The Walking Dead – Zombies on TV
“A group of survivors led by police officer Rick Grimes travel in search of a safe and secure home after a zombie apocalypse.”
So…the next big thing in the supernatural world, Zombies, have made it to the small screen in the series The Walking Dead. The first episode aired on Halloween, ‘Days Gone Bye‘, introducing us to Deputy Rick Grimes (played by sexy English actor, Andrew Lincoln). The series is based on the comic books of the same name, featuring the same character, Rick Grimes. (See The Walking Dead: Compendium One)
Episode one of The Walking Dead doesn’t pull any punches; disturbing and gory and chilling, the perfect bloody cup of horror, heated up for the small screen. Something that the opening scene throws in your face after a brief, but excellently timed introduction to the post apocalyptic zombie land. We’re certainly not in lala land and this is firmly punctuated with a bang. The zombie effects are excellent, the tension ratchets up nicely and it’s difficult not to watch with a hand gripping the edge of your seat.
In a scene–very nearly an exact duplicate of the opening scene from 28 Days Later–Grimes wakes in a hospital bed after a shooting incident that left him wounded and possibly in a coma. The flowers next to his bed are wilted, no hospital staff come to his aid and an eerie world awaits just behind the closed door…Grimes is left to discover the state of the world on his own. Half eaten corpses and a chained door with the legend ‘DONT OPEN DEAD INSIDE’–where the dead are most certainly restless–throw him, defenceless into a world gone rotten, literally. The dead–those that walk and those that don’t–litter the world Grimes walks through.
It may use a series of tropes from almost every Zombie movie you’ve ever seen–unexplained outbreak of the living dead, pockets of survivors and a lone man searching for his family on a cross-country journey, but it will leave you wanting more and eagerly waiting on the next episode.
Next episode airs 7th November and with six episodes in the first season, there are four more to follow.
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