zombies
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Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow Feels Like a Horror Time Capsule
There are two scenes in Wes Craven’s 1988 horror film The Serpent and the Rainbow that everyone remembers: Bill Pullman’s character having his groin mangled, and Bill Pullman’s character being buried alive with a tarantula. Those stick with you. Other elements of the movie are murkier — but a rewatch offers a reminder of how…
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13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Back 4 Blood
At first glance, Back 4 Blood might seem like a paint-by-numbers co-op shooter whose lineage traces back to Left 4 Dead. You might think you know the drill: point, shoot, pick up weapon, point, shoot again. Make it to the end of the level. Try not to die. But there’s a deceptive layer of complexity…
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The Walking Dead’s Zombie Apocalypse Origin May Never Be Revealed
For folks living in the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead, only three things matter: How do I survive, how can we fix this…and why is this happening? The last question might seem like the easiest one to answer, but it’s something TWD’s chief content officer Scott Gimple says we may never know.
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How the 1918 Flu Inspired Your Zombie Costume
Behind that putrefying flesh, there’s a lot of hidden depth to the zombie. As humanities scholar Jeffery Cohen puts it in his book Monster Theory: Reading Culture, “monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.” In 1918, with the Spanish Flu ravaging the U.S., we turned our fears into zombies.