Sentences with phrase «modern zombie film»

While zombie movies can be traced back to the 1930s, the modern zombie film era is generally accepted to have begun with George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead

Not exact matches

It's tempting to attribute the leaden weight of cliché in Possession to some kind of wicked LaBute barb about the zombie - march of most modern romances, but I fear that the film is deadly serious in its Harlequin intentions.

Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of AMC's The Walking Dead, talks about the impact of the film in the modern zombie era.

In 1968, George A. Romero not only invented the modern zombie genre, but revolutionized horror with this incredible film that merges social commentary and scares.

Any zombie flick clearly owes its existence to George Romero, but this movie with updated effects and a more modern feel is even more fun to watch than Romero's efforts, as those films show their age a bit too often.

Despite the modern incarnations, however, Romero's zombies remain the standard, with the impact of his Dead series of films continuing into the new century and, inevitably, beyond the grave...

Yarn's film, though ostensibly about a homosexual zombie revolution, is also about the enduring metaphor of the zombie and the way in which stupefaction is the only sane response to the repressive conditions of modern industrialised society.

The zombie films capitalise on the rich allegorical capacity of the genre to build on themes of sexual repression and alienation in modern capitalist society.