I’ve been wondering, do you guys think zombie films should aim higher in terms of creating a certain mythology/world like The Matrix or Star Wars. It just seems that most filmmakers who make these films tend to make them in the real world and they try to make it real, and if you look at the box office numbers that really isin’t working out. But if you look at the Resident Evil films which has a heroine with super-human abilities and is always fending off against hordes of bio-engineered mutants, you will notice that most of the general audience goes for that type of zombie film, in all – all three Resident Evil films have grossed over 170M dollars world wide, and if you look at 28 Weeks, Diary, Land, and Planet Terror combined they’ve grossed a mere 100M. So my question again, do you think the genre should be more fantasy and have a leading character who can kick some real ass? Or do you prefer the alternative?
I knew Resident Evil had something that really seperated it from other zombie films, it has a real mythology and the action is incredible, I know most of you hate Paul WS Anderson, but I think he innovated the genre a bit. I hope future films have more of this type of fantasy element.
