Watch these two movies for an interesting double bill. Watch Bio-Zombie first.
SPOILERS
If you don't know, Bio-Zombie is a 1998 horror-comedy from Hong Kong. In it we meet 2 best friends who also happen to be professional losers. They play video games. Loser 1 has this girl he likes. Then zombies happen. And comedy happens. At first the 2 friends are oblivious to the zombies. In fact they spend several minutes in the presence of a zombie without realizing that it's a zombie. But soon, the 2 losers do realize they're in deep zombie shit and gang together with other humans to try and survive. Loser 1 becomes the reluctant hero and gets the girl, while loser 2 is bitten and becomes a zombie (cue big emotional scene, marking shift from comedy to serious). There's little things too, e.g loser 1 suddenly becoming as energetic and fighty as Gary Daniels on a trampoline, one of the humans pretending to be zombie, and even a familiar zombie feet shuffling bit.
Shaun has better looking zombies, and is funnier (mundane Big Train humor is automatically funnier when replacing token HK wackiness that most people just tolerate as fast forward fodder until the next chop socky scene)... But Bio-Zombie is the more inventive film, offering cooler ways to kill zombies, and the single greatest Romero homage ever, with the 2 losers playing Sega's House of the Dead as we look up their lightgun barrels at the classic Reiniger/Foree angle- a reference so classy that it puts all of Shaun's blatant Dawn of the Dead Music snatches, "Foree Electric" tags, and "WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA!" lines to shame.
They're both good movies, but do try that double bill sometime.
SPOILERS
If you don't know, Bio-Zombie is a 1998 horror-comedy from Hong Kong. In it we meet 2 best friends who also happen to be professional losers. They play video games. Loser 1 has this girl he likes. Then zombies happen. And comedy happens. At first the 2 friends are oblivious to the zombies. In fact they spend several minutes in the presence of a zombie without realizing that it's a zombie. But soon, the 2 losers do realize they're in deep zombie shit and gang together with other humans to try and survive. Loser 1 becomes the reluctant hero and gets the girl, while loser 2 is bitten and becomes a zombie (cue big emotional scene, marking shift from comedy to serious). There's little things too, e.g loser 1 suddenly becoming as energetic and fighty as Gary Daniels on a trampoline, one of the humans pretending to be zombie, and even a familiar zombie feet shuffling bit.
Shaun has better looking zombies, and is funnier (mundane Big Train humor is automatically funnier when replacing token HK wackiness that most people just tolerate as fast forward fodder until the next chop socky scene)... But Bio-Zombie is the more inventive film, offering cooler ways to kill zombies, and the single greatest Romero homage ever, with the 2 losers playing Sega's House of the Dead as we look up their lightgun barrels at the classic Reiniger/Foree angle- a reference so classy that it puts all of Shaun's blatant Dawn of the Dead Music snatches, "Foree Electric" tags, and "WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA!" lines to shame.
They're both good movies, but do try that double bill sometime.
