...characters. ““La Horde” is one of the many zombie flicks that just doesn’t understand a good zombie movie has to be about the people in and around it and less about the zombies”. In this movie the zombies take center stage and you cannot get into the story. However it also mentions in this review how all the audience wants to see in a movie like this is gore. “Necks are chomped on, bodies pile up, and the zombies all look menacing as they gather around the high rise prepared to feast on whatever crosses their paths” This movie is based in Paris in 2008 around the exact same time the economy fell and the EU had to bail out fellow countries of the European union to the financial situation. This movie could be in context to what happened during the financial crisis. The characters in this movie done whatever they had to do to survive and to keep their friends alive. It also shows that sometimes you need make unlikely alliances to achieve something and in this case the police had to make an unlikely alliance to stay alive. The plot revolves around a group of policemen who embark on a mission seeking revenge after one of their colleagues was killed by a notorious drug dealer They storm a tower apartment complex with the intent of taking him down, but the operation is a failure and the team is captured. Suddenly, both sides find themselves confronted by a zombie apocalypse. Then the cops and criminals forge an uneasy alliance to survive. This movie is different to the typical...
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...MacCaffree-WallaceFundamental of English03 March 2015 The Zombies are Alive and Well The Harvard essay by Gino Del Guercio,” The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” describing, the adventure and exploration of Wade Davis, a Harvard botanist, on the tiny island using scientific ways and cash to prove the existence of zombies, and the formula used within a voodoo subculture. The Haitian people use a secret commission to govern social deviance by using poison to place people in a state of living dead whereby, a funeral actually takes place for the drugged individual including a proper burial. Del Guercio describes, how the graves are then uncovered by the commission and placed with nearby plantation owners to do menial labor for the duration of their lives in an altered state. The Zombies of Haiti serve a societal purpose to keep down crime, and the unusual deviances from the social norms in which, these poor people have developed over 100's of years. In a general comparison to the zombies of Haiti and the zombies in the " New Dawn of the Dead" movie. The zombies of the movies are made for strictly entertainment purposes and are changed to fit a mold of the producer and writer. The zombies are far fetched whereby; zombies suddenly appear and change humans into more zombies. On the other hand Del Guercio reveals, through Wade Davis, a real voodoo culture on the Isle of Haiti in which, zombies are made of everyday inhabitants for...
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...What do you normally think of when you hear zombies? Blood, action, explosions, graveyards? Well, you'll find plenty of that here, however this book likes to take these scary situations and make them more humorous than scary. A new and interesting take on the zombie genre. This is Zombie Baseball Beatdown, written by "Paolo Bacigalupi" Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about three kids on an average day going over to the baseball field over by the meat packing plant. Suddenly, they see all of the workers storm out of the plant like mad-men. The owner of the meat packing plant tells them to leave immediately. Later, they must return to park a hijacked vehicle in the huge lot so they hopefully won't be noticed....
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... I have also seen people in biohazard suits on television Day: 2 Okay, I figured out what this thing is it is the Z-virus it is a zombie virus. The only way to kill the zombies is destroying the head. The military is trying their best to keep the infection from spreading. I don’t think they are going to last. I have also boarded up the windows just in case. Day: 3 The military has fallen back and now the electrical power is out and also the virus is now spreading across the world. There is still hope it is not the end of the human race. I will fight with every last breath. Also now we are all on our own. Day: 4 I have got my old radio working in my armored jeep. From what I have heard there are hoards and mega hoards in New York and the military is trying to eradicate them before they spread the disease and to bring more control .also I found my old military buddy john. He got separated from his squad when they fell back and out of the city. Day: 5 The virus is now completely worldwide now. I have also heard that there are safe zones spread across the world, but most of them are going to fall I know it will happen because some of them are not well protected. If we have leave soon we need to be careful because there are zombies gathering near the garage and front door. Day: 6 The zombies are trying to get into the house, so we put the sofa in front of the door. We have to leave soon, but until then we have to hold them off. I think we should leave tonight because...
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...You and your friend are running from a herd of zombies. Suddenly your friend trips and knocks you over, their ankle gets hurt and the zombies start closing in. What would you do? Risk your life to help them or take off? Self conservation is supposed to be an instinct, and the main thing that triggers that instinct is fear. That's when the fight or flight option kicks in, and that's the point where you choose to be selfless or selfish. Most people would choose the selfish route for multiple reasons; you only have to worry about your own life, there won't be any dead weight holding you back, and nobody will be there to cloud your judgement. Survival requires selfishness so that you don't have any dead weight holding you back. For instance , in 2005, there was a pregnant woman named Rosezina who went into labor during hurricane Katrina. Knowing that she needed assistance, she left through her building’s fire escape and swam for two blocks. Unfortunately, she had to leave her 5-year old son who was screaming “mama! Come back!”. She swam until she reached a hospital where she gave birth and was reunited with her son days later. If she would've chose the selfless route and took her son with her, who knows what would have happened? She had to make the hard selfish decision of leaving her son so she could have a safe birth. For those who argue that you need to be selfless in order to survive obviously did not give it that much thought. Recently there was a man named Blake...
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...people. Although their were survivors, they were soulless behind the anxious eyes. They appear to be nothing more than cold, coloured marbles. Tormented by the camp where they experienced forced labour, torture and witnessed brutal murders. The prison contained a collection off damped, unstable wood and guard with a sky tower razor wired barrier. The zone was immortal. It was strained out of no where, far from towns and the oblivious society. The prisoners dragged their feet and crawled towards us begging for help like ghastly zombies. Their soul, muscle and blood was sucked out, leaving them with dehydrated visible body frame. The cry was mixed with joy and relief. The Russian soldiers had flee but it was strange to have left the prisoners alive unless they want them to brutally die slowly. The hostage breathed heavily hungry for nutrients, water, hope and revenge. Eventually 5 cargo truck arrived loaded with rations, blankets and medicines. The zombies race towards the moving vehicle and grasp their bones on to it. We were startled and frozen by the conditions of the people to even stop them from crowding around the truck. From what they had experience the last thing we wanted to do was be aggressive and come...
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...Welcome to good burger home of the good burger can I take your order? I hated saying those words every time someone entered Mr. Good Burger. It must have been the worse job anyone could have. I greeted the customers as they each placed their order. I couldn’t stop starring at my hand watch for closing time. “An hour and a half that’s a long time to go” I said to myself. Every time I looked down time only seem to be going slower. There was never anything exciting about Mr. Good Burger , except for maybe the part where your friends come in but even than it wasn’t anything special it seem more embarrassing than anything else. Kids ran around the playground, Parents watched and teenagers gossiped. There wasn’t anything other to do than to eardrop trying to bypass time until closing. I began to get lost in the gossip of the students seating closest to me. “WHAT IS A MATTER WITH YOU?” I jump in reaction of the loud scream quickly turning to see where it was coming from. Unable to find the source I began to search the place with my eyes and notice papers flying all over the outside of Mr. Good Burger parking lot. I was so invested in the drama that I didn’t notice it was time to close up and go home. Everyone quickly ran outside to witness the commotion. Trash cans were tipped over papers were thrown everywhere. My face turned into confusion not able to recognize the strange faces causing all of this. Until it hit me, the crazy girl from the forbidden house down the street has escaped...
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...hundreds of years ago where almost no sign of technology existed, then what would you do? You would do things in person instead of over the phone, you would interact with other humans who exist, and you even might live a happier life due to not having to deal with the downsides of what technology has brought us. But some might disagree and say that technology is good and makes life easier and more practical which is true without technology I wouldn’t know very much about this world and how it works. “But you can do this, my friend. It’s disenchanting, but it’s not difficult. Keep your finger on the trigger. Continue the termination. Don’t stop believing. Don’t stop deleting. Return your voice mails and nod your agreements. This is the zombies’ world, and we just live in it. But we can live better.”...
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...Analyse of From one mind, into another In the short story ”from one mind, into another,” you will hear about a man who has lost his memories after a car crash, in a zombie world. The man evolves throughout the story, and quickly takes the name Mark Jacobs. It is this developing of a new identity after amnesia, and his ability to quickly adapt to the post zombie apocalypse world, that is intriguing me in this short story. That is why I have chosen this topic to analyse in me paper. What is trigger this progression, is it the environment or a specific event, how does he evolve as a person, and how does he adapt to the world. The story start by a man is waked up by a radio, in a turned over car. The man looks at his jacket and finds out that his surname is Jacobs. But he cannot remember his first name, but think that Mark sounds nice. But why is it so easy for him to pick a name? The place Mark wakes up in can be described as a post-apocalypse place. The roads and buildings destroyed, blood everywhere, and bullet casings all over the place. Mark even calls it a sort of a warzone. Mark is properly a soldier, because he is wearing a camouflage jacket with a nametag, just like the uniform worn by the military. So he knows by instinct what to do in a warzone like the one he is located in. He knows that he have no time to spare, and therefore he is choosing the name, that first comes in mind for him. In this case it is Mark, it could be because his unconsciousness still remember...
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...where, while waiting for heavy traffic, a huge zombie outbreak takes place out of nowhere. Hundreds of people attack each other and then arise from the death, off course this is answered with huge panic from surrounding people. It doesn’t take long before it’s clear that sudden outbreak is actually a worldwide epidemic virus release. Gary is asked to travel around the world to find a cure, by finding the source of the virus. This panic and action turned out to be a great introduction for all the nerve-racking scenes that would later follow. Never before were the zombie apocalyptic scenes this epic and big (and 3d). One of the most spectacular scenes, there were at least three big ones, was the one where Jerusalem is being attacked by zombies, answered by a huge plane attack. Another spectacular example is the scene where they sneak through an ??? building like trained US Marshalls. Both examples of how the movie is at times both scary and...
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...The name of the article is Our Zombies, Ourselves written by James Parker. In this article Parker discusses the historical backdrop of zombies and talks about where it is that they started from. Parker additionally raises exceptionally fascinating point on the notoriety of zombies and a short timeline on zombies. He also talks of different sorts of popular cultures which incorporate zombies and are utilized, for example, the movies Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, the books The Zen of Zombies, Zombie Haiku, and the television series The Walking Dead.. By utilizing these references Parker helps demonstrate to us how zombies appear to ceaselessly draw our interest. The article additionally educates the reader about how zombies came and which prominent movies began to truly make the zombie what it is today. Parker also discusses the role and development of zombies and talks about how we have yet not reached the peak point of zombies. However not agreeing with Parker, it could be concluded that in fact zombies have reached the peak point. Zombies have turned very commercial, its only when something turns commercial it loses its essence and from that point can no longer flourish. Unlike where parker talks of the zombie ‘And now we really see him, framed disastrously in the skewed rear windshield, advancing toward us at an off-kilter zombie trot. No mistaking the message: the world is out of whack, the car is off the road, and here comes the zombie.’ 1 ( The Bedford Reader)...
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...Why zombie apocalypse preparedness is a valid pursuit By Kamau Chukwueneka We live in an increasingly unpredictable world. In this world there could at any time be a moment at which quick judgments and prior planning could easily mean the difference between life and death. One of the most inglorious types of “possible” disasters is the almost mythical Zombie Apocalypse. While there are a number of different origin stories and premises that herald the end of the human race one thing is absolutely clear. In the event of a zombie pandemic the only sure thing is multitudes of deaths, confusion, and probable anarchy. Even though the popular zombie archetypes probably fictional creatures and some say due to that fact it’s unnecessary to prepare for them, I would offer the idea that it would be better to be prepared for a possible fictional zombie apocalypse rather than ignore potential danger to ourselves and loved ones. As the Boy Scout motto goes, “Always be prepared.” Considering the fact that there are a number of diseases and man-made substances which closely resembles the results of the zombie pandemic on the human body I would say that it’s quite possible that there is potential for the eventual tragedy. For example there’s the situation that took place recently in Florida involving a man behaving erratically, running around naked under the haze of delusions and anxiety leading him to attack and eat another man’s face. This event was attributed to the use of a synthetic...
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...The Emergency Zombie Survival Kit (ZOMKIT) is designed specifically for a Zombie Armageddon, but cannot however guarantee one’s safety or fate. The ZOMKIT is one of the essential items needed when venturing to a permanent residence. For safety, gather all the items on the list and always store it in an accessible place preferable in your home or office. Preparing a kit ahead of time will allow valuable time during the chaos that will transpire. Nevertheless, avoid entering highly populated metropolitan cities as one will be greatly outnumbered by the undead or desperate people escaping their doom. Typically the undead will revisit areas familiar when they were alive. By that same token stay away from large shopping structures or complexes....
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...Zonbi : Zombies in Peculiar Cultures The living dead or resurrected corpses better known as zombies materialize in the abyss of the uncanny valley. Physically they appear to be in the form of humans, yet they no longer have the connection to humanity. Their sole existence is to exploit our deepest darkest fears of cannibalism and the hypothetical line of life and death. Zombies seem to appear out of nowhere, but the repulsive figure originates from a complex blend of Grecian, African and Haitian folk myths. The ancient Greeks were one of the earliest civilization to believe in the undead, specifically in the island Sicily. In Passo Marinaro better known as Necropolis, the city of the dead and Kamarina, an ancient city in Southeast...
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...I am legend “I am Legend” is a sci-fi movie based on a brilliant military scientist, Robert Neville, whom becomes the last man on earth. He becomes the last man on earth because of a man-made untreatable virus which turns people into flesh eating zombies. He is immune to the virus and the only one who can save humanity. He spends several years trying to control the virus and also broadcasting radio signals for any other survivors. The Zombies creep around in the shadows, observing the scientist’s every move until he makes a fatal mistake. I liked this movie because the effectiveness and dialogue of it were accurate and I didn’t get lost watching all the scenes. The special effects and background coincided with what was going on throughout the movie and also appeared to be realistic. The performance of the main character, Will Smith, was phenomenal and I also felt as if I was in his shoes. Several aspects during certain scenes made the movie stand out from the thousands of movies I’ve watched. When Neville was driving around New York City with his dog Sam in a 2009 ford mustang GT500, the roar of the engine and the watchful eye of his dog following the deers symbolized modern hunting. After they got out on foot and began chasing the wild animals into the growing forest and the lions appeared out of the fields to take Neville’s priced deer gave me the idea that earth was reverting back into prehistoric times. Finally, when he sacrificed his life after he realized...
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