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Overview

Zombie Movies is an essential purchase for all those who love (or fear) horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creation. This thorough and authoritative yet uproarious guide

• reviews and rates nearly 300 zombie films—from Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2008) • traces the evolution of the zombie over the decades, from voodoo slave to brain-eating undead to raging infected • lays out what makes a zombie a zombie, as opposed to a ghost, ghoul, vampire, mummy, pod person, rabid sicko, or Frankenstein’s monster • includes a detailed and chilling journal from the filming of Land of the Dead • lists the oddest and most gruesome things ever seen in undead cinema • covers not only mainstream American movies but also small independent productions, Spanish and Italian exploitation pictures, and bizarre offerings from Japan and Hong Kong • provides a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made • features in-depth interviews with actors, directors, makeup effects wizards, and other zombie experts For serious fans and casual moviegoers alike, Zombie Movies will provide plenty of informative and entertaining brain food.

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Biff Bam Pop!
A great book for both longtime zombie fanatics and newcomers alike.
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An obsessively complete guide . . . [author] has certainly done his homework . . . highly recommended.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781556527708
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/1/2008
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 442,709
  • Product dimensions: 7.40 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Glenn Kay studied film at Ryerson University and has reviewed films in print and on TV in Canada. He is the coauthor of Disaster Movies and has also worked in the entertainment industry as a voice-over artist.

Table of Contents

Foreword Stuart Gordon Gordon, Stuart

1 Origins 1

2 The 1930s: The Zombie Film's Beginnings 5

3 The 1940s: Laughing at the Zombies ... and an Early End? 13

4 The 1950s: The Drive-In, the Atom Bomb, and the Radioactive Zombie 23

5 The 1960s: The Weird, Wild Psychedelic Era and the Reinvention of the Zombie 35

Know Your Monsters! 50

6 The 1970s: Spanish Zombies, Satire, and Blaxploitation 59

Some of the Weirdest/Funniest/Most Disturbing Things I've Seen in Zombie Films 81

7 The 1980s: Italy Reigns and the Horror Boom Explodes ... and Fizzles 101

Interview: Antonella Fulci 115

Interview: Greg Nicotero 134

8 The 1990s: The End of the Zombie - and a Resurrection in Video Games and on DVD 183

Interview: Tom Savini 189

Interview: Stuart Conran 197

9 The New Millennium: Japan Takes Center Stage, and the Big-Budget Zombie Arises 217

Interview: Colin Geddes 220

Interview: John Migliore 239

Interview: Jennifer Baxter 252

Adventures Undercover as a Zombie on Land of the Dead! 256

Interview: Andrew Currie 269

Interview: Gaslight Studio 284

The Highest-Grossing Zombie Films of All Time 296

10 Hope for the Future, or the Beginning of the End ... Again? 299

11 The Greatest Zombie Films Ever Made 301

App Zombieless Zombie Movies 323

Bibliography 333

Index of Film Titles 335

Index of Directors 341

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  • Posted January 23, 2010

    Zombie reference guide

    A good book for anyone into Zombie movies wanting to start a collection . Money well spent.

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