Tag Archive for 'George Romero'

“Howdy, said ol’ Zed.” – SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD bites a chunk out of the classic Westerns

SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD is Romero’s latest art installation of his alpha z-mythology, what’s under the umbrella of “del muerte.” Mr. Romero begins with a philosophical query into the nature of human behavior under stress, as I perceive it, his dead films follow through on questions of human response to disaster & duress. His observation in [...]

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Zombies @ Fantastic Fest

Listen all you fans of the celluloid undead! I’m fittin’ to attend the annual Fantastic Fest – a crazy-disorienting film festival that prides itself on screening nuttin’ but wonderfully offensive sci-fi, horror, shock cinema. As the word “annual” would suggest, this 8-day film showcase takes place yearly in AUSTIN, TX, USA, EARTH. Zombieland production still [...]

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Why a zombie might attack a shark…

..and visa versa. EXHIBIT A: Lucio Fulci’s slowmo voodoo zombie flick comonly known as ZOMBI. It must be noted that human meat post-zombitization must taste like delicious meat popsicles. Similar to the process of curing meat, the undead body becomes like a walking stick of hickory smoked turkey jerky as a human crosses over and [...]

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John Leguizombie (Best and Worst of Romero)

In 2005, George Romero gave us the long awaited fourth”…of the Dead” installment, a post apocalyptic vision of a quasi-functional human/undead coexistence called LAND OF THE DEAD. This narrative, which takes place well after the initial outbreak, is much more about poverty and human subsistence in an ultra capitalist society clinging to the comforts of [...]

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