Night of the Living Dead

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 adventurous night out camping. Before the night is even started, their…

further imply 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.…

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…

Elizabeth McAlister argues that zombies that we know of today are used as a mirror to highlight capitalism, slavery, and the rebellion against it. She discusses the how zombies originated and its effects on Haitian religion and culture, how the marine occupation of Haiti brought the "Zonbi" to the using film industry and is relation to a barbaric racial blackness, and how we began to see how the U.S. film industry began to move from the barbaric sense to the rebellion against it. I agree with…

started the subgenre of zombies with his film Night of the Living Dead. She…

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…

What would happen to international politics if zombies rose from the dead and began their brain eating festival? Daniel Drezner’s ground-breaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing issues after careful analysis, Drezner looks at how well-known IR theories might be applied to a war with zombies. Exploring popular zombie films, songs, and books, Drezner predicts realistic scenarios for the political stage in the face of a…

termed “Zombedy” by Bishop, is explained to challenge audiences’ ideas about zombie narratives. To exemplify the evolution of this subgenre, Bishop shares history behind the original tragedy of zombie narratives. Bishop cites Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead as the start of traditional tragic zombie movies. Bishop also explains that the protagonist groups of these movies are representations of a “family” unit. These movies, like others, highlighted the bleak outlook of the world…

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…