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Yes! I have seen BioZombie, in fact, I love it so much that I purchased it. I definitely think this is the best zombie movie ever made.

I understand why Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later are so popular. They represent the pinnacle of the zombie movie as the product of a post-war global culture trying to deal with the horror of nuclear warfare. I have read many examples of scholars linking up the tradition of zombie movies with the photographs of a-bomb victims in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and after seeing some of those photographs first-hand the resemblance is quite striking. Living Dead represents this, and 28 Days Later is the evolution of it in the age of chemical warfare as the replacement for the a-bomb.

Other new zombie films like SotD, and Biozombie, represent a shift in the tradition of zombie movies, where the threat is no longer so much one of actual warfare, but a cultural warfare being played out in pop culture. I remember one of the funniest, and most moving lines in Biozombie (a chinese film) being, as the character is dying, "I just wanted to see Titanic with my sweetheart on my birthday." Many scenes are intercut with shots from the game House of the Dead, which the protagonists are frequently playing before the zombie epidemic begins to present itself. This game is presumably why the protagonists are so deft at eliminating zombies. There are many other interesting and hilarious video game references and stereotypes, speaking of which, most of the characters are. Also, the epidemic itself, is a chemical agent designed for terrorism (similar to 28 days) but it is being distributed in soda pop, another pop culture icon.

Anyway, thanks for letting me rant for a little while. If you like zombie movies, and you haven't seen this flick, you should. Just be prepared for a lower budget than you're used to with American films, as not only is this a Chinese film but it's also independent.

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