Poem of the Day by Vickie Johnstone

My mate Vickie has written a number of fiction books, ranging from children's stories to zombie horror!! She also does a poem a day on her blog. I have been badgering her for a while to let me feature her poems on my YouTube and now it's a new, hopefully regular feature on my channel.

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About the author

Vickie Johnstone lives in London, UK, and works as a freelance layout sub editor. Her first book, Kiwi in Cat City, was written in 2002 and self-published in 2011, and she has scribbled stories and poetry all her life. Vickie’s loves include cats, reading, films, travelling, rock music, Castle, The Walking Dead, tea, the sea, dancing like an eejit, sleeping and Milky Bar.

Vickie has written and self-published the following 15 books: Kaleidoscope (poetry); Travelling Light (poetry); Life’s Rhythms (haiku); 3 Heads and a Tail (comedy romance with a dog); Kiwi in Cat City (magical cat series for middle grade readers); Kiwi and the Missing Magic; Kiwi and the Living Nightmare; Kiwi and the Serpent of the Isle; Kiwi in the Realm of Ra; Kiwi’s Christmas Tail; Day of the Living Pizza (comedy detective series for young teens), Day of the Pesky Shadow, The Sea Inside (teen/YA fantasy), I Dream of Zombies and Haven (Zombies, book 2). The Kiwi Series has illustrations by Nikki McBroom.

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13 Nights of Halloween - Night 6

 

Join me if you dare for a tale of terror, this tale is torn from Curse of the Weird #4, March 1994 which is a reprint of a story originally from Menace # 5. It's a story from Marvel Comics and features the 1st appearance of one of their supernatural characters, the Zombie, Simon Garth. Curse of the Weird only ran for 4 issues from December 1993 to March 1994 and as made up of all reprinted tales.

Zombie!

Writer - Stan Lee

Penciler - Bill Everett

Inker - Bill Everett

Letterer - Bill Everett

Editor - Stan Lee

 

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Nextflix Reviews - Cargo

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I think this is the full-length version of a short film that was doing the rounds, being shared on Facebook a while back. It starts out with a couple Andy & Kay and their baby living in a house boat on the river in Australia. They are scavenging for supplies as they go with their only interaction with other people being when they float past a family who pull a gun and eye them warily. 

This is a zombie movie, they've done the escape to somewhere remote part already before the film starts and have it relatively safe now, but maybe they got too comfortable and complacent and disaster strikes. Something bites Kay and she has 48 hours before she turns, Andy desperately tries to get her to a hospital but things go from bad to worse. Andy is now left alone and is himself infected, he desperately has to seek a way to get his daughter Rosie to safety before he turns. 

He meets other people along the way, all eking out an existence in a pretty barren remote rural landscape. There are zombies around but not enough at 1st to seem like a major problem, Andy has to be more wary of the living as some may have a shoot the bitten on sight policy. He is advised by a school teacher to leave Rosie with a mob of aboriginal people who have deserted the towns to go back to the old ways, away from the sickness that has overtaken civilisation.

As so often happens in these movies the living often prove to be as big a threat as the dead, with Andy having to avoid both on occasions whilst also trying to fight off his descent into zombiedom! It's a countdown all the way, can he find a safe haven for his child before he decides to have her for lunch? He does find an ally along the way, Thoomi an aboriginal girl and they have to learn to trust and help each other to get by.

This stars Martin Freeman of Sherlock, Hobbit and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame in the sort of role that I wouldn't expect to see him in, mind you he's in that film Ghost Stories too which is meant to be pretty scary and it's definitely on my one to watch list.

This film is a good story, but it doesn't really feel like that much of a horror, the zombies hardly ever get close enough to be that perilous it seems. The tension doesn't get ramped up as high as I imagined it would be either, I imagined Andy would be struggling hard with not eating Rosie but he never even gets close to it. Overall a cool enough movie but I think it missed a trick or two along the way.

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Nextflix Reviews - Z Nation

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Is it possible to get too much zombie stuff? Obviously there is some rubbish stuff out there but this show is not amongst that category by a long shot. This is a very cool show with lots of action and humour with a cast of believable characters. I discovered it when the 1st season popped up and binge watched it straight away and have done the same as each subsequent series has been released. 

The zombie plague has pretty much taken over the entire world with only pockets of human survivors struggling to survive in the hostile environment. The show starts by showing us a medical unit's attempts to create a vaccine using prisoners as test subjects. One of their guinea pigs Murphy is tied to a gurney and injected with the most recent experimental batch of the anti-zombie vaccine but the room is overrun and he is attacked and bitten multiple times by the undead. Instead of dying or being fully consumed he awakes as a strange human/zombie hybrid with telepathic powers over the undead. In season one a team of survivors gather and take up the mission to get Murphy across country to another facility where they can develop a vaccine from his blood. They discover that Murphy's bite turns people into hybrids who are not attacked by zombies but can be influenced by murphy's mind over zombies power.

The team varies as events claim some of their lives or allegiances change but the main players who have survived the longest so far are ex-soldier Roberta Warren, the team leader, a driven and capable woman who is the team's brains; Doc, an aging hippy with a heart of gold and a taste for weed who applies his medic skills and drug knowledge as best he can; 10K a youth with a knack for sniping who takes his name from his proposed Z kill target and Addy a nice girl turned spiked baseball bat swinging Amazon bad-ass by the necessity of life post-Z apocalypse. They are aided from outside the group by Citizen Z who is the lone operative at a government listening/viewing post in the Arctic Circle, he directs them as best as he can using satellite technology but in a world full of chaos he can't always get the message across.

The story of their travels is influenced by the zombies that are always in their way and the living communities that they encounter along the road. Each season seems to culminate with an end to one phase of the mission and the beginning of another as events seem to always conspire against them. 

Although they fight alongside each other for survival there is often conflict within the group too. The dynamic in the team changes fairly often with Murphy himself being the main catalyst for trouble within the group. This friction increases when he is able to father a daughter by a human, who also has zombie controlling powers of her own amongst other abilities. He's a criminal after all and he has his own ideas about the world's future with himself as the ruler of his own zombie/hybrid community. His bite offers survivors safety from zombies which is very tempting for them and Murphy is fed up with being the subject of human experiments and thinks his kind are the future.

The tone of the show is serious in the main but there is a lot of humour in it too, like a slightly less serious and angst ridden The Walking dead. It's got drama in all the right places but is able to induce more than the odd laugh through crazy situations and quirky encounters.

Netflix has 3 seasons available to view right now although 4 have been released so far and a 5th is in the works too. Hopefully we won't have too long to wait as it was left on rather a meaty cliffhanger. 

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Nextflix Reviews - iZombie

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Starting in 2015 this comedy/drama has just tied up it's 4th season on Netflix and is bloody good stuff. Based on the DC imprint Vertigo comics by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred it tells the story of Oliva 'Liv' Moore who has to change her life drastically after getting scratched by a zombie at a party and becoming infected with the zombie virus herself. The zombie rules in this world are different though rather than being a slathering flesh crazed shuffling fool she retains all her human abilities but craves brains. It's only if she doesn't get a supply to eat that she becomes feral. To this end she gives up her training to be a doctor to become an assistant pathologist at the King County Morgue. Her boss Ravi Chakrabati soon realises her plight and becomes her friend and confidante. Also with his scientific knowledge he seeks to find a cure for the condition.

There is a saying, "You are what you eat" and a strange side effect of eating the brains of the deceased is that she picks up images and characteristics of her meals. This leads her to be able to uniquely assist Detective Clive Babineaux in his homicide cases as she often sees memories from the victims very recent pre-death lives. It also provides much of the ample humour as she takes on their characteristics also which can lead to some very funny situations and I imagine it must be a lot of fun and a challenge for an actor to have so many different facets to play with. She's been affected by the brains of a jock, a geek, a seductress, a surly teen, a mother hen, a cantankerous old man and all sorts of other combinations of humanity in the course of seeking sustenance. And with the knowledge her meals have given her she's helped to solve the cases of their untimely deaths.

Other members of the cast include her on again/off again fiancé/boyfriend Major Lilywhite, when she gets zombied up she has to ditch him as zombism is sexually transmitted apparently! There is also her room mate Peyton Charles who is assistant district attorney for King County and then there is Blaine a sometimes ally, (but mostly villain), whose drug dealing of an infected batch of Utopium led to the initial incident that got Liv zombified in the beginning. 

Over the course of the 4 seasons things have developed significantly as more is learned about the cause of the condition and more people become infected. Blaine uses it as an excuse to earn more money and power through increasingly nefarious means. A lot of the initial story was around Liv keeping her condition secret from her friends but they each learn of it as the show goes on changing the dynamic of the relationships. Also a cure is developed but it is limited and has side effects and they are unsure of it's safety. This also leads to a bit of a zombified/not zombified back and forth too for some of the cast. Attitudes to zombies change as the humans knowledge of them increases and by season 4 we have an independent zombie state in Seattle which is founded in much controversy in season 3. Seattle is now cordoned off from the outside world with paranoia rife between humans and zombies. There is fear and distrust from both sides many humans think of zombies as monsters to be eliminated and some zombies think of humans only in relation to their tasty skull content and with brain shortages being a problem the new rulers of the area are finding it very hard to govern, becoming more authoritarian as the series runs. There are humans who want to become zombies as it cures any terminal illness they may have, and also zombies who want to be cured but there is only a very limited supply of the antidote available. Even the friends within Liv's circle are forced to question their thoughts and loyalties and are faced with hard decisions. 

Apparently the next season, number 5 will be the last so we will see how things develop after the cliffhanger of season 4's finale. I've grown to like all the characters, (apart from Blaine who is a bastard albeit a charming entertaining one), and hope that season 5 will end well for them and like many will be waiting feverishly for 2019 to find out what transpires.

I'd recommend this to anyone who likes a laugh with a bit of sickness involved, she eats brains every week and prepares them with almost mouth watering detail!!!, so that might make some a bit queasy. The interplay between all the cast is great and they all have proper stories to get into as well with no real boring undeveloped characters really. Liv played by New Zealand actress Rose McIver is great, she is so versatile to play all the nuances of the characteristics she inherits from her meals but she is slightly eclipsed as my favourite character by English actor Rahul Kohli's fun portrayal of her boss Ravi. 

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Apparently the show is only loosely based on the comics but I may well add these to my Amazon wishlist 😃

     

Nextflix Reviews - KL Zombi

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I was just saying in my review of Plan Z earlier today about the proliferation of zombie movies that are being made, I mentioned the difference in quality from film to film, but I forgot to talk about the different tones they have, zombie comedies are pretty popular it seems and the zombie movie phenomenon is pretty global too with this one a case in point. It's a zombie comedy from Malaysia, the KL stands for Kuala Lumpur that countries capitol. 

A group of friend's watching fireworks from a cliff top see a cute little poodle who bites one of them and he becomes patient zero. Before you know it the zombies are everywhere plaguing the group members wherever they are, working at school, trying out for a TV popstar talent competition and such like. The main protagonist is Nipis, (which translates as Skinny), he's a bit of a slacker and doesn't notice the dead around him for quite a while, even playing hockey with a team of undead!

Being a comedy and maybe because it's a foreign film the rules are a bit different , the zombies seem to react to pain more rather than just having their heads bashed in, they seem to be able to knock them out. Some of Skinny's fight scenes play out like Robert Downey Jnr's Sherlock Holmes ones where he plans out the attacks before implementing them. He gets out fought by a couple of kids he hooks up with quite a lot though. I suppose it's like Shawn of the Dead a Zom/Com/Rom a zombie comedy romance as there is a love interest for Skinny. 

I quite liked the movie, it was silly mainly, without any real belly laughs, perhaps some of the humour was lost in translation and it didn't have any scares but I didn't mind it at all. Perhaps it was just the novelty of it and if it had been in English or not from an exotic location I'd have disliked it more!

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Nextflix Reviews - Plan Z

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Yet another zombie movie, there are so many, I assume it's because anyone can make them almost with a bit of make-up and a few cameras. There are so many about, with greatly varying levels of budget and quality from mega-budget movies like World War Z to ones like Colin reputedly made for like £30 or something like that!! This one comes from Scotland and seems to be very much from the cheaper end of the market but you know how it can be with films sometimes you instantly think, "Oh this is worthless crap" or you think "hmmm this looks like it might be alright!" I kind of expected to think the former straight away but this actually isn't too bad. It's not mass over the top action, one guy, Craig gets the heads up about what is happening and has his Plan Z of what to do in a zombie outbreak. First off hoard some supplies and wait it out, then once the chaos dies down a bit venture out to a quiet, secluded place to set up a safe haven. He see his neighbours die but bides his time before eventually venturing out and finding another living person, Bill, who he lets into his home and tells him his plan.

There's a lot of sitting around chatting and agonising and blurry long shots of zombies, I suppose to keep the make-up budget down. It's pretty minimalist and quiet to start off with, Bill remembers back to the start of the zombie outbreak hiding in a restaurant toilet while his girlfriend and other patrons are eaten outside. There's a lot more fear and anticipation of zombies attacking rather than any actual undead action. Later on when they venture out to seek sanctuary the action hots up slightly although the story jumps forward in time suddenly which is a bit unusual, one moment they are meeting with a new person the next they are in a group surrounded and desperate.

Long story short, it's pretty low budget but it's far from the worst movie I've seen, the atmosphere of fear is quite cool and the character interaction feels real for the situation they are in. The zombie fighting sequences could have a bit more tension and gore maybe but more than likely the budget didn't stretch too far for that. I think they did a reasonable job actually, it won't be a film that will live long in the memory but it was enjoyable enough to watch at the time as they played to their strengths.

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Nextflix Reviews - Day of the Dead: Bloodline

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OK I am not one to slag off remakes and re-imaginings of old films just for the sake of it, I am not such a purist for the originals that I foam crazily at the mouth if anyone dares come along with a new idea on an old format but I can kind of see where this film may have pissed off those types majorly. 

So yeah this is a new idea on the classic old movie from 1985. The last dregs of humanity still linger underground, there is still a psychotic idiot in charge, the scientist faction still clash with the soldiers although the dynamic is a bit different here than in the original and there is still an experimental zombie captive, though he's called Max in this movie not Bub. He also doesn't act like any other movie zombie with the story being that he's the possible breakthrough for a vaccine cure. When he was fully alive he was a stalker, would be rapist who hounded scientist Zoe who now has him chained up so she can get his blood in order to find the cure.

The surviving human team is larger than in the original film but they are so dumb and incompetent that a zombie seems to be able to outwit them with ease. The acting is wooden, the characters are dumb as sacks and I genuinely didn't care for a single one of them. If this is the last of humanity they deserve to be rotter chow if you ask me. God damn it I'd eat the bloody idiots myself I think, the nasty psycho leader is almost the smartest out of the lot except for Max the zombie.

OK let me concentrate and think of some positives, the make up is good, the special effects and gore are pretty good, the action isn't too bad and the fact that most of the shuffling, shambling idiots die is good (although I am referring to the living as well as the dead here). The end is cheesy as hell but I am pretty damn certain it wont get a part 2 which is a blessed relief. Hmmm would a person who hasn't seen the original or even the 2008 remake like it? No, I don't think they would, the infuriating dumbness would annoy anyone I think. 

It's not too long a film and it may pass a few distracting minutes but don't expect it to either make your top 30 horror list or even to be remembered anytime in the future except for in the sentence "Hey do you remember that really crap Day of the Dead remake they made in 2018?"

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Nextflix Reviews - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

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I saw this come up a while ago on Netflix and kind of pre-judged it, I thought it would be low budget, badly made rubbish but I am glad I was way off with that assessment as it's actually pretty good. OK it is daft, of course it is, the clues in the name but it's actually pretty funny with some good action and special effects. There are a few laugh out loud moments and some gross out stuff. 

So the local unpopular, cos it's soooo uncool, scout troop are off out on a camp. The scout leader gets infected early leaving just the 3 teenage boys in camp. Ben & Carter sneak out heading to a party, they are planning on quitting scouting soon anyway as they don't wanna lose their cool cred now they are getting older and want to get with girls. They only stuck around this long for their mate Augie who feels betrayed. I don't know why I bothered mentioning that who watches these comedy horrors for character story anyway? Really all you need to know is that it's 3 scouts and a cocktail waitress they meet up with running away from zombies A LOT and killing them in funny & inventive ways in an effort to stay alive.

The zombies are pretty fast and strong but seem to concentrate on throwing our heroes around more than biting them which helps. Animals are also affected by the virus too which you don't see very often in zombie films, there is one scene here that if not played for laughs would be very scary in a serious horror. They discover that the air force are going to bomb the town at 3AM and want to warn the people at the party before the zombies arrive there or the bombs get dropped on them. Lucky they have all their scout training to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse.

Scouts forever!

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Not exactly cosplay!!

In my day we never called it cosplay, It was just called fancy dress! I suppose cosplay is much more focused on becoming a specific character from geek culture whereas fancy dress you can be anything you like really. I remember as a kid I used to love getting dirty and scruffy and being a tramp for fancy dress!! Strange chap I was ha ha As an adult for Halloween I'd always be a zombie, torn clothes, shambling gait... kind of like a tramp really but with a LOT more blood!!

The Grey Man: now in glorious technicolour!

I also did a few Halloween gigs with my death metal band Suffering. One time I was all dressed up in a suit with a skull mask which I altered to fit better and added better elastic to it. I emptied a mannequin's head full of fake blood over myself midway through the set. I so wish I had videoed that show :(

 

 That mask has had a lot of use over the years, every now and again I break it out for a bit of a dress up. Also the cloak that my mum made for my brother's vampire costume one time.

That vampire cloak also got used for a silly superhero get-up I once did for a party, I won a prize for my Gut-Man costume!!

The closet I came to cosplay I suppose was my take on The Joker, my mum made me a purple suit, I got a green shirt, white facepaint and there you go, Cesar Romero would've been proud!!

My less than stellar attempt at The Joker!


Can't help thinking that the effect could've been better if only I'd tucked my bloody shirt in.!

I actually reprised this Joker costume for a friend's birthday party and me and a lady playing Poison Ivy won prizes for our costumes!! Which of course proves that DC comics are the best!! I look terrible though, my mate painted my face on a bench outside the pub and we ran out of white make up!!

I have never considered myself a cosplayer and have never even attended a convention even though I am a dyed in the wall geek I have always been a solitary one really. I really should start thinking about going to at least one in my life just to see what the fuss is all about really! I like dressing up too, pretending to be something else. Recently the only dressing up I have done is at Halloween but not even planned costumes just throwing stuff together when I have visited my nephews and gone trick or treating with them.

I recently came into possession of an army looking helmet and loving the game Fallout I am tempted to get a vault suit, but they cost a bloody bomb though which may be appropriate considering the game story! I have the nuclear survivor type beard already though. 

War, war never changes

I do wonder though what/who could I play now if I were to attend a convention?? Any ideas anybody? All I can think of is if there is any group out there of Doom Patrol cosplayers looking for a fat beardy bloke to sit in a wheelchair playing The Chief, Niles Caulder then I am your man!! Not too sure though if it's proper protocol for an able-bodied person to play a disabled one... might be considered insensitive.. not too sure, and besides my hair is too long for him!!

Anyone got any betters ideas?

Oh I nearly forgot I have played Santa too a few times!! I have dressed up for Christmas heavy metal gigs in London and once even had a sackload of presents to give out to the crowd!

Give it another 10 years and I will probably be able to play Santa without the fake beard and I would definitely be down for that :D

Zombie Ritual

I have never done cos-play as such but I like to be a zombie at Halloween now and again. Nothing like a good death-like shuffle to get you in the Halloween mood. I really get into character whenever I have zombied up and this slightly out of focus, very old photo of me is one of my favourites. Thinking about it, of all the horror genre monsters I have always loved to get scared by hordes of shuffling flesh eating zombies more than any other.

Obviously George A. Romero's zombie "...of the Dead" series have been a massive part of this. I missed seeing Night Of The Living Dead when it 1st came out in 1968 on account of not quite being born yet. I did eventually get around to seeing it though and the remake of 1990 that I also thought was a pretty decent. 

The one I remember seeing 1st was Dawn Of The Dead which came out in 1979. I saw it over my dad's house when he hired it from the local video shop. I imagine it hadn't long come out so I must've been all of 10 when I saw it!! I can't admit to seeing any social commentary on consumerism in it, too young to understand any of that highbrow stuff, but the shuffling hordes biting lumps of flesh out off people certainly stuck in my mind. The small group hiding out, struggling to survive whilst unthinking, inexorable flesh consuming cadavers pound on every door certainly makes for good tense scares.  There was a remake in 2004 which I saw at the cinema, it was OK but not particularly memorable.

The 3rd of Romero's trilogy Day Of The Dead came out in 1985. I was too young to see it in the cinema but I bought it on VHS as soon as it came out. It followed the same sort of format with the last of humanity struggling to survive underground. Human nature amongst the living leads to conflict which leads to the dead getting in and turning most of the living into lunch. It's quite a familar theme in most zombie movies where the living are a bigger problem than the dead half the time. The dead just wait patiently till some misguided, stupid or vindictive living person lets them in.

That was the last of the original trilogy which then ended up turning to a sextuplet, sextology, hexology.... 6 part thingy with the addition of Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009). All of those are well worth a watch but don't have the classic status of the 1st 3. George died in July 2017 sadly but films in the series are apparently set to continue with Road of the Dead and Rise of the Living Dead. The first film focuses on zombie prisoners that race cars in a modern-day Coliseum for the entertainment of wealthy humans. Matt Birman will direct the movie from a script he co-wrote with Romero. The latter is a prequel story set at the height of the Cold War and is in production, written and directed by G. Cameron Romero, George A. Romero's son. At the time of writing neither of these have a release date but they are definitely worth keeping an eye out for.

Other great movies of the zombie genre include the magnificent Evil Dead series and the one off classic Braindead. When Evil Dead 1st came out it was during the "video nasty" era of sensationalist journalism when Mary Whitehouse or the BBFC or some other do-gooder, busy-body, spoilsport body or other deemed it that we couldn't see the films as they were originally envisioned by their creators. They chopped out all the best bits most likely, getting rid of the gore, kind of cutting out the 'cutting up' I guess. I never really watched when it 1st came out, I was put off by tales of how terrible it was so I never got to see it till it came out on general video release rather than just rental, This was back in the days when they were released to video shops maybe 2 years before they were sold to the general public. I saw Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness/Evil Dead 3 at the cinema I think. The 2nd stayed with the horror of the 1st but with some more humorous moments and the 3rd went with outright comedy almost. Still very entertaining though. Now there is a TV series, Ash Vs Evil Dead and that sticks to the O.T.T. horror/comedy formula and is a great horror geeky watch. The Evil Dead film franchise was rebooted with none of the humour in 2015 with a remake that I thoroughly enjoyed but I think the TV series with Ash put paid to the film reboot franchise taking off with sequels. 

Braindead, from 1993 (called Dead Alive in some countries) is another zombie film that has huge swathes of laughs involved. It was made by Peter Jackson, long before he made the also awesome Tolkien films, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. In it a Sumatran monkey rat is taken from the wild and put into a New Zealand zoo. It bites hero Lionel's mum and she becomes undead. Lionel stores her in the cellar but she manages to infect others. The film is chock full of sick/funny gore and is a classic. One of my favourite films ever. I used to run a heavy metal gig night with 2 mates which we called The Braindead Club after the film.

Later you had the comedy zombie movie or ZomRomCom Shaun of the Dead which completely negated the horror elements replacing them with some great laughs at the genre.

Other zombie films of note include -

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

Which was a Spanish/Italian film but was made in Manchester England which was pretty surreal for that and pretty gory, but it was the name that I always remember it more for than anything. It is also known as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Zombie Flesh Eaters

which was another nasty as I recall with a victim's eye-view of a death scene which is pretty gruesome

and the The Return of the Living Dead trilogy which was another of those horror movies with laughs that are very entertaining with their impossible to kill, more intelligent, talking zombies that just can't get enough of them juicy brains. 

A quick search up reveals that you can almost team up any word with "zombie" and you'll find a film called it!! Hence you get Cockneys Vs Zombies, The Zombie Farm, Zombies Of War, KFZ Kentucky Fried Zombies, Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse, Zombies At Christmas, Zombeavers and my favourite title Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead!!

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I haven't even mentioned The Walking Dead TV series yet!! I am one of those annoying sods who read the comics long before the series came out and may have once or twice ventured the opinion that they are better than the TV series but that's just the way of things lol. The TV show is pretty good though, obviously it changes things from the comics but that's to be expected really. Characters stories get changed, new characters get added, plot timelines differ but the basic story of the living fighting each other for resources to the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse is still very much the same.