The Walking Dead (2010)
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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…it ends with a beautiful visual of her silhouetted and framed by the door, rain pouring down behind her, like something out of Halloween.
…the Reaper continues to come after their victim like Michael Myers on Halloween…
There is blood, there is drama and there is a fun nod to slasher movie Halloween, as The Walking Dead delivers a mid-season episode that feels almost like a season finale.
…during one of Negan’s games where Rick is thrown to the walkers – very reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Fog – are able to create sheer fear out of nothing.
The atmosphere puts both characters and viewers on edge, exuding a vibe directly from The Thing.
…with visuals that hark back to Lost…
For the writers, knowing your show is ending and having a clear deadline is often a benefit (see Lost)…
Mercy is given the Lost treatment, as the story jumps to scenes of future events.
…evoking Terminator as a figure emerges from an exploding building…
Morgan, engulfed in the red mist, continues his Terminator-like slaughter, picking off his victims like a horror movie monster.
The all-black attire for Wells may as well have been a red shirt from Star Trek, as he is sent in for the slaughter.
The Alexandrians may as well be wearing red shirts borrowed from Star Trek…
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There is an unbelievably tense scene reminiscent of Willy Wonka’s impossible corridor and a macabre game of Where’s Wally? (or Where’s the Whisperer?)
The Walking Dead tries to go Quentin Tarantino with The Lost and the Plunderers, even complete with title cards before character-centric scenes and sequences that overlap and tell the same story but from a different perspective.
Chokepoint delivers an episode high on tension, with some super close combat fighting and one particularly stunning visual evocative of American Psycho.
Jerry (Cooper Andrews) does his best Sloth from the Goonies impression to hold open the hole when things start to go awry.
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However, it does feel like a concatenation of A New Hope’s waste disposal scene and The Crystal Maze, complete with teammates shouting words of encouragement as they watch on unable to help.
Opening with an action sequence that feels like it was ripped straight out of a movie – Tarrantino-esque chapter cards, Zimmer-like, string-slicing score and, ironically, Zombieland-inspired slow-mo-hacktion…