There ain’t much to this trailer. Bad guys. Good guys. Gun fights. Axes. And a shit-ton of motherfucking zombies.
You know what? That’s enough for me. La Horde, a French flick directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, is about cops and criminals who are about to get into some serious conflict, when somehow zombies come tearing into the party. Lots of zombies. No, seriously. A lot of freakin’ zombies. The last frame of the trailer made me uncomfortably excited. Check it out. Sounds sort of like Heat meets Day of the Dead.
That trailer was way too dark to make out much of anything, and I'm not talking about the black guys.
But this reminds me again ... DeistBrawler, is there another way to contact you without going through MySpace/Facebook?
Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 6, 2009 10:51 AM
Come back, you English speaking Kuh-nig-ots and I shall taunt you a second time.
Posted by: BWeaves at July 6, 2009 10:55 AM
More Zombies, please!
Oh, and throw in guns, fast editing camera tricks, and blood. Lots of blood. Enough blood that the colour palette runs the gamut of black, white, grey and RED.
Posted by: malikvlc at July 6, 2009 10:58 AM
Actually, the idea of a crime family that can't dispose of the bodies because the bodies keep turning into zombies and they have to be rubbed out all over again ... That might be a pretty good black comedy.
Aw fuck, I just gave Hwood the idea for "The Godfather ... With Zombies," didn't I?
I'll be in my grave.
Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 6, 2009 11:08 AM
Like any red-blooded Englishman, I hate the French on principle. I don't trust their strange eating habits, their unshaved pits, their lascivious ways. Look at them! Riding about, on their bicycles, black-and-white striped shirts announcing their sexual liberalism, strings of garlic around their necks, smoking cigarettes with no regard for the wellbeing of others (second-hand smoke kills too, Marcel). I especially haven't forgiven them for giving birth to the mime - perhaps the most sinister of all performance arts.
But I'll give the hairy-pitted, snail-eating sex pests one thing - it seems they can put together a horror film.
Here's an idea - how about a zombie movie, but instead of zombies, the shambling antagonists are mimes? I'd volunteer my services as an extra - particularly if there's a scene in the script where I get to douse a bunch of white-faced ghouls with a flamethrower as they fake-rope-pull themselves towards me.
In order to stave off a Franco-Celtic assault, I will say one other good thing about the French - you can watch anything, literally anything made by the French, and it's bound to have tits in it at some point. It could be a documentary about coathangers, but at some point, you're gonna see nipple.
... although, and let's just say my grasp of French is fairly limited, wouldn't it be "L'Horde"?
Posted by: Anna von le Beaverplatz at July 6, 2009 12:00 PM
Yogurt adverts had tits when I was growing up. It was a wonderful time, childhood.
Posted by: TSF at July 6, 2009 12:07 PM
Despite being a quarter of a century old and actually having some first-hand experience of the wonders that are boobies, I still get irrationally excited when I see mammaries where I wasn't expecting to see them. The Fifth Element was a goldmine for unexpected nip-slips - a PG-rated film where, with lightning reflexes, on about three occasions you could gaze lovingly at Milla Jovovich's areoli? Heaven. And, not coincidentally, very French indeed.
AvonB - it's been a few years since I studied French, but words starting with "h" only take a contraction if they're 'soft'; there's a number of words in French that begin with a 'hard' h (if memory serves, they tend to have their origins in other languages, such as German) that don't contract. A good example might be "La Haine".
Posted by: Shay at July 6, 2009 12:56 PM
Oh Em Eff Gee.
First that Robogeisha thing, and now this.
This week in movie news is certainly starting off way better than average.
I'd have thought it had a hard one (*snicker*), especially compared to "hôtel" which has a soft "h" (it's pronounced more like "ôtel" even when preceded something other than l')
This is about the 4th discussion of etymology I've gotten into on Pajiba in the past week. I *really* need a job...
Posted by: Shay at July 6, 2009 1:27 PM
Might I reiterate here what was mentioned elsewheres: zombie Pajiba t-shirts, please! That design was *so* awesome. My chest would be twice as alluring if bedecked in stylish zombie-brandishing-beverage-wear. Make it so, mighty overloards!
"Day of the Dead" sucked. Just sayin'.
But this reminds me again ... DeistBrawler, is there another way to contact you without going through MySpace/Facebook?
Ummmm deistbrawler@yahoo.com if that's what you mean.
As for your Day of the Dead comment, I hope you are referring to the remake. Because the original is amazing. Exhibit A, if you can recall the scene where the guy is getting his head ripped off and as he is screaming his voice gets higher from the vocal chords getting stretched. That was awesome. As for La Horde, is anyone else getting tired of "fast" zombies? Or is it just me. I know it got its start with 28 Days Later, and that was cool (even if they weren't "zombies"), and it was alright in the remake of Dawn of the Dead. However, just the fact that it is continuing is kind of lame. Zombies would not be fast. Zombies are not that terrifying fast (because they just get you, the slow zombies overwhelm you with numbers). The original intent of zombie movies was mainly to show how humanity itself is horrible, now they turned it into a plain horror film. If there were "fast" zombies, we'd all be fucked.
This place sure is getting Frenchy... First the Basterds trailer and now this? We're in 'Murca. These colors don't run.