on the front page, or anywhere.

I am soooo looking forward to this movie!!!

I loooove zombis!

Thanks, Andrew and Matt, for giving George Romero his due, but I have to disagree with some things you said:

Andrew, you called NOTLD, essentially, a student film. It might have been low budget, but Mr. Romero and his primary crew were all accomplished commercial filmmakers who had proficient filmmaking skills, especially in editing. Given the budgetary and other constraints of making NOTLD, I do not think that film would have been the masterpiece it is were it not for their seasoned skills as filmmakers. A student film? Nah.

Matt, "Slither" was an okay film, good for a drunken hoot, but it was not a zombie film. The monsters were not the ressurected dead, but gross-out mutants due to being infested by alien slugs. Have some respect for the undead, man.

Also, Andrew, you're a good man for citing the original Romero trilogy, but your clip used the poster from Tom Savini's 1990 remake of NOTLD. This matters greatly to those of us who dwell too much on such things.

And it's actually banned in Germany, of all places.

What makes Romero's zombie movies a cut above the rest is that they're not really about zombies. They're about racism, crass consumer society, class struggles, and the dangers of authoritarian goverment. Not that you can't enjoy them on a simple humans vs zombies level too, and even on that level Romero wins. I mean what movie wouldn't be improved by a zombie vs biker pie fight?

I never understood the raves about 28 Days later. After the interesting opener and the depleted London scences it was pretty much a rip off of Dawn and day of the dead right down to the minor plot points. When the survivors stop at the service station I turned to my boyfriend and said " I bet there's a little kid zombie in there just like in Dawn". And there was. When they get to the very Day of the dead military base I was counting the minutes till they showed a soldier zombie chained up, which will enventually kill the evil military leader.

...Zach Braff's remake of "Dawn of the Dead" was INFINITELY more frightening than the original, which upon repeated viewings comes across as more comic than anything else. I left the theatre after watching the remake filled with the exact emotion one should feel after a truly great horror film: Despair.

Normally such an insult would require a bullet in the brain, or decapitation by a helicopter blade, but you make a valid point, of sorts.

Back in the day the original "Frankenstein" scared audiences. Now it only scares 4 year-olds, maybe. The envelope keeps getting pushed, and Mr. Romero's slow zombies have been around long enough to lose their shock appeal. The new generation wanted something more threatening, so they got the speeded up zombies of the "Dawn" remake.

Still, a scary film always has its moments. Personally, though I'd seen all the slasher films of the 80's, one of the scariest movie experiences I ever had was watching "Rosemary's Baby" in the late '80's. It's all about the mood you get yourself in, and I was in the perfect mood to be terrified by the satanic rape scene.

Okay, I was stoned, but it was still scary!

Two months ago the missus and I had our 19 year-old niece visiting. We was up for the original Dawn of the Dead, which she'd never scene, so we all piled into the dark home theater in the basement, with all the lights in the house turned off, and watched it together. I'm pleased to report that my niece was terrified of the movie, and ripe for even more terrifying as we scurried upstairs. So, I suppose just as with tolerance for chile peppers, some like it hot, and some flee from bell peppers.