I AM TYPING THIS ALL IN CAPS BECAUSE I AM SO VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. IF I WASN’T CATEGORICALLY OPPOSED TO TAGS ON A DEEP, MORAL LEVEL, I MIGHT EVEN CONSIDER USING THEM. What am I so excited about, you ask? I have just discovered that on June 24, Land of the Dead, the new George Romero zombie movie, hits theaters. That’s right, the fourth film in his Night of the Living Dead / Dawn of the Dead / Day of the Dead series is finally coming out.
A random perusal of today’s Slashdot turned up this article regarding the news that the upcoming (and hopefully the last) Star Wars movie will be rated PG-13. I point this out not so much because I’m interested in the reasons for the rating, or even in the film itself, but because of the nature of the ensuing discussion. It is fairly typical of the Slashdot community’s reaction to the Star Wars films, summed up by this posting:
I don’t know—maybe it’s my Catholic upbringing, but despite the fact that I don’t believe in god and find most religion to be, at best, silly, movies about the Devil are not too far behind zombie films on my list of favorite horror. The Amityville Horror, Prince of Darkness, The Omen—they all still creep me out, and I still have yet to get all the way through the director’s cut of The Exorcist.