Here's the thing with Quarantine , the new zombie outbreak flick that hit theaters this weekend: It's YAZPM. You know: Yet Another Zombie Plague Movie. How does this YAZPM distinguish itself from its predecessors in the genre? Not by much. The outbreak is contained to a creepy apartment building, which I hope will spawn a round of "sick building" jokes. And there's a journalist filming the whole thing, sort of like that video game where you have to take pictures of zombies in a mall while you kill them. But in the end, Quarantine just doesn't satisfy: It feels derivative, and not just because it's a remake of Spanish film REC . So instead of seeing Quarantine, I recommend you see a better, more original YAZPM. Here are some ideas for where to start. First of all, you'll want to begin with some plague classics: George Romero's 1973 plague-makes-you-a-murderin-freak flick The Crazies (soon to be a remake ), or the 1971 version of I Am Legend called Omega Man , with Charlton Heston battling people whose disease makes them hippies in whiteface . You might want to leaven your diet of plague with a couple of books: Kathleen Ann Goonan 's nanopunk classic Queen City Jazz is about a nano-plague that converts people into zombie-esque creatures who are all obsessed with playing out the plot of Huckleberry Finn. You think I'm joking but I'm not. Goonan is a rewardingly weird writer, whose ideas will infect you and make you feel strange for ...
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Here's the thing with Quarantine , the new zombie outbreak flick that hit theaters this weekend: It's YAZPM. You know: Yet Another Zombie Plague Movie. How does this YAZPM distinguish itself from its predecessors in the genre? Not by much. The outbreak is contained to a creepy apartment building, which I hope will spawn a round of "sick building" jokes. And there's a journalist filming the whole thing, sort of like that video game where you have to take pictures of zombies in a mall while you kill them. But in the end, Quarantine just doesn't satisfy: It feels derivative, and not just because it's a remake of Spanish film REC . So instead of seeing Quarantine, I recommend you see a better, more original YAZPM. Here are some ideas for where to start. First of all, you'll want to begin with some plague classics: George Romero's 1973 plague-makes-you-a-murderin-freak flick The Crazies (soon to be a remake ), or the 1971 version of I Am Legend called Omega Man , with Charlton Heston battling people whose disease makes them hippies in whiteface . You might want to leaven your diet of plague with a couple of books: Kathleen Ann Goonan 's nanopunk classic Queen City Jazz is about a nano-plague that converts people into zombie-esque creatures who are all obsessed with playing out the plot of Huckleberry Finn. You think I'm joking but I'm not. Goonan is a rewardingly weird writer, whose ideas will infect you and make you feel strange for ...