Load Those Shotguns: Zombieland
Ready your popcorn and plop down in a good seat, because Zombieland aims to please. Let’s face it: It’s Halloween and you’re craving blood and gore. If not, you should be! The latest zombie flick caters to your every need, so crawl, drag, and chainsaw your way over to RadNerd now and check out my coverage of Zombieland.
Fasten your seat belts and get ready to double tap—Zombieland brings the brain-munchy, ankle-dragging entertainment in hordes. Directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the latest zombie flick breathes new life into a genre of movies that often staggers.
All fans of the moaning undead know that when you’re dealing with zombies, you’re taking on more than headshots. If you want a good zombie apocalypse, you need survivors who can stand up to character scrutiny, and the key factor comes down to a matter of humanity. Zombieland nails that theme in full—its narrator appreciates the irony of a loner and social outcast thrown into the heart of a zombie infestation—but instead of showing humans who become worse than the mindless savages we so endearingly label zombies, the film chooses to comment on society while bringing its characters closer together: “If you don’t like people, you might as well be a zombie.”
