There’s not enough space here to cover all of them, suffice to say that in the horror tradition, don’t get too cosy with any of these characters. The opening salvo - few make balletic, slow-motion opening-title sequences quite as expertly, or slowly, as Snyder - efficiently establishes the premise, in which a zombie outbreak engulfs the city of Las Vegas, with all its affiliated vices (strippers, Elvis impersonators, Liberace-style singers, a tiger) doomed to hunt for brains forever.Īrmy Of The Dead is best when Snyder leans into the fun, and allows himself moments of pure silliness. The first explosion clocks in at around the three-minute mark, and from there it is a cascade of gloriously gratuitous gore and gunfights.
(This time, they can run!) After spending so long in the moody, washed-out super-soap opera of the DCEU, it’s refreshing to see Snyder reignite his first love with this romp of a genre mash-up, that lets Snyder loose with his most gleeful indulgences, almost as much as his worst excesses. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead - announced the arrival of a singular blockbuster voice, and the reanimation of the long-dormant undead. Back in 2004, his stylish, energetic debut - a remake of George A. Zombies have changed, and so has Zack Snyder.
