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Nazi Zombies
Feb. 27th, 2012 09:35 amLast night, Shawn and I watched "Dead Snow" a Norwegian language film about a group of medical students who are... well, eaten by Nazi zombies.
It was AWESOME.
Plus, I think it counts as an "art film" as I had to read subtitles. In all seriousness, it was very much in the vein (pardon the pun) of a lot of the recent zombie films. That is to say, it was both seriously terrifying, while also having moments of WTF hillarity. For instance, there's an absolutely horrifyingly tense scene where our heroes are trapped in the rickty cabin in the middle of nowhere and the zombies are attacking... they grab the poor schlub who was doomed the moment he had sex in the outhouse with his girlfriend, and they LITERALLY pull his face apart and his brain plops onto the floor with a sort of wet, squicking sound.
YEAH!!!!
AND there's the other moment when one of our heroes is hanging off the side of a cliff by... what? a thread? NO!!! ZOMBIE ENTRAILS!!! Seriously, dude is hanging on to a zombie's uncoiled small intestine.
I have to ask you: Does it get any better than that?? No, it does not, my friends. It. Does. Not.
And, you know, as I said, I think it's sort of like the awesome that is the Bruce Campbell early EVIL DEAD movies. In fact, a chainsaw does get involve at some point. And, there's a wonderful "there, I fixed it" moment when our erstwhile hero sews up his own cut throat (he's a med student, remember,) and then for good measure DUCT TAPES it!!
Anyway, it was awfully fun. Otherwise, Sunday was mostly a pajama day for us. I ended up having to go to the grocery store briefly in the morning, but then I changed back into my PJs and we hung out reading, napping and other low energy things. After all the excitement of yesterday, it was fun.
Today, we're going to hang out briefly with a friend to return her bike lock that got left in my trunk on Saturday when we gave her a ride home from the Kuk SoOlympics. Maybe we'll try hitting the library. I have some Manga to return, and maybe, since we'll be right there, we'll stop in and see if Half Price has any for me to buy.
I haven't been doing any serious writing in a long time, though I have been working on fannish things. I've decided to continue to self-indulge until Mason is back at school at the beginning of March. When he goes back to school; I'll go back to REAL work. That gives me a few more days to play. When I do go back to being serious, I have a couple of proposals to work on, e-books to get ready, and other such things to write. I should be able to stay busy, though I will admit that I am very... distracted when there's no actual contract. I have an amazing amount of discipline when I have a contract, but without one I feel very loosey-goosey.
It's weird.
It was AWESOME.
Plus, I think it counts as an "art film" as I had to read subtitles. In all seriousness, it was very much in the vein (pardon the pun) of a lot of the recent zombie films. That is to say, it was both seriously terrifying, while also having moments of WTF hillarity. For instance, there's an absolutely horrifyingly tense scene where our heroes are trapped in the rickty cabin in the middle of nowhere and the zombies are attacking... they grab the poor schlub who was doomed the moment he had sex in the outhouse with his girlfriend, and they LITERALLY pull his face apart and his brain plops onto the floor with a sort of wet, squicking sound.
YEAH!!!!
AND there's the other moment when one of our heroes is hanging off the side of a cliff by... what? a thread? NO!!! ZOMBIE ENTRAILS!!! Seriously, dude is hanging on to a zombie's uncoiled small intestine.
I have to ask you: Does it get any better than that?? No, it does not, my friends. It. Does. Not.
And, you know, as I said, I think it's sort of like the awesome that is the Bruce Campbell early EVIL DEAD movies. In fact, a chainsaw does get involve at some point. And, there's a wonderful "there, I fixed it" moment when our erstwhile hero sews up his own cut throat (he's a med student, remember,) and then for good measure DUCT TAPES it!!
Anyway, it was awfully fun. Otherwise, Sunday was mostly a pajama day for us. I ended up having to go to the grocery store briefly in the morning, but then I changed back into my PJs and we hung out reading, napping and other low energy things. After all the excitement of yesterday, it was fun.
Today, we're going to hang out briefly with a friend to return her bike lock that got left in my trunk on Saturday when we gave her a ride home from the Kuk SoOlympics. Maybe we'll try hitting the library. I have some Manga to return, and maybe, since we'll be right there, we'll stop in and see if Half Price has any for me to buy.
I haven't been doing any serious writing in a long time, though I have been working on fannish things. I've decided to continue to self-indulge until Mason is back at school at the beginning of March. When he goes back to school; I'll go back to REAL work. That gives me a few more days to play. When I do go back to being serious, I have a couple of proposals to work on, e-books to get ready, and other such things to write. I should be able to stay busy, though I will admit that I am very... distracted when there's no actual contract. I have an amazing amount of discipline when I have a contract, but without one I feel very loosey-goosey.
It's weird.