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Corpse Bride (2005)
A decent and underrated take on zombies
I remember watching this film by myself enjoying it and the rest of Tim Burton's movie portfolio.
Sure, the bride herself is human, but Tim Burton more like portrayed her as a departed soul in his very own style...and I respect that even though she's not a classic zombie because the way Burton did it he still did it very well for a film creator.
The real plot of the film is a romance mixup involving a murder...nothing wrong with that.
This film more like has similarites to the real-life Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, but with zombies.
And Tim Burton did it well for a gothic film about departed souls and long lost love and the undead.
At least Tim Burton treated these subjects with respect for what they are and with his personal touch too. It's just like watching his Nightmare Before Christmas but as a Warner Bros. Film.
I have more respect for works that treat their subject matter with respect and care, and this is a unique take on it while coming from a talented filmmaker who still pioneers his own style.
Colin (2008) was another film that respected its subject matter while Zombie Land Saga...didn't.
This is a good Tim Burton film if you like him too.
Also recommended: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Batman Returns, Big Fish, Frankenweenie, Vincent, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and maybe his other works too.
Colin (2008)
Deserves some more love as a film
I see that the ratings for this film is low and most of the relevant reviews are negative about Colin, but as a zombie fanatic I think it deserves more faith.
The last zombie work I watched (Zombie Land Saga) subverted my expectations and threw away the classic premise of zombies for Japanese entertainment, but Colin? Colin delivers solidly.
It's very convincing how the main actor manages to puff off the behavior of, well, an undead creature that used to be human, not virtually identical to its former life just so he or she can perform on stage.
Yeah, the film very convincing. I enjoyed it.
Zombieland Saga (2018)
A zombie spoof with pop idols and overstimuli
If you're like me and you're looking for your next big anime one day when you stumbled upon the title Zombie Land Saga with the word Zombie on it, then you have my condolences as to how you found it.
The title is actually misleading because while the show features what are supposed to be 'zombies' the story goes like this: a schoolgirl is minding her own business wanting to become a pop star one day when the punchline comes and Sakura gets killed by a truck (okay?). Right after that, she wakes up in a mansion full of zombies...turns out to be one of them...and then some molester claims he's going to turn her 'into a pop idol'? Wait, what? I thought this was a genuine zombie anime; why even bother with zombies when all you wanted was to showcase some pop stars?
How does the anime handle the subject of zombies? By throwing it out of the window. How do the zombies behave? They perform death metal, and...they turned back to normal!? That's no fun! Oh, you said they 'came back from the dead'? Then how are they still DEAD? Typically, that's not how zombies are supposed to work.
Does anyone see the problems I now have with this anime?
So the 'zombies' now go through the usual trials and tribulations of... just pop idols and not anything supernatural or horror related (besides season one, which was a spoof of that) and I was looking for a zombie anime about that! Oh, and everything about the show is so overstimulating and everyone is so gimmicky and the anime itself (for the first season, anyway) goes through the usual hero storyline with Sakura while cheating on the writing and narrative often: the girls, from their zombification and evil death metal ritual to the very last concert when Sakura saved the day during a snowstorm, often partake in publicity stunts out of their own volition and cover it up by 'entertaining' their audience anyway.
"Mommy, why does that girl have her head ripped off?"
"Oh, don't worry, honey: look at the other girl starting a rap battle with another girl that used to be an undead monster beforehand!"
The minute the schoolgirl got killed and zombies appeared, I was immediately baited into liking the series before it switched into Japanese pop idols which is a twisted way of doing things and apparently I have started fixating on the wrong anime as an autistic and I want to like Black Jack instead which is much better.\
Or better yet, Sankarea: Undying Love was an anime that understood zombies better than this hyperacid sugar rush on cocaine. And what about the girls themselves? They all push the wrong buttons in terms of making me comfortable or not hyper. One of them, mind you, is a boy in ponytails posing as a girl. Although trans people exist, that's just really embarrassing and I instantly rebel against my new fixation once I learned about it.
I want to forget about this sugary joke of an anime...I want to like Black Jack or Sankarea instead, but this? I regret watching it.