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A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I'll ever so slightly defend Lori on this -- under stress, some people revert to gender stereotypes (which kinda explains a lot about the Republican party right now) as a source of comfort and "rightness". I think that's where she was coming from.
I remember the Nightstalker series as being rather funny. But remember, it was a rather lone example of its genre at the time... (What year was Night of the Living Dead released again?)
NotLD was 1968, Theo.
So there'd been enough time for Romero's "zombies" to get accepted as the canon mythology.
Although KNown, dont think they were "the" Canon yet. Other zombie mytholodies still very active in popular culture, including the tormented zombie who passed for human and hated his (almost always a he) unlife.
Loved the episodes of Korra. I just hope the rest of them will be accessable on line.
Do you have any examples of that, Typo? I'd love to read about some pre-Romero non-Vodou zombies.
Well they were usually Voudou, but the author's Voudou, with not much of a nod to actual Voudou culture.
One really awful non-Voudou one 'The Return of Dr. X' [link]
Humphrey Bogart is the zombie doctor.
[on edit] early on, a pale Bogart with a streak of white in his hair is introduced stroking a bunny. "we are both victims" he says. "Victims of what he is asked" answer: pause "circumstances".
There were also some movies in which zombies are used as soldiers in WWI trench warfare, which I think was in part meant to be a reference to how horrible the conditions in which soldiers lived and died in in the trenches.
Any other examples besides Return of Dr. X, Typo?
There are, but hte problem is I saw them all on late night TV during bouts of illness, so I have to google titles to find details.
One of the post WWI that I am 90% sure is "scientific" rather than vodou is the again awful "revolt of the zombies". Zombies were used successfully in WWI, and now a soldier has been sent to Cambodia to recover the formula. But he abuses it for his own purposes. Revolt of the Zombie is another tormented scientifically created zombie out for revenge. There is also "revenge of the zombies" in which zombie slaves are created to serve Nazis, and the zombie maker has even turned his wife into a zombie. Zombie wife ends up leading the revolt of the zombie slaves against the zombie maker. Plague of Zombies does have the zombies raised by means learned in Haiti, but it is a Welsh squire raising the dead to work as miners. I think Romero took his dead rising from the graves scene in 1968 from this. I'll bet Hec can remember more of these than I can. There is also "strange creatures who stopped living and becaming crazy mixed up zombies" which I have never scene, because I always assumed no film could be either as good or as bad as that title.