I am a huuuuuge fan of zombie movies, but even us fans have to admit that there’s been an over-saturation of zombies in the last decade. A few of these movies have been really good or at least fun to watch — like [REC] and Resident Evil! — but we’ve also been inundated with complete crap — like [REC2] and Resident Evil 2!

As a quality control measure, I swore off English language zombie movies a couple of years ago. It’s not that aaaaaaall English movies are bad and aaaaaaaall foreign movies are good, but usually avoiding English movies weeds out the worst of the Zach Snyder-esque “movie-as-music-video” pieces*. At least with a foreign movie I’m likely to get a little sense of another culture and some scenery at worst, and a neat intellectual piece at best. (Yes, basically I am just a huge movie snob.)

The point of all this is to say that I plan on breaking my pledge for The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet, starring Ian McKellar, Dame Judy Dench, and Gillian Anderson. The movie will “follow a 1700s town in England that becomes overrun with zombies”. Period costumes! Strumpets! JUDY DENCH KILLING ZOMBIES. Yes. Please.

On the topic of zombies, here’s someone’s list of the 15 most badass deaths in zombie movies, which is amusing if not entirely accurate. (A tree is not a zombie.) And if you’re a zombie over-preparer like me you might be tempted to buy this “Z-SAT Zombie Survival Aptitude Test” from ThinkGeek.

* The intro sequence for the Dawn of the Dead remake is absolutely stunning. The rest of the movie is terrible. Like, zombie baby terrible.