There are zombie movies, and then there are ZOMBIE movies. The former are somewhat scary, but mostly entertaining to watch. The latter makes you realize how useless you’d be if that type of apocalypse happened. Many equate the latter type to Danny Boyle’s28 Days Later, which introducedhorrorfans to the blood-vomiting Rage Zombies. While they’re undoubtedly terrifying, they’re not the worst for two reasons. A) They’re technically not zombies; they’re just infected humans. And B) another horror movie one-upped28 Days Later’s sprinting zombies, and made them more terrifying than anyone could have imagined. That film is currently streaming onParamount+, and horror fans are obsessed with the terrifying depiction of the undead.
World War Zis available to stream on Paramount+, and it’s sprinting up the streamer’s weekly charts. At the time of publication, it is the fifth most popular movie on the streamer this week. Directed by Marc Forster,World War Zstars Brad Pitt as Gerry, a former United Nations employee who is brought in as one of humanity’s last hopes when a killer virus sweeps across the world, decimating the human race and turning people into ravenous zombies. What makesWorld War Zone of the scariest zombie movies of recent years? It’s none other than the zombies themselves. People like to joke that they’d be useless in an apocalypse. But very few people can confidently say they’d survive againstWorld War Z’s Usain Bolt-esque sprinting zombies, which stockpile over each other when charging at victims.
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Released in 2013,World War Zwas a modest success with critics, holding a 67% Rotten Tomatoes score. General audiences also enjoyed the film, as it holds a solid 72% audience rating. Alongside Pitt,World War Zalso stars Mireille Enos, James Badge Dae, Matthew Fox, and Daniella Kertesz. As well as securing decent reviews, the film also swept across the box office like a zombie virus, grossing $540 million worldwide.
‘World War Z’ Was a Divisive Hit
All the numbers, box office figures, and review statistics might point toWorld War Zbeing a success, but the film alienated one of the most important demographics: fans of the source material. The film isbased on the novel,World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,by Max Brooks. However, it is about as loose an adaptation as they come.
Brooks' novel isn’t a linear story. Instead, it is written as a journalistic report of one man’s travels across the world as he pieces together the start, height, and cure for a zombie pandemic.World War Z’s movie adaptation took the incredibly unique storytelling style and cut it for a run-of-the-mill zombie action film.World War Zis far from a bad movie, and it holds up on its own merit. But it’s an adaptation of Max Brooks' novel in its name alone, as almost the entire plot of the movie is original, and has nothing to do with the book.
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