Wednesday, February 18, 2009

On zombification

Following the release of Seth Grahame-Smith's flesh-eating redux of the classic Jane Austen novel "Pride and Prejudice" - dubbed "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - the interwebs have been virtually (as there is no other way) awash with zombified titles of other classics.
Virgin Media, in fact, posed the question, "What movies could be improved by zombies?" The answer, of course, is "All of them." But for some reason, Virgin gave us only the following nine:

"Bambi 2: Fawn of the Dead"
"Kramer Vs. Kramer Vs. Zombies"
"There Will Be Brains"
"Undead Poets Society"
"Zomdog Millionaire"
"Quantum of Zombies"
"Frost/Nixon/Zombies"
"ZOMB-E"
"Zombie Balboa"

Some of these, like "Bambi 2" and "ZOMB-E," are actually inventive and cute. Other, intensely stupid titles ("Zomdog Millionaire") make about as much sense as "Throw Mama From the Brains." Which is to say, none at all.

However, this list is not nearly cute or stupid enough, which is why I've written nine of my own.
To wit:

"Run, Zombie, Run"
"To John Foo: Thanks for the Brains, Zombie Newmar"
"Lawnmower Man 3: Lawn of the Dead"
"The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Liver"
"Some Like it Rotten"
"Nom with the Limbs"
"Harold and Kumar Get Eaten by Zombies" (also works with "Ernest")
"Headshots: The Legend of Curly's Gun"
And, of course,
"Y Tu Zombie, Tambien"

As always, feel free to put your two cents in with some other titles. In fact, let's open it up a little more with some classic sci-fi flicks:
"Pride and Predator."
"Tron/Nixon."
"I, Robocop."

1 Comments:

Blogger Tracy Ramone said...

A wanna be rock band and would be rock journalist travel by bus trying to escape the Zombie Apocalypse in "Almost Zombies"


Sidney Poitier thinks breaking the news that he is a black man dating their precious little girl is gonna be tough - wait til he finds out her parents are a zombiefied Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in "Guess Who's Gonna Be Dinner"

Robert Downey Jr gives the performance of a lifetime donning Zombie-face as a zombie turned actor just trying to make it in a human world in "Tropic Zombie"

I'm bored and this fun.
Expect more when my creative juices are flowing better.

February 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM 

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