Zoinks, Scoob! Watch those things!
Zombie movies have undergone a real transformation over the years. From the groans and stumbles beyond George Romero’s Night of the Undead Later (himself encouraged through Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend) to Danny Boyle’s howling and fast 28-day Horror Later (and later with the 2007 adaptation of I’m a Legend (which we’re going to call vampire and zombie). Zombies have harder, better, faster, stronger.
But the concept of zombie hasn’t replaced much. Romero said that zombies represented people’s reaction to replace, how a human fights against the overthrow of the law of nature: everything goes to death. In front of the zombie, the human faces the unnatural, the eternal. The horror of the zombie movie is not that of death; it’s a matter of not dying. The irony of zombie cinema is that it makes death less frightening, more hospitable. We are not afraid when our hero’s friends and families die, but when they return.
As for why we can’t get tired of the zombie genre, well, the answer to that is more grotesque. Not that we seek to lean over a mall with a sniper rifle and cut off the undead; at least, we hope it’s not your IRL fantasy; you’re going to buy a video game, psycho. It is the dissolution to which we aspire, a global where we are no longer constrained by elegance or race or, for you psychopathic, by the law. (Also, there’s probably a false opposite justification for the Second Amendment here; um, why didn’t London have a chance 28 days later?)
Whatever your immortal concern or apocalypse, here are the zombie videos to stream on Netflix right now.
With Bong Joon-ho’s colossal good fortune of Parasite, Western audiences are still locating the cinematic treasure of South Korean cinema. Add Train to Busan to the list of amazing horror videos of the country’s creatures. With the scariest form of zombies: zombies running.
It is a cult favorite and one of the most successful independent films, made on a budget of $400,000. It is also approved by Stephen King, so … Yes.
This is the animated film that probably haunted the dreams of his seven-year-old brain. Guess what? It’s pretty smart and still pretty scary.
It Comes At Night, which resides in this new genre of “post-horror” (smarter, low-budget space cries of art), is less of a zombie festival and more a meditation on all the things taking place in the dark, adding photographs. voracious humans. It’s scarier when you can’t see them, accept them as true with us.
Although Bird Box hasn’t been able to do with the eye what A Quiet Place did with the sound (i.e., making a scary movie that’s really scary), it’s a concept movie worth watching. Do not blindfold or do so once you’re done.
Cargo is just a counterfeit post-apocalyptic film, in the design of The Road but without being (quite) so dark.
Set in Quebec, this Canadian horror movie basically touches all the zombie tropes, but in a cool way. It is also (perhaps) an allegory of Quebec politics, which gives it this additional layer of interpretation in addition to all rotten human matter.
The “zombies” have “hunger” in this British film about the novel of the same call through Mike Carey. Another wonderful fresh interpretation of the genre.
Translated as soul thieves, this Mexican horror killer is just a fun, as well as a decent piece of the time about the Mexican Civil War.
Students. A booth. Some carnivorous bacteria. Violence. It’s a laugh and a laughing woody horror room.
It may not be as smart as the concern of video games, however, this Resident Evil is still a decent action movie, even if it gives the impression of watching others play a super fun arcade game.
Okay, it’s strange and the possibilities are ridiculous and impregnable. There’s also a chance you’ll have a lot of fun watching it in other degrees of drunkenness. It’s one of those movies.