Zombies in popular culture
This lens deals with fictitious zombies. Although the concept of the Zombie originates with the Afro-Caribbean tradition of turning people into Zombis and enslaving them as punishment for certain transgressions, the Zombie presented in popular entertainment bears little to no resemblance to actual Zombis.
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Widely acknowledged as the first Zombie film, 1932's
WHITE ZOMBIE
features a young couple in Haiti, Neil Parker (John Harron) and Madeleine Short (Madge Bellamy), who have been invited by a casual acquaintance, Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer), to come to his plantation to be married. Beaumont, however, is actually in love with Madeline and hopes to persuade her to become his wife instead. Rebuffed, he approaches local white Voodoo master "Murder" Legendre (Béla Lugosi) to temporarily turn her into a zombie, have her declared dead, send Neil back to the States in mourning, then revive her so that he can woo her anew. Legendre, however, has his own plans for the young lady, and for Beaumont. She is ultimately rescued from living death by her faithful Neil and a missionary named Dr. Bruner (Joseph Cawthorn).
For the next few decades, Zombie films followed the rather racist formula of the "evil Vodouisant" victimizing the "innocent white folks".
MORE EARLY ZOMBIE FILMS:
Revolt of the Zombies 1936
King of the Zombies 1941
Dead Men Walk 1943
I Walked with a Zombie 1943
Zombies of the Mora tau 1957
Voodoo Island 1957
Teenage Zombies 1959
Blood of the Zombie 1961
Dr. Blood's Coffin 1961 -
Inspired by the civil rights battles of the 60's, Romero's Zombies were frightening not only because of their insatiable craving for human flesh, but because they were our mothers, our friends, our children. Nobody ever finds out how the Zombie pandemic started and the characters in Romero's films never get a happy ending.
Romero invented the Zombie film as social commentary.
George A. Romero's Zombie films
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
The cultural impact of Romero's Zombie films has given births to many remakes and homages. Here are a few:
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Shaun of the Dead (this film is hilarious)
Fido
Cemetery Man
Starting with Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn , Ramie injects a fair amount of hilarity into the carnage.
The Evil Dead trilogy
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
Army of Darkness
The Return of the Living Dead movies
The Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead part 2
Return of the Living Dead 3
Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis
Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave
Many of these new-fangled speed corpses were engineered in the labs of the lately popular "EVIL CORPORATION."
Fast Zombie Films
28 Days Later (ask me why I hate this series)
28 Weeks Later
- Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Extinction
Resident Evil: Degeneration (animated)
In the Italian classic Zombie , or Zombie 2 (there was no Zombie 1), Dr. Bowles's boat floats into New York Harbor missing its crew and carrying an undead passenger. The doctor's daughter (Tisa Farrow), dead set on finding out what happened to her father, teams up with journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and heads to the cursed island of Matool, where a zombie epidemic is growing and Dr. Bowles's friend, Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson), is desperately trying to find a cure. Will Anne find her father? Will Dr. Menard find a cure? Will our heroes escape? In all honesty, who really cares? Because those in the "know" already know you don't come to a Fulci film looking for Shakespeare. What Zombie 2 lacks in plot development and continuity, it more than makes up for in atmosphere, intensity, and of course the trademark Fulci gore. Some of the unique high points are the never-duplicated zombie-versus-shark vignette, the rising of the Spanish zombie conquistadors, and Fulci's trademark eye shot. Fans of Italian/apocalyptic/cannibal/zombie films should not miss Zombi 2.
In the Italian Burial Ground - Night of Terror , A professor whom is studying a ancient crypt near a cemetery accidentally opens evil from beyond the grave on a burial ground. The curse unleashes the dead to rise up from their grave to devour the living for their cannibalistic needs, lucky for the undead, their main course will be a group of socialites having a weekend in a large mansion.
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by agentnumalol :
There, four survivors!
Armed with molotovs,guns,pills
We still attack them.
They dominate us.
Boomer, Hunter, and Smoker
All dead in the street.
Saferoom over there!
Oh, shit, set off car alarm
Zombie horde attacks
Tank kills all of them
Zoey,Louis,Francis,Bill
They are left for dead.