Zombie movies have become hopeless cases that work as neither satire nor as horror
The IndependentWe are all zombies now. according to Jim Jarmusch’s new film, The Dead Don’t Die – but it also highlights the increasing aimlessness of the zombie genre. open image in gallery Bodies and bodices: the costume drama ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ The problem with zombie movies isn’t just their proliferation but the random ways they have mutated. That luminous water – it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies… the glitter of putrescence.” You don’t get much talk about the glitter of putrescence in contemporary zombie films. Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die follows in a long tradition of tongue-in-cheek zombie yarns that stretches back way beyond Shaun of the Dead to films like Zombies on Broadway, starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist, and Scared Stiff starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
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