Very good horror comedy film!

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2020)

The film Zombieland is an action-packed movie that does a great job of keeping the audience interested and engaged. This movie is about a shy college student that is trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-slinging tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park and join forces to travel across a zombie-filled country. These four main characters in this movie are, Tallahassee played by Woody Harrelson, Columbus played by Jesse Eisenberg, Wichita played by Emma Stone, and Little Rock played by Abigail Breslin. These four survivors go on a long journey to try and make it to a so-called safe place in Los Angeles, California. They abide by a list of survival rules and zombie killing strategies as they take their journey. Columbus especially takes these rules very serious and follows them to the best of his ability. This horror comedy film focuses on these four main characters and their journey to find safety from the walking dead.
The theme of this movie, in my opinion, is isolation. This is the main theme of this movie because although the movie is set in a zombie apocalypse, it makes a comparison to real-life society. It does this by showing how we are all becoming disconnected from each other, just like in the movie how Columbus has been separated from his family in Ohio. Throughout the movie, these four main characters that I have stated, get separated at many times. In the movie, Wichita and Little Rock steal Tallahassee and Columbus's vehicle, but they all four always end up finding their way back to each other somehow.
Just from watching the title sequence, the audience can expect what themes that the film will end up showing. For example, the idea that zombies will kill everyone and that no one is spared shows this. All of society in this movie is shown in the sequence and how each scene portrays something new about isolation. Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita, and Little Rock are trying their best to survive and protect themselves from this apocalypse. Another icon to signify that this movie genre is horror, is how color is used. Color is used in the sequence and the cover page of the movie, which is mainly red and black. In many scenes, there are also lots of other colors being used to show that it is not only a horror movie, but a horror comedy. Just the title sequence says a lot about this movie. It helps the viewers be able to tell that the narrative of this film will be very action-packed and horrific with gory, but at the same time have some comedy to it.
This movie is not only a horror movie, but it is also a good comedy. There are many movies out in the world that relate to the theme of the movie Zombieland. One movie that I would say relates to the Zombieland movie theme, is the moved SAW. The movie SAW has a big sequence of large amounts of gore in the economy and it is also a horror movie. Both of these two movies show blood, gore, and pain because they are both American horror films. They also have a lot of action in them and some parts that will give the audience a few laughs.
A technique that is used and has relevance to the theme, is the lighting, and the colors they use. Color plays a big role in the theme in many different ways. One way is how certain colors are used to either show that a scene is scary or supposed to be happy and fun. The colors red and black show the fear, violence, and gore of the movie due to all the blood and the way that the zombies are portrayed. Brighter colors make the theme feel safer and happier, while darker colors make it feel scary and depressing. Lighting is a big deal and kind of goes with the colors that are being used in the movie. Lighting is very important because, in film production, cameras do not respond to lights the same way that the human eye does. Having the correct lighting for a specific scene can determine the mood of that scene. It can also evoke a more dramatic or subtle feel for the film.