Watching a good zombie flick gives you an odd catharsis. Maybe it’s seeing society collapse from the safety of your couch, or the thrill of imagining how you would fare in a world where normal rules no longer apply. Either way, the genre has stuck around for decades now. It began with the classics. White Zombie (1932) gave us the first cinematic undead, but it was George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) that truly defined the modern zombie. His trilogy turned zombies into a metaphor for everything, from consumerism to Cold War dread.

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