Reply to: District 9

[Scary]

Why would there be a safe area from zombies there?

Oh wait I get it - that's cuz no brains to get there?

http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/07/c...free-paradise/

[AtW]

you would have found out that they go to Canary Wharf where the army have set up a safe area.

Why would there be a safe area from zombies there?

Oh wait I get it - that's cuz no brains to get there?

[Bunk]

"Plot

Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) live in a barricaded cottage they share with four others, somewhere in rural Great Britain. They let a terrified boy inside, and moments later, a pack of the infected attack and enter the house. Alice refuses to leave without the boy; Don abandons Alice and escapes as the sole survivor."

This plot does not sound like humans with guns kick rotting zombie's arses.

I never said it was, although if you'd read past the first paragraph on Wikipedia you would have found out that they go to Canary Wharf where the army have set up a safe area.

[TriggerHippy]

Let's take zombie movies.

How many of them based in UK?

Colin
The Dead Outside
Doomsday

... are just 3 that come to mind

[AtW]

28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.

"Plot

Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) live in a barricaded cottage they share with four others, somewhere in rural Great Britain. They let a terrified boy inside, and moments later, a pack of the infected attack and enter the house. Alice refuses to leave without the boy; Don abandons Alice and escapes as the sole survivor."

This plot does not sound like humans with guns kick rotting zombie's arses.

[Bunk]

Let's take zombie movies.

How many of them based in UK?

28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.

[AtW]

Culturally, zombies originate from ghouls in middle eastern cultural history; they don't appear in Western European culture. (We had werewolves and werebears.) Hence they don't belong set in the UK.

And I thought you'd say that was because British people are immune to retro virus that turns humans into zombies

[AtW]

Shaun of the Dead

HTH

Yes, how encouraging - killing zombies with vinils...

[Tingles]

Let's take zombie movies.

How many of them based in UK?

That's a much clear cut scenario than triffids - what would you shoot them in the head with, forks?

Shaun of the Dead

HTH

[RichardCranium]

Let's take zombie movies. How many of them based in UK?

Culturally, zombies originate from ghouls in middle eastern cultural history; they don't appear in Western European culture. (We had werewolves and werebears.) Hence they don't belong set in the UK.

When Hollywood wanted horror stories, it took many sources for their inspiration, including Islamic mythology.

However, some say the original Frankenstein story (not set in America) is a zombie story - that is set in Europe.

I think there may have been a werewolf story movie in London. (Although the parochial Merkins did have to claim it was a tourist of theirs.)

[AtW]

That'll be the one with the guns then?

Let's take zombie movies.

How many of them based in UK?

That's a much clear cut scenario than triffids - what would you shoot them in the head with, forks?

[AtW]

That'll be the one with the guns then?

There were a couple of others (not triffids but similar "end of world" scenario).

[RichardCranium]

That's Night of Triffids written by Simon Clark, not Day of Triffids that I clearly referenced

John Wyndham wrote "The Day of the Triffids". It is set in Southern England.

I had never heard of "The Night of the Triffids is a science fiction novel by Simon Clark published in 2001". Link. Apparently the (successful) community in England are "rescued" and taken to Merkinland.

Manhattan, another safe island community, seems like a utopia, but David soon realises it is a dictatorship, run by an old enemy of his father.

That'll be the one with the guns then?

[AtW]

The book starts in London, wanders around the southern counties and ends up in the Isle of Wight.

That's Night of Triffids written by Simon Clark, not Day of Triffids that I clearly referenced ... HOWEVER that book actually is set place in London also - this explains everything, lack of guns in the book == fresh meat for triffids!

Flamethrowers are firearms also, they did work on triffids

[RichardCranium]

And it gave us the soundtrack to Xenon 2 Megablast.

Dum diddle-iddle-um iddle-um dum.
Dum diddle-iddle-um iddle-um dum (but slightly higher)
Dum diddle-iddle-um iddle-um dum (but slightly lower)
Dum diddle-iddle-um iddle-um dum.

Repeat until insane.

Want a copy of the crack where the weapons are dead cheap? I still dig that out and play it from time to time.