Cinema's Living Dead Are Getting a New Lease of Life Miles Fielder On the Resurgence of Zombie Movies

The HeraldOctober 01, 2009

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THE dammed dead just won't stay down in the ground. Filmmakers are continuing to find new ways of resurrecting the grey-skinned, scarlet-mawed, yellow-eyed zombies otherwise known by their oxymoronic title:

the living dead. At least once a decade a new wave of zombie films is unleashed on cinemagoers. The current surge has this month alone spewed forth three new additions to the popular sub-genre of horror cinema.

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Cinema's Living Dead Are Getting a New Lease of Life Miles Fielder On the Resurgence of Zombie Movies

First up is Zombieland, an American horror-comedy inspired by Simon Pegg's hit zom-rom-com Shaun of the Dead in which Jesse Eisenberg's nerd-hero and Woody Harrelson's redneck survivalist form an unlikely alliance and hit upon new ways to do away with the undead.

That's followed by Pontypool, a Canadian chiller in which a bewildered small tow...

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