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Scene where Edna is attacked by the river


Easily the scariest scene I've ever seen in a zombie movie, and I've never been one to find zombie films particularly unsettling. The first 10-15 minutes of the film had me wondering if this movie was gonna pull through for me (I wasn't particularly impressed by the exposition or the characters initially), but when that thumping sound effect and growling echo began as she's standing by the river, and she slowly turns around to see that guy coming toward her, I KNEW I was in for a treat with this one.

I think the setting of this film is what makes it work so well, and the landscape in that scene is so ominous and eerie to begin with; she's out there on a dead-end road in a valley in the middle of nowhere on a cloudy afternoon; she's smoking a cigarette, and she senses there is someone nearby. At first glance, nobody. On second glance, there's an animated corpse dripping in river water walking toward her car.

I've been on lots of road trips through Montana and have been in locations that look similar to that valley landscape, and if I was alone somewhere out there like that and saw what she saw, I'd piss myself and probably go into cardiac arrest. Maybe it creeps me out more so because the location reminds me of places I've been, but I dunno— really, really scary scene. Well-crafted and well-acted, too.

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Yes, good scene. I also like the other scene when someone is attacked while taking photos.

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I totally agree. Of all the scenes in all the Zombie films I've seen (and Ive seen pyar hundreds!), this quaint riverside spot with one hell of a sinister zombie is strangely filled with more dread than a zombie filled shopping mall.
Its probably due to the north of England setting that creeps me out, seeing as I live in that neck of the woods. Renting this on vhs back in the glory days when I probably shouldn't have been able to due to age, this gem of a film actually scared me off horror for a few months.
An absolute first class masterpiece of the genre.

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That was one of my favorite scenes too. It reminded me of the legendary cemetery scene in Night of the Living Dead where the zombie uses the rock to try to get into the car. I also loved that close up of his red, creepy eyes. Very chilling.

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