This walking dead show isn't bad. It does use old school style zombie gore. Not the real fancy shot you see in new zOmbie flicks
Boyle used some simmilar shooting techniques to Romero on 28 days later, the only difference was he made his dead fast and gave the audience an explanation for them being there right away. The original dead films were shot on 35mm with shoestring budgets. Todays remakes are big studio cashed up HD and are good films as well in thier own right.
The remakes of Day and more so Dead have that new style of fast paced cuts and plenty of them combined with the faster dead, they sure still follow the formula storywise but your right the $$ thrown into them make them more graphic.
28 days later was garbage imo. far from a Romero or Tom Savini style effects. BOyle was a one hit one wonder in making a good film trainspotting is his only film worth watching. 28 days later belongs with resident evil as a wannabe zombie movie.
imo zombies are shit on their own is only because there is a mass of them it makes them hard to get away from, thats what is cool about real zombie movies not having super strong super fast dead things. and walking dead has kept that theme, however why wont any of these characters in walking dead actually call it a zombie even if its called a zombie once by some one lol, my only beef with it lol
i would say new zombie films are more high impact graphic rather than old school gore. thats what is fun about old zombie films, gore gore gore and more gore, so much gore its funny and you laugh at a guy getting ripped up, and the only time you dont is when you liked the person.
