Plaga Zombie: American Invasion
Look! It’s a film that’s only 3 years old! And it’s from an Argentinian director! Contrary to my normal standard, this is a sequel to the original Plaga Zombie which was actually filmed in Argentina. So why did I pick this one? Two reasons. 1) This was filmed in English, the original and other two sequels have spotty closed captions in English. 2) The original was made on a budget of -10 dollars, because “Commie Argentina circa 1997.” The passion is there, but the production might scare you fine people off of enjoying a good series.
So what can I tell you about this film series? It’s a zombie film series, in case you were wondering. Evil aliens infect people with a virus to turn them into zombies, etc… This whole series is Pablo Parés‘ baby. He directed the first three, and was the “guest director and editor” on this film. He was born in 1978 which is when most Glibs were graduating high school. I keeed! Sort of. Anyway he is very young, and has produced a ton of films already. How many? Take a guess. Five? Ten?
He has directed 37 films (including a lot of shorts). His first full-length film was Plaga Zombie in 1997, from there he directed 23 full-length films. So, about a film a year with only a few breaks. The man is a machine. I would also point out that a lot of his output gets high scores on IMDB, in the 6-7 range. Really impressive for popping out a close to a film a year.
I am including a link to the original Plaga Zombies and sequels in case you want to see his related back catalog. What’s interesting and educational about these films is it shows you some good Argentinian scenery and culture from the Commie era. If you want to see everything he has done, click on the link above for IMDB and review his significant back catalog.
- Plaga Zombie (1997) – Pablo Parés made up for a lot in this first film. Kudos to him. Actors were good too. But it is hard to overcome shooting on video with no budget at all.
- Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante (2001): Takes the idea a little further, has much improved film quality.
- Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante: Revolución Tóxica (2011): Lather, rinse and repeat from 2001. Everything looks better and works better. The end of a trilogy started in 1997.
- Plaga Zombie: American Invasion (2021) The aliens are back! This time they target America.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Hopefully you enjoy tonight’s film, and learn about a new set of films to binge watch. Next week, we will jump ship to Plex and watch a Hammer film classic: Kiss of the Vampire!
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“He has directed 37 films”
In a row?
Almost. There was one or two short films in there post 1997. After 1997 is was 95% back to back full-length films. I would say something like “What an amazing output” but then you are watching tonight’s film and probably figured out how he did it.
“Argentinian Troma”
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’
-Steven Wright
No one got that reference?
Try not to direct any films on your way through the parking lot!
*golf clap*
Hey you, get back here!
So why did I pick this one? Two reasons. 1) This was filmed in English, the original and other two sequels have spotty closed captions in English. 2) The original was made on a budget of -10 dollars, because “Commie Argentina circa 1997.”
But what about boobs?
I’m going to dive in and find out.
Boob free for at least a few more weeks. Although the new “Sausage Party” graphic for blue nights is going to be a hit.
Mojeaux is right though. Thursdays is the most sausagey of the Glib sausage parties.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sausage-Fest.gif
Mo should join us and talk politics. The Weiner Republic would be a good choice.
Pol Pop-Tarts?
How can she possibly resist us?
It’s a mystery.
Shades of “Wrath of Khan”
There is a discount Snake Plisken later. And a K-Mart Von Eric.
TT went off to an open mic night, so I’m getting in a little evening Tranquility Base time! Dinner is a mess o’ chicken salad from a little deli/wine store, washed down by a mug o’ milk with a shot of Bailey’s! 😋
Nice! I had leftover mac and cheese with sausage, and now some corn whiskey.
Now I want mac & cheese, but the deli is closed. 😞 Ah, well! More Bailey’s & milk will suffice!
Also awesome: our backyard tulip poplar is blooming! 🥰🌳🌷 (wrong color flower, but you get the idea!)
The Rose of Sharon and the Magnolia tree are both blooming all over. Fantastic amount of blossoms and furry bumble bees right now.
That’s great! We have a magnolia that hangs over the driveway. It’s beautiful in bloom, but it keeps flowering too early and getting hit with a late frost, which turns the petals brown and dumps them all over the driveway.
We used to have a Rose of Sharon, but it got crowded out by what I call a “weed tree.” (Maybe a mulberry or something related?) 😒
Heading out in a while for the Thursday night race. We will follow it up with a session at the grill. We usually have burgers from local beef but tonight I am bringing a dozen oysters to grill for an appetizer.
our backyard tulip poplar is blooming!
Nice!
Stuff is starting to bloom in southern NH.
Takeout Thai tonight. A happy discovery – a Dark and Stormy makes an excellent pairing with Thai (especially with a spicier ginger ale – we use the Q Light ones).
Aliens and zombies? Winner.
Here we go…
Just… Remove expectations. You’ll enjoy it.
“My regular alkies”
Heh
Sounds like an interesting movie! I may have to watch it tonight.
In tangential news, the reports of the local drive-in’s demise were false. There’s a double feature of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Civil War for the next two weekends.
Also, in even more tangential news, the drive in wasn’t blown away by the tornado that put a new dent in my truck! Thankfully, the trashcan is fully hardened to tornadoes, so the trash family survived unscathed.
Good news!
My dream would be to open a drive in and have all-night weekend movie marathons of silly schlock and bands. Live shows, bands, etc… used to be a big part of the drive in experience and I think it is overdue for e return.
Dent in the truck isn’t good news though. But the house surviving STEVE SMITH’S FIST sized hail is good.
Yikes! Was the truck parked at the time?
Yep, out in the driveway. We got a gust of really strong wind (probably 65 or 70 mph) as the tornado dissipated, and it showered our house with twigs and leaves and stuff. I have no clue what hit the truck, but it’s a beater so it’s just one more dent for the collection.
I’m a bit annoyed at myself. I put an SD card in my security camera earlier this week, but decided to have it record only people and animals. It would’ve had a perfect view of the tornado if i had left it to record on motion.
That’s a bit too close for comfort! 😳🌪
You saw my video of the Memorial Day tornadoes.
Only vaguely remember. Was Jugsy yelling at you?
the reports of the local drive-in’s demise were false.
Excellent.
Thankfully, the trashcan is fully hardened to tornadoes, so the trash family survived unscathed.
Also excellent.
Ear worms give me the heebie-jeebies.
There are some really unexpected musical numbers, even a video with the fake Von Eric that made me wonder if suddenly I had changed movies.
Thankfully the gratuitous Troma-level gore made up for it.
What’s a Von Eric? Google just gave me the Von Erich wrestling family whoever they were.
Yeah yeah.
Heh. I want to see an Iron Claw.
NO LAWS WITH THE CLAWS!
Oh, we got a Shock Waves reference.
+1 professional wrestlers and muppets.
Where’s Rufus? Is he working?
I wish he was here. Probably working and cursing us commenting slackers.
I should change my avatar to Beaker, the best muppet.
Wrong
This is not the First time you are wrong.
Swedish Chef FTW.
I’ll light the Rufus signal.
*wafts fresh poutine odor aboot*
/calls sink disposal a “garberator”
Why are my ears ringing?
*standing ovation*
Rufus! Your ears are ringing because we miss you.
Tinnitus. I have it too.
I played my girlfriend this song that I wrote her, but she can’t hear it ’cause she’s got no ears.
You ain’t gonna see me cry.
A tear don’t fall from a glued-on eye.
TUBI added an original film called “Shark Side of the Moon.”
Appraising…
What could possibly go wrong with this cauterization attempt?
Did that guy really get his intestines pulled out his ass?
I can honestly say I’ve never seen that in a movie before.
Well, you should hang around here more often!
I’ve never seen a flasher get his junk ripped off either. Damn.
Deathgasm, posted 2021. One of the most popular films I showed by comment count. Junk ripped off.
*takes notes*
If you look in the forum, there is the entire list of all films shown, by year with comment counts. I have not gone back and hyperlinked though. That would be a lot of work.
I forgot we had a forum. I can’t remember the last time I logged into it.
Dear Glibertarians Forum,
I can’t believe this happened to me but…
We have a bumblebee friend. He actually comes to the window and wants the dogs to come out.
I’m thinking the dogs may not consider him such a good friend. 🐝
I do worry about the cats taking swats at bees. So far they haven’t. Which is surprising.
Was that NYC standing in for New Bedford in that aerial shot just before the jet fired its missiles?
I am not sure. This was probably not widely shown in the US so you may be the first person who knew enough to notice.
I’ve never been to New Bedford, but that aerial view looked wrong for a city in that part of MA. Too big.
I’ve never been to England, but I kind of like the Beatles.
Wait a minute, I have driven through New Bedford. Once. Yeah, that aerial view doesn’t line with what I remember from that drive.
These zombies aren’t giving 110%. They’re falling apart.
The neon colors are special. Also the movie doesn’t end at the ending, very Marvelesque.
Well, that was….
Um….
different.
Next week is a Hammer classic, followed by an Irish vampire film. It gets better.
New Bedford, but no Cape Verdians or Cambodians?
I’m still adjusting to my new schedule! Didn’t pop in ’til now. Thanks R.J. for keeping this up. For many reasons, I intend on soon making a formal plan to write a Glib piece on a semi-regular basis starting soon. Big Talk w Older Bro tomorrow is actually part of my two-week ago bday. Should be an interesting one about many many things. A regular, craft-driven hobby is likely a profound ‘necessity’ for me to adapt to. Combining what I actively love, hangin’ w y’all, and something I’m professionally interested in and good at, writing, fits those bills.
I’ve worked professionally with UCS. I edited a fantasy novel of his (don’t want to doxx him) in 2018, a year before The Incident. I’d like to talk to him about that. There are plenty of other writers here. It would be a good place for us to talk shop along with our other foibles.
(Most of us graduating high school in ’78: …Dad was 29 and Bro was -2! Fun for me: Dad was 14 when JFK was assassinated. I was 14 on 9/11. Hrm.)
Well, isn’t this interesting:
https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1788212152115032462
And people wonder why I won’t use Google or tolerate its apps on my devices, in any form.
And I see it’s been fixed, which is nice, but that it happened at all . . .
Yeah, Google delenda est.
Christ, and now Apple has pissed me off:
https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1787864325258162239
Worst commercial of all time, or all time worst commercial? I think those are our choices here.
I don’t get the Twitter outrage. AI bot response? It’s the same thing over and over.
Fear of progress, It’s not just for weavers anymore.
Think its a bit more than fear of progress. The underlying tones are you don’t need those silly instruments, just press buttons on the iPad to make music. Which, sure, it is a form of music but not a replacement as the ad implies.
Haven’t watched it, not gonna watch it. The complaints are about how it’s going all Cultural Revolution/Year Zero.
They’re also mainly from Hollywood types, which makes sense, since they’re going to be replaced by AI.
Neither.
Not the greatest ad ever but not the end of the world. In the context of the iPad Pro, they’re pushing it as a video editing and composition device in a professional sense so it kind of makes sense.
Sonny & Cher > Cher solo
And I’ve seen MUCH worse commercials. (The bursting emoji is cute in a sadistic sort of way. Extra credit for crushing an Angry Bird.) In fact, I think I like it!
If people are getting bent out of shape about the gratituous destruction they could just run the video part of the ad in reverse. It’d make just as much sense that way.
I’ve seen people do much worse things to musical instruments…in many cases, by playing them.
McMillan and Wife is as good as Columbo. Not really a surprise. Rock Hudson as a SF police commish 🤨. Things I didn’t catch when I was younger.
#meneither
I’ve seen most of them on Cozi lately. Good stuff.
…annnnnd they’ve replaced it with Little House. Oh well.
Happy Friday peeps!
☔✊☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7dG_m3MsI
I haven’t been to the Ren Faire in years. 😕
Morning… and it is rainy here too.
Good morning, Sean and U!
Morning. I’ve got enough of a cough that I’ve decided to ask to work remote.
🤧
Oh no! 😟 Stuffy nose and sneezing too?
No, just a cough.
Okay! Hope you get some relief and it goes away ASAP!
Should have got the jab.
You should have gotten a sense of humor.
Shhiiiiiit, I’m the second funniest cat in this joint.
There must be a pileup on first then.
I don’t know’s on second.
More accurate Ren Faire
Morning everyone!
Another nice day! No snow in the forecast!
WFH or rather Not W at all seems to be on my Do List again.
Good morning 4(20)! And Stinky and NA and I guess Teh Hype, too.
Mornin’
Good morning, OBE! Did your doggies get to go out and play with the bumblebee?
They do! I think its a male bumblebee, so no worry of a sting. The thing will come to our back window and hover and then flies all excited when they come out.
Good morning! And a happy Friday to my fellow cube mushrooms.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Good morning, homey! Ready to blow that C-town (or is it Y-town?) and get back to the better end of the state?
Yes ma’am
I plan on heading SW shortly after lunch. Then Im back up here Sunday for the week.
Yesterday, the company WizKids announced they were creating special line of Dungeons & Dragons miniatures based on iconic art that was created over the years.
Probably the most iconic piece of D&D art is Larry Elmore’s painting of a warrior charging a dragon, which was on the cover of the 1983 “Basic Dungeons & Dragons” boxed set.
The warrior’s back is to the viewer, shield in the left hand, sword in the right, ready to strike at the one-horned red dragon that is glaring down. The warrior wears some sort of fish-scale looking armor and has glamour-band style hair blowing in the breeze.
Since the face of the warrior isn’t shown, WizKids decided the warrior must actually be a woman.
https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/character-mini-wizkids-red-box-warrior-female
Which is fine.
Someone asked Larry Elmore whether he was painting a male or female, and he replied along the lines of “obviously male; I draw females in a different style.”
An Elmore-drawn female: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/df/2a/ecdf2ad89e85704a14c5cec159a46cb1.jpg
Also used in the book with the cover in question.
Elmore > Easley
The toy maker Super7 already made an action figure with this warrior: https://super7.com/collections/dungeons-dragons/products/dungeons-and-dragons-reaction-figures-wave-03-formidable-fighter
He’s a man, man!