Ghouls vs. Zombies

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:47 pm

Mad Max had a very small budget-and the dubbed version actually led to a law that forbids dubbing Australian films into American dialect.
I saw "Road Warrior" first.
A similar film, if you can find it, is "The Cars that Eat People", a wicked little gem.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:03 pm

What the shit! they had a dubbed version of Mad Max...Anougther good/stupid little gem is the recent B movie Monster Man. Its about a guy in a monster truck who kills people!

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:09 pm

It was dubbed into American dialect.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:16 pm

What a travesty of nature

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:26 pm

krakenten wrote:It was dubbed into American dialect.

kind of like mel gibson as a star

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:21 pm

It would have been nearly unintelligible to Americans.
Just like "The Long Good Friday" which could have used subtitles in spots.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:24 pm

ehehe.. even gallipoli, a top notch australian movie, was hard for me to follow in dialogue-heavy parts.

language is a big joke

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:52 am

Gallipoli is a pretty good flic. You're the first person I've encountered who has seen it.

What I like about all three of the Mad Max flics is the way they depict the progression of post-apocalyptic civilization. The Road Warrior is the best of the bunch, IMO.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:23 am

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:Gallipoli is a pretty good flic. You're the first person I've encountered who has seen it.

I've seen Gallipolopipy on several occaisions. And as with the dialect I could follow all four movies pretty easily

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:13 pm

krakenten wrote:It would have been nearly unintelligible to Americans.
Just like "The Long Good Friday" which could have used subtitles in spots.

How could you not understand "The Long Good Friday"? You had the sound turn on, yeah?

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:47 pm

I speak pretty good Brit, but the argot of the razor men is pretty dense.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:45 pm

The only thing I couldn't understand was how Pierce Prosnan was cast.

Alan Lemex · Post by **Alan Lemex** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:25 am

Ghouls and Zombies are the same thing in the Dead films...

But if there are set rules for Zombies and Ghouls to be IDed as, I don't know any.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:24 am

Ghouls are creatures from Arab mythology, supernatural beings who eat the dead and haunt graveyards.
Zombies are revived corpses-they come from the voodoo tradition-voodoo is a strange religion, probably harking back to the Egyptian.
Lovecraft's Ghouls are a subrace of humans, or perhaps a seperate species, who practice necropopogy, and live extended spans-many are great scholars.
Zombies are bestial creatures, used for robotic slave work-myth has it that a taste of salt will undo the evil spell and return the body to death.
Lovecraft used the zombie in "The Thing on the Doorstep", though this was the zombie like posessed corpse, another version of the myth, more akin to the vampire.
The revenant, a corpse returned from the dead, is a powerful occult idea, and much feared, only recently have people shed their dread of the walking dead, even in Europe and America.
Or have they?

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:37 pm

Zombies are undead...Ghouls are living...both have the taste for human blood...While Ghouls are a lot smarter then zombies and usually don't work under a master.