I’m sure you’ve all been wondering, “Just where does Nathan draw the line delineating what can be considered a ‘zombie’ for purposes of the annual Month of the Living Dead?” That question has now been answered: it’s right between the 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later movies and this one. Yes, both concepts have technically non-undead persons infected with a virus which has caused them to regress from sapience and individuality into murderous, animalistic rage… but the infected in I Am Legend (2007) can climb walls like Spider-Man. That is not in the zombie repertoire, no matter which canon you’re consulting.
FROM THE VAULT
- Calling the SyFy Network (again)…. — posted by kbegg on July 2, 2009
- Charge… and CLEAR! *GZAPT!!!!* — posted by El Santo on April 19, 2021
- To Liz, with Love… — posted by kbegg on September 4, 2009
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea — posted by KeithA on May 28, 2011
- Bela goes ape — posted by lyzard on December 18, 2009
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- About the Cabal
- Full Index of Reviews
- Roundtables
- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
- The Links We Love
#1 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 6:27 am
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Alice Braga is something of a source of pride to people here, as she’s a Brazilian who’s finding some degree of success in Hollywood. Her aunt is a big TV soap opera star over here.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on September 24, 2010 - 7:19 am
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Braga’s radiant — very easy on the eyes. I wish her part hadn’t been that of the Non-American Who’s Therefore More Spiritual. (Usually that kind of role falls to either a Native American or an African-American — what Spike Lee calls the “Super Duper Magical Negro” — but Will Smith was both a military officer and a scientist, so I suppose he was too much of The Man to play that part as well.)
#3 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 7:30 am
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I can imagine a movie where the Caucasian character is more spiritual than the minority character, causing it to draw criticism in some circles because it brings back memories of European colonists forcing other groups to convert to Christianity.
#4 by Nathan Shumate on September 24, 2010 - 7:34 am
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And anyway, that’s why we whites keep all those downtrodden minorities around, so we can exploit them as a spiritual resource.
#5 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 7:52 am
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Random Observation: Salli Richardson, who I believe played Will Smith’s wife in the flashback sequences, is (and I know I’ll be sorry for saying this), as far as I’m concerned, the non-union Mexican counterpart to Jennifer Lopez (and probably Eva Mendes, too).
#6 by Nathan Shumate on September 24, 2010 - 8:37 am
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…I don’t know what that means.
#7 by Chris S. on September 24, 2010 - 9:10 am
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Maybe she’s a … race scab? Or she forgot to pay her dues to The Amalgamated International Sisterhood of Latinas.
#8 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 10:23 am
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The whole “non-union Mexican counterpart” is a Simpsons reference. Mr. Burns wanted to make a bio-pic about himself and have Steven Spielberg direct it. When he found out that Spielberg wasn’t available, he demanded his “non-union Mexican counterpart”, who turned out to be a fellow named Señor Spielbergo.
Basically, it means “who you get when you can’t get so-and-so or when so-and-so is too expensive for the film’s budget” (i.e. A poor man’s….).
#9 by Nathan Shumate on September 24, 2010 - 10:39 am
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Ah. I get it. So Salli Richardson is Olivier Gruner to Jennifer Lopez’s Jean-Claude Van Damme.
#10 by raito on October 15, 2010 - 4:56 pm
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The canon of Billy Idol does state that the undead can climb walls.