the war, student fees were low and Carleton gave special grants to veterans returning home who wished to continue their studies. The faculty was composed largely of part-time professors who worked full-time in the Public Service, however, full-time teaching staff were still mostly young scholars at the beginning of their careers. In 1952 the Carleton College Act was passed by the Ontario Legislature, changing its name to Carleton College. Carleton thus became the provinces first private, non-sectarian college, in the same year, the 62-hectare property nestled between the Rideau Canal and the Rideau River on which the current campus is located was acquired. Some of the land was donated by a prominent Ottawa businessman Harry Stevenson Southam, construction began on the new campus in 1953. In 1957 the Carleton University Act,1952 was amended, granting Carleton status as a public university, Carletons motto, Ours the Task Eternal, is taken from Walt Whitmans poem, Pioneers
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Henry Marshall Tory, first President of Carleton College
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Coat of arms of Carleton University
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Lester Pearson, Chancellor, Prime Minister, Nobel Laureate
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A portrait of
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University of Ottawa
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The University of Ottawa is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 42.5 hectares in the neighbourhood of Sandy Hill. The university offers a variety of academic programs, administered by ten faculties. It is a member of the U15, a group of universities in Canada. The University of Ottawa was first established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the first bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa, Joseph-Bruno Guigues. Placed under the direction of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, it was renamed the College of Ottawa in 1861, on 5 February 1889, the university was granted a pontifical charter by Pope Leo XIII, elevating the institution to a pontifical university. The University was reorganized on 1 July 1965 as a corporation, as a result, the civil and pontifical charters were kept by the newly created Saint Paul University, federated with the university. The remaining civil faculties were retained by the reorganized university, the university is co-educational and enrolls over 35,000 undergraduate and over 6,000 post-graduate students. The university has more than 195,000 alumni, the universitys athletic teams are known as the Gee-Gees and are members of U Sports. The university was established on 26 September 1848 as the College of Bytown by the first Roman Catholic bishop of Ottawa and he entrusted administration to the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The college was located in Lower Town, housed in a wooden building next to the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica. However, space became an issue for administrators, triggering two moves in 1852 and a final move to Sandy Hill in 1856. The Sandy Hill property was donated by Louis-Theodore Besserer, where he offered a parcel from his estate for the college. The college was renamed College of Ottawa in 1861, following the name change from Bytown to Ottawa. By 1872 the university had begun to confer undergraduate degrees, with masters degrees coming in 1875. On 5 February 1889, the university was granted a charter from Pope Leo XIII. The university faced a crisis when fire destroyed the building on 2 December 1903. After the fire, the university hired New York architect A. O. Von Herbulis to design its replacement and it was among the first Canadian structures to be completely fireproof, built of reinforced concrete
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Arts Building projection, 1904
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Crest of the University of Ottawa
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Tabaret Hall was named after
Joseph-Henri Tabaret and houses the university's central administrative offices
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Morisset Library is the main library for the university and houses the majority of its special collections.
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Mathematical model
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A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language. The process of developing a model is termed mathematical modeling. Mathematical models are used in the sciences and engineering disciplines. Physicists, engineers, statisticians, operations research analysts, and economists use mathematical models most extensively, a model may help to explain a system and to study the effects of different components, and to make predictions about behaviour. Mathematical models can take many forms, including systems, statistical models, differential equations. These and other types of models can overlap, with a model involving a variety of abstract structures. In general, mathematical models may include logical models, in many cases, the quality of a scientific field depends on how well the mathematical models developed on the theoretical side agree with results of repeatable experiments. Lack of agreement between theoretical mathematical models and experimental measurements often leads to important advances as better theories are developed, in the physical sciences, the traditional mathematical model contains four major elements. These are Governing equations Defining equations Constitutive equations Constraints Mathematical models are composed of relationships. Relationships can be described by operators, such as operators, functions, differential operators. Variables are abstractions of system parameters of interest, that can be quantified, a model is considered to be nonlinear otherwise. The definition of linearity and nonlinearity is dependent on context, for example, in a statistical linear model, it is assumed that a relationship is linear in the parameters, but it may be nonlinear in the predictor variables. Similarly, an equation is said to be linear if it can be written with linear differential operators. In a mathematical programming model, if the functions and constraints are represented entirely by linear equations. If one or more of the functions or constraints are represented with a nonlinear equation. Nonlinearity, even in simple systems, is often associated with phenomena such as chaos. Although there are exceptions, nonlinear systems and models tend to be difficult to study than linear ones. A common approach to nonlinear problems is linearization, but this can be if one is trying to study aspects such as irreversibility
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This is a schematic representation of three types of mathematical models of complex systems with the level of their mechanistic understanding.
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The
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the leading national public health institute of the United States. The CDC is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered near Atlanta and its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and internationally. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control, the Communicable Disease Center was founded July 1,1946, as the successor to the World War II Malaria Control in War Areas program of the Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities. Preceding its founding, organizations with global influence in malaria control were the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation greatly supported malaria control, sought to have the governments take over some of its efforts, and collaborated with the agency. The new agency was a branch of the U. S, Public Health Service and Atlanta was chosen as the location because malaria was endemic in the Southern United States. The agency changed names before adopting the name Communicable Disease Center in 1946, Offices were located on the sixth floor of the Volunteer Building on Peachtree Street. Among its 369 employees, the jobs at CDC were originally entomology. In CDCs initial years, more than six and a million homes were sprayed. In 1946, there were only seven officers on duty. Under Joseph Walter Mountin, the CDC continued to advocate for health issues. In 1947, the CDC made a payment of $10 to Emory University for 15 acres of land on Clifton Road in DeKalb County. CDC employees collected the money to make the purchase, the benefactor behind the “gift” was Robert W. Woodruff, chairman of the board of The Coca-Cola Company. Woodruff had a long-time interest in control, which had been a problem in areas where he went hunting. The same year, the PHS transferred its San Francisco based plague laboratory into the CDC as the Epidemiology Division, the mission of CDC expanded beyond its original focus on malaria to include sexually transmitted diseases when the Venereal Disease Division of the U. S. Public Health Service was transferred to the CDC in 1957, shortly thereafter, Tuberculosis Control was transferred to the CDC from PHS, and then in 1963 the Immunization program was established. It became the National Communicable Disease Center effective July 1,1967, the organization was renamed the Center for Disease Control on June 24,1970, and Centers for Disease Control effective October 14,1980. An act of the United States Congress appended the words and Prevention to the name effective October 27,1992, however, Congress directed that the initialism CDC be retained because of its name recognition. Currently the CDC focus has broadened to include chronic diseases, disabilities, injury control, workplace hazards, environmental health threats, and terrorism preparedness
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CDC headquarters in
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CDC′s Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia
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Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center
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The Weather Channel
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The Weather Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television channel, owned by a consortium made up of The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBCUniversal. Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, launched on May 2,1982, the channel broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analysis, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather. These services are now administered by The Weather Channels former parent company, The Weather Company, the Weather Channel continues to license its brand assets and weather data from IBM. As of July 2015, The Weather Channel was received by approximately 89.7 million American households that subscribe to a pay television service, as recently as February 2015, the network was the most distributed cable network in the United States with 97.3 million subscribers. However, it was dropped by Verizon FiOS, giving the title of most distributed network to HLN. Actual viewership of the channel averaged 210,000 during 2013 and has been declining for several years, the Weather Channel was founded on July 18,1980, by veteran television meteorologist John Coleman and Frank Batten, then-president of the channels original owner Landmark Communications. The channel launched at 8,00 p. m. Eastern Time on May 2,1982, originally, regional and local information was obtained by the National Weather Service for broadcast. Since 2002, all forecasting has been done on-site in Atlanta, however, satellite customers with newer systems or interactive receivers have the choice of roundups or localized forecasts. For both cable and satellite viewers, popular and smooth jazz music plays in the background during these segments, some older WeatherStar units were still in use by small cable companies that couldnt afford to upgrade to the IntelliStar. The WeatherStar units are able to overlay text-based local contact information over the national feed during certain business advertisements aired on the channel. The Weather Channel also runs websites in Latin America, Brazil, TWC only runs its U. S. channel, although it does produce international forecasts. Also The Weather Channel has Weather station in national universities of USA, UK and Global Meteo Station in North Pole, on January 3,2008, Landmark Communications put The Weather Channel and its assets up for sale. On July 6,2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to jointly purchase The Weather Channel from Landmark, the sale was finalized on September 12,2008. With the exception of Deon, all had been on the air for more than ten years, in July 2010, The Weather Channel terminated Bill Keneely, the last of the original on-camera meteorologists who appeared on the networks first broadcasts in 1982. S. Air Force Reserve as one of the Hurricane Hunters team, such reserve duties are protected by U. S. law, inevitably, the merger of NBC on-air meteorologists began in May 2009. Former NBC Weather Plus meteorologist Todd Santos joined The Weather Channel on May 2 of that year, Al Roker of NBCs Today began hosting a one-hour morning program called Wake Up With Al, alongside meteorologist Stephanie Abrams later in the summer. On September 10,2009, The Weather Channel co-founder Frank Batten died, in January 2012, David Kenny took over as chief executive officer of The Weather Channel, replacing former AOL executive Mike Kelly, who had been appointed as the companys CEO in the summer of 2009. This is counter to general policy which discourages telecommuting for the majority of employees
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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
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Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero. It was written by Romero in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and it was the second film made in Romeros Living Dead series, but contains no characters or settings from Night of the Living Dead, and shows in a larger scale the apocalyptic effects on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh, the cast features David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall. Dawn of the Dead was filmed over four months, from late 1977 to early 1978, in the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh. Its primary filming location was the Monroeville Mall, the film was made on a budget estimated at $1.5 million and was a significant box office success for its time, grossing approximately $55 million worldwide. Since opening in theaters in 1978, and despite heavy gore content, in addition to four official sequels, the film has spawned numerous parodies and pop culture references. A remake of the premiered in the United States on March 19,2004. It was labeled a re-imagining of the films concept. In 2008, Dawn of the Dead was chosen by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, the United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon which reanimates recently deceased human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Despite the best efforts by the U. S. government and local authorities to control the situation, millions of people are killed and reanimate, social order is collapsing. Some rural communities and the military have been effective in fighting the hordes in open country. Meanwhile, police SWAT officer Roger DiMarco and his team raid a housing project where the residents are defying the law of delivering their dead to National Guardsmen. Some residents fight back with handguns and rifles, and are killed by both the overzealous SWAT team and their own reanimated dead, during the raid, Roger meets Peter Washington, part of another SWAT team, and they partner up together. Roger tells Peter that his friend Stephen intends to steal his workplaces helicopter and flee and they are informed of a group of zombies trapped in the basement, which they assist in the grim job of destroying. That night, Roger and Peter rendezvous with Francine and Stephen, following some close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes across a shopping mall, which they decide to make their sanctuary. Francine reveals that she is pregnant, Peter offers to abort the child, but this is rejected. During the blockade operation, Roger becomes reckless and is bitten by the zombies, after clearing the interior of zombies, the four are able to enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle with all the goods in every store available to them. Roger eventually succumbs to his wounds, soon reanimates and is shot in the head by Peter, after several months, all emergency broadcast transmissions cease, suggesting that the government has collapsed and a large portion of the population has been killed and reanimated
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An example of the bright hue of the fake blood, gray face make-up, and special effects in Dawn of the Dead.
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Day of the Dead (1985 film)
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Day of the Dead is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romeros Dead series, being preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Romero describes the film as a tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and this film features Sherman Howard in an early appearance as Bub, and make-up artist Gregory Nicotero playing Private Johnson and assisting Tom Savini with the make-up effects. Cannibalistic zombies have overrun the entire world, the remaining fragments of the U. S. government and military hide out in fortified military bases and colonies, attempting to find a solution to the zombie pandemic. Dr. Sarah Bowman, Private Miguel Salazar, radio operator Bill McDermott, the tension between soldiers and scientists worsens in the face of dwindling supplies, loss of communication with other survivors, and slow progress in research. Dr. Logan hopes to secure Rhodes cooperation by showing him the results of his research. He is especially proud of Bub, a zombie who remembers some parts of his past life and engages in rudimentary human behavior, listening to music, aiming a pistol. Civility must be rewarded, Logan says, If its not rewarded, theres no use for it. Theres just no use for it at all, during a zombie roundup mission, two of the soldiers, Miller and Johnson, are killed after a zombie escapes its harness, whereupon Miguel attempts to kill the creature, but is bitten on the arm. Sarah amputates the arm and cauterizes it to stop the spreading infection, Rhodes then calls off the experiments and demands that all captive zombies be destroyed. Enraged, Rhodes kills Logan and his assistant Dr. Fisher and he then locks Sarah and Bill inside the zombie corral and attempts to force John to fly him and his men away from the base, which John refuses to do. Bub manages to escape from his chain and finds Dr. Logans corpse, in a display of human emotion, he expresses sadness and then becomes enraged. He finds a pistol discarded on the floor and goes in search of revenge, meanwhile, Miguel, who has become suicidal, opens the gates to the compound, allowing the horde of zombies lurking outside to enter onto the elevator, devouring him. While Miguel is doing this, John overcomes his captors, knocking both Rhodes and Torrez out before stealing their weapons and going into the zombie corral to rescue Sarah, the zombies rapidly enter the complex, Pvt Rickles and Pvt Torrez are torn apart by the horde. Pvt Steel attempts to shoot Bub through a window, but gets bitten by another zombie. Rhodes attempts to escape, but is chased and shot several times by a gun-toting Bub, Rhodes is chased into a horde of zombies and Bub mocks Rhodes with a salute and departs. Rhodes insolently tells the zombies to Choke on em. as the zombies begin devouring his insides, John reunites with Sarah and McDermott inside the zombie corral. They escape together to the surface, board the helicopter, the film ends with Sarah crossing off a day on her calendar which counts the days since their escape from the compound. Lori Cardille as Dr. Sarah Bowman Joseph Pilato as Captain Henry Rhodes Terry Alexander as John Jarlath Conroy as William Bill McDermott Anthony Dileo Jr. as Pvt
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Land of the Dead
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Land of the Dead is a 2005 post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by George A. It was released in 2005, with a budget of $15–19 million, the highest in the series, the story of Land of the Dead deals with a zombie assault on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a feudal-like government exists. The survivors in the film have fled to the Golden Triangle area of downtown Pittsburgh, the region is protected on two sides by rivers and on the other by an electric barricade that survivors term the Throat. Released in North America on June 24,2005, Land of the Dead received mostly positive reviews from film critics, years after a zombie apocalypse, survivors have set up outposts across the United States. One outpost in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contains a feudal-like government, bordered on two sides by rivers and on the third by an electric fence, the city has become a sanctuary. The rich and powerful live in a luxury high-rise called Fiddlers Green, paul Kaufman, the citys ruthless ruler, has sponsored Dead Reckoning, an armored personnel vehicle that can travel through the zombie-infested areas with ease. Riley Denbo is the designer and commander of Dead Reckoning, unlike Kaufman, Riley is respected for his work in protecting the citizens, as well as providing them with food and medical supplies that the citizens can no longer safely acquire themselves. Using Dead Reckoning, Riley and his crew ventured into areas overrun with zombies to scavenge for supplies, on this mission, they notice many zombies exhibiting intelligent behavior. One such zombie is Big Daddy, formerly a gas station owner, after the mission, Riley retires from commanding Dead Reckoning. Back to the city, he gets to Chihuahua s bar, there, he sees a hooker named Slack being forced in a cage with some zombies to entertain guests. Riley and Charlie save Slack, Charlie kills Chihuahua in the ensuing chaos, Riley, Charlie and Slack are arrested. Slack reveals that Kaufman ordered her execution, for helping Mulligan to instigate rebellion among the poor, meanwhile, Cholo DeMora, Dead Reckonings second in command, is denied an apartment in Fiddlers Green despite his service to Kaufman. In retaliation, Cholo takes over Dead Reckoning and threatens to destroy Fiddlers Green with it, Kaufman approaches Riley and tasks him, as well as Charlie and Slack, to retrieve Dead Reckoning. They are supervised by Manolete, Motown, and Pillsbury, on the way, Manolete is bitten and then killed by Slack. After catching up with Dead Reckoning, Riley approaches the vehicle alone, Charlie, Slack, and Pillsbury follow him after subduing Motown and leaving her behind. Realising Riley is working for Kaufman, Cholo holds both Riley and Charlie at gunpoint, as he prepares to fire Dead Reckonings missiles at Fiddlers Green, Riley uses a small device and deactivates Dead Reckonings weapons systems, he then destroys the device. Motown, who had regained consciousness, opens fire and nearly kills both Riley and Cholo and she is bitten by a zombie and killed by Slack. Riley convinces Cholo to allow him escape North and to join him, while en route, Cholo is bitten by a zombie and leaves to kill Kaufman by himself
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Diary of the Dead
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Diary of the Dead is a 2007 horror film by George A. Romero. Diary of the Dead is the film in Romeros Dead series of zombie films. It is not a sequel to previous films in the series. The film begins with footage from a cameraman and reporter. The son and wife turn into zombies and kill several medical personnel and police officers but leave one medic, the narrator, Debra, explains that most of the footage, which was recorded by the cameraman, was never broadcast. Two of the students, Ridley and Francine, decide to leave the group, when she cannot contact her family, they travel to Debras parents house in Scranton, Pennsylvania. En route Mary runs over a highway patrolman and three other zombies. The group stops and Mary attempts to kill herself and her friends take her to a hospital, where they find the dead becoming zombies, and thereafter fight to survive while traveling to Debras parents. Mary becomes a zombie and is slain by Maxwell, later Gordo is bitten by a zombie and soon afterward dies from it. His girlfriend Tracy begs the others not to him immediately. Soon they are stranded when their vehicles fuel line breaks and they are attacked by zombies while Tracy repairs the vehicle with the assistance of a deaf Amish man named Samuel. Before escaping, Samuel is bitten and kills himself and his attacker with a scythe, passing a city they are stopped by an armed group of survivors, the leader being a member of the National Guard. There, Debra receives a message from her brother, who informs her that he. The students then leave for Debras house and their only reliable source of information is now the Internet, aided by bloggers. When they arrive at Debras house, they find her mother and brother feeding on her father. They escape from the house and are stopped by different National Guardsmen and they arrive at Ridleys mansion, where Ridley explains that his parents, the staff, and Francine were killed and he buried them out back. Ridley then shows Debra and Tony that he buried his parents, Ridley then abandons Debra and Tony and is revealed to have been bitten by a zombie himself, explaining his odd behavior. Ridley soon dies, comes back as a zombie, kills Eliot, Jason is able to distract Ridley long enough for Tracy to escape
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Survival of the Dead
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Survival of the Dead is a 2009 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Alan van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh and Kathleen Munroe. It is the entry in Romeros Night of the Living Dead series. The story follows a group of AWOL National Guardsmen who briefly appeared in Diary of the Dead, the prologue follows the actions of National Guard Sergeant Nicotine Crockett, who along with Kenny, Francisco and Tomboy, desert their posts and rob the protagonists of the previous film. Meanwhile, off the coast of Delaware lies Plum Island, home to two feuding Irish families, the OFlynns and the Muldoons, the former family, led by Patrick OFlynn, round up a posse to kill the undead on the island. OFlynn learns that the Muldoons are keeping their undead loved ones safe until a cure is found. Tensions come to a head when OFlynn and his posse arrive at a Muldoon house to dispatch their undead children, unable to put the children down himself, Patrick surrenders his weapons when the Muldoon posse arrives. Seamus Muldoon contemplates killing Patrick until Patricks daughter Janet suggests he be exiled from the island instead, Boy joins the National Guardsmen and through him they learn of Plum Island. They watch a video made by Patrick OFlynn and follow the instructions in it that leads them to a nearby dock, at the dock, OFlynn and his men attempt to rob the Guardsmen, which results in a shootout. Francisco steals a boat and bites off the finger of an attacking zombie in the process. All of the OFlynns but Patrick are killed by zombies, during the trip to the island, Patrick says that he sent other people to Plum Island to anger the Muldoons. When the group reach the island they discover that the Muldoons have chained up their zombies in imitations of their previous lives and they also see that the people sent to the island by Patrick have been killed. Patrick sees his daughter Janet ride by on a horse, apparently dead, Patrick attempts to gather allies when two Muldoons attack them, shooting Crockett and Kenny. The latter dies from his wounds, and is shot in the head by Patrick to prevent reanimation, Francisco realizes that he infected himself when bit off the zombies finger and asks Tomboy to shoot him to keep him from turning. Tomboy shoots him and is captured by Muldoon. Patrick finds out that the daughter he saw earlier was actually Janets twin sister Jane, Janet, still alive, joins Patrick and the Guardsmen in their attack on the Muldoons. A standoff occurs at the bridge that separates the two families land, and the OFlynn group is captured, Boy and Janet escape, Muldoon reveals his attempts to persuade the zombies to eat something other than human flesh and uses Jane as a test case. He tries to persuade the woman to bite her horse. A melee ensues and captured zombies are released, consuming people from both sides, Muldoon and OFlynn call a truce that is almost immediately broken when Muldoon shoots OFlynn, who pulls a hidden gun and kills Muldoon
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
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Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini and starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles. It is a remake of George A. Romeros 1968 horror film of the same name, Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay co-authored by John A. Russo. Siblings Barbara and Johnnie visit their mothers grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery, during their visit, Barbara is attacked by a zombie. Her brother comes to her defense but is killed, Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what at first seems to be an abandoned farmhouse. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies, shortly after, a man named Ben arrives, and the two clear the house of the dead and begin the process of barricading the doors and windows. The group is divided over what their next course of action should be, Harry believes everyone should retreat to the cellar and barricade the door to wait for the authorities. The loud construction attracts even more zombies to the farmhouse, soon collecting a large mob, the group devises a plan to escape using Bens truck, which is out of fuel, by refueling at a locked gas pump a couple hundred yards away. A search of the corpse who lived in the farmhouse produces a set of keys. Judy Rose, Tom, and Ben proceed up the hill toward the gas pump, to their horror, the key to the gas pump is not among the bunch they brought with them. When Tom shoots the lock off, the leaking gasoline is ignited by a piece of wood in the truck. The resulting explosion kills both Tom and Judy, Ben returns to the house to find things beginning to dissolve into chaos. Harry has wrestled Barbaras gun away from her and is now armed, when Sarah makes her way upstairs she triggers a shootout between her father, who is trying to protect her, and Ben and Barbara, who are trying to protect themselves. Both Ben and Harry are badly wounded, Barbara shoots Sarah, Harry retreats upstairs to the attic, while Ben makes his way to the cellar, where he shoots a reanimated Helen. Ben gradually goes into shock, and after realizing the gas key has been in the cellar the entire time, meanwhile, Barbara leaves the house alone and attempts to find help. She eventually joins a group of Countryside locals who are clearing the area of the undead, shes awoken the next day and is surrounded by safety of the media and townspeople. Noticing hillbillies playing around with a couple of zombies, she comments on the similarities between the living and the undead and she returns to the farmhouse to find Ben, who died of his wounds and has been reanimated. He gazes at Barbara before being shot in the head by one of the posse members. When Harry emerges from the attic alive, Barbara kills him in a fit of rage for causing Ben to die, the film ends as Barbara hypnotically watches the bodies being burned in the fire
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Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
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Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 American horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his feature film directorial debut. A remake of George A. Romeros 1978 film of the name, it is written by James Gunn and stars Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber. The special effects were done by Heather Langenkamp and David LeRoy Anderson who co-own AFX Studio, the film depicts a handful of human survivors living in a shopping mall located in the fictional town of Everett, Wisconsin surrounded by swarms of zombies. After finishing a shift as a nurse, Ana returns to her suburban neighborhood and her husband. Caught up in a date night, they miss an emergency news bulletin. The next morning, a girl named Vivian enters their bedroom. Luis approaches her to see whats wrong and she bites him on the neck. Ana locks Vivian out of the room and tries to tend to Luis who goes into shock, then dies. She attempts to call the only to find that there is no connection, as she keeps ringing, Luis rises up, now infected with the same disease. She flees in her car and drives away, seeing all around her neighbourhood. The intro scene rolls in, depicting riots and war in the major cities, upon waking, Ana is confronted by Police Sergeant Kenneth Hall, electronics salesman Michael, petty criminal Andre and his pregnant wife, Luda and joins them, after they prove she is still alive. They break into a mall and are attacked by a zombified security guard. Kenneth is also injured while wrestling with the zombie but Ana manages to subdue with his shotgun. They are then confronted by three living guards — C. J. Bart, and Terry — who make them surrender their weapons in exchange for refuge. They split into groups to secure the mall and then go to the roof where they see another survivor, Andy, the next day, a delivery truck carrying more survivors enters the lot, with zombies in close pursuit. C. J. and Bart wish to turn away but are overruled and disarmed. The newcomers include Norma, Steve Marcus, Tucker, Monica, Glen, Frank and his daughter, another woman is too ill to walk, she is wheeled inside via wheelbarrow only to die. As Ana drapes her with a cloth, however, the woman reanimates and attacks her, Ana theorizes with the group that the disease is passed by bites from the infected individuals, as she had already seen it happen with Luis
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Day of the Dead (2008 film)
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Day of the Dead is a 2008 American horror film about a virus outbreak that causes people to turn into violent zombie-like creatures. It is a remake of George A. Romeros zombie film of the same name. The film is directed by Steve Miner and written by Jeffrey Reddick, the film was principally shot in Bulgaria, with limited shooting in Los Angeles, California. Tyler Bates provided the soundtrack, and screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick has an appearance as an ill-fated police officer. In Leadville, Colorado, Trevor and his girlfriend, Nina, have an encounter in an abandoned building. As they return to their parents homes, they encounter a military roadblock. An angry man demands medical care for his child, revealing an outbreak, the teens meet Captain Rhodes and Corporal Sarah Cross. Soon after, privates Bud Crain and Salazar show up, Sarah and Bud visit her sick mother, and she to her brother, Trevor. Sarah visits Trevors friend, Kyle, after she learns his symptoms are similar to her mothers, when Bud and Sarah arrive at Kyles house, they find the mauled bodies of his parents stashed behind a curtain and Kyle missing. They radio Captain Rhodes and take Nina, Trevor, and their mom to the local hospital, there, Sarah talks to Dr. Logan at the urging of Rhodes, while out in the waiting room all the infected become catatonic. Bud runs to alert Sarah, when all the infected suddenly reanimate and they turn into zombies, transforming while catatonic. They have superhuman strength allows them to run, jump long distances. Nina and Trevor escape, seeking refuge in the radio station. Captain Rhodes fights off the zombies before perishing, after becoming trapped in a storage room, Sarah, Dr. Logan and Bud crawl through ceiling ducts into another room, where they find Salazar. Uninfected, he returns with them through the ducts to the storage room, the transformed Rhodes, also in the room, pursues them through the duct and nearly catches up with Sarah. Though she escapes, Rhodes bites Buds hand as he replaces the ceiling grill, after dispatching Rhodes, the four escape from the hospital by jumping from the store room window into the car park, which is overrun with zombies. Here they discover the zombies can be killed by shooting them in the head or setting them on fire, in the confusion, Dr. Logan deliberately pushes a non-infected girl into the path of the zombies and escapes in an abandoned vehicle. Sarah, Bud and Salazar win their battle with the zombies and they make a stop at the gun store while Bud stays in the vehicle
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Zombi 2
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Zombi 2 is a 1979 zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film was adapted from a screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti to serve as a sequel to George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead. It stars Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch and Richard Johnson, the film tells the story of a Caribbean island cursed by voodoo, whose dead residents rise as zombies to attack the living. A scientists daughter journeys to the island after her fathers boat turns up abandoned in New York City, intended as a return to classic zombie tales by its writer, Zombi 2 was filmed in Italy, with further location shooting in New York and Santo Domingo. Produced on a budget of ₤410 million, the film earned several times its production costs back in international gross. It attracted controversy upon its United Kingdom release, becoming listed as a video nasty, Frizzis score has also been released independently of the film, as well as being performed live on tour by the composer. An abandoned sailboat drifts into New York harbour and is boarded by patrol officers, one is killed by a zombie, which falls overboard after being shot by another officer. The police question the boat owners daughter, Anne Bowles, who claims that she hasnt seen her father for months, at the morgue, the officers corpse stirs. Anne meets journalist Peter West, and the pair follow her fathers trail to the Caribbean island Matul and they befriend Brian Hull and Susan Barrett, who are sailing around the area and agree to take them. On Matul, Dr. David Menard has been running the hospital whilst conducting research into voodoo rites and his wife Paola wishes to leave, but Menard insists on staying to continue his work. At the hospital, patients are dying of a strange illness, Menard begins shooting corpses to stop them being reanimated. Paola is attacked at home by a zombie, and dragged out through a door to her death—her eye impaled on splintered wood. On the boat, Susan dives underwater and encounters a tiger shark, taking shelter behind a reef, she is attacked by an underwater zombie. She escapes as the shark and the zombie attack each other, the boat has been damaged after Brian fired a shotgun at the shark, but eventually, the group arrives at Matul, firing distress flares to seek assistance. Menard goes to them, leaving his nurse to supervise the mass burial of dead patients. He tells Anne that her father is dead—a victim of the troubles on the island—and asks the group to check on Paola, the four escape in Menards jeep, but the vehicle crashes when Brian swerves to avoid a zombie—Peter injures his ankle. Making their way back to the hospital on foot, the stops at a clearing which is actually a Conquistador graveyard. Anne and Peter are attacked by corpses rising from the earth, Brian rescues them, but Susan is killed
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28 Weeks Later
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28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British science fiction horror film, structured as a sequel to the critically and commercially successful 2002 film 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later was co-written and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, director and writer of 28 Days Later respectively and it was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 11 May 2007. During the original outbreak of the Rage Virus, Don, his wife Alice and they hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and let him in. A few minutes later, they discover that the infected have followed the boy to them, the infected attack and kill most of the survivors, while Don, Alice, and the boy are chased upstairs. Don pleads with Alice to abandon the boy, but she refuses and he abandons them as the infected break into their room by busting out of the window. Don desperately sprints to a motorboat, narrowly escaping after a tussle with a recently turned survivor. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Great Britain, twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American-led force, under the command of Brigadier General Stone, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Don and Alices children, Tammy and Andy and they are admitted to District One, a safe zone on the Isle of Dogs guarded by the U. S. Army. Delta Force Sniper and his friend, Chief Flynn, a pilot, are amongst the military presence in charge of guarding the district. Tammy and Andy are reunited with their father, who was found by the U. S. Army and has become the districts caretaker, in their new flat, Don fabricates a lie about the circumstances surrounding their mothers death. To his shock, Andy finds Alice alive and uninfected in a semi-conscious, delirious state, the three are soon discovered by soldiers and taken back to District One. Alice is taken to a room, where she is tested. Don makes a visit to Alice in her isolation cell. She accepts his apology and tells him she loves him, however, when they kiss, Don is infected, savagely kills her, and goes on a rampage. General Stone orders the building to be quarantined and District One to be put into Code Red lockdown, civilians are herded into safe rooms, but despite the precautions, Don breaks into a room containing a large crowd and starts a domino effect of rapid infection. The mob - now with half its members infected - breaks out of the safe room, Scarlet, a U. S. Army medical officer, rescues Tammy and Andy as the soldiers in District One are ordered to shoot indiscriminately. Doyle, unable to bring himself to comply with the order, abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet, Tammy, Andy, General Stone orders District One to be firebombed, but large numbers of the infected, including Don, escape the bombardment. Scarlet informs Doyle that the children hold the key to a cure
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Resident Evil (film series)
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Resident Evil is a science fiction action-horror hexalogy film series loosely based on the Japanese video game franchise of the same name by Capcom. German studio Constantin Film bought the rights to the first film in January 1997 with Alan B. McElroy, in 2001, Sony Entertainment acquired distribution rights and hired Paul W. S. Anderson as writer and director for Resident Evil. The fictional Umbrella Corporation, which acts as the main antagonist in the series, is a pharmaceutical company that creates bioweapons. Umbrella was responsible for the apocalypse, which occurred after the corporations T-virus infected the Earths population. The films follow protagonist Alice, a character created for the films portrayed by Milla Jovovich. Alice, who was once a security operative working for Umbrella, in January 1997, Constantin Film acquired the rights to the Resident Evil franchise with Alan B. McElroy possibly writing the script. By 2001, Columbia TriStar was in negotiations to acquire North American distribution rights to Resident Evil. George A. Romero was hired by Sony and Capcom to direct and his script was later rejected and he was ultimately dropped. Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto stated that Romeros script wasnt good, so Romero was fired, Paul W. S. Anderson was then hired by Sony to write a screenplay and in late 2000, Anderson was announced as director and writer. In 2001, Milla Jovovich was cast as Alice, the protagonist of the film, in the film, the Umbrella Corporation operates a top-secret genetic research facility named The Hive. Located deep beneath Raccoon City, The Hive has been sealed by The Red Queen due to the release of the T-Virus into the facility, Alice was once a security operative working for the Corporation until her memory was wiped by the Red Queens nerve gas. As the team attempts to escape The Hive, an Umbrella test subject, when they reach the train that leads them to the exit, the Licker attacks and scratches Matt before Alice can kill it. When they reach the surface, Matt is taken away by Umbrella workers, Alice wakes from a coma to a ravaged Raccoon City after a T-Virus outbreak. The sequel to the first film production in 2003 after the success of the first film. Anderson returned as the writer but, due to his work on Alien vs. Predator, Alexander Witt took over the directors role. In the film, the viral outbreak reaches the surface and in an effort to contain the infection, Major Timothy Cain seals all exits to, among the people trapped in the city are Jill Valentine and her partner Peyton Wells. After Alice awakens from her coma, she rescues Jill and Peyton from a group of Licker monsters who escaped The Hive. They are then contacted by Dr. Charles Ashford, who claims to know of a point in the city in exchange for the rescue of his daughter Angela Ashford
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Cover for the 2012 The Resident Evil Collection Blu-Ray box-set of the first five films
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Resident Evil
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Resident Evil, known as Biohazard in Japan, is a survival horror video game-based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and owned by the video game company Capcom. The eponymous first game in the series was released in 1996 as a horror video game. The series is a mix of action and horror film-inspired plotlines, exploration, as of January 27,2017, the video game series has sold 75 million units worldwide, and is Capcoms biggest franchise in terms of software sales. In Japan the games are known as Biohazard. Resident Evil made its debut on the PlayStation in 1996 and was ported to the Sega Saturn. A port of Resident Evil 2 was released for the Nintendo 64, in addition, ports of all three were released for Microsoft Windows. The fourth game in the series, Resident Evil – Code, Veronica, was developed for the Dreamcast and released in 2000, followed by ports of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. Resident Evil Code, Veronica was later re-released for Dreamcast in Japan in a form as Code, Veronica Complete. This updated version was ported to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube under the title Code, Veronica X. Resident Evil 4 was later released for Windows, PlayStation 2. In addition, the GameCube received ports of the previous Resident Evil sequels, despite this exclusivity agreement between Capcom and Nintendo, Capcom released several Resident Evil titles for the PlayStation 2 that were not considered direct sequels. A trilogy of GunCon-compatible light gun known as the Gun Survivor series featured first person game play. The first, Resident Evil Survivor, was released in 2000 for the PlayStation and PC, the subsequent games, Resident Evil, Survivor 2 Code, Veronica and Resident Evil, Dead Aim, fared somewhat better. Dead Aim is the fourth Gun Survivor game in Japan, with Gun Survivor 3 being the Dino Crisis spin-off Dino Stalker, in a similar vein, the Chronicles series features first person game play, albeit on an on-rails path. Resident Evil, The Umbrella Chronicles was released in 2007 for the Wii, with a follow up, Resident Evil and it was the first in the series and the first survival horror title to feature cooperative gameplay and online multiplayer support. It was followed by a sequel, Resident Evil Outbreak File #2, the town served a critical junction for the series progression as one of the main catalysts to Umbrellas downfall as well as the entry point for some of the series most notable characters. Resident Evil Gaiden is a game for the Game Boy Color featuring an role-playing-style combat system. There have been several downloadable mobile games based on the Resident Evil series in Japan, some of these mobile games have been released in North America and Europe through T-Mobile. However, as of 2012, no announcements have been made
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Resident Evil (film)
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Resident Evil is a 2002 German-British science fiction action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and produced by Bernd Eichinger. The film stars Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez and it is the first installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is loosely based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil. Alongside Jovovich and Rodriguez, it also stars Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes and it is produced by Bernd Eichinger and by Anderson himself. The film received mixed reviews from critics but some highly praised Jovovich and the cast performances as well as the action sequences and it was a box office success, grossing more than $100 million worldwide. Underneath Raccoon City exists a research facility called the Hive. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it, in response, the facilitys artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside. Alice awakens naked in the bathroom of a mansion with amnesia. She dresses, checks the mansion, and is subdued by an unknown person, a group of Sanitation Team commandos led by James Shade breaks into the mansion and arrests Matt Addison, who just transferred as a cop in Raccoon P. D. The group travels to the train under the mansion that leads to the Hive. At the Queens chamber, a defense system kills Shade. Despite the Red Queens urgent pleas for the group to leave, Kaplan disables the Red Queen systems, and this releases the zombified staff and containment units containing Lickers. When everyone regroups, they are ambushed by a horde of zombies, J. D. perishes as the group becomes overwhelmed. A bitten Rain retreats with Kaplan and Spence, Matt becomes separated from Alice, Matt looks for information about his sister Lisa and finds her zombified. Alice saves him, and Matt explains he and Lisa were environmental activists, Alice remembers she was Lisas contact in the Hive but does not tell Matt. The survivors reunite at the Queens chamber, and the commandos explain they have one hour before the Hive traps them inside automatically, Alice and Kaplan activate the Red Queen to find an exit. To force her cooperation, they rig a remote shutdown, as they escape through maintenance tunnels, zombies ambush them, and a reanimated J. D. bites Rain before getting killed. The group reaches safety, but Kaplan is bitten and separated, Alice remembers that an anti-virus is in the lab, but they find it missing. Spence remembers he stole and released the virus and he hid the T-virus and anti-virus on the train
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
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Resident Evil, Apocalypse is a 2004 science fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the installment in the Resident Evil film series. The film opened to theaters on September 10,2004, on a budget of $40 million, the film grossed $51 million domestically and $129 million worldwide, surpassing the box office gross of the previous installment. Resident Evil, Apocalypse received mostly negative reviews critics, who praised the action sequences. The film was released to DVD on December 28,2004, when the team reprograms and opens the sealed blast doors, they are slaughtered by the massive crowd of T-virus infected zombies. With the zombies released, they reach Raccoon City, spreading the infection among the general population, Alice awakens in the deserted Raccoon City hospital attached to wiring, and after unstrapping herself, she manages to exit her room. Finding no one in the hospital, she wanders outside only to find the city a ghost town and she arms herself with a shotgun from a police car and wanders the city looking for supplies. She is constantly disturbed by visions of a man, who was revealed to be experimenting on her, she now has superhuman agility, however, the T-virus infects a man having a heart attack, turning him into a zombie that bites Payton at the city gates. Elsewhere, Carlos Olivera and other Umbrella soldiers link up with Special Tactics And Rescue Squad units to defend against an onslaught of zombies. Their positions are overrun, causing Carlos and his team to retreat with a bitten Yuri, Jill, Payton, and news reporter Terri Morales lock themselves in a church, where a panicked man is also hiding. Inspecting the church, Jill finds a priest who has been feeding other people to his zombified sister and they soon find the church is full of Lickers. The priest and the man are killed, but Jill, Payton. In the meantime, Umbrella dispatches their Nemesis Program to fight the zombies in order to test him, when Nemesis encounters a surviving citizen, L. J. and members of S. T. A. R. S. The latter open fire on Nemesis, Nemesis guns the team down but spares L. J. s life when he drops his weapons. Meanwhile, Dr. Ashford has refused extraction, since Angela is missing and he hacks into the citys CCTV system, uses it to contact Alice and the other survivors, and offers to arrange their evacuation in exchange for their rescuing Angela. Alice, seeing no escape, accepts the offer. Seeing no choice, the others join Alice in heading for the school, however, Nemesis appears and shoots Payton dead. Alice separates and assaults him, but she is overwhelmed and forced into retreat, Jill and Terri make it to the school, and they pick up L. J. on the way
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Resident Evil: Extinction
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Resident Evil, Extinction is a 2007 science fiction action horror film and the third installment in the Resident Evil film series based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil. The film follows the heroine Alice, along with a group of survivors from Raccoon City, as they attempt to travel across the Mojave desert wilderness to Alaska, the film was directed by Russell Mulcahy and produced by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film received negative reviews. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 1,2008 and this film was initially titled Resident Evil, Afterlife according to the leaked script. For unknown reasons, it was renamed to Resident Evil, Extinction, the title Afterlife was used for the fourth installment of the series. Alice wakes up disoriented in a mansion and she wanders through the halls, where she defeats several obstacles, including a deadly laser beam obstacle and a giant blade that falls from the ceiling. However, she is killed by a bounding mine. Her body is dumped into a pit filled with dozens of Alice clones and is revealed to be a clone. The camera zooms out to show a shack camouflaging the facilitys above-ground entrance - with the rest of the facility located underground, surrounded by a high fence and thousands of zombies. As the virus spread, it affected not only humans, but other animals as well, and the environment deteriorated, turning cities into desolate landscapes, the real Alice wanders the wastelands of the Southwestern U. S. She responds to an asking for help on the radio. It turns out that they are bandits who first attempt to rape her and then have her killed by infected dogs, on her travels, she finds a dead mans diary which states that there is an uninfected area in Alaska. He tries to persuade the Umbrella board, operating via holograms from the world-wide Umbrella facility, the new Umbrella chairman Albert Wesker orders Isaacs to use the clones to create a cure, and he refuses to authorize Alices recapture until they are informed of her location. Meanwhile, a convoy of survivors led by Claire Redfield travels across the country in search of supplies, the convoy includes Raccoon City survivors Carlos Oliveira and L. J. along with new survivors K-Mart, Mikey, Chase, Otto and Nurse Betty and others. While searching a motel for supplies, L. J. is bitten by a zombie, the next morning the convoy is attacked by crows that had been feeding on the infected. The crows almost overwhelm the convoy, killing Nurse Betty and Otto and taking out the flamethrower operator, Alice finally appears and saves Carlos and the others from a fiery death, using her telekinesis to fill the sky with fire, killing the crows and leaving her unconscious. After recovering, Alice is introduced to Claire and gives her a diary she found, while she, Dr. Isaacs attempts to domesticate the infected have led to a new zombie breed that remembers basic things, such as how to use phones and cameras. Weskers security officer, Captain Alexander Slater, is adamant about Isaacs disregard for Umbrellas regulations, Wesker, in private, informs Slater to keep watch on Isaacs actions, and tells Slater that if Issacs disobeys orders, Slater should kill Isaacs
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Top to bottom:
Milla Jovovich,
Oded Fehr and
Mike Epps reprised their roles from
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Ali Larter portrayed
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Resident Evil: Afterlife
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Resident Evil, Afterlife is a 2010 3D science fiction action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, the film marks Andersons second time to direct in the series, the first being the first installment. It is the first to be shot in 3D and fourth installment in the Resident Evil film series, the film follows Alice searching for and rescuing the remaining survivors in Los Angeles after the T-virus outbreak, and teaming up against Albert Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation. Chris Redfield, a character from the video games, was featured for the first time in the film franchise. In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following Extinction with a sequel titled Afterlife, Extinction was released in 2007 and was a box office success, prompting Afterlife to begin development in June 2008, with the script being written by Anderson that December. Elements from the video game Resident Evil 5 were incorporated into the film, filming took place in Toronto from September to December 2009 using the 3D Fusion Camera System. The film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 10,2010, Resident Evil, Afterlife was released to DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on December 28,2010 in the United States. Wesker injects her with an Anti-Virus to remove her superhuman abilities, before the autopilot crashes the plane into the mountains and only Alice survives. Six months later, Alice travels to Alaska in an airplane, tracking broadcasts from a safe haven called Arcadia, however, she only finds abandoned planes, Alice destroys a spider-like device on Claires chest, giving her amnesia and pacifying her. They travel to the ruins of L. A. where they find survivors living in a prison which is surrounded by thousands of undead. They meet Luther West, who leads the band on prison, Wendell, Crystal Waters, Bennett, Kim Yong. With their help, Alice finally lands on the roof and learns Arcadia isnt a fixed place. However, though the ship hasnt moved, no-one from it has responded to the groups rescue flares, Luther takes Alice to the last inmate, Chris, who insists hes falsely imprisoned, and will reveal an escape route for freedom. Alice goes to the showers to wash up, but catches Wendell attempting to peep, holding him at gunpoint, they are attacked by a group of infected that dug into the prison, and take Wendell, as she manages to kill them. Desperate, they free Chris, who reveals that Claire is his sister, however, a giant axe-wielding monster begins breaking down the gate. Alice, Chris and Crystal go to the basement armory to get guns, however. Luther and Claire reinforce the gate, Angel informs Bennett and Yong the car is missing its engine and it would take a week to fix. Bennett shoots Angel and heads for Arcadia in Alices airplane, the Axeman breaks down the gate, allowing the zombies into the prison
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When Miller first read the script he thought the association to
Prison Break was a practical joke with his imprisonment and his first line being, "I know a way out of here."
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Boris Kodjoe trained for six weeks to perform his own stunts. He dislocated his knee in the course of filming while trying to kick in a gate.
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Robarts Library 's exterior was used to portray the prison.
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Resident Evil: Retribution
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Resident Evil, Retribution is a 2012 science fiction action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new characters from the games not featured in the previous films. Filming took place from October to December 2011 for a release date of September 14,2012. The film was released in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D to a box-office success, film critics criticized the film for its characters, plot, and acting while praising the 3D, visual effects, and fight choreography. The Blu-ray and DVD for the film was released on December 21,2012, Alice and the others on the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack by a fleet of tiltrotors led by Alices former ally, Jill Valentine. Alice is captured in the attack, while the fates of Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield, Alice awakens in an underground facility and is interrogated by Jill. During a power failure, Alice escapes her cell and the grid, finding herself in a simulated Shibuya Square. Fighting her way out against zombies, she enters a room and encounters Ada Wong. Ada explains that no longer serve Umbrella and the power outage was staged by Wesker hacking into the facilitys computers. Wesker appears on a screen, revealing that the Red Queen now controls Umbrella, Ada explains that the facility is underwater, located in Kamchatka, Russia, that served as a former Soviet naval outpost. The facility was designed by Umbrella in manufacturing clones and created simulated outbreaks to show the effect of the T-virus. Ada and Alice plan to rendezvous with a crew, which includes Leon Kennedy, Barry Burton and Luther West. Leons team plants explosives near the entrance of the facility, which will detonate in two hours to ensure the facilitys destruction, the group plans to meet with Alice and Ada in the Raccoon City suburbia area. In a New York City simulation, Alice and Ada defeat two Axemen, Leon and his team enter a Moscow simulation, but are attacked by armed Las Plagas Undead. In the Suburban setting, Alice and Ada encounter Becky, the daughter of another Alice clone who mistakes the real Alice for her mother. They also encounter clones of Alices former compatriots, the One, Rain Ocampo and Carlos Olivera, Ada gives Alice her smart glasses so that she and Becky can find their way and become split up. They encounter another clone of Rain, who was a friend of Beckys mother and she then rescues Leons surviving crew from the barrage of zombies and a giant Licker. Once united, the head for the facility exit but are assaulted by the clones
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Jovovich with Paul W. S. Anderson at the 2012
WonderCon in promotion of Resident Evil: Retribution.
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The Zombie Diaries
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The Zombie Diaries is a 2006 British independent horror film written, produced and directed by Kevin Gates and first-time feature-filmmaker Michael Bartlett. The film was shot in a documentary format on DV. Soldiers of the British army clear a small collection of farmhouses with two scientists who take a sample from a deceased civilian who appears to have been reanimated. The story of four individuals is revisited in the second half of the movie. The second chapter, The Scavengers, takes one month later. Two men and one woman travel around in a small car armed only with a rifle, in search of food, the final chapter, The Survivors, tells the story of a larger group of uninfected people who have set up camp on a farm. They divide their time doing reconnaissance of surrounding areas, holding off the stream of incoming zombies. In the opening scene of the chapter, the watches as the survivors calmly execute the approaching infected. Both of the murderers also survive, one having disappeared after helping slaughter the film crew, whilst the cast was made up of professional actors, few were well-known other than a brief appearance from Leonard Fenton, best known for playing Dr. Harold Legg in EastEnders. Bartlett originally envisaged it as a film, but Gates felt it was better suited to feature film length. The filmmakers wanted to focus primarily on the rather than the zombies themselves. Casting involved asking actors to improvise entire sequences from the film, Gates and Bartlett picked the largely unknown cast as a result of this process. Shooting took place at weekends between July and November 2005 and post-production was completed during 2006, the US DVD was released on 18 November 2008 by Dimension Films. Beyond Hollywood wrote that the large cast makes empathizing with individual characters difficult, justin Felix of DVD Talk rated it 2. 5/5 stars and wrote that although the action sequences get repetitive, the characters are interesting. David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote, Its not a ride or an epic tale of the undead. The sequel received a limited UK cinema release on 24 June 2011, a US release followed in October. The leads are played by Alix Wilton Regan, Philip Brodie, official website The Zombie Diaries at the Internet Movie Database The Zombie Diaries at AllMovie The Zombie Diaries at Rotten Tomatoes
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Fido (film)
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Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton. It was produced by Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood of Anagram Pictures, the film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the Zombie Wars, where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, the radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die after the original contamination turn into the undead, unless the dead body is disposed of by decapitation or cremation. In order to continue living normal lives, communities are fenced with the help of a corporation named ZomCon. ZomCon provides collars with accompanying remote controls to control the zombies hunger for flesh so as to use them as slaves or servants. In the town of Willard housewife Helen Robinson buys a zombie in spite of her husband Bills zombie phobia and their son, Timmy, befriends the zombie, naming him Fido. One day, Fidos collar malfunctions and he kills their next door neighbor, Timmy kills the zombified neighbor later, but not before she kills and infects another person, causing a small outbreak. ZomCon security forces quell the situation and then investigate what caused the outbreak, when a pair of local bullies are blamed for the missing neighbor, they capture Fido and Timmy. Fido escapes and runs to find Helen, who comes and rescues Timmy from the bullies, several days later, the neighbors body is found and the murder is traced back to Fido, who is taken away to ZomCon where the public is told he will be destroyed. Timmy learns through Cindy Bottoms, daughter of Jonathan Bottoms, ZomCons abusive security chief, Bill comes to the rescue and is killed by Mr. Bottoms, who in turn is killed by Fido. Timmy is set free and the news media propagandizes that the ZomCon security breach was the fault of rednecks who venture out into the zone to hunt zombies for fun. Helen finally learns not to belittle Bills bad experiences from the Zombie Wars by paying for a funeral in order to prevent his zombification. The film ends with Fido as a father and husband, Timmy, Helen. They, along with a few neighbors happily enjoy their new lives together. Director Andrew Currie wanted to make a film in order to make the result less predictable. Currie was influenced by Lassie Come Home, The Night of the Hunter, Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s, Peyton Place, the script was originally written in 1994, but creative differences kept it tied up. Eventually, Currie optioned it through his company and completed the picture. The film was completely storyboarded prior to filming, Fido premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the Opening Canadian Gala film
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Planet Terror
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Planet Terror is a 2007 American zombie film directed by Robert Rodriguez. It follows a group of attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit. The film stars Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Naveen Andrews, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Stacy Ferguson, and Bruce Willis. In addition to directing the film, Rodriguez wrote the script, directed the cinematography, wrote the score, co-edited. Released on April 6,2007, Grindhouse ticket sales were significantly below box office analysts expectations, outside the U. S and released separately, Planet Terror and Death Proof screened in extended versions. Two soundtracks were released for the features and include music. Planet Terror was released on DVD in the United States and Canada on October 23,2007, in rural Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling decides to quit her low-paying job and find another occupation. She runs into her mysterious ex-boyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, when Muldoon learns that Abby has an extra supply on hand, he attempts to take Abby hostage, and Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town and turns most of its residents into deformed bloodthirsty psychopaths, the infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block and his unhappy, unfaithful bisexual anesthesiologist wife Dakota at a local hospital. Random zombie attacks begin along the highway, causing El Wray, with Cherry as his passenger, in the aftermath, several zombies tear off Cherrys right leg. Also falling victim, fatally, is Tammy, who was on her way to town to reunite with her former lover Dakota. When Tammys body arrives at the hospital, Dr. Block recognizes her and by comparing text messages on the phones of Tammy and his wife. El Wray is detained by Sheriff Hague based on past encounters between the two men, as the patients transform into zombies, El Wray leaves the police station and arrives at the hospital, attaching a wooden table leg to Cherrys stump. As El Wray and Cherry fight their way out of the hospital, Dakota escapes to her car. She eventually manages to drive away, meanwhile, Block becomes infected along with others, while Cherry and El Wray take refuge at the Bone Shack. Dakota retrieves her son Tony and takes him to her father, Earl McGraw, Tony, who was given a revolver by his mother, accidentally shoots himself in the face after being told not to point it at himself. Cherry and El Wray make love in J. T. s bedroom, Dakota, Earl, Cherrys former boss Skip, and Tonys crazed babysitter twins arrive at the Bone Shack. With Sheriff Hague badly injured, the group decides to flee to the Mexican border, Muldoons men arrive, and kill the zombies before arresting the group
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One of the theatrical promotional posters
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Colin (film)
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Colin is a 2008 British zombie film written and directed by Marc Price. After a successful run in a number of festivals, it went on to be shown at Cannes in 2009. Applauded for its success despite its low budget, the total cost of production was reportedly £45, facebook and Myspace were used to gather actors to play the zombies. Injured in the arm, Colin arrives home to the house he shares with Damien only to find it empty, while cleaning his wound in the kitchen sink, he is attacked by Damien, now a zombie. He manages to kill Damien by stabbing him multiple times in the head with a kitchen knife, now one of the undead, Colin wanders the streets of London during the onset of a probable zombie apocalypse. He acquires the usual zombie cannibal taste for human flesh but avoids conflict, while being mugged for his trainers, he is seen by Linda, his sister. That evening zombies invade a house party and kill everyone within, Colin follows the sole survivor of the carnage before she is trapped by a madman / serial killer in his basement with a group of blinded zombies. Linda and a friend finally capture Colin and take him to their mothers house, but Colin cannot recognize them. Linda has already been bitten by Colin when trying to save him from the muggers, the film also follows a cowering group of human survivors who finally go on the offensive. Led by Slingshot guy, the attack a large group of zombies with a makeshift grenade. Three of the humans are bitten during the fight and are killed by the rest of the group after one starts turning. Colin survives and finds his way to his friend Lauras home, arriving at the house, he discovered that Laura had trapped a zombie in the bathroom. While attempting to kill the zombie, she was bitten and died in his arms and he then killed her before going home, which brings the viewer back to the films beginning. Another feature film deals with a story from a zombies point of view is Andrew Parkinsons I. Marc Price, the director of Colin, said if he had known about the existence of I, Zombie. The film was shot in London using friends and professionals who worked free to build their portfolio and it then played at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Saatchi & Saatchi presentation of new directors,25 June 2009. On 13 July 2009, the film had a screening at Zombie-Aid in Manchester, with cast. On 27 July 2009, it was announced that the film would be distributed to cinemas, a preview was shown during the Frightfest fantasy and horror film festival in London during August 2009
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World War Z (film)
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World War Z is a 2013 American action horror film directed by Marc Forster. The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic, Pitts Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights in 2007, and Forster was approached to direct. In 2009, Carnahan was hired to rewrite the script, filming began in July 2011 in Malta, on an estimated $125 million budget, before moving to Glasgow in August 2011 and Budapest in October 2011. Originally set for a December 2012 release, the production suffered some setbacks, in June 2012, the films release date was pushed back, and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have time to finish the script, the reshoots took place between September and October 2012. World War Z premiered in London on June 2,2013, the film premiered in New York, and Los Angeles on June 14,2013, and released everywhere on June 21,2013, in the United States, in 2D and RealD 3D. The film received positive reviews for Brad Pitts performance and as a revival of the zombie genre. Regardless, the film was a success, grossing over $540 million against a production budget of $190 million. A sequel was announced shortly after the release, it was tentatively scheduled for a June 2017 release. Former UN employee Gerry Lane, his wife Karin and their two daughters are in heavy Philadelphia traffic when the city is attacked by zombies. As chaos spreads, the Lanes escape to Newark, New Jersey and take refuge in an apartment, home to a couple with a young son, dr. Andrew Fassbach posits that the plague is a virus, and that development of a vaccine depends on finding the origin. Gerry reluctantly agrees to help Fassbach find the outbreaks source after it is clear that he. Gerry and Fassbach fly to Camp Humphreys, a base in South Korea. Turning to re-enter the aircraft, Fassbach slips, falls and accidentally discharges his gun, as Gerry and his team bike back to their aircraft, zombies attack, kill several soldiers and infect Captain Speke, who commits suicide to prevent himself from turning. Israel had thereupon quarantined Jerusalem, erecting walls around it. Just as Jurgen shows Gerry that Israel is allowing survivors to take refuge in the city, loud celebratory singing from refugees prompts zombies to scale the walls, Jurgen orders some Israeli soldiers to escort Gerry back to his plane. On the way, Gerry notices zombies ignoring an emaciated boy, soon after, one of Gerrys escorts, a soldier who identifies herself only as Segen, is bitten in the hand, which Gerry quickly amputates to stop her turning. Gerry and Segen escape on a commercial airliner as Israel is overrun, Gerry contacts Thierry, and the airliner is diverted to a World Health Organization facility outside Cardiff, Wales
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Filming in
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Brad Pitt and director
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2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Max Brooks
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Maximillian Michael Brooks is an American horror author and screenwriter, as well as a television and voice-over actor. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft, much of Brookss writing focuses on zombie stories. Max Brooks was born in New York City, the son of actress Anne Bancroft and director, producer, writer and his father is Jewish and his mother was of Italian descent. Brooks is dyslexic and attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California and he studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a bachelors degree in history. He spent a semester at the University of the Virgin Islands and he graduated from American University in Washington, D. C. in 1994. From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the team at Saturday Night Live. His first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, published by Three Rivers Press, describes in depth the origin, the book was followed up by The Zombie Survival Guide, Recorded Attacks, a graphic novel depicting several of the events detailed in the first books latter section. In 2006, Brooks followed with World War Z, An Oral History of the Zombie War, paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights, and Brad Pitts production company, Plan B Entertainment, produced the film. In 2013, Cemetery Dance published a new limited Edition of the World War Z novel, jeremy Caniglia created all new artwork for this special release to coincide with the film release. Brooks wrote the introduction for the collected edition of Dynamite Entertainments zombie miniseries Raise the Dead. The New Dead, an anthology of previously unpublished zombie stories edited by Christopher Golden, contains an additional World War Z story titled Closure, in 2010, Brooks wrote the IDW comic book mini-series G. I. In 2011, he wrote the foreword for Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies, in 2012, he published Closure, Limited, featuring the story of that name from The New Dead, along with three other short stories set in the World War Z universe. Sony Pictures has purchased the rights to create a version of the novel, with Caleeb Pinkett. In 2016, Brooks was invited to Minecon 2016 and announced that he was working on a new novel on Minecraft, Brooks has a number of other creative credits. As an actor, he has seen in Roseanne, To Be or Not to Be, Pacific Blue. He also has a career voicing animation, his voice has featured in the animated shows Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League and All Dogs Go to Heaven. During the start of the 3rd season of Lost Tapes, he was cast as himself in the zombie episode and he also appeared on the Discovery Channels Sons of Guns in a zombie gun build off. Brooks has been married to playwright Michelle Kholos since 2003 and they have one son, Henry Michael Brooks, and live in Venice, California
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Max Brooks at
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Max Brooks with father
Mel Brooks in April 2010
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Mockumentary
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A mockumentary or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting. While not always comedic, comedic mockumentaries are common, a dramatic mockumentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Mockumentaries are often presented as documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film footage became relatively easy to locate, a very early example was a short piece on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest that appeared as an April fools joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957. The term mockumentary, which originated in the 1960s, was popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. Mockumentaries are often partly or wholly improvised, as a style of acting helps to maintain the pretense of reality. Comedic mockumentaries rarely have laugh tracks, also to sustain the atmosphere, albert Brooks was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film Real Life,1979, a spoof of a PBS documentary. Woody Allens Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a criminal, Virgil Starkwell. Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, fictional interviews are interspliced throughout, especially those of Starkwells parents who wear Groucho Marx noses and mustaches. The style of film was widely appropriated by others and revisited by Allen himself in films such as Zelig and Sweet. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the format has enjoyed considerable attention. In 1984, Christopher Guest co-wrote and starred in the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, films such as Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, all written with costar Eugene Levy, were critical successes. Man Bites Dog is a 1992 Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced, and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, in 1995, directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, Forgotten Silver claimed New Zealand director Colin McKenzie to be a pioneer in filmmaking. When the film was revealed to be a mockumentary, Jackson received criticism for tricking viewers. In 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous by Michael Patrick Jann used the style to narrate a fictional small-town beauty pageant as a way to satirize Middle America. Dark Side of the Moon is a 2002 French mockumentary by director William Karel, the premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. FUBAR is a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, the Confederate States of America is a 2004 mockumentary presenting an alternative history in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War
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All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by
Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of
The Beatles parody "
The Rutles ".
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Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British horror comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend. At the same time, he has to cope with a zombie uprising. The film was a critical and commercial success, Shaun of the Dead was also a BAFTA nominee. The film is the first in Wright and Peggs Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, followed by 2007s Hot Fuzz, Shaun is an electronics salesman with no direction. His younger colleagues disrespect him, he is estranged from his stepfather Philip, and his girlfriend Liz is unhappy spending every date at his favourite pub, after a bad day at work, Shaun forgets to book a restaurant for his anniversary with Liz. When he suggests the Winchester, Liz breaks up with him and he drowns his sorrows with his housemate and best friend Ed at the Winchester. At home, their housemate Pete, complaining of a wound from a drunk. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London, but the hungover Shaun is slow to notice and he and Ed encounter two zombies in their garden and kill them with blows to the head. They form a plan to rescue Shauns mother, Barbara, and Liz and they escape in Petes car, and pick up Barbara and Philip, who has been bitten, then Liz and her friends Dianne and David. Philip makes peace with Shaun, dies from his bites, the group abandon the vehicle and continue on foot. The streets surrounding the Winchester are overrun, so the group pretend to be zombies to sneak past them, outside the Winchester, Shaun distracts the horde away while the rest take refuge inside, where Shaun rejoins them. Shaun discovers the Winchester rifle above the bar is functional and the uses it to defend themselves. Barbara reveals she has been bitten and dies after giving Liz, Shaun, distraught, is forced to shoot her after she reanimates. David is torn apart by the zombies, while Dianne rushes out to rescue him, Pete, zombified, bites Ed, but Shaun shoots Pete and sets fire to the bar. The fire spreads, setting off the rifle ammunition while Shaun, Liz and Ed flee into the cellar, discovering a barrel hatch elevator that opens to the outside, Shaun and Liz escape as the wounded Ed volunteers to stay behind with the rifle. The British Army arrives and guns down the remaining zombies, six months after the outbreak, civilisation has returned to normal, with zombies used as cheap labour and entertainment. Liz and Shaun have moved in together, and Shaun keeps the zombified Ed tethered in the garden shed so they can play games together
Shaun of the Dead
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Theatrical release poster
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Parody
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A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, parody … is imitation, another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice. Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, animation, gaming, the writer and critic John Gross observes in his Oxford Book of Parodies, that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche and burlesque. According to Aristotle, Hegemon of Thasos was the inventor of a kind of parody, in ancient Greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics but treating light, satirical or mock-heroic subjects. Indeed, the components of the Greek word are παρά para beside, counter, against, Thus, the original Greek word παρῳδία parodia has sometimes been taken to mean counter-song, an imitation that is set against the original. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, defines parody as imitation turned as to produce a ridiculous effect, because par- also has the non-antagonistic meaning of beside, there is nothing in parodia to necessitate the inclusion of a concept of ridicule. Old Comedy contained parody, even the gods could be made fun of, the Frogs portrays the hero-turned-god Heracles as a Glutton and the God of Drama Dionysus as cowardly and unintelligent. The traditional trip to the Underworld story is parodied as Dionysus dresses as Heracles to go to the Underworld, roman writers explained parody as an imitation of one poet by another for humorous effect. In French Neoclassical literature, parody was also a type of poem where one work imitates the style of another to produce a humorous effect, the Ancient Greeks created satyr plays which parodied tragic plays, often with performers dressed like satyrs. In classical music, as a term, parody refers to a reworking of one kind of composition into another. The term is sometimes applied to procedures common in the Baroque period. The musicological definition of the parody has now generally been supplanted by a more general meaning of the word. In its more contemporary usage, musical parody usually has humorous, even satirical intent, in which familiar musical ideas or lyrics are lifted into a different, often incongruous, context. Musical parodies may imitate or refer to the style of a composer or artist. For example, The Ritz Roll and Rock, a song and dance performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Silk Stockings, parodies the Rock. Conversely, while the work of Weird Al Yankovic is based on particular popular songs. The first usage of the parody in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is in Ben Jonson, in Every Man in His Humour in 1598, A Parodie. The next citation comes from John Dryden in 1693, who also appended an explanation, suggesting that the word was in common use, in the 20th century, parody has been heightened as the central and most representative artistic device, the catalysing agent of artistic creation and innovation
Parody
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Comedian
Charlie Chaplin impersonating
Hitler for comic effect in the satirical film
The Great Dictator (1940)
Parody
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Screenshot of a scene in
Jurassic Park (1993) featuring a
Tyrannosaurus rex (left), parodied by Rex the Dinosaur in
Toy Story 2 (1999).
Parody
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Satirical political cartoon that appeared in
Puck magazine, October 9, 1915. Caption "I did not raise my girl to be a voter" parodies the anti-
World War I song "
I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier ". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman.
Parody
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Reggie Brown, a voice actor and
Barack Obama impersonator
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Deadworld
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Deadworld is an ongoing American comic book published by Desperado Publishing in association with IDW Publishing. The series follows survivors in a post-apocalyptic scenario brought on by zombie attacks, led by King Zombie, Deadworld brings forth a different slant than just humans slaughtering zombies. Originally published by Arrow Comics, Deadworld was written and created by Stuart Kerr and Ralph Griffith in 1987, scripted by Kerr for the first seven issues, the comic book quickly became a cult favorite success in the independent publisher industry. Arrow Comics ceased production of all titles, but sold the rights of the title to Locke who transferred the rights to Gary Reeds Caliber Comics, by the twelfth issue of the title, Reed took over as the primary writer. The first volume of Deadworld ended in 1992 after twenty-six issues, One year later, a second volume began. The second volume ended after fifteen issues, after a lull in its printing, the series returned to print in 2005 through Image Comics, with Gary Reed and Locke working on the series. By issue number 3, Dalibor Talajic took over illustration duties, following that, Image released Deadworld, Frozen Over with guest writer Michael Raicht and artist Federico Dallocchio. Deadworld, Bits and Pieces collected the stories and scenes from various issues and was released through Transfuzion Publishing. Desperado released Deadworld Chronicles which featured all new short illustrated tales of Deadworld, Deadworld, Slaughterhouse was released in 2010 with artwork from Sami Makkonen in a hardcover edition only. IDW released volumes one and two of Deadworld Classics which collects the long out-of-print first original 16 issues illustrated by Vince Locke, Gary Reed joined up with Gary Francis for original graphic novel, Deadworld, The Last Siesta, illustrated by Mark Bloodworth and released through IDW. In 2012, Gary Reed teamed up again with Sami Makkonen to bring Deadworld into full color for the first time, the five issue series, War of the Dead was released by IDW as a weekly comic series during the month of August and then collected in October. In October,2012, Reed released a graphic novel sized book called Voices from the Deadworld. This was a series of single page tales from those who lived and died in Deadworld with each text page accompanied by an illustration from over 40 various artists. Also in 2012, Reed licensed Deadworld to PopFunk for t-shirts, IDW also released the Deadworld Omnibus which collected the Image series Requiem for the World and Frozen Over plus the Slaughterhouse saga from Desperado. The most recent series was Deadworld, Restoration, the full color follow up mini-series to War of the Dead, each soda contains one of 48 label images drawn by various comic book artists. A collectible soda trading card set featuring the images was also released. Additionally, Deadworld Premium Chips were released in 2 flavors, Original, ISBN 978-1613779743 Eagle One Media collected and released the first 46 issues of the original Deadworld comic book series along with two mini-series onto CD-ROM. Each page from the issues are scanned and viewable on ones PC in protected PDF format, in June,2009, it was announced that Deadworld was to be turned into a film
Deadworld
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Arrow Comics Deadworld #1
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