Living Dead

Watts wesley 6th grade henning KineMortophobia: Kinemortophobia is the fear of ZOMBIES or the living dead. “What to do if you have a zombie problem that gets out of control” This is a essay of the fear of Zombies/ghosts and more. So Kinemortophobia or The Fear of The Living Dead (TLD) aswell and The Walking Dead (TWD) “People who are afraid of The Living Dead then they have Kinemortophobia” Kinemortophobia is thought of a joke where, in reality, it is a very real phobia. Kinemortophobics are terrified of zombies, or are afraid of turning into zombies. The word is derived from Greek Latin Kine= move, mort=dead, combined together to form…

or an individual. We see this time and time again, from Little Red Riding Hood to the collection of Grimm’s Fairytales. Night of the Living Dead, the movie can be seen as a struggle or revolt against collectivism and consumer culture. When the Night of the Living Dead is looked at in comparison to the time it was created, a deeper meaning becomes much more transparent. NoTLD was filmed in the 60’s, a time known for its counter-cultural movements and revolutionaries. This generation was revolting…

Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, directed by Gorge A. Romero and Carnival of Souls, released in 1962, directed by Herk Harvey, are two popular movies in the horror genre. Both low budget and filmed in black and white, captivated audiences with their filming techniques and psychological impact. Night of the Living Dead better represents the horror genre than Carnival of Souls because of its use of characteristics, stereotypes and technical components throughout the film. A typical…

Zombies are a phenomenon that almost everyone has heard about. Shambling mindless corpses trying to feast on the flesh of the living. The idea of the undead has been around for almost as long as people and their culture have. There have been multiple cultural variants of zombies and ideas of how to keep the dead from coming back to haunt the living such as the theory behind the origin of the tombstone was that it was literally a giant rock that cavemen rolled on top of graves to keep the…

Portrayals of zombies fill the mainstream media and popular culture. From television shows such as The Walking Dead to movies like 28 Days Later and Zombieland. Zombies have even been largely popularized through the Resident Evil novels followed by video game and big screen adaptations. The most awarded video game, The Last of Us, is based on a post-apocalyptic world full of zombie-like creatures. The popularity that zombies still elicit in the media can be traced back to one film that changed…

that ignites our deepest fears and desires. The sub-genre of zombie films force audiences to question themselves on many different aspects about life. Surely, concepts such as the uncanny and allegorical meanings arise when discussing such texts. The zombie horror has seen significant change over the past few decades, the most notable being the quality of production, graphics and costume. From white paint applied to the face to now detailed graphics that show the gore and horror of living dead.…

by Danny Boyle 28 days later. Bayley focuses on this film the most because the zombies are not really zombies in this film since they do not die and then rise again, but they are just infected by a virus that spreads throughout the world. Bayley begins by giving us some background on the zombie genre. She starts off by telling us that George Romero started the subgenre of zombies with his film Night of the Living Dead. She…

Night of the Living Dead” is film about a zombie outbreak in the 60s. First in the film we meet Barbara and her brother Johnny when they are arriving at their father’s grave to pay their respects in wish of their mother. Upon leaving the grave site it is very clear something devastating has happened. Throughout the film different concepts can be examined and related to our everyday lives. Hedonism is the belief that our actions are driven by the desire for pleasure. When analyzing the film we…

In both of the films, I Walked with a Zombie from 1943 and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead from 1968, race and Vodou play a large factor in creating the elements that compose the zombies of the stories. I Walked with a Zombie addressed the complications of white power by representing slaves working in the sugar industry as nothing more than mindless zombies, being manipulated by the white race to conform to their will. Night of the Living Dead also incorporated a wide range of racially…

Still others came from the creek and the gravel trail behind us. Scenes of great suffering, moans, wails, tormented screams and the sounds of bones snapping and shifting into place echoed in from all around us while also reverberating of the walls of the bridges substructure creating a cacophony of horror that shook me to my core. More of Frankenstein’s travel companions materialized from the formerly still waters of the creek. The ground directly behind Charlie caved in and…