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Oct 31Liked by William M Briggs

Pre 2020 I could not watch a zombie movie as I have a queasy stomach, never watched Dawn of the Dead or the series The Walking Dead. Post 2020 I strangely consider them light relief and watched the full series of The Walking Dead. I enjoyed watching the humans at least showing some gumption and fighting back.

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Oct 31Liked by William M Briggs

I always thought it was a shame they didn't harness the zombies energy. The black samurai girl showed them the principle but none of them ever took it up.

A few zombies on a treadmill could have provided electricity, powered a zombie-grinder defense setup, a noise-maker to draw them into it, etc.

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Great final paragraph.

Happy Halloween.

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See you at All Souls Day.

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Oct 31Liked by William M Briggs

Back in the VHS days I loved this movie, because at the time, the IRL mall was alive and dynamic—what downtown had been to my parents—and the mall in the film was desolate, dead, sad, and beige, with those grayish, dim, flickering fluorescent lights. For a teenage girl, just that was horrific enough, let alone the zombies. Little did we know then that most malls would become exactly that in the 21st century.

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My favorite movie. Just for people watching the youtube--that isn't one of the "official cuts" of the film (of which there are I believe 3, with different scenes and soundtracks), but a fan version cutting together all three (with some deleted scenes), hence the varying transfer quality.

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What zombie movies epitomize is the idea that the enemy is everybody else. They would have made no sense in an earlier era, when everybody DEPENDED on everybody else.

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Nov 1Liked by William M Briggs

I like this line: "They are poor, he says, and do not give up their possessions easily, but their dead they do not give up at all." Teenage you was correct: the mall would be a most excellent place to go in the event of an apocalypse! I'm glad that Romero went with the less bleak ending, so that the good man and the pregnant lady are able to escape in their helicopter. I have not forgotten your wise words one night on Twitter long ago, that even though the Catholic Church permits the rhythm method of contraception, it might be sinful (but you didn't express it like that; I don't intend to suggest blasphemy!)

My favorite zombie movie is From Dusk to Dawn but I have not seen this one. Thank you for a very fine post!

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The Katchecon is compromised

Let’s rock

https://youtube.com/shorts/-840ifdobVY?si=2ZebLEe34WEBQ3WO

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Nov 1·edited Nov 1

I disliked all of the series, and that particular scene is one of the saddest of all.

EDIT: Ah, now I understand! I just read the link about the Katechon.

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Oct 31Liked by William M Briggs

I still remember the spate of (thankfully few) papers published by "philosophers" trying to explicate consciousness (and morality!) via the Zombie perspective! :)

Somewhat (occasionally) amusing; but hardly serious — intentionally.

I think you've got it right, Briggs.

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“When there’s no more room in Hell the dead will walk the earth”

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This is a brilliant analysis of a movie that has more to it than conventional critics have generally seen.

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Thanks, Sam.

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