Articles tagged "night of the living dead"

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

Zombie as Change

by Christian Caliandro

[31.Oct.08] :. Night of the Living Dead is the first representation of an exciting and gruesome “hate generation” substituting – and burying – the ‘60s love generation.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

Tender Is the Night of the Living Dead

by Rodger Jacobs

[31.Oct.08] :. Another slice of social commentary disguised as zombie flash fiction inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald and George Romero.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

The Kind of Murder-happy Characters We Have Here

by Stephen Graham Jones

[31.Oct.08] :. Zombies have nothing to fear from us aside from our absence, which is perhaps how they know us best: as ‘those things that are always running away’.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

Night of Night of the Living Dead

by Bill Gibron

[31.Oct.08] :. On a cool October night in 1970, I was witness to something so shocking, so outside my sphere of fear influence that it ended up being a never-ending journey into total terror.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

Reanimating the Dead at the Fringe of Hollywood

by Drew Fortune

[31.Oct.08] :. Amidst the deluge of shrieks, gasps, laughter and vomit, a certified independent horror movement was born. The rulebooks were burned and the inmates were running the show, opening the doors to a legion of filmmakers with a camera, some friends and zero budget.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Feature

Life Amongst the Undead

by Barry Keith Grant

[31.Oct.08] :. Just as Johnny utters,“They’re coming to get you, Barbra” someone lurched through the door with a zombie shamble and a flashlight held under his face for a ghastly lighting effect.

Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

Day 5: The Undead as a Life-changing Experience

by Marco Lanzagorta

[31.Oct.08] :. On the last day of our week long celebration of Night of the Living Dead’s 40th anniversary, PopMatters offers six essays that delve on the subjective appreciation of Romero’s landmark film. In strong contrast to the previous installments of this collection, these articles offer a more personal perspective of the everlasting influence of Night of the Living Dead.

I See Dead People

by Marco Lanzagorta

[30.Oct.08] :. The real legacy of Night of the Living Dead is the way it became a quintessential icon that perfectly represents the patriarchal conflict for phallic control, as well as the confrontation between the primitive and the civilized.

1968 is Undead

by Timothy Gabriele

[30.Oct.08] :. The radio and television broadcasts of Night of the Living Dead depict a government unable to protect, alert, and prepare its citizenry for a national crisis, which reminds us of the mass bureaucratic bungling of the September 11th tragedies and the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Decade of the Dead

by Michael Curtis Nelson

[30.Oct.08] :. After a decade in which the dissemination of powerful images of human suffering—911, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Iraq, New Orleans—have had little impact on changing the status quo, it’s hard to grudge Romero for his pessimism.

We’re Coming to Get You, Barbra

by Ian Chant

[30.Oct.08] :. The real monsters in Night of the Living Dead are the hobgoblins we face every day: jealousy, selfishness, anger, lies, rage, and simple misunderstandings.

Forty Years On and It Still Ain’t Worth Saving

by Linnie Blake

[30.Oct.08] :. Between the '60s and the present day, there seems to have been little meaningful social progress. Forty years on and Romero’s America is still a divided nation.

Victim or Vigilante? The Case of the Two Barbras

by Cynthia Freeland

[30.Oct.08] :. We cannot say that the original Night of the Living Dead’s racial politics trump the gender politics of the remake, but rather, that the great power of tragedy can still grip us long after a movie’s more superficial aspects have been superseded.

Day 4: A Zombie is Forever

by Marco Lanzagorta

[30.Oct.08] :. On our fourth day of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Night of the Living Dead, PopMatters presents six articles that discuss the everlasting legacy of Romero’s zombie masterwork. As such, these contributions help us understand why Night of the Living Dead continues to be of relevance to modern audiences.

Zombie Nation

by Matt Nida and Carl Swift

[29.Oct.08] :. As a concept, the dead returning to destroy the living is worse than Germany invading Poland, worse than Islamic fundamentalists destroying a New York landmark, worse than a tsunami killing tens of thousands of people.

Zombies on Wardour Street

by Andrew Smith

[29.Oct.08] :. Although British audiences were becoming familiar with an evolution in horror, Night of the Living Dead still presented a startling leap into the unknown.

Why Can’t We Just Eat Brains and be Happy?

by Chris Deis

[29.Oct.08] :. Ben must die for the world to return to normal and the racial hierarchy is re-established. This is Romero’s most incisive critique: that even in the face of unimaginable horror, humanity reverts to its status quo.

The Unhappy Undead

by John Grassi

[29.Oct.08] :. The Civil War is reenacted on a micro level in Night of the Living Dead. Your neighbors are the real monsters.

Subverting the Subversion

by Jeffrey Uhlmann

[29.Oct.08] :. The seemingly progressive casting of Night of the Living Dead actually reinforces the message from racist groups of the time: a well-spoken African American is the person responsible for the deaths of all of the white characters in the film.

The Trouble with Harry

by Peter Hutchings

[29.Oct.08] :. In Night of the Living Dead, the most unpleasant character just happens to also be the most insightful.

Day 3: Reanimation Politics

by Marco Lanzagorta

[29.Oct.08] :. The race and patriarchal subtexts of Night of the Living Dead deeply resonated with the torrid social and cultural landscape of that bleak period in American history. As such, no discussion of Night of the Living Dead can be complete without considering these important issues. On our third day celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead, PopMatters offers six articles that discuss issues related to race conflict and phallic control.

Zombie Walk This Way

by Dan Brian

[28.Oct.08] :. Witnessing the Zombie Walk phenomenon in action is almost like watching the display of a worldwide death wish.

Resurrection Revisited

by Victor Calderin

[28.Oct.08] :. The idea of the resurrection promises a reunion with lost loved one, but in Night of the Living Dead, this reunion is a frustrated one.

I’m Coming to Get You, Barbra

by Ian Mathers

[28.Oct.08] :. Zombies present a wholly different kind of terror, especially when that ghoul is your friend or brother or child.

Blood, Guts, and Identity Fragmentation

by Rajith Savanadasa

[28.Oct.08] :. The struggle for ascendancy in the most powerful nation in the world is perfectly embodied in Night of the Living Dead.

An Anthem for the Undead

by Spencer Tricker

[28.Oct.08] :. The allure of the undead stems from the idea that a zombie apocalypse strips man to his barest self and essentially subverts thousands upon thousands of years' worth of moral discipline.

Satiety in Numbers

by Jay McRoy

[28.Oct.08] :. Night of the Living Dead counters the swarming crowds of the walking dead with a seemingly antithetical mode of social organization, namely the nuclear family taken to its destructive, quasi-incestuous extreme.

Day 2: Understanding the Undead

by Marco Lanzagorta

[28.Oct.08] :. Few would disagree that Night of the Living Dead is one of the most important and talked about films in the history of cinema. On our second day celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead, PopMatters offers six articles that give a rationale as to why, after 40 years, Night of the Living Dead continues to provide a frightful and nightmarish viewing experience.

Camping Out at the Graveyard

by Matthew Sorrento

[27.Oct.08] :. When we relax and revel in the campy ghouls, our nerves are left fresh for the film’s terrifying bite; the last and sharpest of which comes at the searing downbeat ending.

Cannibalizing Consumers

by Tim Mitchell

[27.Oct.08] :. As long as consumerism dominates the marketplace, the cannibal zombie horde archetype created by Romero will always have a place in the popular imagination.

Of Mice and Maggots (and Other Nasty Things)

by Kelly Roberts

[27.Oct.08] :. Every film in the horror genre leading up to Night of the Living Dead offers some kind of release, a resolution to the terror. Romero's great innovation was to rip away this delight, this false hope, and replace it with an even deeper terror.

A Controversy Is Born

by Mark Jancovich

[27.Oct.08] :. Films that cause outrage frequently become the focus of cults and of spirited defences exactly because their capacity to outrage is seen as a challenge to mainstream tastes and sensibilities.

The Zombies and I

by George A. Romero

[27.Oct.08] :. The response to Night of the Living Dead made me realize that I could inject socio-political satire into the sort of "horror" fictions that I loved since I was a boy.