Film Review
Film Title: Zombieland
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Year of production: 2009
Genre: Horror, action, Comedy
Brief plot
outline: In early 21st century Zombies have taken over
America. A shy inexperienced college student is looking for his parents in Ohio
on his travels he meets a man named Tallahassee who seeks Twinkies to eat.
Later on they meet two young girls called Wichita and little rock who trick
them twice and take their car and guns. The girls then decide to stick with the
two guys to get to an amusement park.
Which two
scenes impressed you the most? Why? : The first scene that I enjoyed the
most was the end scene mainly because of all the action which is made better by
the quick montage edits which created an exciting scene. This scene was quite
suspenseful because the girls were close to dying the suspense was created well
because of all the collision cutting from the girls to the men. The next scene
that I enjoyed was the supermarket scene because of the body horror where
Tallahassee hits the zombies with a baseball bat and a banjo and then the use
of restricted narration when he goes to cut up the zombie makes the film seem a
bit less gory. The use of close ups is good as it shows Tallahassee expressions
and a close up of him killing the zombies.
How has
watching this film helped you understand this genre of filmmaking? Which
features on the genre checklist did you spot in the film? When? How? : The film
uses a lot of body horror but in the supermarket scene there’s a bit of
restricted narration. The gore used is mainly on from the zombies which show in
the supermarket scene as one of the zombies when hit spits out a lot of blood.
There are quick moving monsters used in the film as the zombies run fast and
are lethal. In other films like Dawn of the Dead (1979) the zombies are
a lot slower so on their own they’re not affective but as a big group they are.
The male heroes are Columbus and Tallahassee. Columbus isn’t a stereotypical
male hero as he’s more of a shy nerdy kid but he knows the right thing to do in
a dangerous situation whereas Tallahassee is strong, confident and knows how to
handle a weapon. Violence and fear of death works well in this film as there is
always something to be scared because a zombie could pop out from anywhere.
This is displayed well when Bill Murray is killed, because when he has a fear
of death so he disguises himself as a zombie which then causes him to be
killed. This film has an open ending as it looks like there could be another
film after the first one because there are still a lot of zombies left and all
the main characters survived.
Which
aspects of the film would you like to include in your own trailer? Why? In my own
trailer I would like to include some of the body horror techniques that
Zombieland uses for example the zombie spitting blood was a really good affect,
but I wouldn’t use too much gore as it can make the trailer boring. I also
think using action in horror films makes them more exciting because there is
the tension of a horror film and fighting of an action film.
Which
aspects of the film would you like to avoid in your own trailer? Why? I would
like to avoid the fact that none of the main characters died or got hurt,
usually in a zombie film at least one person gets bitten and the rest of the
group have to figure out whether to kill them or not I think this aspect works
well in a horror film. Without this danger, a film seems too much like a comedy
film and our idea in our trailer is to create a scary horror.
What was
the best aspect/ more enjoyable moment in the film? Why? Can you recreate this
in your own film? How? The end scene had the best aspect of action and horror
as it builds tension well as the two girls come close to dying and Tallahassee
also is surrounded by zombies and you are not quite sure whether he is going to
survive or not. This scene would be very hard to recreate as I don’t think we
could get that many people to do that scene and we don’t have a big budget for
all the zombie make-up, but it would be possible to do a smaller scene with
less people, but using the same amount of action and with less people we could
do the zombie make-up.
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