Comments on: Gives Me Chills, Pt. III.

By: Braineater

Braineater — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:11:29 +0000

“The Monsters are Due on Japanese Maple Street”?

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:38:17 +0000

Interestingly enough, there’s a Japanese movie called “Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo”, which supposedly features absolutely no monster footage whatsoever. Instead, it’s about how a small town in Japan would react to the news alluded to in the title.

By: DamonD

DamonD — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:22:34 +0000

Yeah, Midnight is tremendous. A bottle show, and some of those are amongst the best of various series because it forces the writer to really concentrate on character.

By: Baron Scarpia

Baron Scarpia — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:50:51 +0000

There’s a recent Doctor Who adventure that’s basically set in only one location (the passenger area of a transport vessel) and with no monsters at all. Everyone there, apart from the Doctor, is human.

It’s called Midnight and it’s generally considered to be a classic.

By: rjschwarz

rjschwarz — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:08:08 +0000

Auditions would be easy in that case wouldn’t they.
Now imagine combining the two ideas. A zombie movie from the main character’s POV with no other people or zombies appearing in it. You could call it Grass Grows, Paint Dries.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:54:04 +0000

There’s a challenge: write a screenplay for a zombie movie in which no zombies appear.

(I’ve always wanted to write a script in which the camera was the main character’s POV, and no other people appear in it. Probably just as hard.)

By: El Santo

El Santo — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:56 +0000

Or you could hybridize the premises by having the main characters just hang around for three hours complaining about their lives in a stretch of woods which they repeatedly assure us to be zombie-ridden, even though we not only never see a zombie, but never see even the most indirect evidence of their presence, either.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:09:10 +0000

Now I’m trying to think of a way of blending Stalker with a zombie film and not just having it turn-out like Invaders from Mars (or another rip-off of the Colour Out of Space). If you could splice the weirdest, most interesting bits of both films (and somehow hold on to the theme of faith and the idea of wish-fulfilment from the former), then you’d probably have a pretty good movie. But I’m guessing the unnamed film was mostly just drawn-out and pretentious instead.

Damn.

By: Braineater

Braineater — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:38:01 +0000

A sword, yes. A… samurai sword. You’ve fallen upon the correct movie.

By: Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:45:37 +0000

OK, couldn’t resist searching IMDb to see if I could find it based on the limited information you’ve given. And I think I may have succeeded, but I’m not sure. Since you don’t want the title revealed, I won’t mention the title of the movie that I think might be it, in case I’m right, but just to check: Do some characters use swords against the zombies, and does the title include the word “has”?