It takes an exciting new talent to breathe life into the zombie genre and show audiences something new, but first-time feature director Ruben Fleischer proves he's more than up to the task. With his directorial debut, "Zombieland," Fleischer has not just made one of the funniest and goriest films all year but has also drawn terrific performances out of his quartet of leads. Led by Woody Harrelson as a cowboy zombie-killer, the cast includes Jesse Eisenberg ("Adventureland"), Emma Stone ("Superbad"), and Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") as the sole survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
Fleischer began his career as an assistant to director Miguel Arteta on the films "Chuck & Buck" and "The Good Girl" before branching out to shoot music videos and commercials and landing a directing gig on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show." He came across Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's script for "Zombieland" when they were pitching it as a TV movie in hopes of launching a series. Deemed too expensive for the small screen, the film now hits theaters today in all its gory glory.
You’ve see zombies, but you’ve never seen them this funny. You’ve heard the buzz and by now you know that "Zombieland" is a must see, because it injects fresh life into the corpse of horror comedy. Clearly, the horror-comedy is not your average gore-nucopia, but "Zombieland" is within chomping range of brilliant, and that’s no mean feat, that's light on horror but heavy on comedy, and mostly about character-based laughs, and leaves tense, existential survival behind in favor of joyous, and the most flat-out fun horror/comedy since "Shaun of the Dead". The fun movie that will go down in camp-horror history, and also honestly it is a nice break from the recent overload of vampires. And as you might expect, "Zombieland" is easily one of the most enjoyable films and one of the biggest surprises of the year.
Fleischer began his career as an assistant to director Miguel Arteta on the films "Chuck & Buck" and "The Good Girl" before branching out to shoot music videos and commercials and landing a directing gig on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show." He came across Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's script for "Zombieland" when they were pitching it as a TV movie in hopes of launching a series. Deemed too expensive for the small screen, the film now hits theaters today in all its gory glory.
You’ve see zombies, but you’ve never seen them this funny. You’ve heard the buzz and by now you know that "Zombieland" is a must see, because it injects fresh life into the corpse of horror comedy. Clearly, the horror-comedy is not your average gore-nucopia, but "Zombieland" is within chomping range of brilliant, and that’s no mean feat, that's light on horror but heavy on comedy, and mostly about character-based laughs, and leaves tense, existential survival behind in favor of joyous, and the most flat-out fun horror/comedy since "Shaun of the Dead". The fun movie that will go down in camp-horror history, and also honestly it is a nice break from the recent overload of vampires. And as you might expect, "Zombieland" is easily one of the most enjoyable films and one of the biggest surprises of the year.
