Nice write up, and don’t thank me - I appreciate your responding with your takes on things I had only heard about.
For both Miike and Dante these scripts seem very much an encompassment of the main ideas in their respective catalogs. Miike is obviously the epitome of a blood and guts filmmaker but beyond just that, his works focus a lot on the masochism of discipline and how trauma shapes personalities and predilections of characters. Dante’s films, somewhat similar to (and influenced by) Romero, use the monsters and supernatural elements to make his observations on society. The way you described Homecoming almost sounds like a Day of the Dead sequel. Indeed those themes of the soldier zombies voting, etc is similarly touched on in “Survival of the Dead”. I don’t recommend that movie to anyone but the hardcore George stans. There’s not much juice to squeeze out of that one but perhaps a bit more than Diary/Dead. But I digest....
Let me know if you find any other gems in the series and kudos for the insight on the ones you’ve seen. I’m sure there is at least one installment within those two seasons that’s an unrecognized classic by a less/non famous director.
BTW, are you on letterboxd? A bunch of you guys from this thread followed me on there one day recently but I only connected one or two usernames (
@MartyMcFly is BlackMan right? and I think Nicole and Jello go by their same name here)
