Inside Movies & DVD with Drew McWeeny

‹

'Look Around You' throws a dinner with Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper

›

Watch: Toronto midnight premiere 'Vanishing on 7th Street' looks promising, creepy

Watch: 'The Walking Dead' Trailer Filled to the Brim with Zombies

First Extended Look is Promising

By Alex DornTuesday, Aug 24, 2010 2:48 PM

Are you a fan of The Walking Dead?

Sign up to get the latest updates instantly.

Ok ok, officially this is not a film, and doesn't belong on Motion Captured, however we've decided to make an exception because the trailer that AMC released today for "The Walking Dead" is just so darn great we wanted you to see it if you haven't already.

Following, for the most part, the first few issues of the comic, we see Officer Rick Grimes wake up in his hospital bed to find the world overrun by zombies and his family missing. He travels to Atlanta by horseback in search of them.

The comic was conceived as a never-ending version of the Romero movies, and it falls very much on the side of "Team Slow Zombie" drawing scares not from imminent danger of attack, but from the slow, unstoppable and quickly overwhelming power of thousands and thousands of zombies. (Much scarier than running zombies in my book. Look at that tank shot!) The comic is also notoriously "talky," we will have to wait and see if this trait is passed on to the TV show.

The trailer is amazing, Greg Nicotero's work on the zombies is incredible, the entire thing is bathed in a slight sepia-tone that enhances the heat and the stink of it all. I find it pitch perfect. Frank Darabont serves as writer, director and executive producer, and as far as I can tell, so far so good.

"The Walking Dead" Will Premiere on Halloween, October 31st, this fall on AMC

Can't get enough of Motion/Captured? Don't miss a post with daily HitFix Blog Alerts. Sign up now.

Don't miss out. Add Motion/Captured to your iGoogle, My Yahoo or My MSN experience by clicking here.

Not part of the HitFix Nation yet? Take 90 seconds and sign up today.

Alex Dorn

Related Searches: The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont

DAGOBAH

I just watched 28 DAYS LATER a couple of days ago (which is still awesome, and I'd have to disagree - I think Boyle's sprinting Rage Zombies are way scarier/more fucked up/more awesome than Romero's strolling ones) and I may be missing something, but isn't the scene in this trailer where he wakes up in a hospital bed and the world's gone to shit EXACTLY the same as the scene where Cillian Murphy's character wakes up in a hospital bed 28 days after the world's gone to shit?
August 24, 2010 at 11:35PM EST Reply to Comment
- Stormshadow4life Reply to comment...
  August 25, 2010 at 8:35AM EST
- Stormshadow4life Gotta agree with you on both counts. Fast zombies are way scarier than slow zombies. And yeah, that scene looks note for note exactly like the beginning of 28 Days Later
  August 25, 2010 at 8:36AM EST
- Stu Redman The Stand already did a scene where the lead character awakens in an abandoned hospital and walked into a postapocalyptic world outside...2 decades ago in the TV-Miniseries and more than 3 decades ago in Stephen King's book. So what?
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qrlK0ftT0&feature=related
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMhV-lnFdvA&feature=related
  August 25, 2010 at 10:07AM EST
- 28 Days Later is not a zombie film. The people are infected with super rabies and are not dead.
  
  This isn't just a semantics argument. There are themes at play in the zombie genre that are not present in 28 days as a result of there being no living dead.
  August 25, 2010 at 3:44PM EST
Killjoy

I definitely think that faster zombies can work on the most viceral level, but they don't give you that slow burn of Romero's "Living Dead". There's something about that emotional transition from confusion to frustration to panic to desperation, realizing over time that hope may be lost.
August 25, 2010 at 1:06AM EST Reply to Comment
- Well put, Killjoy. There's also the emotional terror/joy/hope/disbelief in seeing one's dead loved one shambling slowly towards you, and emotional consequences... what do you do? kill it? celebrate? hug?
  none of that can get played out if the zombie is hopping a fence like a gymnast and eating your face in 3 seconds flat.
  August 26, 2010 at 12:51PM EST
Chris

Jackasses...28 days later stole the intro idea from this comic book. It started in the early 2000's. People are justnow realizing how bad ass it is.
August 25, 2010 at 8:10PM EST Reply to Comment
- dan Chris - By my count, the first issue of "The Walking Dead" premiered in the fall of 2003. "28 Days Later" premiered in the UK in November of 2002. And was shot in 2001. Unless you know differently, I mean...
  
  -Daniel
  August 25, 2010 at 8:24PM EST
- Lots of stories start with someone waking up... Lost... Avatar... it's a pretty standard device.
  August 26, 2010 at 12:53PM EST
rico

Looks absolutely awesome. I'm more of a slow-zombie-kind-of-guy, even though 28 Days Later rocked hard and even that Dawn-Sequel worked. But generally: slow Zombies. And please no fucking animal Zombies. Wish Romero would get his shit together and so one more good slow-Zombie-flick, because ever since Day of the Dead he's in downward spiral.
October 20, 2010 at 3:09PM EST Reply to Comment

HitFix.com

Event Calendar

Movies

TV

Music

Videos

Photos

Awards

Riot
Comedy

In Theaters

New to DVD

On Demand

New Music

Watch: 'The Walking Dead' Trailer Filled to the Brim with Zombies

Comments

Stormshadow4life Reply to comment...

Stormshadow4life Gotta agree with you on both counts. Fast zombies are way scarier than slow zombies. And yeah, that scene looks note for note exactly like the beginning of 28 Days Later

28 Days Later is not a zombie film. The people are infected with super rabies and are not dead.

This isn't just a semantics argument. There are themes at play in the zombie genre that are not present in 28 days as a result of there being no living dead.

Killjoy

I definitely think that faster zombies can work on the most viceral level, but they don't give you that slow burn of Romero's "Living Dead". There's something about that emotional transition from confusion to frustration to panic to desperation, realizing over time that hope may be lost.

Chris

Jackasses...28 days later stole the intro idea from this comic book. It started in the early 2000's. People are justnow realizing how bad ass it is.

dan Chris - By my count, the first issue of "The Walking Dead" premiered in the fall of 2003. "28 Days Later" premiered in the UK in November of 2002. And was shot in 2001. Unless you know differently, I mean...

-Daniel

Lots of stories start with someone waking up... Lost... Avatar... it's a pretty standard device.

Never miss a post - sign up now to get an e-mail alert whenever
Motion/Captured is updated

Around the Web

News From Our Partners

About HitFix

Advertise on HitFix

Subscribe to HitFix

Popular Topics

Watch: 'The Walking Dead' Trailer Filled to the Brim with Zombies

Are you a fan of The Walking Dead?

Sign up to get the latest updates instantly.

Never miss a post - sign up now to get an e-mail alert whenever Breaking News is updated

Comments

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Stormshadow4life Reply to comment...

Stormshadow4life Gotta agree with you on both counts. Fast zombies are way scarier than slow zombies. And yeah, that scene looks note for note exactly like the beginning of 28 Days Later

28 Days Later is not a zombie film. The people are infected with super rabies and are not dead. This isn't just a semantics argument. There are themes at play in the zombie genre that are not present in 28 days as a result of there being no living dead.

Killjoy I definitely think that faster zombies can work on the most viceral level, but they don't give you that slow burn of Romero's "Living Dead". There's something about that emotional transition from confusion to frustration to panic to desperation, realizing over time that hope may be lost.

Chris Jackasses...28 days later stole the intro idea from this comic book. It started in the early 2000's. People are justnow realizing how bad ass it is.

dan Chris - By my count, the first issue of "The Walking Dead" premiered in the fall of 2003. "28 Days Later" premiered in the UK in November of 2002. And was shot in 2001. Unless you know differently, I mean...-Daniel

Lots of stories start with someone waking up... Lost... Avatar... it's a pretty standard device.

Never miss a post - sign up now to get an e-mail alert whenever Motion/Captured is updated

Around the Web

News From Our Partners

About HitFix

Advertise on HitFix

Subscribe to HitFix

Popular Topics

Never miss a post - sign up now to get an e-mail alert whenever
Breaking News is updated

28 Days Later is not a zombie film. The people are infected with super rabies and are not dead.

This isn't just a semantics argument. There are themes at play in the zombie genre that are not present in 28 days as a result of there being no living dead.

Killjoy

I definitely think that faster zombies can work on the most viceral level, but they don't give you that slow burn of Romero's "Living Dead". There's something about that emotional transition from confusion to frustration to panic to desperation, realizing over time that hope may be lost.

Chris

Jackasses...28 days later stole the intro idea from this comic book. It started in the early 2000's. People are justnow realizing how bad ass it is.

dan Chris - By my count, the first issue of "The Walking Dead" premiered in the fall of 2003. "28 Days Later" premiered in the UK in November of 2002. And was shot in 2001. Unless you know differently, I mean...

-Daniel

Never miss a post - sign up now to get an e-mail alert whenever
Motion/Captured is updated