Has the zombie movie lost its bite?
transformed the zombie movie into apocalyptic thrillers honing in on global, viral disasters. But 2019's crop of zombie movies suggest that the genre, copied and mutated again and again since Romero’s hit, is hitting a wall.
It’s funny to speculate the death of a genre defined by the undead, but the zombie movies of 2019 are united in the way they approach not just zombies, but the vitality of the genre.more than 250 times its budget at the box office before getting an American release this year, takes an extremely meta approach.
It’s a clever and disorienting move, one which ultimately emphasizes how flimsy and tired the canonical zombie movie has become. Cast members bicker over if a zombie can even wield an axe in a murder scene, because zombies don’t have wills, right? Another member of the production, frequently racked with diarrhea, gets his illness worked into the movie as a symptom of fear.
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