Living Dead

I hope, dear reader, that you love zombie movies as much as I do. That is to say, if you really really enjoy them for their gore, their violence, the shotguns and the way its alright to blow half the head off of a zombie, to hear the slurping sound as its parts slide off — then you don’t enjoy zombie movies as much as I do. I like them for more than that. I like them for their potential to make a kind of social commentary. The image of “living dead” … America, that’s you!

Sadly, this is an image that has been discarded in favor of the images most often prefered in most movies. (David Bowie once described American movies as “Tits and Explosions”)From the film review posted in the archive:

Romero and his disciples like Raimi somehow missed the point of their own beginnings and went on to make ludicrous self-parodic gorefests in the 70’s and 80’s (e.g. Evil Dead, the most trivializing title imaginable for a horror film). But the problem of the “living dead” remains–we must incorporate them into our cultural narrative, at our own psychic peril.

The one, and only zombie movie you’ll ever need is “Night of the Living Dead” you may like to know that the movie has entered the public domain. You can download “Night of the Living Dead” on the internet movies archive.