If you’re a fan of zombie movies (or just horror movies in general), you must get this book. Author Jamie Russell has written an entertaining and insightful history of the zombie film. Beginning with the old classics like White Zombie and I Walked With A Zombie, Russell provides perhaps the most comprehensive overview that we will ever get.
It’s all here — from George Romero’s famed Dead films to the Italian gore cycle to the various straight-to-video zombie flicks of the late ’80s and early ’90s to the genre’s resurgence with Resident Evil and Romero’s Land of the Dead. Along with providing a wealth of information about the men who made these films, Russell also analyzes the various themes running through the key films of the zombie genre. Russell’s comments about Romero’s Living Dead films, Lucio Fulci’s Beyond Trilogy, and Jean Rollin’s The Grapes of Death are especially insightful.
Best of all, the book ends with 76-page “Zombie Filmography” in which Russell provides a capsule description and review of seemingly every zombie film (regardless of how obscure or celebrated) ever made.
New York City, like every city in the world, has one problem: its entire population is DEAD. A global virus has turned the seven billion inhabitants of Earth into mindless brain-and-flesh-hungry zombies. Best friends Straw and Whip have been able to survive in this savage land disguising themselves as zombies, now they feel the flames of jealousy over what-in all likelihood-is the last LIVING woman on Earth. Will Betty’s feminine charm divide Straw and Whip? Will her penchant for playing zombie target practice prove a fatal fetish? Be sure to catch this three-issue series from the mind of Mike Richardson (The Mask, The Secret) with art by Ben Stenbeck, and covers by legendary artist Richard Corben, making zombies fun again. Two boys, a girl, and seven billion living dead.
The world as we know it has fallen into a state of chaos. The dead are rising, and are attacking the last remaining living people. Businesses and residences that have not yet been overrun by the hordes of ghouls are being ransacked by looters. A small group of survivors from the countryside seek shelter and supplies at a large superstore just outside the city limits. They must use every resource available to be able to survive against marauders…the living and the dead.
