Tag: Zombies
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No one can resist a good zombie movie. When done right, these tales about feral monsters and animalistic impulses have ways of asserting more humanity than many of the thousands of films put out each year. Zombie movies have a rhythmic road map: outbreak, meet the survivors, attack, hard loss, grandiose overture, and aftermath. They’re…
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Animated films and television are some of my favorites. You’ve probably heard me mention Futurama once or twice in my reviews, but it runs so much deeper than that. Knowing that, it likely won’t surprise anyone that Night of the Zoopocalypse is one of my most anticipated movies of 2025 and likely the most understated.…
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The second Dances with Films NYC film I had the opportunity to review this week comes from multihyphenate filmmaker Bari Kang. Kang’s 2021 indie crime thriller, The Scrapper, made a lot of headway for Kang when it was picked up for distribution by 1091 Pictures. His latest film, ITCH!, tweaks the zombie film formula by…
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If you ask a roomful of horror fans to name the first thing that comes to mind when you mention the phrase “zombie film,” a bunch of them are going to say George Romero, and for good reason. The guy’s 1968 debut Night of the Living Dead literally invented the modern zombie lore we all…