Zombie survival guide
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October 1, 2010
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September 14, 2010
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28 Days Later was a key moment in the history of the zombie movie—the moment when the genre reorganized itself around a taut antithesis, such that its monsters could henceforth march as the avatars either of consumerist hyper-civilization or of that civilization’s very negation, its sacking, though, of course, even Romero’s middle-class zombies were cannibals and so suggested a certain preemptive undoing of the antithesis, a welling up of savagery in the North American heartlands of consumer society, in some socialisme-ou-zombiïsme kind of way. It’s the kind of complexity at which horror movies excel, a sociohistorical rabbit-duck operation in which you can look at a figure and not be sure whether you’re seeing Martha Stewart or an Ostrogoth.
2 years ago
September 7, 2010
All you need to do is ask one basic question – the one you should always be asking anyway when watching a horror movie … What are the real-world associations that the movie is triggering? Nobody thinks that vampires and Vulcans and elves are real, but they do inevitably call real people to mind, and the interpreter’s most important trick is simply to let those resemblances through. The questions in front of us are easy ones, really: What do slow zombies remind you of? And what do fast zombies remind you of? And what’s the difference between the two?
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Christian Thorne on Thomas Hobbes, George W. Bush, fast zombies and 28 Days Later (via anythingcouldhappen)
Holy shit, this essay is awesome. Moreover, the guy’s blog announces his interest in:
POLITICS • PHILOSOPHY • HORROR MOVIES • ROCK & ROLL
And, he is translating Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, because the existing translation is shit (and it is!). Hello, new favourite blogger.
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September 5, 2010
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March 30, 2010
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3 years ago
March 16, 2010
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (via irreference)
that’s a big butterfly net.
3 years ago
March 16, 2010
floatingsheep: Braainss…Maapss….Braainss….Zommbiess
geolocated zombie demographics:
As you can see, zombie references are littered throughout North America and Western Europe: a fact that can only lead us to speculate that zombies are clustered in those places. In Europe, Zombies references are curiously mostly found in the UK and Germany and are largely absent from much of the Mediterranean and almost all of Scandinavia.
An initial hypothesis was that zombies are cold blooded and therefore can’t spend much time in the far northern reaches of the planet. However, according to the Zombie Research Society it is possible that zombies are able to produce a glycoprotein that can prevent their blood from freezing. In contrast World War Z clearly documents that zombies freeze if they go too far Noth.
So it is still very unclear why references to zombies (and thus the locations of the undead) are so clustered. One final theory could simply be that we are only capturing the very beginnings of a global epidemic and that the zombie infection will start to move across the globe in the same manner in which plague did in the 14th century.
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February 22, 2010
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January 23, 2010
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