Living Dead

John Carpenter Pans AMC’s Zombie Series ‘The Walking Dead,’ Says He Didn’t Like it ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of those rare shows that boast of a cult status and massive fan following. It is a rage among horror show aficionados but it looks like some prominent icon from the horror world is not impressed with the zombie series. According to reports, John Carpenter, the man behind popular and successful movies ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Thing,’ has said that he did not like it. He stated that it was just…

are not truly dead, but rather are created through medical and technological means rather than magical means as the zombies of Haitian origin. These poor souls have their brains removed and replaced by a synthetic substitute resulting in a shell with no soul to drive it. That function is fulfilled by their fully living human controllers (Martin, 2008). In this regard, the story is more of a tale of zombies than of the undead. The ‘corpses’ of this story are not truly physically dead as much as…

one primal thought and purpose, to eat and kill the living—this is a typical depiction of zombies and their behavior. The kind of zombie who strikes fear in the hearts of the living because the zombies threaten their very existence, way of life, and everything they’ve ever known. But what if there was more to the undead than meets the eye? Imagine zombies that could think and speak and act upon desires other than eating the flesh of the living. The human spirit is not easily killed and because…

that even in that kind of chaotic mentality, we find comfort in the sense of “community” that zombies and the idea of zombie apocalypse can give. The author uses historical examples from Haitian “voudoun”, cinematic icons such as “Night of the Living Dead,” and discusses the popularity of zombies in mainstream media pop-culture.…

future of the three is quite uncertain and there isn't much closure to the film. The future of Jim, Selena, and Hannah after being taken by the helicopter is uncertain and the future of humanity is also not known. In George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) it is slightly inferred that the future of humanity will prevail as the film concludes with Ben being burnt along with the other fallen zombies,but this ending isn't the most conclusive and is hinting more towards a postmodern horror…

Zombies are depicted as slow, unintelligent, and driven by hunger. The multiple videos, such as The Walking Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Warm Bodies, and Shaun of the Dead portrayed different attributes among emotion, physical, and psychological behaviors. The typical zombie behavior can be explained by the exploration and examination of the various parts of the brain. Firstly, zombies have the physical trait of a staggering walk in which their legs are stiff and their arms either are…

mindless beings that were controlled (“Zombie Origins”). One man’s monstrous, personal army, if you will. Zombies were always feared, just never in a sense that there was a belief that they could overrun the living. In one of the oldest works of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, a goddess curses the dead to rise…

the best way to kill the zombie horde that now stands in front of you, and they will first deduce what kind of zombies they are and the best way to survive. If they are viral zombies, they will be fast but die like a human would. If they are the living dead, they will need to take a blow to the head in order to incapacitate them. This is where a nerd shines best, exhibiting the exact, obscure knowledge needed to escape disaster. So if avoiding losing your temporal lobe to your next door neighbor…

of human lives in which zombies continually revisit and inflict on the living.…

Within the past decade, zombie movies have become a fad. It all began with the original Night of the Living Dead and cruised into the more current ones like World War Z and The Walking Dead. These movies and shows have taken horror and gore to the next level, but if you are looking for that scary, dreadful, and nail biting zombie movie that everyone loves, I would suggest looking elsewhere. A Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a movie about 3 high school scouts who plan an…