A comprehensive film guide featuring films about zombies, the undead and other such creatures of the dead.
The female lead, Rene (Felicity Mason), is engaging enough, but the Bruce Campbell–inspired farmer, Marion (Mungo McKay), doesn't come across as effectively as the into flesh-eating zombies with pale, wrinkled skin filmmakers probably ...
Prod: Mort Abrahams. Teleplay: Boris Ingster. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Linda Gaye Scott, Claude Akins, Leo G. Carroll. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ¡965. In late ¡964, the slick, light-hearted, James Bond–inspired Man from ...
Presents a guide to creating a zombie film on a small budget, covering such topics as the storyline, contracts, options for assembling a cast, materials to use for make-up, prosthetics, postproduction, and marketing strategies.
With an exhaustive filmography covering the history of the zombie genre, Book of the Dead explains our ongoing fascination with the living dead and how this shambolic monster has become a stumbling, moaning metaphor for our age.
An engaging compendium of all things zombie explores the phenomenon's recent popularity as well as its various mythologies, providing coverage of such topics as the characteristics of modern zombies, the science of zombies and zombies in ...
Celebrates zombie pop culture that has evolved since "Night of the Living Dead," tracing early mythological origins in African folklore and Haitian voodoo as well as modern incarnations in film, literature, and video gaming.
Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films-from 1932's White Zombie to George A. Romero's 2008 release Diary of the Dead-this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema's most popular and ...
In Zombies, Bob Curran explores how some of these beliefs may have arisen and the truths that lay behind them, examining myths from all around the world and from ancient times including Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Celtic.
Spanning nearly a century, this book tells the remarkable true story behind the zombie genre, from its cinematic inception and evolution to its ultimate rise to pop culture prominence.--dust jacket.
If you want to make sure your family is apocalypse-ready, Only Dead on the Inside is your best―and only―chance at survival. No pressure, but if you don't read this book, your children will die.