Undead

This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.

"...well, pal, I feel for you. With the ongoing undead film revival (Edgar Wright’s brilliant "romantic comedy with zombies,"..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore

This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall

"...advance of an album's full release – Mozart Requiem Undead premiered as the kickoff to the 2014 Fusebox Festival...."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

'Mozart Requiem Undead'

April 16, 2014. 10 photos.

"...'Mozart Requiem Undead' at French Legation on April 16, 2014..."

April 17, 2014 Photo Gallery

Even the Undead Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing

John McLean's labor of love, Z: A Zombie Musical

"...John McLean is not a big fan of the undead. Ooky, slimy zombies screaming for brains do not him..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Rammbock: Berlin Undead

This wackily despairing horror film from Germany is chock-full o' blood and guts.

"...surrounded on all sides by evidence of the the undead: shambling global economic collapse abroad, a positively moribund economy..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film Fundraiser: 'Postmodern Undead' at The Mohawk

Dolls from the Crypt for Lindsey Alloway's vampire flick

"...fundraiser for director Lindsey Alloway's upcoming feature film Postmodern Undead? You'll look more festive with fake blood all over..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Unschlocking the Undead

Colson Whitehead's Zone One

"...quite a knack for describing the ballet of the undead in gory, graceful spurts; interesting given his past books'..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Audra Schroeder

Undead Alert!

Local author BJ Burrow hosts a reading/zombie rights rally at BookPeople

"...who becomes a leading agent in the fight for undead rights. You know what that means, right? Zombies at..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Diary of the Undead

"...but it does cause one to adopt a certain diary-of-the-undead feeling. Which is perfect for my return to Austin..."

Sept. 22, 2007 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dead

The sun-drenched locales of Ghana and Burkina Faso provide the backdrops for this original zombie apocalypse.

"...of zombie films when, out of the blue, this undead epic from the U.K.'s Ford brothers turned up at..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wes Craven Presents: Dracula

"...Abraham Van Helsing, still in Carfax Abbey, caretaking the undead corpse of Vlad the Impaler. Van Helsing, it seems,..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

You can't keep a bad zombie down.

"...of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead kick-started the undead trend, and the upcoming Brit import Shaun of the..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charged Up

The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'

"...the kind of mental image conjured by Mozart Requiem Undead, the "reanimation" of that choral masterwork with all the..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Choral Consort

Double-barreled Requiem concert brings back Brahms and resurrects more Undead Mozart

"...Mozart's Requiem – her contribution to the Mozart Requiem Undead project, in which contemporary composers complete the score that..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Warm Bodies

Last time in the director’s chair, Jonathan Levine made the feel-good cancer movie 50/50; now he's back with a clever and heartfelt zombie rom-com.

"...the words he can’t articulate. Little by little, the undead boy and beating-heart girl warm to one another...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

"...nihilistic humanism that ultimately unsettles more than the lurching undead themselves. They're dead, and it's all messed up, cunningly..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"...them to a life, as it were, of being undead. To reverse the curse, they must hunt down a..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blade

"...a ham on wry) in his battle against the undead. Specifically, Blade is out to get the renegade bloodsucker..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Kid Who Would Be King

The Arthurian myth retold as an entertaining allegory for the hope of youth

"...army, and wage a war against Morgana’s army of undead warriors, all without getting a wedgie from his newly..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Jigsaw

The Saw character returns

"...III). Surprisingly, directing sibs the Spierig brothers (the trippy Undead, Daybreakers) tone down the arterial spurts and skull cracking..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for

"...of a Spanish warship who was lured to his undead doom by that rascally Sparrow back when Mr. Depp..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Word

A young writer has to pen a woman's obituary before she dies

"...no one has anything nice to say about the undead subject, Harriet enlists Anne in the mission of burnishing..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The mash-up title just about says it all

"...– if not exactly enlivened – by so many undead. There’s a subversive kick in seeing Lizzie unsheathe a..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Boys Scouts save town from zombies

"...the three scouts who save their town from the undead in this comedy-horror film will earn their stripes, and..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What We Do in the Shadows

Cleverly executed, this vampire spoof by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is a lot of fun.

"...vampires in this pointed send-up of Twilight tropes and undead issues. Think The Young Ones meets Flight of the..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cockneys vs. Zombies

This bloody good zom-com stands out from the crowd of zombies recently invading our screens.

"...favorite) from the UK posits a clash between the undead and the nearly dead to surprisingly guffaw-inducing effect. In..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

The Twilight's over, and the darkness has just begun.

"...vampire, who runs to tattle to the Volturi (the undead tribunal) that the Cullens bit a kid – a..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Revenant

This horror comedy follows the the walking-dead path of an undeceased Iraq War vet and his stoner best friend.

"...Like its title character, this undead buddy comedy was presumed dead, distribution-wise, after it hit..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Who knew our beloved president also worked the graveyard shift? This capable rewrite of American history delivers its splatter with a straight face.

"...but does Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter kick some righteous undead ass or what? Absolutely, it does. Benjamin Walker, as..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spirit

Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.

"...be the ideal choice to bring Eisner's mid-20th century undead tough guy to ever-lovin' life. But the result, which..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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