Log in or link your magazine subscription. Other people! There's only so much you can do with this specific dish, but it's still fun to watch a master slice the cheese and blood-red tomatoes, every move as graceful as Zelda's. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. The phone zombies is too real, man, because I live in New York. By cutting off Gomez’s head and showing it to the audience, Jarmusch seems to imply that celebrity culture won't mean a damn thing when the world is coming to an end - or perhaps the lesson is that celebrity adoration contributes to a warped sense of reality.
The premise of "The Dead Don't Die" is as basic as it gets. Funko’s Upcoming Wave of ‘Zombieland’ Toys Includes Two Different Bill Murray Cameo Toys!

But in Jarmusch’s film, this highly competent character understands that humans aren’t the enemy; they’re merely misguided and miseducated. ("Skittles...") One zombie (horror film veteran Larry Fessenden) snacks on an arm as if were a turkey leg. Harmony Korine beat you to it, Jim. But The Dead Don’t Die isn’t a typical Jarmusch production. In Centerville, the zombies emerge because of "polar fracking" and the subsequent shift of the earth’s axis.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. It’s an interesting departure for Jarmusch, who previously delved into the horror genre with 2014’s vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive. They work with a third cop, Officer Mindy Morrison (Chloë Sevigny), to keep the sleepy town safe.
These zombies move slowly, and crave whatever it is that they wanted when they were alive, from coffee to Xanax, chardonnay to Snapple. His second-in-command, Officer Ronnie Petersen (Adam Driver), is convinced that things are sure to end badly. Whom have I missed? WARNING: Spoilers for The Dead Don’t Die The ending of The Dead Don’t Die suggests that mass consumerism inspires toxic behavior. It’s just gotten worse in the last 50 years.

She's unperturbed by the ghoul horde, strolling among them and dicing them with her katana. It was an unspoken answer to our hubris, our sins, and our inability to recognize that our time is up, and that we're the ones who sped up the timetable, by being so ignorant, greedy, and clueless. The result evokes those old Looney Tunes shorts where Bugs and Daffy realize they're in a cartoon. Zombies suddenly turn up. Zelda Winston (Tilda Swinton) is the eccentric local undertaker, and also wields a saber for some swordfighting practice in her spare time. He has never had a protagonist as fitting as Adam Driver’s bus driver Paterson of Paterson, who zones out in a state of creative ferment as he drives around an old city whose time has passed. It’s a very gory zombie comedy starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and a host of other recognizable actors, as they fight off a zombie invasion and say silly things. In an early scene at the local diner, that cliched emblem of America's ideological crossroads, MAGA Frank unthinkingly insults Hank, a black man ("Keep America White Again," Frank's red cap reads) and although Hank shrugs it off, his weary expression confirms that this kind of thing has happened before. newsletter. After Jarmusch goes meta, the only suspense is whether he can convince us that the film has a reason to exist.

Zombie children loiter in a ruined candy store, muttering brand names like incantations. Say Your Prayers: Blessed are the filmmakers…, Investigating Enola Holmes: The Case Of The Overthinking Critic, The Devil All The Time: the devil is in the detail, Bill & Ted 3: no Eddie Van Halen but we do get Dave Grohl, She Dies Tomorrow: the meaning of life, and death. Or maybe she’s just Tilda Swinton acting in a self-aware, wink-of-the-eye zombie movie.

In the first scene, Murray and Driver confront a visionary hermit played by Tom Waits, who looks like a cross between Gandalf and the Cowardly Lion and knows that the end is nigh.