Thursday, February 14, 2008

Why zombies still matter

Sure, the undead exist to devour the living, but in “Dawn of the Dead” (George Romero’s ’78 original and Zack Snyder’s ’04 remake) they represent a consumer culture taken to extremes — a shambling society of drones who are always hungry, always consuming. Small wonder that the best zombie movies are set in shopping malls.

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