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Looking for films similar to TGWATG..
posted by nyxeusSTAFFMOD on February 26, 2017 at 3:56 AM
any suggestions?
I also just recently watched Train to Busan, which was great as well.
Reply by MassHypnosis
on February 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM
There are some good classics like Dawn of the dead, Day of the Dead, Demons 1-2, Rabid, Night of the Comet, Lifeforce, The Return of the Living Dead, Reanimator etc but here are few more recent zombie movies
28 Days Later/28 weeks Later
Dawn of the dead 2004
Dead set (great zombie mini series)
Rec 1-2-4. 3 is a black comedy
World War Z (some very cool scenes but very hollywood/blockbuster style)
La Horde
I am a hero (weird anime style (not animation) movie from japan, not bad but also not great, it's action/comedy)
Rammbock
Pontypool
Night of the living dead remake from Tom Savini
Land of the dead (it's a little weird story)
Deadgirl (Weird and dark movie)
Maggie
Fido/Shaun of the dead/Dead Snow/Black sheep/Brain Dead (comedy)
Highschool of the Dead (anime series)
Seoul Station is an anime movie prequel to train to busan from the same director, it isn't that great but it's ok for one time and to see the outbreak at the city, but the characters are a little weird.
Reply by krashd
on March 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM
Great list, I'll add...
What we do in the shadows [2014] Doghouse [2009] Severance [2006] Cockneys Vs Zombies [2012] Attack the Block [2011] Dog Soldiers [2002]
All British comedy horror (except Shadows) movies, more for the above poster than the OP, but..
Children of Men [2006] 12 Monkeys [1995] Kill Command [2016] Tank 432 [2016] Morgan [2016]
All dystopic, "what's going on?" kind of movies, been a lot in 2016...
Reply by Wreks
on March 2, 2017 at 11:03 PM
A lot of great suggestions, just thought I would add Wyrmwood in there. Also, Open Grave is great.
Reply by Wreks
on March 2, 2017 at 11:17 PM
Although honestly, the most similar thing to this film is probably The Last of Us, which is a PlayStation game.
Reply by krashd
on March 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM
The 'thing' that connects both the Girl With All The Gifts and The Last Of Us is used in a recent British movie called Hangar 10, it has a low rating because it's.. well, it's an acquired taste.. it's a found footage film, but to sci fi folk it's not too bad.
A bunch of British UFO enthusiasts try to break in to RAF Bentwaters in Rendlesham forest after the whole county of Suffolk is declared off limits, Rendlesham forest is known as the most active UFO location on Earth and both it and the two RAF bases within it are known as Britain's Area 51. What they find is not UFOs but a quarantine zone keeping people infected by a strange disease inside said zone.
RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodridge are shoot-on-sight locations with no roads leading to them, one is occupied by the US and was a testing ground for the F117 Nighthawk, it alone caused several UFO conspiracies as nearby towns saw a black triangle with three lights on it fly overhead in 1980. The US would declassify documents in 2002 stating that the F117 would routinely fly between the US and RAF Woodridge on endurance tests.
The forest would be in the news again by 1983 when residents across the east midlands felt ground shaking booms originating from the Forest, booms that are still unexplained and no cause was found. Again in 1992 a blackout affecting about 2.2 million people in Suffolk and around 3% of Britain's population was attributed to an accident at a testing site in Rendlesham Forest.
It's a creepy area no one drives too and that is why Hangar 10 excited me, even though the movie could have been a lot better.
Reply by Dali Parton
on March 14, 2017 at 11:16 PM
A little more obscure than the other movies mentioned so far: Sars Wars and Bio-Zombie
Tonally, they are not at all the same. But they are fun zombie flicks.
Reply by krashd
on March 17, 2017 at 2:23 PM
Hahaha, Sars Wars, I love that name, my friends get annoyed when I pronounce Star Wars rhymingly as Staar Waaars because it sounds like the name of a local Politician called Anas Sarwar who my dad calls the Star Wars politician now.
Reply by Geff
on April 18, 2017 at 12:30 AM
100% Agree. For a moment I thought this movie was somehow related to Open Grave, either a prequel and sequel. I thought this when I saw the huge open field when Helen asked the girl to run away. The open field reminded me of the large field with bodies at the end of Open Grave.
Ofcourse I soon realized that this movie is not related to Open Grave :(
I liked this movie slightly more than Open Grave.
Reply by acf
on April 18, 2017 at 7:48 PM
Try Warm Bodies. It has a comedy factor, which THWATG lacks, but it's similar in the sense that it is a kind of soft approach on zombie theme. BTW, the book is 100 times better than the movie (this is a common place, I know, but it's really a weak adaptation).
Reply by Geff
on April 19, 2017 at 4:45 AM
The only thing Warm Bodies and THWATG have in common is that they both have zombie-like beings. The two could not be more dissimilar otherwise.
Warm Bodies is a trash romantic comedy.
Haha, lol, haha all my family and relatives and kids and my spouse are dying from a fatal infectious disease. So funny ha ha, I can't stop laughing. Ha ha.
Did we watch the same movie?
Reply by acf
on April 19, 2017 at 5:10 AM
hey stop it. both the girl from TGWATG and the boy from warm bodies are sweet zombies, the movies have at least that in common.
Reply by acf
on April 19, 2017 at 5:11 AM
this is my reply on this: shaun of the dead.
Reply by Geff
on April 19, 2017 at 5:48 AM
"sweet zombie" is such a reductionist way of looking at it. It makes me wonder whether you have watched the movie.
She is not a zombie, she has a fungal infection in her brain. The fungal infection, instead of reducing her ability to perform, actually improves her cognitive ability and gives a number of other benefits. The fungus synthesizes oxygen so that her body has to be less reliant on outside oxygen.
Remember, that throughout our evolutionary history we have had parasitic organisms or infections benefit us and eventually they became part of our DNA. The mitochondria in our cells is a good example. It is speculated that mitochondria in primordial times were separate microorganisms that invaded our primordial cells and they eventually became part of our cells.
TGWATG is infinitely more complex than the teenage soap opera that is Warm Bodies. It gives us commentary on evolution and human beings' intrinsic desire to survive and their resistance to extinction in spite of the fact that their extinction might give rise to a better, more advanced organism.
Reply by acf
on April 19, 2017 at 6:03 AM
i read the book (loved it) and watched the movie (thought it was weak). i don't mean to underestimate the story by calling it "sweet". what i meant was that TGWATG and warm bodies do have this in common. of course TGWATG is far more complex, warm bodies is a comedy (or else a romantic comedy, as you said). now about TGWATG being a zombie story or not, although i agree about it being more about evolution than apocalypse, you must agree that the generic theme is zombies.
Reply by Renovatio
on June 12, 2017 at 10:25 AM
Basically any zombie movie...