These last few weeks has been spent streamlining and updating our backend and adding movies to our database. We have now reached our first milestone, 100 zombie movies. Realistically, we're looking at the end of the year to more or less complete the database in terms of movies, since there are a few thousand out there.
While adding movies we came to a scary realization, we haven't seen or even heard of a lot of the movies we are adding. This means that we don't know what kind of zombies they cover. This is why we introduced the new verified badge feature. If you look at a movie's zombie section you will see a verified badge if we are 100% sure and have an official stance on the type of zombies the movie contains.
If the badge is missing it means we've done our best by reading up on the plot, analyzing trailers and googling for answers but we cannot promise that the zombie metadata listed is correct. If the data is listed as unknown then there is simply not enough data out there to even make an educated guess.
What else? We had problems placing Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. It would be placed either in George Romero's Living Dead franchise or in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Franchise. We didn't feel the remake fit in the Living Dead franchise, and while it's not a 100% perfect fit in the Army of the Dead franchise a few arguments made us go with it anyway;
- Both movies are directed by Zack Snyder.
- Both movies feature mostly the same type of fast zombies,
- There's an easter egg in Army of the Dead that mentions the outbreak in Milwaukee, where Dawn took place.
- Snyder went out and said that Army of the Dead was the spiritual successor to Dawn of the Dead.
This is why we're putting Dawn of the Dead (2004) and its short movies in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead franchise as a standalone title.
