Nazis and Racial and Sexual Subtexts in ‘Revenge of the Zombies’
Revenge of the Zombies stands at the axis of Nazis, race relations and feminism in a mishmash of wartime themes under an immigrant director.
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‘Evil Dead Rise’ Brings New Life to the Dead Series
Lee Cronin’s take on the Evil Dead series, Evil Dead Rise, has become a mirror image of its own horror by refusing to take its final breath.
Futureshock: Herbie Hancock and the Body Politics of Pop
A classically trained jazz pianist who spent five years with the Miles Davis Quintet, Herbie Hancock is also a practising Buddhist whose ideas about transcending the body are realized in his funky cyborg "Rockit" video.
‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Confronts Climate Change with Deadpan Whimsicality
With The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch deliberately deprives his latest film of the propulsive terrors innate to most zombie films, instead using the genre to matter-of-factly rhapsodize about consumer culture and the inevitability of the apocalypse.
‘Wasteland’, or, How We Went From World War I to White Walkers
In Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, historian W. Scott Poole exhumes our obsession with the living dead.
TIFF 2018: Endzeit (Ever After)
Endzeit joins Annihilation in challenging us to embrace the end of our world.
Teenagers and Zombies Are a Good Mix in ‘New Mutants Dead Souls #1’
Matthew Rosenburg reminds us why teenagers and paranormal monsters are a potent combination.
‘Zombies, Migrants, and Queers’ Make for a Monstrous Economy
One of the intellectual strengths of Fojas’ book is how she consistently surprises in historicizing and theorizing neoliberalism.
The Virtues of Selfishness in Co-op Gaming
The trouble with co-op gaming is cooperativeness.
Our Insatiable Techno Zombie Love
The popularity of zombies indicates that powerful techno-social forces have ramped up our fear of joining or being surrounded by a mindless zombie herd.