The 4th Reich

It seems inadvertently I have done a little Zombie series of posts over the last few days. This is probably the last one, but this one fits really well with both my theme since Halloween, and one of my favorite subjects of cross genre stories.
The 4th Reich is a soon-to-be-released film about Zombie Nazis...or Nazi Zombies...which would it be? I guess Zombie Nazis. I suppose they were Nazis and then became Zombies rather than the other way around. I don't see Zombies as "joiners". Anyway...I digress
Looks like a good mix of WWII action and undead creepiness. Yesterday we talked about Cowboys fighting undead and now soldiers during WWII...looks like the time is ripe for a "Zombies in Outer Space" or a "Zombie in King Arthur's Court".

The Walking Dead

After returning from Trick or Treating last night with my kids, I sat down and watched Survival of the Dead. I suspected a new classic from Romero. I was sorely disappointed. I won't go on about that though, because just after it ended, I remembered that The Walking Dead was about to premiere on AMC, so I switched over and watched it.
Score! Way to go AMC. If you like zombie movies, you have to catch this show. On a side note, did you know "Zombies" is now its own genre? I didn't. I would have thought it was part of Horror, but according to Netflix, Zombies is a genre all its own.
So what's great about "The Walking Dead"? Characters you are interested in. They focus on the human side of the Zombie Apocalypse and how it affects families. I won't elaborate. I am not into spoilers, but it's a good movie with some human interest stuff, but still lots of shambling corpses taking head shots. On thing that intrigued me was how they managed to still make the whole situation creepy in a genre that's been done to death. I went to bed with a slight case of heebie jeebies and that hasn't happened from a Zombie movie in about a quarter of a century!