While zombie films generally fall into the horror genre, some cross over into other genres, such as action, comedy, science fiction, thriller, or romance. Unlike most young actors working in hong kong today, sam lee chan sum did not get his start as a singer or dancer. Russo writes the novel return of the living dead which becomes a movie series starting with the comedy horror film in 1985. Romeros classic dawn of the dead, wilson yips hong kong zombie tale is nothing too exciting. Bio zombie 1998 two mall employees driving to work hit a man who drank a soda laced with a chemical that turns people into cannibals. Dubbing always presents a problem for the viewer but as with the other problems. The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including. Biozombie, a hong kong cinema cult classic zombie movie. Since then shes continued a steady acting career as well as writing and producing her own work including the comedy sweetiecakes and the drama whitepaddy. Bio zombie 1998 more like this a soft drink tainted with biochemicals has the power to turn people into flesheating zombies.
Song strut your stuff b artist peter david fallowell, apm music sonoton recorded music library sonoton music. Reviewing the films that are legendary, even in hell. Combining their knowledge on over a century of film, adding a dash of trivia and a sprinkle of blue humor to give every episode. I am putting all titles in bold, not just those of which i have watched for the first time. A soft drink tainted with chemicals turns people into cannibals. You cant expect much from a film with a lowbudget, which im sure this one had. In the old days zombies were usually the result of voodoo as in 1943s i walked with a zombie or divine intervention, as was the case with lazarus, the firstever zombie, as well as the second. She received a number of grants to further her work and was the first american to receive the northern ireland film council study grant. Iceman is a 2014 hong kongchinese 3d martial arts actioncomedy film directed by law wingcheung and starring donnie yen, who also serves as the films action director. Born in hong kong in 1968, jordan chan siuchun has been in around fifty films since making in screen debut in 1994. Also starring angela tong yingying, emotion cheung, yiucheung lai. The zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as dark comedy. This is a genre film which plays to its genre so effectively that it cant even give us the cheesy happy ending that a more compromising film would have.
With jordan chan, emotion cheung, sam lee, yiucheung lai. Wong jings shoddy horror comedy might have gotten points if it werent such an obvious ripoff of the excellent biozombie. Sang1 faa3 sau6 si1 is a 1998 hong kong zombie comedy film, starring jordan chan. The film is a remake of the 1989 film the iceman cometh which was directed by clarence fok and starred yuen biao. The two styles of film do not mesh together at all. Yeah, he was printing millions of counterfeit dollars in the bas. Documentaries will be included according to their running time and will not be rated. Starring jordan chan and sam lee as woody invincible and crazy bee. Some scenes were hilarious, while others will give you a slight chuckle. Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings.
The movie remained unreleased until 1975 when the director used the footage in curse of bigfoot. The two had many conflicts on how to follow up the 1968 movie. The idea of whether paranormal activity is caused by us willing it to do so is a good starting point, but then injecting forced handheld camera work destroys any sort of immersion we had. Many people have said that this film was funny and i have to agree that it was pretty funny. It wants to adhere so closely to the tropes of the other creaky house films of the time, that it seems fumblehanded when dealing with those esoteric ideas of the unknown. The movie doesnt head where you think it will, but once it gets there you can see why it did.
The film was directed by wilson yip, and stars donnie yen as ip man, with martial arts choreography by sammo hung. House on haunted hill 1959 rifftrax live version oct. While this may seem like a lot, it is the typical output for an idol an artist who works on movies, telvision and music these days in hong kong. The film was released in hong kong and china on april 25, 2014. They are commonly portrayed as cannibalistic in nature. The 10th annual october horror movie challenge 101 dvd talk. Dreamworks skg released its first two animated films. Zombies have been with us seemingly from the dawn of time, yet early incarnations differed markedly from those of current zombie film and fiction. Each monster had modest beginnings before and during the war, but the supernatural fell out of fashion around 1950 in the early years of the atomic age when science fiction reigned.
One of hammer films best movies, and one of the best mummy movies ever made, this is an extremely creepy, disconcerting, welldirected film. Notable entries include director peter jacksons ultragory film braindead 1992 released as dead alive in the u. History edit the earliest roots of the genre can be found in jean yarbrough s king of the zombies 1941 and gordon douglas s zombies on broadway 1945, though both of these films dealt with. Stephen fung is a cop who must fight zombies that are loose in the police station. Shakespeare in love which won the academy award for best picture, saving private ryan, american history x, the truman show, primary colors, rushmore, rush hour, theres something about mary, the big lebowski, and terrence malicks directorial return in the thin red line. There may be language used in this slaughter film podcast that is not suitable for all listeners. The fact that woody and bee are so funny together and that their dialog is so great at least, their translated dialog is what raises this film above others of its kind. Oct 04, 2006 number 8 bio zombie 1998 the premise of this flick is one of the craziest youll ever come across. Please bear in mind that this is a hong kong chinese zombie film with a chinese cast and dubbed in english. Scott innes stem billy west stem mary kay bergman stem hot wax zombies on wheels. Bio zombie 1998 a very witty remake or perhaps homage to george a. This is the third film in the series of comedy horror film director sam raimi sam raimi about evil dead. Get the best deals on horror zombies nr rated ntsc vhs tapes when you shop the largest online. With the dickandfart joke comedy of smiths mallrats merged with the mall setting and parodic, bmovie style fx work of romeros dawn of the dead, biozombie is flawed akin to that smith film, as it too is often overblown in its jokes, making the comedy unnatural at times, yet creates an annoying, if likable, loser duo to root for that are both akin to lees brodie not london, thankfully.
Bio zombie origin is a action game on which you can you online for free. Shoot zombies in this sidescroller as you pickup ammo, health and money. Biozombie is entertaining and interesting, in part due to the actors jordan chan and sam lee have good chemistry and also due to the strangely apocalyptic tone the film takes on. The history of independent film making changes forever. Iraqi agents smuggle a dangerous biochemical agent into hong kong by.
The 10th annual october horror movie challenge 101 10. Basically this film had some cool moments here and there and delivered a lot of good comedy. Ip man is a 2008 biographical martial arts film based on the life of ip man, a grandmaster of the martial art wing chun and teacher of bruce lee. A group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak over runs their hong kong shopping center in the middle of. A group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak over runs their hong kong shopping center in the middle of the shopping day. The reason for giving the film a 6rating was because of the let down and i didnt much like the look of the zombies. Romeros dawn of the dead and shows many similarities to peter jacksons braindead. With the dickandfart joke comedy of smiths mallrats merged with the mall setting and parodic, bmovie style fx work of romeros dawn of the dead, bio zombie is flawed akin to that smith film, as it too is often overblown in its jokes, making the comedy unnatural at times, yet creates an annoying, if likable, loser duo to root for that are both akin to lees brodie not london, thankfully.
Number 8 bio zombie 1998 the premise of this flick is one of the craziest youll ever come across. This movie has action, horror, and suspense, but i think what really made it for me was the heroes. The 10th annual october horror movie challenge 101. Night of the living dead vhs, 1998 special collectors edition. Two mall employees driving to work hit a man who drank a soda laced with a chemical that turns people into cannibals. In a bit straight out of a hollywood movie, director fruit chan saw lee who was an electrican by trade and had no aspirations about acting skateboarding around his neighborhood and cast him in the 1997 film made in hong kong. Theres a guy gets to the castle from evil spirits, which he must not only fight the army of the dead, but also to find the book of the dead, in which his. The comedy horror series return of the living dead is inspired by george romeros partner, john russo. Nov 06, 2007 bio zombie, a hong kong cinema cult classic zombie movie. Bio zombie 1998 sometimes a zombie flick is just so much fun that we can overlook its obvious flaws and failiers. Bio zombie is a 1998 hong kong zombie comedy film, starring jordan chan.
You may know her by many names but there is only one geretta geretta. Staff will ash bruce campbell is the will of magical forces in the xiii century. Horror zombies nr rated ntsc vhs tapes for sale ebay. This film was completed in 1958 but the only theatrical release it received was in the directors hometown. However, the performances of lead actors jordan chan and sam lee make this quite a fun film to enjoy. Not only does it rip off that film, but its also sixty million times worse. Woody invincible and crazy bee are two young men selling bootlegged dvds at a small stall in the new trend plaza mall, they spend most of their days gambling and committing petty crimes. Silly, dumb, gross, but extremely entertaining and with a lot of cleverness going on under the surface check out that fakeout splitscreen gag for one example and a. A zombie revival later began in the far east during the late 1990s, inspired by the 1996 japanese zombie video games resident evil and the house of the dead, which led to a wave of lowbudget asian zombie films, such as the hong kong zombie comedy film bio zombie 1998 and japanese zombie action film versus 2000. In another film that did so, rec 3, it actually led to the rest of the movie feeling like schlocky junk. After this the students are killed off one by one by the dead. Sep 26, 2015 in putting together this list of the 16 best zombie movies of all time, we wanted to satisfy ourselves as well as the hardcore fans of the genre. The film focuses on events in ips life that supposedly took place in the city of foshan during the sinojapanese war.
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