The type of zombies found in modern media are a far cry from their early cinematic depictions as you will find no brains being eaten in these early outings and it was more supernatural affliction rather than viral. Thus films like 1932’s White Zombie, which dealt with the voodoo aspect of the affliction, and so…
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White Zombie (1932) – Review
The idea of a zombie apocalypse, with hordes of the undead roaming the Earth, is something the world owes to George Romero because his Night of the Living Dead took the basic idea of the zombie and left behind all of the mystical aspects of the zombie mythos, ditching the creature’s Haitian roots and their…
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) – Review
Zombies have been a staple of horror films for quite some time dating back to Bela Lugosi in White Zombie, even Bob Hope encountered one in his 1940 film The Ghost Breakers, but they didn’t really come into their own until George Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead hit the scene back in…
Maggie (2015) – Review
What do you do if your parents start to smell delicious? This is one of the key questions that crop up in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Maggie, a film that tackles the zombie genre in a very different light.