...In 1968, horror movies as we know them was forever changed with the making of George Romero introduced us all to the concept of zombies as a whole giving future generations a basic story and zombie mannerisms to base future films around.. Romero himself would actually create the first real horror sequel with Dawn of the Dead in 1978. But it wasn’t the only direct sequel to the original 1968 movie. , both Romero and fellow co-writer, John Russo shared the filming rights with each other and created their own franchises with Russo’s coming almost fifteen years after the original- The Return of the Living Dead. While the Living Dead series does not have the popularity or acclaim than the Romero series, but The Living Dead series deserves...
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...ENGL 1301 Zombie Apocalypse: It takes a thief Are you prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse? Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous things have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not very far-fetched. First of all, what does the word zombie mean? There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin. A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will. One possible origin is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person." Another is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost.” With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. All it takes is a host. “A reservoir host, or simply a reservoir, refers to a living (human, animal, insect, or plant) or non-living (soil, water) entity where a disease-causing organism can normally live and multiply. A host in which a parasite resides to sexual maturity is called a primary host, and a host in which a parasite spends only part of its life cycle or does not reach sexual maturity is called an intermediate...
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...“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.” (Chuck Palahniuk) fits perfectly with his short story Zombie. Most of us really don’t know what we want out of life. We go to college hoping to land a job that will make us money, yet, sacrifice the passion that makes life meaningful. In the short story Zombie, many characters struggle with the lack of purpose, challenge, or opportunities of life. Out of frustration, they choose to do something drastic to get away from it all. Initially, these choices are satisfying. They become a quick fix to a much bigger problem or “A new reality begins”: a reality that again someone does not have the power to control. At least they don’t think they do. So, they get reckless. They make painful decisions that not only affect their own life, but they bleed into those around them. This imagery of frustration and depression is what Palahniuk uses to create eccentric characters in this bold short story. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Zombie, along with many...
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...Zombies and Vampires have been part of many legends, but now they are very popular with people and have many stories of their own. Many have seen horror movies, and television shows which we became scared of. The younger generation sees them as ‘awesome ’monsters. They capture our imagination and both are popular amongst adults and teenagers these days. Vampires suck human’s blood, unlike zombies that feed on human flesh. Sure both are incredible creatures that we like, but if a situation were to happen where you can become a vampire or a zombie, who would you be? Vampires and Zombies are creatures that harm humans and show many similarities and differences within them. Vampires are known to drink blood by biting on human’s necks. They have...
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...What do you normally think of when you hear zombies? Blood, action, explosions, graveyards? Well, you'll find plenty of that here, however this book likes to take these scary situations and make them more humorous than scary. A new and interesting take on the zombie genre. This is Zombie Baseball Beatdown, written by "Paolo Bacigalupi" Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about three kids on an average day going over to the baseball field over by the meat packing plant. Suddenly, they see all of the workers storm out of the plant like mad-men. The owner of the meat packing plant tells them to leave immediately. Later, they must return to park a hijacked vehicle in the huge lot so they hopefully won't be noticed....
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...or Vampires, Zombies and Zombie Apocalypse scenarios have captivated millions of individuals for over 50 years. Zombies originated in Haitian Folklore around the 19th century, however it was not until the late 1960s that the Zombie Craze took off. Now forty-seven years after the Zombie Craze began people are still fascinated with the dead rising and taking...
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...the Living Dead zombie movie to present day zombie movie, Ruben Fleischer (2009) film, Zombieland, zombie movies have become very popular because people want to experience a zombie apocalypse. The success of this film delivers entertainment, interests, and desires for the people that are big fans of zombies with survival guidelines throughout the movie on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Balaji, Murali. Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Print. This book discusses how over time zombies have become popular to American culture. Zombies became so popular that it “has a way of seizing upon our anxieties and apprehensions and delivering content that reflects these fears while still entertaining us” (17). Present day America calls the entertainment of a film, adrenaline. In this case “the time is ripe for the rebirth of zombie culture” (17), to deliver the adrenaline to all audience, especially the younger generation. The facts from this book will be useful to my essay since it describes the adrenaline they deliver to the audience to be entertained and who they target their entertainment on, the younger generation. Boluk, Stephanie and Lenz, Wylie. “Generation Zombie. Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture.” Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2011. Print. The thesis of this book discusses how today’s generation is preparing for a real life zombie apocalypse. By observing how people prepare for zombie...
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...Aaron English 1 Lemon 1/10/13 Ancillary Charles Klosterman’s “Zombie Life” explains his theory that technology turns you into a zombie, and you only have 2 options, take a stand and fight or sit and get sucked in. Klosterman an American author and essayist which has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture believes that technology is changing our way of enjoying life by depending on a device to do our communicating for us. Klosterman’s idea that technology makes us zombie like is sadly true. If you have experienced textaphrenia-thinking you have heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message, then you have fallen in the category that Klosterman is talking about and don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Can you imagine yourself without your phone, or without a computer, what about car? Well just think without any of those things you would think that living life would be boring and dull. You might be right but you could be wrong. Imagine yourself living hundreds of years ago where almost no sign of technology existed, then what would you do? You would do things in person instead of over the phone, you would interact with other humans who exist, and you even might live a happier life due to not having to deal with the downsides of what technology has brought us. But some might disagree and say that technology is good and makes life easier and more practical which...
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...(invisibles), and zanj (angels) inhabit the unseen world"(McAlister). The mythical world that they are indicating is called Ginen. It is described as a 'cosmic Africa'. Followers of Voudou believe that people die in two ways, natural causes like age or sickness and unnatural causes like murder. Unnatural deaths prohibit unity with their ancestors and must linger at its grave eternally to be snatched up by a boko, a powerful Vodou sorcerer to be bottled up and used to control a corpse. The boko aren't necessarily evil, "a hardworking man might prefer to continue working rather than lie waiting in the ground, especially if he is used by the boko to help with healing magic." But shitfy boko could use its magic to purposely kill a man and erect a zombie from it it do its bidding of evil...
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...Zombicide is a cooperative zombie game in which each player takes the role of a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Each round in broken into three phases; The movement phase, the zombie phase, and the end phase. The movement phase is where players can use their three default actions to move around the board collecting items, murdering zombies or escaping a grizzly death. During this phase players can also generate sound, a sound is created by actions such as shooting and knocking down doors. The zombie phase begins with everyone receiving a card, these cards determine the zombies that will spawn for the phase. Zombies spawn on spawn slots placed on the map, and can be one of four different types; Walkers, Runners, Fatties and The Abomination....
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...I am legend “I am Legend” is a sci-fi movie based on a brilliant military scientist, Robert Neville, whom becomes the last man on earth. He becomes the last man on earth because of a man-made untreatable virus which turns people into flesh eating zombies. He is immune to the virus and the only one who can save humanity. He spends several years trying to control the virus and also broadcasting radio signals for any other survivors. The Zombies creep around in the shadows, observing the scientist’s every move until he makes a fatal mistake. I liked this movie because the effectiveness and dialogue of it were accurate and I didn’t get lost watching all the scenes. The special effects and background coincided with what was going on throughout the movie and also appeared to be realistic. The performance of the main character, Will Smith, was phenomenal and I also felt as if I was in his shoes. Several aspects during certain scenes made the movie stand out from the thousands of movies I’ve watched. When Neville was driving around New York City with his dog Sam in a 2009 ford mustang GT500, the roar of the engine and the watchful eye of his dog following the deers symbolized modern hunting. After they got out on foot and began chasing the wild animals into the growing forest and the lions appeared out of the fields to take Neville’s priced deer gave me the idea that earth was reverting back into prehistoric times. Finally, when he sacrificed his life after he realized...
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...The Way It All Ends There I was, in my apartment, panicking, scrambling to get my things together. A backpack full of twinkies and hot pockets. Of course being a 19 year old residing in the suburbs of Detroit, I had a whole room full of guns….with no ammunition. PERFECT! I normally pack a .44 colt with me, but that’s for standard use, not against a horde of zombies. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, ZOMBIES. I’ve had confrontations with them for 2 years. However these zombies are unlike any I’ve ever seen. These zombies could run….fast. it was almost like they had been given an extra dose of human flesh for their daily meal today. I wasn’t thinking I would ever have to use the other guns I had in my trap door basement. “My god! Where is my ammo?” I said in a very, unusual tone. “I don’t know, so don’t ask me!” I had almost forgotten my girlfriend was in the other room. By that time, she had made her way to my part of the house and was just staring at me. “Jesus Jessica, don’t creep up on me like that. You know I scare easily!” I said in a hyperventilating tone. “Well how was I supposed to know that you forgot about me?” she asked in an angry and upset tone. You see, I was never the one to act quite right in front of girls, let alone in a world full of flesh eating freaks. After that statement was said, we both fell silent for a while. “Im sorry Jess, I didn’t mean to sound mad at you, it just gets frustrating living in this world now.” “Its fine John” she said in...
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...“Empathy is generally defined as the identification with, and understanding of another person’s situation, feelings and motives”. The idea of empathy and sympathy are comparable. There are some essential differences. Sympathy would understand another person, while empathy would interconnect two people. A good author plays on the concept of empathy, originating from the Greeks “Pathos”, which had their hero decease because of a human flaw. This made the audience empathetic towards the protagonist. “What is the What” written by Dave Egger, tried to play on the same emotion of Empathy. Achak at a young age is separated from his family during the Sudanese War when Arab soldiers also known as the murahaleen savagely riad his village, Marial Bai. Fleeing on foot to Ethiopia, with other boys like him, forming “The Lost Boys”. Finally they arrive to another refugee camp in Kakuma, becoming his home. Ultimately Valentino comes to America. The story is told parallel to succeeding hardship in the United States. “What is the What” provides imaginative empathy, playing on human trauma and the ability for altruistic motives, the moral obligation to empathize with remote and disparate people. Eggers’ novel represents African culture and memoirs as a way to converse with an audience. These memoirs and representative of culture to an American audience forces a limited, bias view. Egger channels Valentino rather than embellish him. He tends to use the protagonist as a mouthpiece to provide...
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...George Romero is one of the most creative innovators of the zombie film genre and uses the scary images of zombies feeding on human beings to depict a crumbling American society. The America Romero focuses onfocused on by Romero is one where consumerism and racism have become very rampant creating inequalities (Gagne, 1987). Romero does not explicitly show the inequalities in the movies but he uses symbols to show the societies levels that perpetuate poverty, often the poor African Americans. In his interview with the NY Times, Romero said that his zombie movies are symbols of revolution, a generation consuming another. This paper will discuss the theme of consumerism/consumption as portrayed in the Romero’s films in reference...
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...The zombie apocalypse had just broken out, and I was astonished that so many people had died on the first day. Apparently half of the world’s population had been killed by a zombie; but the peculiar thing about all these fatalities, is that all the people were standing still when they were killed. Apparently they didn’t even try and make a run for it when they heard the zombies approaching. Every single one of the deaths had been reported that way, and I, as well as others, had no idea what may have caused this phenomenon. Why would people not try and outrun something that was almost certainly trying to kill or mame you? I reached out to my colleague, who had the information first hand from civilians he had interviewed. When I had gathered...
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