Not exactly subtle, pretty much conking the audience over the head with their parallel of the raised dead finding meaning by mindlessly stumbling about the Mecca of consumer capitalism with the same attributes of their living counterparts (especially when compared against the first entry in Romero’s unbelievably important zombie trilogy, “Night”, where I’d argue the director wasn’t as consciously aware of his motivations for creating his apocalyptic vistas, with his themes expressed in less conscious ways, where his feelings towards societal critiques and recognition of the wildly exploding social turmoil at the time served as unspoken backdrop informing the milieu, rather than as directly approached subject matter), but, man, are they beautiful nuggets… perfect mixtures of tongue-in-cheek black humor with heady content, delivered with just the appropriate tone of seriousness (matching right up within a movie constantly assaulting us with garish images of violence that are grotesque, yes, but also have a deliberately quirky comic-book quality – in fact, it’s always been kinda hard for me to understand the uproar this film caused at the time – I’ve always felt the much harsher, in-your-face, still brilliantly impressive gore gags achieved by that grand master of gore himself, Tom Savini, for the follow-up and final trilogy entry, “Day” are far more censor-pushing). They’re so fun, so memorable, it’s a joy to repeat them by just typing them out. Remember that they want to be in here.”Īh, yes, those trenchant little observations about the importance of the suburban shopping mall for Romero’s shambling dead. This was an important place in their lives.” So if you're looking for a new zombie flick to watch, we have some picks for you–here are the 30 best zombie movies of all time.Zombi (aka, Dawn of the Dead) – Italian/Dario Argento cut (George A. "Even if as a society we have lost a lot of our belief in a positive future and instead have more of an idea of a disaster to come, we still think that we are survivors, we still want to believe that we would survive."
They're unfeeling, and that's maybe the scariest thing of all.Īnd while the coronavirus pandemic has led many people to reach for happier, lighter movies to watch, there's also a good reason why you're reaching for your favorite post-apocalyptic flick: "There is this glimmer of hope that I am really interested in," Vidergar explains. You see that in the obsession in apocalypse and disaster in the fictional stories we tell." Plus, zombies are just plainly scary. In a way, survivalism has become a dominant mode of self-reference for a greater number of people.
But if you're wondering just why people find zombie movies so fascinating, Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar once explained that, "We use fictional narratives not only to emotionally cope with the possibility of impending doom, but even more importantly perhaps to work through the ethical and philosophical frameworks that were in many ways left shattered in the wake of WWII. There's nothing quite like witnessing a crowd of ravenous, flesh-hungry creatures to brighten your day.
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