Spring break, 2011. I’m in Ashtabula, Ohio, visiting my mother, and The Walking Dead are everywhere. Or so it seems. American Movie Classics, AMC, is about to release season one of The […]
The Walking Dead, part one: Season One
Romero's Dawn novelization: A fanboy's masterclass in low-brow writing
As the godfather of the modern zombie, it’s hard to understate the impact George Romero has had on the genre. He’s been cranking out zombie movies since 1968’s Night of the Living […]
If this is the Zombie Apocalypse, why am I rolling my eyes?
One of the things that made World War Z so successful is that presents itself as a collection of oral histories about the zombie apocalypse. Author Max Brooks did an outstanding job […]
An oral history of the Zombie Apocalypse
Daniel Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies predicted that a zombie outbreak, as devastating as it would be, probably would not mean total annihilation for the human race. “The public benefits […]
International community: Zombie apocalypse not likely
Daniel Drezner’s visit to Graceland a few years back taught him something important about writing about zombies. Fellow tourists seemed to fall into two contingents: The first contingent was thoroughly, utterly sincere […]
"What you don’t know can eat you": A conversation with the world's leading zombie expert
Matt Mogk knows zombies. Not personally, of course—only theoretically. “All zombie research is theoretical,” he reminds readers in his excellent Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies. But as director of […]
Night of the Living Dead and the birth of the modern zombie
Like a bizillion other people, I’ve caught snippets of Night of the Living Dead on late-night AMC while channel surfing, but I’ve never stopped for more than a few seconds. There’s something […]
Review: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
“From a dramatic standpoint, there is no connection between the voodoo zombie and the modern zombies. From a factual anthropological, religious, or historic standpoint, there is no connection between the voodoo zombie […]
The movie monster that didn't catch on
She was not alive…nor dead…just a WHITE ZOMBIE Performing his every desire! Now picture Bela Lugosi, sketched in faint Day-Glo green pastels, intense eyes staring, one eyebrow raised as though it alone […]
On the trail of the real-life zombie: Haiti
The face of Voodoo has always been painted greasepaint white. The personification, stuck with me since I was a kid, comes from the final scene of the James Bond movie Live and […]
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