I just watched 30 Days of Night and they REALLY could have used some khuks.
It was good, but oddly disjointed in moving from scene to scene. I had the feeling that large portions had been edited out, but it is based on a graphic novel, so it may be intentional.
waaaa, you talkin craaaazy!
the blood of those zombies is CRAZY viral. they do selectively note this throughout the two films, at times a single drop is enough to turn someone, and at others they can literally be bathed in zombie blood by be totally uninfected. I will say that his is do to "not getting it on a mucus membrane"
needless to say - the farther you are from the zombie when you kill them the better. if you need to be close up, the less zombie blood present, the better. these aren't the living dead, they are essentially a normal person who is fed loads of pcp, steroids, testosterone, and in a permanent state of total raging anger towards anything human. you really can't be selective on how you kill something like that when its on top of it, it just NEEDS TO DIE as quickly as possible. certainly a katana (in the right hands) or a khukuri would be good at clearing off heads and limbs quickly though... I would almost say that I'd rather have the katana, slighly longer reach, and with correct posturing and use - I believe that my body could sustain katana use longer then khukuri use in a battle scenario. the khukuri is a one handed item that requires a great deal of forearm and shoulder strength. the katana uses more muscles int he arms, but if you get tired, you can use your shoulder, and you can posture yourself to transfer the muscle power needed to make complete cuts to other muscle groups. with the khukuri - if your forearm gets to tired, you can't use it anymore, thats that.
my main problem with the film is that it went from crazy hectic zombie film to super cinematic awe inspiring "look at how pretty this girl is" cinema out of nowhere. the scene with the girl walking towards the helicopter came out of nowhere, and was completely contrastic in style and presentation to everything else in the film.
I LOVED the scene with the guy running towards the lake with 40 zombies
sprinting after him. when you watch a zombie punch through a door - not because their dead and can't experience pain, not because their super strong, but just because their so completely insane that they are willing to break their hand to get to you
and then 40 of them are sprinting a 3 minute mile at you. insanity.
28 days later represented one of the largest leaps forward for the zombie genre with its new representation of what a zombie is. before that, return of the living dead featured intelligent zombies who were able to run and set traps, using badly formed (but still audible) spoken words. it featured the absolutely classic running tackle of the ambulance driver. seeing a zombie dive tackle someone
never gets old.
the next leap forward (as far as I'm concerned) is planet terror. in planet terror, the zombies had super human strength. I'm not sure if thats ever been done before, but I loved how they did it. when the zombie throws of the guys into a car and the entire car looks like its been slammed at 60mph sideways into a telephone pole - thats something to be afraid of. hand strength enough to rip any skin or muscle they get ahold of, body strength enough to rip off limbs at will. impressive stuff.
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