Saturday, October 27, 2012

Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming-from The Hindu, noting that "zombie movies are reassuringly consisent" "Lord of the Flies light"

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/parvathi-nayar/zombies-wont-die/article4030632.ece



Zombies won’t die

PARVATHI NAYAR


"Why does the movie-going public love walking in zombieland? Learned arguments have been put forth about zombies offering social commentary about a variety of social ills from consumerism to the fear of population-decimating pandemics.

Zombie films, or so it goes, are Lord of the Flies light, i.e. a note on man’s ultimately savage nature when all pretexts and trappings of civility are stripped away. We then become worse than animals, cannibalistic and mindless in our quest for satisfaction.

To such academic discourses I would add my two cents worth, that zombie movies are reassuringly consistent. You pretty much always get variations on the template set by the all-time classic, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), when flesh-eating undead graced our screens for the first time."

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