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<strong>Title:</strong> Night of the Living Dead<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1968<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> George A. Romero<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies in George A. Romero's landmark cheapie horror film. Siblings Johnny (Russell Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) whine and pout their way through a visit to their father's grave in a small Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a family, a teen couple, and a lone man named Ben (<a href="/players/P____36083/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Duane Jones</a>) are already holed up. Bickering and panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of undead converge on the house; news reports reveal that fire wards them off, while a local sheriff-led posse discovers that if you "kill the brain, you kill the ghoul." After a night of immolation and parricide, one survivor is left in the house ... . Romero's grainy black-and-white cinematography and casting of locals emphasize the terror lurking in ordinary life; as in <a href="/players/P____94487/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Alfred Hitchcock</a>'s <a href=/films/3376/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Birds</a> (1963), Romero's victims are not attacked because they did anything wrong, and the randomness makes the attacks all the more horrifying. Nothing holds the key to salvation, either, whether it's family, love, or Law. Topping off the existential dread is Romero's then-extreme use of gore, as zombies nibble on limbs and viscera. Initially distributed by a Manhattan theater chain owner, <I>Night</I>, made for about $100,000, was dismissed as exploitation, but after a 1969 re-release, it began to attract favorable attention for scarily tapping into Vietnam-era uncertainty and nihilistic anxiety. By 1979, it had grossed over $12 million, inspired a cycle of apocalyptic splatter films like <a href=/films/34558/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</a> (1974), and set the standard for finding horror in the mundane. However cheesy the film may look, few horror movies reach a conclusion as desolately unsettling. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 46<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 77<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 19<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 58<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:25:05 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Night of the Living Dead</spout:Title><spout:Year>1968</spout:Year><spout:Director>George A. Romero</spout:Director><spout:Plot>When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies in George A. Romero's landmark cheapie horror film. Siblings Johnny (Russell Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) whine and pout their way through a visit to their father's grave in a small Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a family, a teen couple, and a lone man named Ben (&lt;a href="/players/P____36083/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Duane Jones&lt;/a&gt;) are already holed up. Bickering and panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of undead converge on the house; news reports reveal that fire wards them off, while a local sheriff-led posse discovers that if you "kill the brain, you kill the ghoul." After a night of immolation and parricide, one survivor is left in the house ... . Romero's grainy black-and-white cinematography and casting of locals emphasize the terror lurking in ordinary life; as in &lt;a href="/players/P____94487/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Alfred Hitchcock&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=/films/3376/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;The Birds&lt;/a&gt; (1963), Romero's victims are not attacked because they did anything wrong, and the randomness makes the attacks all the more horrifying. Nothing holds the key to salvation, either, whether it's family, love, or Law. Topping off the existential dread is Romero's then-extreme use of gore, as zombies nibble on limbs and viscera. Initially distributed by a Manhattan theater chain owner, &lt;I&gt;Night&lt;/I&gt;, made for about $100,000, was dismissed as exploitation, but after a 1969 re-release, it began to attract favorable attention for scarily tapping into Vietnam-era uncertainty and nihilistic anxiety. By 1979, it had grossed over $12 million, inspired a cycle of apocalyptic splatter films like &lt;a href=/films/34558/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;The Texas Chainsaw Massacre&lt;/a&gt; (1974), and set the standard for finding horror in the mundane. However cheesy the film may look, few horror movies reach a conclusion as desolately unsettling. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>46</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>77</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>19</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>58</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t79746jrxvn.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Night_of_the_Living_Dead/24691/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_from_Tim_Out_s_list_of_10_greate/657/43893/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t79746jrxvn.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5711/default.aspx'>Dr_Gor</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/657/discussions.aspx'>Movie Polls</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/13/2009 9:11:31 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The 400 BlowsL'AtalanteBadlandsBlood SimpleCitizen KaneThe Maltese FalconThe Night of the HunterNight of the Living DeadPerformanceThey Live By Night [/quote]    Obviously I could only vote for one movie out of that list...   George Romero is a GOD in the directing world and NOTLD is, quite simply, one of the best movies ever made...                                                                           &lt; GOR &gt;<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:11:31 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Dr_Gor</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/13/2009 9:11:31 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The 400 BlowsL'AtalanteBadlandsBlood SimpleCitizen KaneThe Maltese FalconThe Night of the HunterNight of the Living DeadPerformanceThey Live By Night [/quote]    Obviously I could only vote for one movie out of that list...   George Romero is a GOD in the directing world and NOTLD is, quite simply, one of the best movies ever made...                                                                           &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt;</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/657/discussions.aspx'>Movie Polls</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/9/2009 6:25:09 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The 400 BlowsL'AtalanteBadlandsBlood SimpleCitizen KaneThe Maltese FalconThe Night of the HunterNight of the Living DeadPerformanceThey Live By Night<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:25:09 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/9/2009 6:25:09 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The 400 BlowsL'AtalanteBadlandsBlood SimpleCitizen KaneThe Maltese FalconThe Night of the HunterNight of the Living DeadPerformanceThey Live By Night</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 10 Classic Films That Would Be Better With Zombies</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/2/4/40232.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t79746jrxvn.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 2/4/2009 10:00:51 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now.
Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (see a list at Wikipedia), some of which actually already have zombies (Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies, and in a way the “scientific” film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms).
Avoiding the majority of public domain movies already consisting of horror and science fiction elements, we’ve come up with ten great classic films that would be even greater with the addition of zombies.


Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstin, 1925)
New title: Mutinous Zombies of the Battleship Potemkin
Synopsis: A Soviet cinema masterpiece, Eisenstein’s film depicts the 1905 uprising of zombies on the titular vessel against the oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. It begins when soldiers aboard the Potemkin are forced to eat rotten, maggot-infested meat, which turns the men into mutinous zombies. Later, the city of Odessa becomes overwhelmed with undead citizens and the Tsarist military is sent in to massacre them. In the end, though, even the soldiers are converted. Other Eisenstein films, particularly October, may also appropriately receive similar special zombie editions.

The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1927)
New title: The General and the Zombies
Synopsis: Buster Keaton’s greatest silent blockbuster is kind of like the Shaun of the Dead of its time. The film begins with Keaton’s character losing his girlfriend due to his inability to prove he’s not a coward and a bum, but then by happenstance he ends up a hero and, most importantly, salvages his relationship in the process. In this special edition, Johnnie Gray still has to rescue his train (and his girlfriend) from the Union army, but now those Northern spies are zombies. Like the title character in Shaun of the Dead, Johnnie must in one new scene impersonate a zombie in order to fool them. The stone-faced Keaton is a natural for this masquerade, but of course then soldiers on his side mistake him for being a Union zombie, with hilarious consequences.

Abraham Lincoln (D.W. Griffith, 1930)
New title: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
Synopsis: Griffith’s biopic about the 16th President of the United States was filled with historical inaccuracies when first released almost 80 years ago. The main complaint? Griffith left out Lincoln’s triumphant one-man battle against a Confederate brigade made up completely of zombie soldiers (yep, the South had them, too). Now, in a special edition release timed to coincide with Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, scenes depicting that battle, as well as a new ending, in which Lincoln recommends the enslavement of zombies, because they are not technically men and therefore are not guaranteed Constitutional freedom, are included. Also, on the DVD: a bonus behind-the-scenes supplement featuring a still-undead Lincoln zombie overseeing the restoration; an exclusive look at Lincoln’s famous stovepipe hat, which he wore to keep zombies from getting at his brains. (The above image of Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter is from this t-shirt.)

At the Circus (Edward Buzzell, 1939)
New title: At the Zombie Circus
Synopsis: The Marx Brothers’ films were crazy enough without the addition of zombies, but this late episode from Groucho, Harpo and Chico just wasn’t anarchic enough for their fans. So, now the plot involving the stolen money has been eliminated and the film consists of the three Marx boys trying to stay alive inside a circus tent filled with zombies. There’s a strong man zombie, a dwarf zombie, and then there’s Margaret Dumont, who is so dull Groucho thinks she’s a zombie. Or maybe he just stabs her in the brain for fun?

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
New title: His Girl Zombie
Synopsis: Despite the new title, Rosalind Russell is never turned into a zombie. Rather, the zombies are merely in the background, causing even more fast-paced hysterics (yes, they’re the quick sort of zombies that are all the “rage” these days). Actually, at one point Ralph Bellamy’s character is thought to be a zombie, but then it’s realized that as much as he appears to be the walking dead, he’s just too slow to be one of the zombies running around outside the courthouse. Again, His Girl Zombie has something in common with Shaun of the Dead (not to mention Twister), in that it’s another story in which a couple attempts to separate but is thrust back together during a chaotic event.

Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant, 1947)
New title: Angel and the Badman and the Zombies
Synopsis: In this early precursor to the ‘80s Harrison Ford classic Witness Zombies, John Wayne plays a shootist and womanizer who is wounded near a Quaker family home. Brought in and nursed back to health, he attempts to tame himself after falling for a young Quaker woman. But his desire to become a pacifist is made difficult when brain-hungry zombies attack the house, and he must choose to either commit himself to the Quaker ways and “die” with his new religious society of friends, or go out and kick some zombie ass.

D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950)
New title: Z.O.A.
Synopsis: The film begins with Frank Bigelow, filmed from behind, entering a police station to report that he’s been murdered. The reason he is able to do this is not because he’s not yet died from the poison; it’s because he is a zombie, which we finally discover when the camera finally shows us his face. The film then goes to flashback and details the events that lead to Bigelow’s zombification. After the back-story is complete, the film returns to the scene in the police station, where cops proceed to shoot Bigelow in the head. His file is then marked “Z.O.A.,” meaning “zombie on arrival.”

Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen, 1951)
New title: Zombie Wedding
Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister song and dance duo in this musical classic, which features two of Astaire’s most famous scenes. “Zombie Jumps” has him dancing first with a coat rack, then with a corpse, Weekend at Bernie’s-style. The latter of these objects ends up coming to life, a metaphor for Astaire’s famous ability to animate the inanimate. In “You’re All Zombies to Me,” Astaire playfully escapes from the zombie he’s created by dancing on the walls and ceiling of a room.

Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953)
New title: Beat the Devil and the Zombies
Synopsis: It’s been called the first camp movie, but unfortunately it wasn’t the first camp zombie movie. That all changes now with newly added scenes in which Humphrey Bogart and a great ensemble of character actors, including Peter Lorre, must fight off zombies while killing time at an Italian port. It’s very likely that Huston and co-screenwriter Truman Capote would have no problem with this additional subplot. Anyone familiar with the background of the film knows its makers didn’t take it seriously in the least. Actually, let’s just go ahead and add zombies into every section of the film. Zombies on the boat, zombies in Africa, zombies everywhere. Heck, make Bogie a zombie due to a lack of money. After all, as his character sets it up with the line, “I’ve got to have money. Doctor’s orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion.”

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
New title: It’s a Zombie Life
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, George Bailey wishes he were a zombie. But before he can find another zombie to bite him, an angel comes down from Heaven and shows him what his life would be like if he were undead. Zombie George infects the whole town of Bedford Falls, all except the wealthy Mr. Potter, who manages to take over the town by enslaving and exploiting the zombified citizens. In the end, George realizes that he’s better off simply shooting himself in the head so that he can’t possibly become a zombie. (Note: It’s a Wonderful Life is actually no longer in the public domain, but we just couldn’t not include it). Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:00:51 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>2/4/2009 10:00:51 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now.
Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (see a list at Wikipedia), some of which actually already have zombies (Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies, and in a way the “scientific” film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms).
Avoiding the majority of public domain movies already consisting of horror and science fiction elements, we’ve come up with ten great classic films that would be even greater with the addition of zombies.


Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstin, 1925)
New title: Mutinous Zombies of the Battleship Potemkin
Synopsis: A Soviet cinema masterpiece, Eisenstein’s film depicts the 1905 uprising of zombies on the titular vessel against the oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. It begins when soldiers aboard the Potemkin are forced to eat rotten, maggot-infested meat, which turns the men into mutinous zombies. Later, the city of Odessa becomes overwhelmed with undead citizens and the Tsarist military is sent in to massacre them. In the end, though, even the soldiers are converted. Other Eisenstein films, particularly October, may also appropriately receive similar special zombie editions.

The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1927)
New title: The General and the Zombies
Synopsis: Buster Keaton’s greatest silent blockbuster is kind of like the Shaun of the Dead of its time. The film begins with Keaton’s character losing his girlfriend due to his inability to prove he’s not a coward and a bum, but then by happenstance he ends up a hero and, most importantly, salvages his relationship in the process. In this special edition, Johnnie Gray still has to rescue his train (and his girlfriend) from the Union army, but now those Northern spies are zombies. Like the title character in Shaun of the Dead, Johnnie must in one new scene impersonate a zombie in order to fool them. The stone-faced Keaton is a natural for this masquerade, but of course then soldiers on his side mistake him for being a Union zombie, with hilarious consequences.

Abraham Lincoln (D.W. Griffith, 1930)
New title: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
Synopsis: Griffith’s biopic about the 16th President of the United States was filled with historical inaccuracies when first released almost 80 years ago. The main complaint? Griffith left out Lincoln’s triumphant one-man battle against a Confederate brigade made up completely of zombie soldiers (yep, the South had them, too). Now, in a special edition release timed to coincide with Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, scenes depicting that battle, as well as a new ending, in which Lincoln recommends the enslavement of zombies, because they are not technically men and therefore are not guaranteed Constitutional freedom, are included. Also, on the DVD: a bonus behind-the-scenes supplement featuring a still-undead Lincoln zombie overseeing the restoration; an exclusive look at Lincoln’s famous stovepipe hat, which he wore to keep zombies from getting at his brains. (The above image of Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter is from this t-shirt.)

At the Circus (Edward Buzzell, 1939)
New title: At the Zombie Circus
Synopsis: The Marx Brothers’ films were crazy enough without the addition of zombies, but this late episode from Groucho, Harpo and Chico just wasn’t anarchic enough for their fans. So, now the plot involving the stolen money has been eliminated and the film consists of the three Marx boys trying to stay alive inside a circus tent filled with zombies. There’s a strong man zombie, a dwarf zombie, and then there’s Margaret Dumont, who is so dull Groucho thinks she’s a zombie. Or maybe he just stabs her in the brain for fun?

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
New title: His Girl Zombie
Synopsis: Despite the new title, Rosalind Russell is never turned into a zombie. Rather, the zombies are merely in the background, causing even more fast-paced hysterics (yes, they’re the quick sort of zombies that are all the “rage” these days). Actually, at one point Ralph Bellamy’s character is thought to be a zombie, but then it’s realized that as much as he appears to be the walking dead, he’s just too slow to be one of the zombies running around outside the courthouse. Again, His Girl Zombie has something in common with Shaun of the Dead (not to mention Twister), in that it’s another story in which a couple attempts to separate but is thrust back together during a chaotic event.

Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant, 1947)
New title: Angel and the Badman and the Zombies
Synopsis: In this early precursor to the ‘80s Harrison Ford classic Witness Zombies, John Wayne plays a shootist and womanizer who is wounded near a Quaker family home. Brought in and nursed back to health, he attempts to tame himself after falling for a young Quaker woman. But his desire to become a pacifist is made difficult when brain-hungry zombies attack the house, and he must choose to either commit himself to the Quaker ways and “die” with his new religious society of friends, or go out and kick some zombie ass.

D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950)
New title: Z.O.A.
Synopsis: The film begins with Frank Bigelow, filmed from behind, entering a police station to report that he’s been murdered. The reason he is able to do this is not because he’s not yet died from the poison; it’s because he is a zombie, which we finally discover when the camera finally shows us his face. The film then goes to flashback and details the events that lead to Bigelow’s zombification. After the back-story is complete, the film returns to the scene in the police station, where cops proceed to shoot Bigelow in the head. His file is then marked “Z.O.A.,” meaning “zombie on arrival.”

Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen, 1951)
New title: Zombie Wedding
Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister song and dance duo in this musical classic, which features two of Astaire’s most famous scenes. “Zombie Jumps” has him dancing first with a coat rack, then with a corpse, Weekend at Bernie’s-style. The latter of these objects ends up coming to life, a metaphor for Astaire’s famous ability to animate the inanimate. In “You’re All Zombies to Me,” Astaire playfully escapes from the zombie he’s created by dancing on the walls and ceiling of a room.

Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953)
New title: Beat the Devil and the Zombies
Synopsis: It’s been called the first camp movie, but unfortunately it wasn’t the first camp zombie movie. That all changes now with newly added scenes in which Humphrey Bogart and a great ensemble of character actors, including Peter Lorre, must fight off zombies while killing time at an Italian port. It’s very likely that Huston and co-screenwriter Truman Capote would have no problem with this additional subplot. Anyone familiar with the background of the film knows its makers didn’t take it seriously in the least. Actually, let’s just go ahead and add zombies into every section of the film. Zombies on the boat, zombies in Africa, zombies everywhere. Heck, make Bogie a zombie due to a lack of money. After all, as his character sets it up with the line, “I’ve got to have money. Doctor’s orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion.”

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
New title: It’s a Zombie Life
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, George Bailey wishes he were a zombie. But before he can find another zombie to bite him, an angel comes down from Heaven and shows him what his life would be like if he were undead. Zombie George infects the whole town of Bedford Falls, all except the wealthy Mr. Potter, who manages to take over the town by enslaving and exploiting the zombified citizens. In the end, George realizes that he’s better off simply shooting himself in the head so that he can’t possibly become a zombie. (Note: It’s a Wonderful Life is actually no longer in the public domain, but we just couldn’t not include it). Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:The Last House on the Left (2009)</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_The_Last_House_on_the_Left_2009/222/40004/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t79746jrxvn.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5711/default.aspx'>Dr_Gor</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/27/2009 10:12:04 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Risselada"] Now that I've seen it I can guess, even though I still haven't seen Last House on the Left, that this movie is probably a lot less graphically disturbing than that film, at least in a matter of fact way.  But it certainly is quite emotionally disturbing, and maybe at least cinematically visually disturbing without being explicit.  Gor, I know that you have a broad definition of what "horror" is, but even in a narrower definition I wouldn't be too hesitant to say there are some pretty horrific elements to this.  Some redemptive qualities too I'd say though. [/quote]    I am going to write you a prescription, Rizzo.   You ABSOLUTELY MUST see  Last House on the Left  and then tell me what you think about it!    And I would absolutely LOVE to see  Virgin Spring ....    Don't kid yourself, Rizzo. There is VERY little or NO "on-screen" gore or splatter in a LOT of the greatest ones..  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  ,  Night of the Living Dead ,  Psycho ...   But as for the most DISTURBING I would include such movies as  Deliverance  and  I Spit on Your Grave  and  Nekromantik  and  THE EXORCIST (!) ... and  Last House  is an easy tie for first place!    This movie has that certain appeal to it that makes you want to go take a shower after you see it...                                                                               &lt; GOR &gt; <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:12:04 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Dr_Gor</spout:postby><spout:postto>HORROR MOVIES 101</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/27/2009 10:12:04 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Risselada"] Now that I've seen it I can guess, even though I still haven't seen Last House on the Left, that this movie is probably a lot less graphically disturbing than that film, at least in a matter of fact way.  But it certainly is quite emotionally disturbing, and maybe at least cinematically visually disturbing without being explicit.  Gor, I know that you have a broad definition of what "horror" is, but even in a narrower definition I wouldn't be too hesitant to say there are some pretty horrific elements to this.  Some redemptive qualities too I'd say though. [/quote]    I am going to write you a prescription, Rizzo.   You ABSOLUTELY MUST see  Last House on the Left  and then tell me what you think about it!    And I would absolutely LOVE to see  Virgin Spring ....    Don't kid yourself, Rizzo. There is VERY little or NO "on-screen" gore or splatter in a LOT of the greatest ones..  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  ,  Night of the Living Dead ,  Psycho ...   But as for the most DISTURBING I would include such movies as  Deliverance  and  I Spit on Your Grave  and  Nekromantik  and  THE EXORCIST (!) ... and  Last House  is an easy tie for first place!    This movie has that certain appeal to it that makes you want to go take a shower after you see it...                                                                               &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt; </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Best Movie Lists -- DVD giveaway</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/92819/default.aspx'>myrdynn</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/10/2009 8:29:43 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Horror Movies for the Horror Challenged 28 Days Later 30 Days of Night Alien Resurrection Blood &amp; Donuts Invasion of the Body Snatchers Night of the Living Dead Shaun of the Dead The Day the Earth Stood Still  Salem's Lot <br/>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:what is your plan for when the zombies attack?</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5711/default.aspx'>Dr_Gor</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/31/2008 10:27:11 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="rjsprague"] [quote user="seely"] I'm a little surprise repopulation didn't creep up in your plan somewhere :-)  I'm thinking rounding up all the survivors possible, and setting up camp on an island somewhere, ala Giligan's Island while focusing on repopulation as the zombies eventually wipe themselves out could be a good way to go...  they have to run out of brrrrraaains at some point. [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Actually, I DO have an "escape" plan, or more of a "survival" plan, for this one!   And it is entirely the opposite of yours, Seely!   If you are healthy and not badly injured you should keep moving as quickly and quietly as you can...   try to find other people...   this is only common sense.   IF you are seriously injured and/or seriously outnumbered AND there is absolutely no hope of escape at all THEN it is time to start thinking about "bunkering" ...   Remember The Alamo....                                                                         &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] [/quote] Everyone knows that zombies are UNDEAD which means they don't NEED brains, but they sure like the taste! So the zombies will never wipe themselves out. It's up to us to take care of the mess when the time comes, obviously. =p [/quote]   If there is one thing that the zombie movies have taught us it is that zombies  never die!   They just get uglier and nastier ...   Your only hope is to try to escape...                                                                                         &lt; GOR &gt;<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:27:11 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Dr_Gor</spout:postby><spout:postto>Zombie Obsession</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/31/2008 10:27:11 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="rjsprague"] [quote user="seely"] I'm a little surprise repopulation didn't creep up in your plan somewhere :-)  I'm thinking rounding up all the survivors possible, and setting up camp on an island somewhere, ala Giligan's Island while focusing on repopulation as the zombies eventually wipe themselves out could be a good way to go...  they have to run out of brrrrraaains at some point. [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Actually, I DO have an "escape" plan, or more of a "survival" plan, for this one!   And it is entirely the opposite of yours, Seely!   If you are healthy and not badly injured you should keep moving as quickly and quietly as you can...   try to find other people...   this is only common sense.   IF you are seriously injured and/or seriously outnumbered AND there is absolutely no hope of escape at all THEN it is time to start thinking about "bunkering" ...   Remember The Alamo....                                                                         &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt; [/quote] [/quote] Everyone knows that zombies are UNDEAD which means they don't NEED brains, but they sure like the taste! So the zombies will never wipe themselves out. It's up to us to take care of the mess when the time comes, obviously. =p [/quote]   If there is one thing that the zombie movies have taught us it is that zombies  never die!   They just get uglier and nastier ...   Your only hope is to try to escape...                                                                                         &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt;</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:what is your plan for when the zombies attack?</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/28/2008 9:02:33 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Well that is just ridiculous, Rizzo!   Everyone knows that the ET's won't come within a milion light years of Earth when there is a Zombie infestation going on!   Try to be serious about this, will you?                                                                        &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] Augh!  Sorry, you are right.  I'll either have to secure a spaceship ahead of time, or I'll have to capture a wizard who can sprinkle me with magic interplanetary travel dust instead. [/quote]    Actually, I was wrong!   I can think of at least 2 movies in which the ET's actually CAUSED a zombie problem!   They are  Plan 9 from Outer Space  and  Invisible Invaders !   For zombie fans who haven't seen it, the latter movie is a MUST SEE!   Not only because John Carradine and John Agar are both priceless in everything they did but also because I firmly believe that this movie was one of the inspirations for Romero's  NOTLD  (along with  The Last Man on Earth !)                                                                                       &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] Pattern your life after an Ed Wood script and everything will come up hunky-dorey<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:02:33 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Zombie Obsession</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/28/2008 9:02:33 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Well that is just ridiculous, Rizzo!   Everyone knows that the ET's won't come within a milion light years of Earth when there is a Zombie infestation going on!   Try to be serious about this, will you?                                                                        &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt; [/quote] Augh!  Sorry, you are right.  I'll either have to secure a spaceship ahead of time, or I'll have to capture a wizard who can sprinkle me with magic interplanetary travel dust instead. [/quote]    Actually, I was wrong!   I can think of at least 2 movies in which the ET's actually CAUSED a zombie problem!   They are  Plan 9 from Outer Space  and  Invisible Invaders !   For zombie fans who haven't seen it, the latter movie is a MUST SEE!   Not only because John Carradine and John Agar are both priceless in everything they did but also because I firmly believe that this movie was one of the inspirations for Romero's  NOTLD  (along with  The Last Man on Earth !)                                                                                       &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt; [/quote] Pattern your life after an Ed Wood script and everything will come up hunky-dorey</spout:body></item>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5711/default.aspx'>Dr_Gor</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/24/2008 4:44:55 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Well that is just ridiculous, Rizzo!   Everyone knows that the ET's won't come within a milion light years of Earth when there is a Zombie infestation going on!   Try to be serious about this, will you?                                                                        &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] Augh!  Sorry, you are right.  I'll either have to secure a spaceship ahead of time, or I'll have to capture a wizard who can sprinkle me with magic interplanetary travel dust instead. [/quote]    Actually, I was wrong!   I can think of at least 2 movies in which the ET's actually CAUSED a zombie problem!   They are  Plan 9 from Outer Space  and  Invisible Invaders !   For zombie fans who haven't seen it, the latter movie is a MUST SEE!   Not only because John Carradine and John Agar are both priceless in everything they did but also because I firmly believe that this movie was one of the inspirations for Romero's  NOTLD  (along with  The Last Man on Earth !)                                                                                       &lt; GOR &gt;<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:44:55 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Dr_Gor</spout:postby><spout:postto>Zombie Obsession</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/24/2008 4:44:55 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="Dr_Gor"]    Well that is just ridiculous, Rizzo!   Everyone knows that the ET's won't come within a milion light years of Earth when there is a Zombie infestation going on!   Try to be serious about this, will you?                                                                        &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt; [/quote] Augh!  Sorry, you are right.  I'll either have to secure a spaceship ahead of time, or I'll have to capture a wizard who can sprinkle me with magic interplanetary travel dust instead. [/quote]    Actually, I was wrong!   I can think of at least 2 movies in which the ET's actually CAUSED a zombie problem!   They are  Plan 9 from Outer Space  and  Invisible Invaders !   For zombie fans who haven't seen it, the latter movie is a MUST SEE!   Not only because John Carradine and John Agar are both priceless in everything they did but also because I firmly believe that this movie was one of the inspirations for Romero's  NOTLD  (along with  The Last Man on Earth !)                                                                                       &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt;</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Coming_Soon/Re_Time_Travel_Aliens_and_Biopics_New_movies/216/38173/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t79746jrxvn.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2470/default.aspx'>SkyPilot</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/10/2008 9:54:24 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="rjsprague"] I audibly moaned when I saw the preview for this film at the theater because I saw Keanu Reeves. It was a knee-jerk reaction. I've decided that Barack Obama would fit the role much more nicely. :) [/quote] If you've got a problem with Keanu, recast it, man! I for one really like Keanu. Besides the good movies I listed, I thought he was exactly what the Matrix series needed. (If anyone disagrees, who would you rather see?) And Keanu he was a charming, refreshing element of Something's Gotta Give. I wanted him to get the girl, not Jack Nicholson, and that's saying a lot because I'm a big fan of Jack. Speaking of Obama, I had a strange experience watching Night of the Living Dead the week before the election--I felt like I was watching Obama try to survive racist slander.  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:54:24 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SkyPilot</spout:postby><spout:postto>Coming Soon</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/10/2008 9:54:24 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="rjsprague"] I audibly moaned when I saw the preview for this film at the theater because I saw Keanu Reeves. It was a knee-jerk reaction. I've decided that Barack Obama would fit the role much more nicely. :) [/quote] If you've got a problem with Keanu, recast it, man! I for one really like Keanu. Besides the good movies I listed, I thought he was exactly what the Matrix series needed. (If anyone disagrees, who would you rather see?) And Keanu he was a charming, refreshing element of Something's Gotta Give. I wanted him to get the girl, not Jack Nicholson, and that's saying a lot because I'm a big fan of Jack. Speaking of Obama, I had a strange experience watching Night of the Living Dead the week before the election--I felt like I was watching Obama try to survive racist slander.  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Thanksgiving Movie Marathon: 10 Cannibal Movies</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/25/2008 2:01:13 PM<br/>
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When you gather with your loved ones this week, be sure to give extra thanks for that turkey or soy-based equivalent on which you’re about to dine. Times are hard, but for most of us, we’re still able to eat. Nevertheless, we need to prepare for the even tougher times that inevitably lay ahead. As countless movies attest, desperate times call for desperate measures at the dinner table. Like cannibalism.
The circumstances under which “eat or be eaten” becomes the rule vary widely. Plenty of films have taken on this ancient taboo; in fact, a search for the tag “cannibal” on Spout.com yields eleven pages of results. For your holiday viewing pleasure, I’ve narrowed the list down to ten.

Alive

Often the best cannibalism stories are the true ones. The tale of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed in the Andes and eventually resorted to eating the dead is one that filmmakers can’t get enough of. Not only was it the source for 1993’s Alive, starring Ethan Hawke, the story was also told in a documentary that same year, Alive: 20 Years Later. Recently, there have been two more documentaries: an episode of the National Geographic show Trapped, and Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008). I wonder what’s harder, surviving 72 days in the mountains with no food, or repeatedly being asked, “So, when did you decide to eat you friends?”
Soylent Green

Sure, putting this on the list is a spoiler. But if this movie hasn’t been ruined yet by The Simpsons or one of the many other references to soylent green’s mysterious ingredient, you’ve been living under a rock. While there are plenty of sci-fi movies that depict a future where desperation leads to cannibalism, Soylent Green is notable because the taboo is the act of a corporation, rather than a savage choice by an individual.
Eating Raoul (This clip is NSFW)
A gold standard for black comedies, this 1982 film follows the story of Paul and Mary, a married couple hard up for cash. While fending off a would-be rapist, they realize they can make a decent living killing unsuspecting swingers and taking their money. Raoul, a locksmith/burglar, finds out about their scheme, and wants in on the action. He helps them dispose of bodies, until his desire for Mary complicates the arrangement. If you want to know how it ends, um… read the title again.
Zombie Movies
It’s impossible to pick just one, when there are so many great flicks about brain-hungry walking dead. George Romero, godfather of all things zombie, must be mentioned. His first film, Night of the Living Dead, was the first zombie movie where the creatures wanted to eat the flesh of the living. Romero continues his Dead series of zombie apocalypse movies, along with countless imitators. BRAAAAAINS!!!
The Silence of the Lambs

Know what we need more of? Academy Award winning cannibal movies. There aren’t enough of them. This is a total classic. Anthony Hopkins holds two records: one, the shortest amount of screen time to ever win a best actor Oscar (16 minutes). And two, being the creepiest human being on the planet.
301/302
This Korean horror film is notable because it is centered only on female characters. Two women, neighbors in an apartment building, have very different ways of dealing with the travails of life. Their differences come to a head in a final scene that you should probably skip if you have a weak stomach. You’ve been warned.
C.H.U.D.

Another staple of obscure Simpsons references, the 1984 cult classic C.H.U.D. tells the story of “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers” who are eating the homeless in New York City. The C.H.U.D.’s, once homeless people themselves, were mutated by improper storage of nuclear waste, turning them into flesh-hungry beasts.
Delicatessen

Before Jean-Pierre Jeunet made Amelie, he made some dark and freaky movies. His first was Delicatessen. It’s a darkly comic post-apocalyptic tale about a small apartment building with a butcher shop on the ground floor. Meat is becoming scarce, and you know what that means. This film is actually a great companion piece to Amelie, because it shares the playful quality and fun cast of character with the later film. And people get eaten.
Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

As a young man, Tobias Schneebaum lived with the Harakambut people of Peru and the Asmat people of Indonesia, both cannibalistic tribes. In true “going native” style, he not only joined them in their wars against other tribes, he also partook or their unsavory meals. He returned in 1999 with a documentary crew, was reunited with his former lover, and confronted the scars of war and fear. Interesting bit of info: the Asmat tribe are suspected of killing and eating Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, but there is no proof. This was before Schneebaum arrived. But it would be pretty crazy if Schneebaum, a native New Yorker, ate one of his city’s elite. Hopefully a fictionalized version will come to the screen that’s not afraid to take some artistic license in this matter.
[minor spoiler alert]
The Road
This adaptation of the award-winning Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name was once my most highly anticipated 2008 release. Sigh. It is now my most highly anticipated 2009 release. The film version will star Viggo Mortensen as the father of a young boy, the two of whom struggle to traverse a burned, post-apocalyptic landscape. I understand that simply putting it on this list could be seen as a minor spoiler, so I won’t say anything else about it. We’ll have to wait a little while, but The Road offers hope that The Silence of the Lambs will no longer be alone as an Oscar-snagging tale dealing with the most taboo of food choices.
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When you gather with your loved ones this week, be sure to give extra thanks for that turkey or soy-based equivalent on which you’re about to dine. Times are hard, but for most of us, we’re still able to eat. Nevertheless, we need to prepare for the even tougher times that inevitably lay ahead. As countless movies attest, desperate times call for desperate measures at the dinner table. Like cannibalism.
The circumstances under which “eat or be eaten” becomes the rule vary widely. Plenty of films have taken on this ancient taboo; in fact, a search for the tag “cannibal” on Spout.com yields eleven pages of results. For your holiday viewing pleasure, I’ve narrowed the list down to ten.

Alive

Often the best cannibalism stories are the true ones. The tale of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed in the Andes and eventually resorted to eating the dead is one that filmmakers can’t get enough of. Not only was it the source for 1993’s Alive, starring Ethan Hawke, the story was also told in a documentary that same year, Alive: 20 Years Later. Recently, there have been two more documentaries: an episode of the National Geographic show Trapped, and Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008). I wonder what’s harder, surviving 72 days in the mountains with no food, or repeatedly being asked, “So, when did you decide to eat you friends?”
Soylent Green

Sure, putting this on the list is a spoiler. But if this movie hasn’t been ruined yet by The Simpsons or one of the many other references to soylent green’s mysterious ingredient, you’ve been living under a rock. While there are plenty of sci-fi movies that depict a future where desperation leads to cannibalism, Soylent Green is notable because the taboo is the act of a corporation, rather than a savage choice by an individual.
Eating Raoul (This clip is NSFW)
A gold standard for black comedies, this 1982 film follows the story of Paul and Mary, a married couple hard up for cash. While fending off a would-be rapist, they realize they can make a decent living killing unsuspecting swingers and taking their money. Raoul, a locksmith/burglar, finds out about their scheme, and wants in on the action. He helps them dispose of bodies, until his desire for Mary complicates the arrangement. If you want to know how it ends, um… read the title again.
Zombie Movies
It’s impossible to pick just one, when there are so many great flicks about brain-hungry walking dead. George Romero, godfather of all things zombie, must be mentioned. His first film, Night of the Living Dead, was the first zombie movie where the creatures wanted to eat the flesh of the living. Romero continues his Dead series of zombie apocalypse movies, along with countless imitators. BRAAAAAINS!!!
The Silence of the Lambs

Know what we need more of? Academy Award winning cannibal movies. There aren’t enough of them. This is a total classic. Anthony Hopkins holds two records: one, the shortest amount of screen time to ever win a best actor Oscar (16 minutes). And two, being the creepiest human being on the planet.
301/302
This Korean horror film is notable because it is centered only on female characters. Two women, neighbors in an apartment building, have very different ways of dealing with the travails of life. Their differences come to a head in a final scene that you should probably skip if you have a weak stomach. You’ve been warned.
C.H.U.D.

Another staple of obscure Simpsons references, the 1984 cult classic C.H.U.D. tells the story of “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers” who are eating the homeless in New York City. The C.H.U.D.’s, once homeless people themselves, were mutated by improper storage of nuclear waste, turning them into flesh-hungry beasts.
Delicatessen

Before Jean-Pierre Jeunet made Amelie, he made some dark and freaky movies. His first was Delicatessen. It’s a darkly comic post-apocalyptic tale about a small apartment building with a butcher shop on the ground floor. Meat is becoming scarce, and you know what that means. This film is actually a great companion piece to Amelie, because it shares the playful quality and fun cast of character with the later film. And people get eaten.
Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

As a young man, Tobias Schneebaum lived with the Harakambut people of Peru and the Asmat people of Indonesia, both cannibalistic tribes. In true “going native” style, he not only joined them in their wars against other tribes, he also partook or their unsavory meals. He returned in 1999 with a documentary crew, was reunited with his former lover, and confronted the scars of war and fear. Interesting bit of info: the Asmat tribe are suspected of killing and eating Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, but there is no proof. This was before Schneebaum arrived. But it would be pretty crazy if Schneebaum, a native New Yorker, ate one of his city’s elite. Hopefully a fictionalized version will come to the screen that’s not afraid to take some artistic license in this matter.
[minor spoiler alert]
The Road
This adaptation of the award-winning Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name was once my most highly anticipated 2008 release. Sigh. It is now my most highly anticipated 2009 release. The film version will star Viggo Mortensen as the father of a young boy, the two of whom struggle to traverse a burned, post-apocalyptic landscape. I understand that simply putting it on this list could be seen as a minor spoiler, so I won’t say anything else about it. We’ll have to wait a little while, but The Road offers hope that The Silence of the Lambs will no longer be alone as an Oscar-snagging tale dealing with the most taboo of food choices.
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      <title>Spout Tag:Classic</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Classic</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 816</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 312</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 1453</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:54:36 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>816</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>312</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>1453</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Best</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Best/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Best/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Best</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 78</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 91</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 122</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:01:38 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>78</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>91</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>122</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:zombie</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/zombie/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/zombie/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>zombie</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 449</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 64</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 151</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:39:18 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>449</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>64</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>151</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:gore</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/gore/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/gore/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>gore</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 246</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 50</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 136</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:53:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>246</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>50</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>136</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Zombies</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Zombies/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Zombies/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Zombies</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 44</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 45</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 67</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:41:17 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>44</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>45</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>67</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:black</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/black/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/black/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>black</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 35</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 29</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 36</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:20:03 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>35</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>29</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>36</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:dude</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/dude/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/dude/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>dude</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 9</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 25</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 30</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:12:02 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>9</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>25</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>30</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:trapped</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/trapped/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/trapped/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>trapped</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 436</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 22</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 41</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:53:35 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>436</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>22</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>41</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:dead</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/dead/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/dead/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>dead</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 21</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 20</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 25</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:48:04 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>21</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>20</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>25</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:white</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/white/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/white/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>white</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 24</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 19</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 24</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:41:23 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>24</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>19</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>24</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:blackandwhite</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/blackandwhite/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/blackandwhite/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>blackandwhite</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 20</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 16</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 26</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:23:37 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>20</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>16</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>26</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:awsome</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/awsome/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/awsome/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>awsome</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 14</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 13</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 14</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:05:51 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>14</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>13</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>14</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:realism</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/realism/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/realism/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>realism</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 8</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 7</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 8</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:27:38 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>8</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>7</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>8</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:flesheating</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/flesheating/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/flesheating/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>flesheating</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 85</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 6</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 7</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:01:25 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>85</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>6</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>7</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:romero</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/romero/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/romero/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>romero</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 4</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 6</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 9</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:02:21 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>4</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>6</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>9</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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