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History of the Zombie Genre (Part 5: Zombie)
It goes without saying that people watch movies to be entertained… escapism and all of that business. When it comes to horror films, people have many individual reasons to like them. A lot of people like to be scared when they watch a movie, others just find them to be easy to digest in terms…
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History of the Zombie Genre (Part 4: Night of the Living Dead)
It’s about time we hit the 1960’s and talk about when the Zombie genre took the form that most people recognize today. Funny enough, this happened by accident. The 1960s saw its fair share of Zombie films, but for the most part they followed the same formula as all others that would come before it.…
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History of the Zombie Genre (Part 3: Zombies of Mora Tau)
Well we’re chugging along in our look back at the Zombie sub-genre, and we’ve come to the golden age of cheese: The 1950’s. What can I say about this decade? It was a time of prosperity after the hard years of depression and WWII. The baby boom was in full swing and audiences were looking…
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History of the Zombie Genre (Part 2: King of the Zombies)
I’m back like a bad sequel and, speaking of which, I was showcasing White Zombie during our last discussion. Well, the 1930’s rolled on and soon another film in the Zombie genre called Revolt of the Zombies came about. It was a sequel, but it didn’t really live up to White Zombie which, in my…
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