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Thread #139338 Message #3199046
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
31-Jul-11 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Movies to avoid
Subject: RE: BS: Movies to avoid
~M~,
Sorry about that. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I was just amused about how passionate you were.
I think that Ebert explains well enough why it was groundbreaking in the review. It was coldness of the villians, the fact that the hero dies. He mentions a couple of other things I don't recall. Also at that time it was not "formula." It was and end of an era when nearly every horror movie had to have at least a cameo by Vincent Price or Bela Legosi.
Today's zombie revival film makers, the producers of Shawn of the Dead, the 28 series and Resident evil series, all point to that movie as an influence.