Index of horror/thriller movies (currently 573 reviewed)

[goodcop2000]

(04-09-2012 05:11 AM)Franzoid Wrote:  wow, Night of the Living Dead (1968) is a 5? I guess I'll have to watch it one of these days!

Also, does "modern zombie" mean the fast zombies like in 28 days later? Because I'd take a shamble-y zombie flick over that.

And last thingie - would you consider rating the Walking Dead, even though it's a T.V. show? You know how i feel about shamblers : D

Hey Franzoid,

Night of the Living Dead is actually the first zombie movie I ever saw (I was probably about 10 years old) and it scared the bejeezus out of me! When I say that Romero created the modern zombie I mean the zombie you love! Yes, the semi-intelligent, reanimated, flesh-craving beasts that haunt your every nightmare!

Before Night of the Living Dead in 1968, "zombies" in literature, including films, were not flesh-eating monsters and they did not have a will of their own. Depending on the story they were either regular people or reanimated corpses who by supernatural means, usually voodoo magic, could be controlled by their creator. Basically one human could put another human under a spell to control them or raise a dead person to do their bidding. There was nothing contagious about them and they were not inherently evil but just did what their master wanted. Examples of these films are White Zombie (1932) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943). Alas, I have not seen those films yet so I can not review them.

Romero actually referred to his new type of monsters as "ghouls" at first. You'll notice the word "zombie" is never used in Night of the Living Dead. Somehow people started referring to them as zombies and the new definition has superceded the old definition in the modern-day lexicon.

If you want shambling corpses, Romero is your man. Like you, I prefer shamblers to the speedy dead but I do appreciate some of the newer films, fast zombies and all.

Regarding The Walking Dead, I don't see why I can't add a review of the show to my post. Thanks for the suggestion.

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