[Sca-cooks] The 50th annual SCA-Cooks Thanksgiving list!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> "Shaun of the Dead???" "Bubba-Hotep" sounds weird but funny...what  
> is it?
> --Maire, who plans on watching costume flicks all weekend, since Crazy
> Mike's didn't have a copy of Firefly.....

"Shaun of the Dead" is a rather gruesome comedy made by the people  
responsible for the UK version of the TV series, "The Office". It's  
set in the exact same story arc/timeline as the later remade/retooled  
George Romero zombie movies, such as "Dawn of the Dead" and "Land Of  
the Dead", except this is a comedy. The strongly implied question  
seems to be, when a middle-class community on the outskirts of a  
large English city is overrun by shambling, groaning, flesh-eating  
zombies, would most people notice the difference?

"Bubba Ho-Tep" is another rather bizarre horror-comedy, this one  
based on a novella by Joe R. Lansdale, a fave of mine. It concerns a  
revenant Egyptian mummy, surviving parasitically on the life force of  
the elderly residents of an East Texas nursing-home, whose deaths are  
assumed to be from natural causes. Only Elvis and John F. Kennedy (or  
two inmates who may have identity issues - in the novella this aspect  
is made more clear) can stop it! Bravura performances by Bruce  
Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK!

Adamantius



"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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