Was Zombieland: Double Tap In The Right Place At The Wrong Time?
When released in 2009, Zombieland became an instant modern classic, spicing up the genre of horror-comedy and introducing elements that were fresh, original, and perfectly fitted the steadily growing 'zombie' trend. The sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap, released 10 years later, desperately tried to replicate the original's magic formula but fell flat, with repetitive humor, outdated themes, and failing to add anything new to the genre that long moved on.
The 2000s boomed with successful zombie movies, from 28 Days Later to the remake of Dawn of the Dead to the zombie-vampire mix of I Am Legend. What's more, the genre of zombie horror-comedy made a glorious comeback thanks to Edgar Wright's outrageously hilarious Shaun of the Dead, masterfully delivered by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Since then, the 'zombie' topic exploded, with such phenomena as The Walking Dead and massive hits like Train to Busan and World War Z — to succeed, Zombieland: Double Tap needed to do something extraordinarily different, and it failed to do so.
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Even though 1932's White Zombie is credited with being the first topical movie, it is George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead that truly put zombies on the cinematic map. By the 1990s, the interest in the topic slowly died out, but successful games likeResident Evil and The House of the Dead were enough to rekindle the undead fire and prompt a new wave of fascination. The zombie movies of the time varied from dark post-apocalyptic pieces like 28 Days Later to extra-gory features like Rodriguez's Planet Terror to the confined-setting horror like REC to even animated films like Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. The trend was also fueled by the
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