Monster Scholar

To preface this review, I saw Zombieland last Thursday after an exhausting day of work and school. As I settled into my seat, I feared that I might fall asleep in the cool dark interior of the Movie Tavern if this newest zombie comedy didn’t live up to the wonderful reviews I’d read. I’m here to tell you, that Zombieland did not disappoint me. To start, I have never seen a zombie movie that was less about the zombies and more about the people. Unlike Day of the Dead , where Romero’s depiction of Bub encourages empathy, the zombies of Zombieland are the most inhuman creatures imaginable. Their hungry screams are a cross between a bird of prey and a velociraptor as they sprint after their victims at amazing speed. But despite their fearsome appearance, the zombies of Zombieland are merely a backdrop to the film’s central concern with human relationships. The zombie plague has left the remaining human survivors wary of making connections with each other. The film’s protagonists never g...

I was on MySpace when a Zombieland promo popped up with Woody Harrelson and that kid from Juno giving tips on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. This bit of fun seguewayed into the trailer and I was about to click off when I noticed the zombie stripper that chases the Asian businessman out of the nudie club (an image that has stuck with me since my first viewing of the redband trailer) was now wearing a digital bikini top! Check out the regular and restricted trailers at the Zombieland website to witness the hilarity.

The original trailer for Zombieland had everything a girl could ask for, comedy, action and the right amount of violence and gore. Woody Harrelson was hilarious as the renegade zombie hunter who bears a close resemblance to Steve Martin of Little Shop of Horrors ( My momma always said I’d be good at something… ) and the mention of Zombie Kill of the Week inspired the series of zombie kills now found on my blog. I was in trailer heaven. But that was before the release of the red band trailer. Not to say it’s too gory. I can take my fair share of squished zombie limbs and messy head-on collisions with the best of them, but (you knew there was going to be a but) it feels like the creators of the trailer might have just rounded up all the rudest, crudest moments they could find in the film and crammed them into this three minute raunchfest. Despite this feat, the trailer does manage a few good points. Among them are the zombie stripper, complete with tassels and dollar bills in her g-str...