Category Archives: zombie

Italian Zombie Cinema and the Subversion of Catholicism

June 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Christianity, horror, zombie

I recently became aware of a post that my fellow LOTTD member, B-Sol of The Vault of Horror did last month. It is titled “‘Take This, All of You, and Eat It’: The Subversion of Catholicism in Italian Zombie Cinema.” As the title indicates, this post suggests that in Italy, one of the most Roman […]

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Kotaku and “Infection vs. Resurrection: The New Science of the Zombie”

April 14th, 2010 | Posted in zombie

Kotaku has an article of interest titled “Infection vs. Resurrection: The New Science of the Zombie.” The article contrasts the changing explanation for the reasons why these undead creatures come back from the dead as it chronicles a shift from supernatural to more “natural” and scientific explanations. Where once they shuffled, now they run. Initially […]

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Academic Conference on the Undead in the UK

April 7th, 2010 | Posted in conference, undead, vampire, zombie

The University of Hertfordshire in the UK is hosting an academic conference on the undead next week. The conference is titled “Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Human Culture.” The conference is described as follows: The aim of the conference is to relate the undead in literature, art, and other media to […]

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Happy Easter

April 4th, 2010 | Posted in Christianity, zombie

TheoFantastique wishes everyone a happy Easter. Readers might be interested in the following previous posts that overlap with discussions of the fantastic, the horrific, Christianity, and the idea of rising from the dead. Related posts: “Reflections on a Zombie Supper” “Philly Zombie Crawl and ‘Zombie Jesus’”

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Computer Animated Zombie Apocalypse in A.D.

February 27th, 2010 | Posted in animation, apocalypticism, zombie

What do you get when Pixar-style animation meets zombie apocalypse? A great looking piece of computer animation like A.D. This is a trailer for a promised longer film by creator Haylor Garcia. An interview with those who are working on this film can be found here at the Zombie Info website. If the completed film […]

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Barry Keith Grant: The Night of the Living Dead (1990), Gender, and the Horror Film

January 4th, 2010 | Posted in 1990s, gender, George Romero, horror, zombie

If we probe horror in cinema more deeply we find it touches on a number of aspects of the human experience. One of these is related to gender. An excellent book that looks at various facets of this topic is The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (University of Texas Press, 1996). (The […]

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Bob Hope, Zombies, and Politics

December 13th, 2009 | Posted in comedy, political commentary, satire, zombie

The following post brings a little levity to TheoFantastique with a brief clip from a Bob Hope film, The Ghost Breakers (1940),  that combines comedy, pre-Romero voodoo conceptions of zombies, and politics. The clip seems especially relevant in light of our current national debate over health care legislation and the Democratic majority related to this […]

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Matt Cardin: Spirituality in Romero’s Living Dead Films

December 3rd, 2009 | Posted in George Romero, horror, Matt Cardin, zombie

A while ago I first encountered Matt Cardin when he nominated this blog for an award between bloggers. Matt pursues his blogging at The Teeming Brain. In addition to being flattered, it was good to learn of someone else thinking through the issues related to the connection of horror and religion. Matt’s biography on his […]

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The Old West Meets the Undead: PCA/ACA Call for Papers

October 12th, 2009 | Posted in call for papers, pop culture, vampire, zombie

The combination of certain genres don’t work for me. In this case the Old West connecting with horror, specifically in the form of cowboys combined with zombies, vampires, and other horror icons, but apparently they work for some people and have become the focus of academic consideration. Following is a call for papers from the […]

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ZOMBIELAND: Great Comedy-Horror, and a Little Bit More

October 8th, 2009 | Posted in horror, Uncategorized, zombie, Zombieland

Last weekend Zombieland hit theaters in its debut and went on to defy a recession diminished box office, and in the process earned critical praise. This comedy (which also includes elements of road-horror, teenage angst, and coming of age films) takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a mutation of the swine flu virus has turned […]

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