"We wanted to reveal the actual cause of that war, which was surprising to all involved at the time," Jendresen told the site. "We simply wanted to reveal the truth behind that startling incident."
I kinda want to punch him. He knows it's fiction, right?
""We have a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from Enterprise all the way out to the future."
I take it back. I definitely want to punch him. Though I do wonder what he thinks "ostensibly" means.
Okay, having just caught the closing credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake, I can definitively say that zombies creep me the fuck out. Which is somewhat odd, as vampires, werewolves, and more grotesque alien and demonic monsters in movies don't bother me at all, and at best can startle me if shot suspensefully. (Well, actually one vampire has inspired the flesh-crawling feeling: the exceedingly zombielike Mina in the Langella Dracula.) I'm wondering if this is an instinctive Uncanny Valley response that the other monsters somehow avoid tripping.
Matt, we were just talking about that, in regard to the game Doom 3. The only monster that gets to me as much or more than zombies are ghosts, and it's a different reaction.
No idea why, but the reaction is there.
Greece apparently just released its first-ever zombie movie. I'm interested to see it. This doesn't seem like a culture where the zombie thing would get much traction.
I love zombies, because they creep me out (also for unknown reasons). Zombie movies are some of my favorites, and I love love LOVE the Rsident Evil series of video games, partially because I like primarily puzzle games, but also because the zombie factor CREEPS ME RIGHT OUT. Those video games are fun, but they also scare the bejeezus out of me.
I do wonder why it is that zombies hit at the very bottom of the Uncanny Valley for so many people. It's not as if there were packs of them chasing after our neanderthal ancestors and we evolved a fear response through natural selection. Before the advent of movie makeup, what would have triggered that emotional reaction—lepers and plague victims?
Before the advent of movie makeup, what would have triggered that emotional reaction—lepers and plague victims?
Probably. And there's certainly a heavy element of "Yep, you too are going to DIE someday," with zombies. With lepers and plague victims as well. And none of this cool action hero death stuff, it's all about the "no, you're going to be a rotting and bloated corpse."
I think that's a large reason the ending to Carpenter's Thing hit me so hard. I did watch it at a fairly young age, but the ending was all about "Sure, you can beat the monster. Maybe even kill it. You're still going to die, though. Have fun!"
I think it's like motion sickness in that your brain is putting up with two contradictory signals-- some human, some not.
I'm looking forward to the movie version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for their version of zombies (crossed with the Dead Marshes bodies from LotR).
