[ctdonath2]

The book was awesome. Movie should have been directed by Ken Burns as a pseudo-documentary.

[gop4lyf]

I liked the book as well. Read “Dead of Night” by Jonathan Maberry. He’s a lefty, but he can write a hell of a scary story. One other great zombie book is “Tooth and Nail” by Craig DiLouie.

[Vince Ferrer]

If they had modeled the movie off the structure of the book, it wouldn't have been a summer blockbuster, but it also wouldn't cost 200 million, and they could have made a profit.

Last night I watched the Blair Witch Project online for the first time since I saw it in the theater. Lots of people complain about it (in the daytime), but in a theater that film got a lot of creepy milage out of the simplest things, like hearing twigs snap outside your campground, hearing voices you can't quite locate, seeing things that just don't belong there. That film cost $75,000 to make (maybe $1000 today), and it made $150 million.

Making a small movie doesn't mean it can't be effective.