According to Klosterman, “Zombies are a commodity that has advanced slowly and without major evolution, much like the staggering creatures George Romero popularized in the 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead.”” (Klosterman). In this allusion, Klosterman connects the trend of zombies to zombies featured in “Night of the Living Dead”. Society is fast-paced and ever-changing, which makes it strange how…
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…
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…
are a lot of great celebrity appearances in Range 15, many of which play a zombie version of themselves. Are there any other celebrities you’d like to see as zombies? MR: I'd like to see Tom Hanks play a zombie, and I bet he'd still win a fucking Oscar for it! G&C: Range 15 has a zombie narrative but plays much more as a comedy than a horror film. You’ve worked a great deal in both genres. Do you have a preference/favorite? MR: Comedies are my favorite, because I am already kind of weird and…