So with this cast what kind of Zombie movie we can expect? A comedy of course!!

Ok, like a respectable Zombie movie there are undead eating human flesh, but Zombieland looks at the genre from a different prospective; no more people trapped in a house or in a Mall but the main characters are actually in a cross-country road trip.  

To me, It seem worth the ticket  to see Woody chasing Zombies!!

I don’t know if this movie is going to change the way to look at the genre but a comedy zombie movie is not really that original; not that they have been very successful but the formula has been experimented in the past.

The first attempt was “Return of the Living Dead”, based on a novel by John Russo  co-written with George A. Romero .The most recent and valuable and most successful is Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead” which is a spoof of the genre and an homage to Romero’s movie “Dawn of the Dead”.
There have been other attempts to make a very funny “Zombie” movie but the results have always been mixed with not much Box-Office success.

Zombieland has definitely a great cast and a different storyline and I’m sure will follow Wrigth’s “Shaun” and become one of the most successful Zombie comedy of all time.

Living dead have always been part of the horror genre, think about “Frankstein”, but
the modern zombie genre was created in 1968 by John Russo and George A. Romero who co-wrote and  Romero directed “The Night of the Living Dead”, a very well done and very limited budget black and white horror movie that after more than 40 years  is still considered the defining movie of the modern horror cinema.

If  “The Night of the Living Dead” is the first of the genre, many others followed; besides the Romero’s originals and remakes (I personally like very much the remake of “The Dawn of the Dead”), there are less known movies like the Italian “Demoni”(Demons) series that are written and produced by Dario Argento, the master of  horror Made in Italy, also notable are the British “28 Days Later” and the unique romantic “Dellamorte Dellamore” (Cemetery Man) which stars  Rupert Everett.

Now it is time for “Zombieland” and let’s see if it will fulfill the expectations.