That's interesting.  I am trying to pitch a film at the moment called
"Hollywood Babylon," in which the digital zombie ghosts of Hollywood
stars from the classical era all rise from the grave and start to
attack the present day inhabitants in their homes...

Picture this: a mostly rotten Humphrey Bogart goring Sean Penn, whilst
Agnes Moorhead decapitates Zach Braff.

As Dustin Hoffman runs for his life, he bumps into Anne Bancroft.  Is
she dead or alive?  He can't remember whether he just dreamt that she
was dead, or whether it really happened.  Too late!  She strangles him
with a silk stocking...

The day is saved, however, when a washed up Andrew McCarthy
accidentally kills the zombie revenant of Claude Rains when he exposes
him to... a magnet.

And so begins a vengeful rampage in which the old and the new are
overthrown and a new order emerges - films starring McCarthy, Corey
Haim, Lou Diamond Philips, Andy Serkis and Louis Gossett Jr.  Classics
that never got made, like Iron Eagle IX: Regal Eagle versus Smeagol...

I see it as a synthesis of Peter Jackson's early and later works...  A
kind of morality fable about his the digital might one day kill us.
Which is a lesson I think we should all bear in mind...

Have great days!
w


> This debate is actually the basis for a pretty mindblowing film 'Les=20
> Revenants' AKA They Came Back (2004) by Robin Campillo: one day all the=20=
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> dead people just come back to life (without explanation) and they start=20=
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> roaming the streets leaving alle the people in the town bewildered, they=20=
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> don't know what to do. The zombies are quite harmless really and seem to=20=
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> crave for affection in some cases and the film concerns itself with=20
> questions like 'what do you do when your deceased 6 year old boy stands=20=
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> before you all of a sudden'? In this respect it's much like=20
> Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' (for me anyway). I believe J. Hoberman called it an=
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> avant-zombie flick. It's quite a moving, intelligent and atmospheric take=
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> on the classic zombie film.
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> Maikel Aarts

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