For those that know me, know that I love Zombies and I have been looking for a good zombie movie, book, anything for a while. Since I turned the last page on WWZ I have been on a hunt to find a new book that could even compare to WWZ and after the credits…I have been on a mission to find a movie that could freak me out as much as Zombieland (next to Shaun of the Dead it is awesome). When I heard that AMC was coming out with a ZOMBIE series well I think my heart just stopped! I was excited. I couldn’t wait and trust me when I say I had my TiVo set at least 2 weeks in advance (as soon as I could set it to record I did). Sitting back Halloween night…since I couldn’t go out cuz of work Monday morning…I was not disappointed.
Walking Dead opens with a cop pulled over on the side of the road, he gets out and walking with a gas can around abandoned cars, dirty laundry, tents and more towards a gas station looking for fuel. Everything looks like it has been there for months. He cop hears a sound and drops down…looking under the car he sees a little figure stubbing in-between the cars in cute little bunny slippers. Realizing it is a little girl the cop stands up and calls out to hear…she turns around and she is a ZOMBIE!!! Her lips are eaten away from her face and blood is splattered all down the front of her outfit. The cop stubbles backwards as the little girl stumbles towards him with him with hunger in her eyes. He pulls out his gun and blows the child’s brains out!
Welcome to the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!! Just as my twisted little brain as always imagined it….
You think it would go from there…but it doesn’t…you flashback…
The next thing you see is the cop, Rick, and his partner Shane sitting in a cruiser MONTHS before the apocalypse. They are talking about their families; Rick about his wife Lori and son Carl, who have been going through some difficult times lately. A Call comes on the radio and they go to a shoot out. Rick gets hit in the firefight and ends up in the hospital in a coma.
We don’t know how much time has passed…Rick awakes. The flowers next to his bed are dead, the batteries in the clock on the wall have died and the hospital is completely silent. Rick struggles out of bed, calling for the nurse, but no one comes to help him. He struggles into the hallway and finds everything a mess. Computers over turned, paper strewn up and down the hallway, equipment knocked over. Rick wonders around the hospital…everything appears deserted until he stumbles upon a set of double doors chained shut and a warning written across them; “Don’t Open…Dead Inside”! Rick reaches towards the door when it starts to move and skeleton like fingers reach out from the crack. Rick rushes out the doors of the hospital in horror only to find dozens of dead bodies in body bags and hospital sheets spread out across the courtyard.
Rick, realizing that something is wrong rushes to find his wife and son, but his home is empty. Rick sits down outside his home tears in his eyes when a young boy appears and hit Rick with a shovel knocking him out. Rick awakes again to find himself in yet another bed. He is tied up and a man is standing over him, “Did he bit you…did you get scratched?”. Rick is confused and unsure how to answer. The man continues to question him. Rick slowly shakes his head and responds…”you shot that guy” The man leans over Rick to untie him…”No I shoot a walker”. Rick is confused. The man leans back and introduces himself as Morgan, and his son, Duane.
The next morning Rick, Morgan and Duane go to Ricks home. He realizes that his family has left and he believes they headed for Atlanta. Rick realizes that he has to go find his wife and son. He takes Morgan and Duane with him to the police station, where they have a hot shower and stock up on weapons and ammo. Rick says goodbye to his new found friends and heads off to Atlanta. Morgan and his son return home, where Morgan tries to find and finally kill his wife. But he is unable to do it.
Ricks car runs out of fuel on the way to Atlanta and he finds a horse who is not infected and takes off towards Atlanta. Riding into Atlanta Rick does not realize how many living dead are in one of the largest cities in the US and suddenly he is hit on all sides by the living dead, running at him from every corner. The zombies take down his horse ripping their intestines out. Sucking the blood from the dying horse the zombies devour him. Rick in an attempt to escape crawls under an Army tank. Realizing that he is trapped and has no way out his turns his gun on himself only to realize that the emergency hatch is open and he pulls himself into safety.
Inside the radio crackles and a sarcastic voice says “ Hey…you in the tank…cozy in there?” Rick realizes that others are alive in this world of the undead.
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