BBC "Survivors"

[TomS]

Anyone seen the show? Apparently it's a re-make of a hit from the 1970s; an end of the world kind of thing. Anyhow, the first season is OnDemand, and its worth a watch...
TomS

 

[Edward]

It is indeed good, and the second season, which recently aired in the UK, maintains the same level of quality.

I'd like to see something like this - zombies, also - set in the 40s...

 

[carebear]

Post-war Edward, or during?

Out of the rubble of the Blitz rise... the living dead!

 

[Edward]

Either could work. There is already a table-top wargame out there, entitled Reich of the Dead, based around the conceit of a Nazi experiment to create a super-soldier gone wrong, causing a zombie plague..... That would work really well as a film plot, IMO.

 

[get_atomized]

I loved the first series of Survivors from the 70s! I recently watched the first season of the re-make that was recently done and I enjoyed that as well... Different but similar themes. I'm a sucker for any kind of post-apocalyptic fiction. I didn't realize the second series was out from the recent re-make! I'm certainly not off to do any illegal internet pirating or anything! (... I'll let you know what I think.)

 

[carebear]

Either could work. There is already a table-top wargame out there, entitled Reich of the Dead, based around the conceit of a Nazi experiment to create a super-soldier gone wrong, causing a zombie plague..... That would work really well as a film plot, IMO.

Horrors of War (2006)
Story: During the later years of World War II, a group of American soldiers set off to investigate reports of strange events. The Nazis, in a desperate attempt to turn the war around, have been creating zombie super-soldiers. The American must stop them, but they do have a little supernatural help on their own as one of the soldiers is a werewolf.

The Bunker (2000)
Story: A group of German soldiers fleeing the Allied invasion takes shelter in an empty bunker. It doesn't take long for them to discover that strange things lurk behind a sealed gate and in the underground tunnels. Could it be zombies? Or are they just imagining it?

Shock Waves (1977)
Story:
A German World War II submarine surfaces off an island for some unknown reason. The sub turns out to be full of soldiers that were subjected to experiments by the Nazis to turn them into unstoppable zombie soldiers. A group of shipwrecked people must find the zombies and find a way to survive these remnants of World War II.

Outpost
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892899/

Dead Snow (Norwegian)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/

I want to see London zombies -

"They kept a stiff upper lip, until their lips rotted away..."

"We shall fight them on the landing beaches... and the cemeteries."

"UXO - Undead Xombie Operatives"

 

[Smithy]

It's starting here in Oz next Sunday on Channel 9. Looks to be good from the ads I have seen, almost a little bit "28 Days Later" (which I enjoyed).

Although I don't watch a lot of telly, I think I'll tune in to see what it's like.

 

[Edward]

It's starting here in Oz next Sunday on Channel 9. Looks to be good from the ads I have seen, almost a little bit "28 Days Later" (which I enjoyed).

Although I don't watch a lot of telly, I think I'll tune in to see what it's like.

There is some common ground with the zombie genre (in which I include the 28 films; despite not technically being zombie films as the Rage victims are not, in fact, dead, they are sufficiently within the ballpark to classify as a subset of zombie films. Perhaps there is scope for a film to be made revolving around a plot where the victims are, similarly, not dead but popular fear, hysteria nad urban myth render them so? Something that explores the nature of media and moral panic in our society....?? Hmmnn....).

Horrors of War (2006)
Story: During the later years of World War II, a group of American soldiers set off to investigate reports of strange events. The Nazis, in a desperate attempt to turn the war around, have been creating zombie super-soldiers. The American must stop them, but they do have a little supernatural help on their own as one of the soldiers is a werewolf.

The Bunker (2000)
Story: A group of German soldiers fleeing the Allied invasion takes shelter in an empty bunker. It doesn't take long for them to discover that strange things lurk behind a sealed gate and in the underground tunnels. Could it be zombies? Or are they just imagining it?

Shock Waves (1977)
Story:
A German World War II submarine surfaces off an island for some unknown reason. The sub turns out to be full of soldiers that were subjected to experiments by the Nazis to turn them into unstoppable zombie soldiers. A group of shipwrecked people must find the zombies and find a way to survive these remnants of World War II.

Wow, I'll have to check those out, I wasn't aware of any of them. Thanks! The Bunker sounds like it might have some similarity with a WW1 set film among British soldiers..... The Trench (? or was that the one about the guys spending their last few days before gonig over the top in the Somme?), though it was more supernatural in the ghosts and ghoulies sense than zombies as such.

Outpost
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892899/

Dead Snow (Norwegian)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/

These are both fantastic, and to some degree fuelled my interest in something period set.... I don't really consider them to be WW2 / Dieselpunk zombie films proper, though, as while they feature Nazis, the action takes place in the present day....

Outpost is superbly creepy... and features a very memorable turn from Belfast's own Michael Smiley (Spaced fans might remember him as bicycle courier, clubber and ecstacy casualty Tyres). Very pleased I picked this up on DVD.

Dead Snow I adore - went looking for this after I saw the trailer on the internet. It is obviously a real labour of love, and I adored all the nods to Raimi's Evil Dead series, Indy, and on. Great stuff. The basic concept reminded me of the old 'classic' Zombie Lake, though infinitely better in execution! I must did it out and watch it again soon.

I want to see London zombies -

"They kept a stiff upper lip, until their lips rotted away..."

"We shall fight them on the landing beaches... and the cemeteries."

"UXO - Undead Xombie Operatives"

Love it! In a similar vein, I'd adore to see more war-era Hellboy type stuff....

 

[Smithy]

There is some common ground with the zombie genre (in which I include the 28 films; despite not technically being zombie films as the Rage victims are not, in fact, dead, they are sufficiently within the ballpark to classify as a subset of zombie films.

Apparently a "28 Months Later" is in the pipeline Edward. I'd imagine covering the spread of the virus through Europe after "28 Weeks Later". I'm looking forward to it as the first two were very enjoyable.