Zombie Source

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.

Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema