Zombies | Guillaume le Disez Claude Gaillard

Zombie!

The word is of Haitian origin, but the creature has wandered under different names and forms in many popular cultures. Associated with voodoo folklore, zombies have slowly conquered the planet.

We didn't have to wait for Michael Jackson's swaying hips in Thriller (1983) or a series like The Walking Dead (2010) to bring this mythical figure up to date. As early as the 1930s, American ma cinema had been depicting these terrifying corpses. At the end of the sixties, yesterday's monsters could be dressed, and zombies revolutionized horror. With Night of the Living Dead (1968), director George A. Romero popularized these creatures. At the same time, his desperate vision of humanity under attack makes us reflect on consumerism, class struggle, racism etc.

Zombies also reflect our anxieties: with their slow walk, these ghosts underline the inexorability of our own finitude. Today, in the face of the ecological and epidemic drama, the cinema ma Zombie puts the Apocalypse and its causes back on the table. As you can see, zombies still have a bright future ahead of them!

Zombies traces the long road of the undead in pop culture and explores the multiple facets of this figure through a hundred films and series. We go back to the origins of the myth, not excluding the psychological and societal dimension of the phenomenon, without forgetting to take a look at Italian and Spanish ma cinema. A complete and fun anthology to spend a night of thrills.