Comments on: Kingdom of the Dead http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marc Arsenault http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2788 Marc Arsenault Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:35:06 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2788 I can't believe I never got back to you before this one year anniversary of the post! Here are my photos on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wowcool/sets/72157608670520355/ and a video I slapped together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2g5qWV3j78 enjoy! I can’t believe I never got back to you before this one year anniversary of the post! Here are my photos on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wowcool/sets/72157608670520355/ and a video I slapped together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2g5qWV3j78 enjoy!

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2787 Simon Sellars Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:51:18 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2787 Marc, let me know when you put those photos up: I'd love to see them. Aleix, everyone tells me about Shivers and High-Rise, but that's another film I haven't seen! Thanks for reminding me. You're right about Atrocity and Stereo, of course -- there are many linkages there. Marc, let me know when you put those photos up: I’d love to see them.

Aleix, everyone tells me about Shivers and High-Rise, but that’s another film I haven’t seen! Thanks for reminding me.

You’re right about Atrocity and Stereo, of course — there are many linkages there.

]]> By: Aleix P. http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2786 Aleix P. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:19:04 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2786 mmmm, zombie flicks and Ballard... it's a great opportunity to talk about David Cronenberg's Shivers and Ballard's High-Rise, both saw the light of day in 1975 and have obvious similarities. http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/19/shivers.html I've always sensed a very deep connection between the worlds of these two creators... maybe it's because I entered Ballard through the gate of Cronenberg's adaptation, but I think everyone can trace obvious similarities. Of course I realize I'm saying nothing new here, many critics have pointed out that or even dared to say that the tone of most of Cronenberg's films could be tagged as Ballardian. Listening to both Ballard and Cronenberg talking about the influences on their work, I guess Burroughs (and his pseudoscientific and emotionally detached style) could be the nexus between them... Nothing new again :) btw, even when I saw Jonathan Weiss' the Atrocity Exhibition it reminded me of 'Stereo' and 'Crimes of the Future', two early experimental films by Cronenberg. mmmm, zombie flicks and Ballard… it’s a great opportunity to talk about David Cronenberg’s Shivers and Ballard’s High-Rise, both saw the light of day in 1975 and have obvious similarities.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/19/shivers.html

I’ve always sensed a very deep connection between the worlds of these two creators… maybe it’s because I entered Ballard through the gate of Cronenberg’s adaptation, but I think everyone can trace obvious similarities. Of course I realize I’m saying nothing new here, many critics have pointed out that or even dared to say that the tone of most of Cronenberg’s films could be tagged as Ballardian. Listening to both Ballard and Cronenberg talking about the influences on their work, I guess Burroughs (and his pseudoscientific and emotionally detached style) could be the nexus between them… Nothing new again :)

btw, even when I saw Jonathan Weiss’ the Atrocity Exhibition it reminded me of ‘Stereo’ and ‘Crimes of the Future’, two early experimental films by Cronenberg.

]]> By: Marc Arsenault http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2785 Marc Arsenault Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:38:04 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2785 I had the chance recently to visit the Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh where Romero's Dawn of the Dead was shot. Strange place. A couple of people had an authentically living dead look about them. Took tons of pictures. Now I'll have to post some up to the Ballard flickr group. The connection to Kingdom is even stronger now as the mall has developed this protective shell of the new style of outdoor mall shops like Borders Books. It's a shame a couple of the newer additions to the mall were not around when Romero shot dead: the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood playground and the carousel. I had the chance recently to visit the Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh where Romero’s Dawn of the Dead was shot. Strange place. A couple of people had an authentically living dead look about them. Took tons of pictures. Now I’ll have to post some up to the Ballard flickr group. The connection to Kingdom is even stronger now as the mall has developed this protective shell of the new style of outdoor mall shops like Borders Books. It’s a shame a couple of the newer additions to the mall were not around when Romero shot dead: the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood playground and the carousel.

]]> By: Manu http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2784 Manu Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:22:15 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2784 You will be disappointed with the next two ones: Day of the dead, and Land...Basically its the same old story, but this quite boring and too gory for the squeamish! You will be disappointed with the next two ones: Day of the dead, and Land…Basically its the same old story, but this quite boring and too gory for the squeamish!

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2783 Simon Sellars Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:01:59 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2783 I have seen Night of the Living Dead a few times and loved it, but I put off seeing the sequels for years because they looked super gory and I'm essentially a squeamish person. Then I won a ticket to a Romero doco at this same film festival, and discovered the glory of Romero! And now I've booked to see all the others. I have seen Night of the Living Dead a few times and loved it, but I put off seeing the sequels for years because they looked super gory and I’m essentially a squeamish person. Then I won a ticket to a Romero doco at this same film festival, and discovered the glory of Romero! And now I’ve booked to see all the others.

]]> By: Jonathan Maberry http://www.ballardian.com/kingdom-of-the-dead/comment-page-1#comment-2782 Jonathan Maberry Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:18:04 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=836#comment-2782 Wow...seeing DAWN OF THE DEAD for the first time. The movie has become so much a part of my life that it's delightful to vicariously experience someone else's first exposure to it. The remake is pretty good, too. -Jonathan Maberry Bram Stoker Award winning author of ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead www.zombiecsu.com Wow…seeing DAWN OF THE DEAD for the first time. The movie has become so much a part of my life that it’s delightful to vicariously experience someone else’s first exposure to it. The remake is pretty good, too.

-Jonathan Maberry
Bram Stoker Award winning author of
ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead
http://www.zombiecsu.com

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