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The Walking Dead - Days Gone by
episode 1.1
USA 2010
produced by
Denise M. Huth, Tom Luse, Gale Anne Hurd (executive), Frank Darrabont (executive), Robertt Kirkman (executive), David Alpert (executive), Charles H.Eglee (executive) for Circle of Confusion, Darkwoods Productions, Valhalla Motion Pictures/AMC
directed by Frank Darabont
starring Andrew Lincoln, Lennie James, Adrian Kali Turner, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chandler Riggs, Keisha Tillis, Jeffrey DeMunn, Emma Bell, Jim R.Coleman, Linds Edwards
screenplay by Frank Darabont, based on the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, music by Bear McCreary, special makeup effects by Gregory Nicotero/K.N.B. EFX Group
TV-series
The Walking Dead
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Cop Rick (Andrew Lincoln) is badly wounded while chasing a suspect, and
when he wakes up in hospital weeks later, the town is pretty much empty
safe for some walking and flesh-eating zombies. Rick fights his way home
to see what has become of his wife (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son (Chandler
Riggs), but finds them gone. The neighbourhood as a whole seems pretty
died out, too, except for a father (Lenny James) and son (Adrian Kali
Turner) duo who bring Rick up to speed about what has been happening of
late - but they also have to fight their own demons, namely their
wife/mother (Keisha Tillis), who has already been turned into a zombie but
who is still out there looking for them. Eventually, Rick leaves them to
their fate, puts on his cop uniform, arms himself to the teeth and tries
to make it to Atlanta, where he suspects his wife and son - but he ends up
locked inside a tank surrounded by zombies. Rick's wife and son by the
way are still alive, but since Rick was suspected dead, she has started an
affair with his own partner (Jon Bernthal).
When Walking Dead premiered as the first
US-produced zombie television series, it got at least a part of the fans
of the subgenre excited, for two reasons mainly, a) because it meant that
the genre had finally garnered some mainstream acceptance, and b)
because it got the fan his free weekly fix of blood and guts (the series is
quite explicit on that account). On closer inspection though, The
Walking Dead (or at least its pilote episode) is definitely less
than special, basically because it adds virtually nothing new or original
to the genre (instead borrows quite some chunks from the vastly overrated 28
Days Later), and while it's quite explicit on the gory side of
things, it basically lacks suspense and even more so any genuine shocks,
and it replaces any real emotions so crucial to good horror with canned
soap opera sentiments. On top of that, it takes forever to set up its
feeble story, which basically is "the dead have risen from their
graves to eat the living, better run for your lives." Granted, The
Walking Dead is not the worst piece of zombie entertainment ever,
but on the other hand, the worst zombie films are often the best
entertainment, right?
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