Comments on: They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara http://billwardwriter.com/theyre-coming-to-get-you-barbara/ Bill Ward's blog of all things genre Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Ward http://billwardwriter.com/theyre-coming-to-get-you-barbara/comment-page-1/#comment-2754 Bill Ward Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:23:57 +0000 http://billwardwriter.com/?p=2531#comment-2754 Absolutely, Fred; it holds up well. Interesting how it violates zombie lore in more than one way -- just have to remember this was before there were rules about zombies! <em>Dawn</em> remains my favorite though -- just perfect. And Ben, I owe you a big thanks for my predilection for zombies, you were the guy that exposed me to Romero's dead trilogy. I still have yet to see Nosferatu (though I really liked Shadow of the Vampire). Putting it on my netflix queue. Absolutely, Fred; it holds up well. Interesting how it violates zombie lore in more than one way — just have to remember this was before there were rules about zombies! Dawn remains my favorite though — just perfect.

And Ben, I owe you a big thanks for my predilection for zombies, you were the guy that exposed me to Romero’s dead trilogy.

I still have yet to see Nosferatu (though I really liked Shadow of the Vampire). Putting it on my netflix queue.

]]> By: Fred http://billwardwriter.com/theyre-coming-to-get-you-barbara/comment-page-1/#comment-2753 Fred Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:10:08 +0000 http://billwardwriter.com/?p=2531#comment-2753 I actually watched <i>Night of the Living Dead</i> for the first time this Halloween. I'd seen Romero's other zombie films (and I think I actually prefer <i>Dawn</i> or <i>Day</i>), but I was pleasantly surprised by how effective the original remains. Not the scariest movie I've ever seen, but perfect Halloween viewing. I actually watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time this Halloween. I’d seen Romero’s other zombie films (and I think I actually prefer Dawn or Day), but I was pleasantly surprised by how effective the original remains. Not the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, but perfect Halloween viewing.

]]> By: Benjamin Miner http://billwardwriter.com/theyre-coming-to-get-you-barbara/comment-page-1/#comment-2752 Benjamin Miner Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:47:51 +0000 http://billwardwriter.com/?p=2531#comment-2752 It's a shame we live so far apart - Oh, the Halloween film nights we could have! If you listen to this week's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" on NPR, they have none other than George A. Romero as a special guest! He still seems like a great guy. AND he's still making zombie movies! My submissions for perennial favorite Halloween films are Nosferatu and Haxan. I still have to check out the Lovecraft film you hipped me to a while back. Those early silent movies were so much more adept at creating a mood of bleakness and foreboding than anything happening today...current horror films seem either to be interested in torture-porn or other situational terror, but they lack any real sense of atmosphere or leavening sense of humor, elements held in perfect suspension in, say, The Evil Dead. It’s a shame we live so far apart – Oh, the Halloween film nights we could have!

If you listen to this week’s “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” on NPR, they have none other than George A. Romero as a special guest! He still seems like a great guy. AND he’s still making zombie movies!

My submissions for perennial favorite Halloween films are Nosferatu and Haxan. I still have to check out the Lovecraft film you hipped me to a while back. Those early silent movies were so much more adept at creating a mood of bleakness and foreboding than anything happening today…current horror films seem either to be interested in torture-porn or other situational terror, but they lack any real sense of atmosphere or leavening sense of humor, elements held in perfect suspension in, say, The Evil Dead.

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