The five most common zombie movie tropes
This year zombie films are having a renaissance. So far we've had Cargo , The Cured and Netflix original Ravenous . What do all these films have in common? Well, it turns out an awful lot actually. Zombies have been a cultural obsession since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). The subgenre has taken a few left turns since that unbearably tense undead seige on a rickety house. Now zombie flicks tend to be large-scale gorefests which mercilesslessly pluck the heartstrings as our beloved protagonists become flesh-eating maniacs. Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later zombies were famously super fast. They unnervingly caught on: we'd almost certainly be screwed in a life-or-death sprint with the zombies from Charlie Brooker's Dead Set (2008) or Amazon Prime's sleeper hit Train to Busan (2016) . Now TV series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead ensure our favourite lumbering corpses remain a mainstay in popular culture. If you th...