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Every now and then—perhaps in the midst of a bout of insomnia or perhaps with premeditation—we might indulge in the gory, campy, low-budget magnificence of the zombie movie. Ever since George A. Romero??s release of “The Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, the zombie movie genre has attracted a cult following all its own. Over the years, the slow-moving, heavily made-up zombies of the classic black and white horror films have transformed into the disease-crazed, CGI-enhanced undead of modern...
Technophobes and luddites, rejoice! You finally have a pretty good zombie movie to call your own. George A. Romero??s most recent film, “Diary of the Dead,” re-imagines the beginning of his zombie saga in the present day, where terrified victims are more likely to post videos of their accounts on YouTube than barricade themselves in a farmhouse. And while “Diary” is not the most terrifying of Romero??s films, it provides a strong and compelling commentary on human nature...
...hands of a less skilled artist, “Black Hole”’s nightmarish vision would have more closely resembled those in George Romero??s “Night of the Living Dead.” The storytelling in “Black Hole” is not the focus, a characteristic which would be a weakness were it not for the immersive atmosphere...
Without peer is Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (1922). It is a brilliant portrayal of witchcraft. If you want something a bit more cult-like, a really interesting film is George Romero??s Season of the Witch (1972), which draws a straight line between the still nascent women’s movement and witch cults, as he portrays them...
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