Back before Zack Snyder signed on for
Watchmen there was talk of him revisiting the horror genre with another Zombie movie, though not a sequel to his previous remake of George Romero's
Dawn Of The Dead. This movie was to bne called
Army Of The Dead and would deal with a father who is trying to free his daughter from a quarantined Las Vegas, with the government building a wall around the city to contain the spread. But plans for the movie seemed to fall by the wayside as Snyder went on to bring us
Watchmen and is now tied up with
Man Of Steel.
Well it appears the movie is back on (with Snyder as producer, and IF the studio decides to move forward) but with
The Thing's Matthijs van Heijningen Jr at the helm. While speaking to io9 the director let slip a few details, including the sick new way in which these Zombies will transmit the virus. Heijningen Jr reiterates the planned story details and reveals that these Zombies will be fast just as the ones in
Dawn. He also says..
There's an extra dimension to this zombie film, because they…. they…. I'm still wondering if I should tell this…. the male zombies rape human females. Yes. And they have human hybrid zombie offsprings. It's a new take on the zombie genre, which is crazy.
Yes it is. As big of a horror/gore fan as I am I'm really not sure I fancy seeing Zombie rape, at least no more than once. Maybe the story will find a way around making it too gratuitous, but I'm baffled as to how subtle one can portray a dead creature forcibly impregnating a victim. Isn't that also necrophilia...kinda? Anyway, what do you guys make of this? Something you'd be looking forward too?
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