Evolution of the zombie movie: from White Zombie to #Alive
By now we’ve all seen so many zombie films it’s hard for new releases not to seem like more of the same. Yet the flesh-eating corpses have evolved a lot since they first terrorised cinemagoers - to the point where a lot of the time they aren’t even dead anymore . From voodoo curses to toxic gases and demonic possession, there have been countless different takes on our favourite putrefying cannibals, with tones ranging wildly from cheerful splatterfests to sombre meditations on the end of days. Zombies may have lost some of their bite through overfamiliarity, yet new innovations in recent years threaten to freshen up the rotting reanimated corpse of the subgenre. Early zombies Zombies in early horror films were a far cry from their modern counterparts. Here, they are associated with voodoo magic and are generally under a witch doctor’s control without their later cannibalistic tendencies. The action often takes places in Haiti or the Caribbean, making use of - some would say app...