George A. Romero

Monster Cinema: The Myth and History of the Spectacle In recent years, the monster genre has been dominated by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and supernatural creatures. Although these monsters terrify audiences, they don’t have the same impact as their larger, far more destructive counterparts. The kaiju, or giant monster, have been a neglected and misunderstood genre for a long time. It wasn’t until recently that these monsters started to make their way back on the silver screen. This paper…

Frequently, popular novels are adapted into motion pictures. A novel that I have recently read that has been made into a motion picture is Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies is a story about a world where a plague divided the planet’s population into two different species, Humans and Zombies. The tale takes place in some city with a zombie named R and a human girl named Julie. One day R saw Julie and had a sudden urge to save her.. Which he did. The story continues from there as these two encounter many…

Every year there is a new movie or book comes out having to do with some type of supernatural being. This begs the question, why are supernatural beings always the topic of choice? Some possibilities are simple, such as wanting to believe there is more out there rather that just normal human beings. Del Toro and Hogans, Vampires Never Die, talks about the history of vampires and all the things a vampires are capable of as well as how that we humans crave characteristics of vampires. Other…

The Implications of Zombie Apocalypse Preparation and Survival What Happens Inside of a Zombie’s Brain? The virus attacks and devours the brain’s frontal lobes, responsible for problem solving, so they cannot make complex decisions. Zombie’s cerebellums become impaired, which explains why they cannot walk so well, either. These beings also have an unexplained predilection for human flesh. (E. Landau, 2011) Zombies Can Be Helpful Although zombies are defined as an undead being created through the…

Zombies The thought of your loved ones coming back from the dead is horrific. Though, people generally see zombies in multiple sources of media such as movies, television shows, and comics every day. The idea of the walking undead corpses was brought on by Haitian folklore from the early 1900’s. The term’s meaning is based off of a fictional undead being created through the animation of a human corpse. Although the idea of “zombies” sounds completely insane and irrational, there are multiple…

Voodoo zombies are a very interesting type of zombie it’s not your typical flesh eating zombie. Voodoo zombies are a person who has died and, has risen from the grave and is doomed to spend the rest of eternity as a slave of the living. These zombies suffer zombie powder the tool used for zombification the toxin temporarily paralyzes the human nervous system, creating a state of extreme hibernation with the vital organs functioning at minimal levels. Voodoo zombies show emotion suffering from…

The Walking Dead: Era of Zombies Living in a real-life zombie apocalypse where your day-to-day endeavors include facing hordes of the undead, dwindling supplies, and encountering dangerous strangers lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been…

Veteran Actress Mindy Robinson Works with Real Vets in Her Latest Role in Range 15 Robinson is one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood with over 150 appearances on TV and film, and has no problem holding her own amongst the testosterone-fueled landscape of Range 15. Range 15 plays like The Hangover meets Act of Valor, with zombies to fight instead of terrorists. Intentionally campy and packed to the brim with surprising celebrity appearances, the action/horror/comedy also features a…

Lying in a Apocalypse Eating brains and shooting walkers is in a regular day of the zombie apocalypse. I chose one of my personal favorite shows The Walking Dead. The episode chosen is the first episode of season 6 named First Time Again. The synopsis of the episode is short but has many details in the episode. Also the episode has very few lies, which are said to each other. There is another part of lying in the episode that is ran through the entire series which means more than just lying.…

Zombie Proof Building: The Wellness Center The zombie apocalypse may seem very frightening to some people. In fact, most may find it convenient to run away all the time, and when it comes to fighting zombies, just do so in order to survive. But what happens when it is not possible to run away or fight? When survivors of a class two zombie outbreak find them themselves in a difficult situation where the amount of zombies is too large to fight, or when there is no way of being able to run away…