The Saturday Morning Pilot: Babylon Fields

There is nothing more fun than a well-executed zombie movie, yet nothing as painful as a poorly constructed one. Babylon Fields was a 1997 TV pilot that brought zombies to US broadcast television. Whether it was well executed or not is a matter for debate.

As zombie films have become post-modern, shades of grey seem to have entered the genre. Kicking off with Shaun of The Dead’s Ed integrated into a harmonious human/zombie relationship at the end of that film, the notion of us living side by side with the undead has become a frequent motif. Babylon Fields takes the idea and runs with it.

Babylon Fields is perhaps too glum and lacking in energy to sustain a regular ongoing TV series (failing where a potential Zombieland series would have been a corker), but this would have made for a fine low-budget feature film.

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