Comments on: Smurfs and the Zombie Apocalypse

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:54:17 +0000

Yay! I saw that on menage a 3 also and decided to find it, but then I remembered i don’t speak French…

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:01:33 +0000

That story was made into an episode of the classic cartoon series (a clip used to be available on youtube but got yanked), and I’m convinced that watching it back in the day laid the groundwork for my obsession with all things zombie. Gnap, indeed.

By: Darcy Casselman

Darcy Casselman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:31:48 +0000

Thanks. Horror isn't exactly my genre. I watched the first ten minutes of Night of the Living Dead when I was posting this, but that's about it.

Oh, and Shawn of the Dead, of course.

By: clvrmnky

clvrmnky — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:53:50 +0000

Further, the whole "brains!" part of the modern zombie oeuvre is actually from a single zombie film from the 80s unrelated to Romero.

Romero's zombies sort of munch on all body parts indiscriminately, thereby passing on the affect. This setting was used to highlight his themes on civil rights, consumer society and so on in each of his seminal movies.

It was the "Return of the Living Dead" that brought us the "military bio-weapon goes astray, causing dead things to reanimate and desire your brains" thing.