I just watched a French zombie flick called The Horde and I was blown away by how well it was. Granted, that's probably because I expected to turn it off after five minutes or so and convinced myself it would be a cheesy, underdeveloped, campy motherfucker. It was none of that. It was well acted, the storyline was more or less the usual zombie-romp but it did its best to differentiate itself, and of course the zombies were up to par in both effects, 'realism' (ha I wish) and numbers. It's always great to see a zombie flick fail and one of the things that makes it so bad is that when the people are running for their pathetic little lives, there's like...4 zombies rambling towards them at .5 MPH. The movie was very cryptic about each person's motive throughout the movie and by the end I'm wondering who the real bad guys are: The criminals that the cops had to team up with (this isn't a spoiler for those reading who haven't watched, it's laid out in the premise of the film's story), the zombies, or the psycho tenants in the building they're stuck in.
All in all, I enjoyed this zombie film more than any other in a long, long time. It's nothing legendary and it won't go down in history as a genre changer for zombie lovers, but it's better than the usual bullshit from Romero these days (that fucking cop out shitbag) and I liked it more than 28 Weeks Later ('Days' will still reign for me as king for eternity more than likely). Anyway, if you're aching for a zombie flick like I was, I highly recommend this. It definitely satiated my desire for some rotting flesh and gruesome killing. For some reason I'm hearing LaBrie sing "THE SMELL OF STALE SWEAT AND SHIT STEAMING THROUGH THE NIGHT" in my head now... Hmm. Brrrraaaiiiiiiiiiinnns.... Pinky and the braaaaiiiiiinn. K.