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This could be seen as a prequel for Dawn Of The Dead

posted 12 years ago by MisterBabadook
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It would really fit well because at the end of this Zombie's are taking over New York and are starting to spread everywhere, and Dawn Of The Dead opens up with Zombies wrecking havoc in a city. I know Night Of The Living Dead is the movie that sets up Dawn Of The Dead but to me Zombie sets up Dawn Of The Dead better. Anyone else agree?

Also Zombie gives an explanation as to how the dead are coming back to life which i don't think its ever explained in NOTLD is it?

When Gotham is ashes... you have my permission to die. -Bane

[–] Trioxin_Zombie 12 years ago

I thought they said it was a meteor that passed by the earth or it was a satelite crash landing on earth that brought the start of the outbreak in NOTLD. Not sure which one of the two it was as it's been a while since I've seen it.

But I agree that this movie sets up Dawn's sitation far better than Night ever did. Not that we need to know how it came about (like the whole voodoo theory from Dr Menard). But knowing or not it works well this movie.

"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."

[–] MisterBabadook 12 years ago

Ya because at the end of NOTLD it looks as if they have control over the outbreak and are cleaning up and picking off the remaining undead. Zombie ends with the plague just starting to spread and it leads into DOTD really well.

When Gotham is ashes... you have my permission to die. -Bane

[–] Trioxin_Zombie 12 years ago

Even though Fulci's vision came after Romero's I don't have a problem seeing it linked to Romero's movie by that idea. Like Zombie Flesh Eaters is the prequel to Dawn. Unofficial prequel of course. Yeah I could live with that idea nicely. Differently made movies because they come from different countries showing the same apocalypse from different locations.

"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."

[–] MisterBabadook 12 years ago

Alot of people always say they would love a follow up to "Zombie" to see the zombie's in the city. Well all they have to do is watch DOTD after Zombie because it serves as a great sequel to it.

When Gotham is ashes... you have my permission to die. -Bane

[–] Trioxin_Zombie 12 years ago

That's all they need to do if they want a sequel. It wouldn't work well if anyone did try and make a proper sequel to Fulci's movie. I for one would be boycotting it with the same force as I did The Thing (2011). And that is a movie that I hate like no other movie before it.

If they want to feel like they are seeing zombies from all sides. They just need to watch this movie and then start Romero's series from scratch or from Dawn onwards. It could work that way so as to get a larger view of the apocalypse.

I definitely wouldn't want anyone touching Lucio's movie though officially. NO remake. NO sequel. And definitely NO prequel. It needs to be left alone. Just let the imagination wander and watch all the above mentioned movies and think of it as one large zombie apocalypse.

REMEMBER HOLLYWOOD!

NO REMAKE, PREQUEL OR SEQUEL to Fulci's classic. If you bastards do try it. I hope it sinks worse than The Thing (2011) did. And it went into over 2000 cinemas at the start. Then 2 weeks later it was showing in 192 cinemas. That's how welcome it was. As most places dropped it through the sheer volume of cold shoulders given to it. Kurt Russell's classic should never have been touched. And this goes for Lucio Fulci's classic as well!.

BE WARNED!!.

"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."

[–] MisterBabadook 12 years ago

I totally agree about "The Thing" prequel, no one gave a rats a$$ about what happened at the Norwegian base, the John Carpenter version told you all you needed to know about it. It was basically the same exact thing that happened to Kurt Russel's base so there was really no need to make a whole movie about what happened at the Norwegian base. And the split face creature in the prequel looked absolutely nothing like the one MacReady saw at the Norwegian base in Carpenter's movie.

I mean how fcking hard was it to replicate that creature? to me with today's advancements in special effects it seems like it would be simple to re create a monster that was made in the 80's.

When Gotham is ashes... you have my permission to die. -Bane

[–] Trioxin_Zombie 12 years ago

Indeed, my friend. The mentality of todays moviemaker is CGI is king. Practical effects and prosthetic makeup can't be beaten for horror movies. CGI is best kept to crap like Transformers and other mainstream flicks. The less said about this Thing movie the better. Purge it from your mind by any means necessary. I've only seen it once and I wont see it again. I never visited the cinema to see it either. I know someone who bought the DVD so it saved me money. And anyway it's money I wasn't willing to spend on it anyway.

"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."

[–] panthersrulenfl69 11 years ago

Isn't there a few zombie movies already I could've sworn there were also Fulci made another movie called City of the Living Dead so if that's how this ends I would imagine that to be a sequel to this haven't seen any of these btw but I have done some research as I'm starting to get into Italian horror.

[–] GrimeyRickGrimes 12 years ago

I am 38 years old and just saw Zombie for the first time ever. I was 5 when the trailer came out with the words scrolling across the screen to form the title "Zombie" Scared the crap out of me.

It would most certainly serve as a good prequel to Dawn of the Dead 1978. which is my favorite Zombie movie ever. NOTLD never really seemed like a movie with a strong connection to DOTD.

[–] Colonel-T 11 years ago

The only thing that slightly scuppers the 'prequel' theory is one fundamental difference between Romero's zombies and Fulci's - Romero's creatures seem to have an animal's instinctive fear of fire, while Fulci's (as depicted near the end of his film) seem largely indifferent to it.

There's also something a bit nastier about Fulci's version of the living dead; there's a sense of malevolence about them, while the Romero style are more akin to carnivorous animals.

[–] velvetkevorkian610 11 years ago

If you read the trivia page for this movie you will see that the New York scenes were actually added for this purpose : ] the title as well!

[–] speccyboy 9 years ago

The fire theory - you could say the zombies adapted to the fire, which would explain their intelligence at a subconscious level, as seen in Day of the Dead with Bub.