Somebody help me with this…
I have Google Alerts for all types of zombie stuff. One of them is simply for the word “zombie” in the News category. I keep getting alerts about the new movie Doomsday. The alerts usually center around the title of a review of the movie that has the word “zombie” in it, then when you read the article, there’s no mention of zombies anywhere. “Britain Over-Run By Zombies…Again” or “Scots Cannibal Zombies Are Box Office Hit In US” are the titles, yet they just go on to discuss a movie about a virus that kills people and survivors of that virus being cannibalistic and deep frying whole humans. I saw this problem when I Am Legend came out. I Am Legend is based on a book about vampires! In the movie, the infected avoid sunlight and are attracted to blood, which sounds an awful lot like vampires. Has it gotten so bad that people just automatically respond to buzzwords like “virus”, “infected”, “cannibal” and just spew out “Zombie”? Or are there actually zombies in Doomsday?
night of the living dead was loosely based on i am legend. the creatures in night of the living dead are cannibalistic ghouls. if you follow that logic, this makes perfectly good sense. many tend to use only a creature’s deadness, and cannibalistic tendencies to define it as a zombie any more. gone is the mindless aspect from most definitions of the creatures in “zombie” movies. this thinking has baffled me for some time, as the mindless aspect is the only thing that the creatures first called zombi, from the voodoo tradition, have ever truly shared with the creatures in george romero’s films. sure voodoo zombis were held to be dead, but they weren’t truly dead. they were, however, truly mindless.
i went and saw this movie.
nothing to do with “zombies”
Been wondering the same thing myself…
I can’t speak for Doomsday but as mentioned above, ‘I Am Legend’ inspired many zombie films and post-apocalyptic fiction, most notably George Romero.
The thing with Google Alerts is the service also captures meta tags (html tags used to increase higher search returns) so, you’re really not getting a genuine result all the time.
I understand the meta tags thing, if people were putting “zombie” in the meta tags because people that like zombies may like this film. What I don’t understand is people talking about Doomsday being a zombie movie, yet it has no zombies. It has cannibals, it has a virus, but that doesn’t equal zombies. It’s as if writers are just phoning this shit in and not really doing the work to find out what the movie is about. “So the movie is about a virus that kills people and the survivors turn into cannibals huh? Well, I don’t like zombie movies, so I’ll just write the usual crap about it…” Ridiculous!
this movie has nothing to do with zombies at all. cannibals yes, zombies, no.