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- The zombie is absolutely
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all-American horror metaphor.
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They are the monster
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of the 11st century.
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- Right now it does seem like
we're in the middle
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of a zombie apocalypse.
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- We‘re getting our chance
to exercise
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our most anti-social emotions.
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You know, that--
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that mob impulse that's like.
"Yeah, kill them all
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and let God sort them out."
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- Eventually
they overwhelm you.
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They're not stopping to eat.
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- Well. I mean.
unless they‘re stopping
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to eat one olyou.
- We‘re all gonna die.
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We all are gonna
get cancer one day.
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We‘re all gonna get sick.
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It's almost like
an accelerated version of that.
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- We don't want zombies
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to come and destroy
all oi our friends
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and family and institutions...
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but on some level.
maybe we do.
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Like. on some level
it provides us a chance
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tojust dismantle
everything...
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And possibly start over.
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- What are humans like
when laced with the end
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of humanity?
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What are they like
when they're laced
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with very few choices
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in--in regards
to how to survive?
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That's the horror
of zombie movies.
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- Nol
- It's the wrong impulses
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that come out of people
that are far more terrifying
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than the walking dead.
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- I'm Eli Roth.
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- The history of horror
is filled with monsters.
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Nightmare figures that tap
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into our deepest fears.
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J‘J‘
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But our fears.
and our monsters.
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change with the times.
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Right now, it's the time
of the zombie.
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Fast zombies, slow zombies,
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comedy zombies,
teen zombies...
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- Whatever their shape,
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zombies are everywhere.
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How did we get here?
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What set off zombie fever?
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As we'll see,
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zombies have been around
for decades.
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But the debut
of "The Walking Dead"
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in 2010 saw them explode
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into popular culture.
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- To almost everyone's
surprise, a horror series
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became the most popular show
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- My brother's kids--
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ten years old, five years--
they watch "Walking Dead."
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- Kids eight years old
watch "Walking Dead."
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What is it
about "Walking Dead"
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that zombies have become so,
almost normalized
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that kids love it.
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- They don't take it seriously.
I think it's amazing.
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- Well...
- "Walking Dead" plays
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like a family show.
- It's all about
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the characters.
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You can follow
this group of people
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as they struggle to survive
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week after week
after week after week.
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- You can see them live,
you can see them die,
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you can see everything
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with the zombie apocalypse
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- Everybody wants to...
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think that they would be able
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the zombie apocalypse.
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- You figure, "What would I do
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ordinary people who
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are thrust into
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which always give you
some of the best drama.
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-Are you gonna fight
for what you believe in?
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Are you gonna be
the type of person
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that runs away from it?
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You know, there's no status
and--and fame,
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and money, and
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there's none
of that bull.
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- The apocalyptic simulation
is really an interesting
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sociological experiment
about, you know,
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who do people become,
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and what would be okay
ifthe rules weren't
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the same anymore?
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lwant to be a Michonne...
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But I'm probably more of, um...
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I don't know, a Eugene.
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You got a name, ass?
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- Eugene.
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- They're coming to get you,
Earbara.
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- Stop itl
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- They're coming for you.
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Look, there comes
one of them now.
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- Without George Romero and
"Night of the Living Dead,"
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there would be
no "Walking Dead."
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"Night of the Living Dead"
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for every zombie
survival story that followed.
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It's a simple plot--
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six people trapped
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but it changed everything.
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- You got to see
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going from
the 19505 creatures--
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the man in the rubber suit--
to like, graphic viscera.
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What was it like seeing it
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pushed farther and farther?
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I can remember just
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sort of wandering into
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of "Night of the Living Dead."
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The whole place was full
of kids--it was like
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a Saturday matinee--
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yelling and grab-assing around
and throwing
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and they just fell
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And I was scared, too.
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The first time that you see
something like that,
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- George Romero
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you turned into one...
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- Shoot them in the head...
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That didn't exist before.
- Those rules
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for the modern-day zombie
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- By George Romero.
- If I were surrounded
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by six or eight
of these things, would I stand
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If you had a gun,
shoot 'em in the head.
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That's a sure way to kill 'em.
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If you don't, get yourself
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Beat 'em or burn ‘em.
They go up pretty easy.
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- It almost feels like
the zombie movie--
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there's like a quantum leap
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where there are
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Like the 1930s and '405,
it was the--
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"l Walked With a Zombie."
It was "White Zombie."
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It was the hypnotist zombie.
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It was a mad scientist
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that has found a way
to raise the dead
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and enslave them.
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were about people
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of their identity
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You know, they could be
workers, orthey couldjust
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sort of shamble and look scary,
but they weren‘t attacking
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and biting and killing
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in "Night of the Living Dead."
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- Baby...
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Mean, there were things
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that were so transgressive
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- The little girl stabs
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- The little kid
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no one had ever seen
anything like that.
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- The first time you see it,
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You can‘t believe
what you're seeing.
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- "Night of the Living Dead"
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of a claustrophobic nightmare
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"Night of the Living Dead"
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somewhat facetious,
and it's also--
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it has its
sociopolitical allegory.
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- What's important about
"Night of the Living Dead"
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is the fact that the travails
of the people
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locked in that house
are really a microcosm
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of what's going on
in American society
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The tumult of the late 1960s
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is reflected in the fear
and the--the violence
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that--that occur in
and around that house.
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- That movie's revolutionary
in many, many ways
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and had profound impact--
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the fact it had
a black lead--
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- Which George always said
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It was that Duane was
the best actor.
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I don't believe him.
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- With all of us working,
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we can fix this place up
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We have everything we need
up here.
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- We can take all that stuff
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Man, you're really crazy,
you know that?
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- Let's say you're a--
a white viewer
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in the late 1960s...
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who has a few prejudices, say,
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and is a little bit worried
that the world is ending
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because of all ofthe,
racial legislation
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of the '60s--
The Voting Rights Act,
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The Civil Rights Act--
and here's this zombie film
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where the dead
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and a black man is in charge.
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- I don't want anyone's life
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- Is there anything I can do?
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from you, mister.
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It you stay up here,
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- I will contend that
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as frightening to some viewers
as the child eating her mother
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- What we get is potentially
something hopeful, you know,
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with the African-American
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like maybe some new direction
socially--
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but instead itjust turns
into vigilante justice
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represented by
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You can imagine the--the shock
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that audiences must have felt
to--to be coaxed
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into identifying
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only to have him shot
and then pitchforked
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onto a pile of burning bodies
at the end.
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That's a slap.
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That's a direct slap
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right wing or left wing.
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- "The Nig ht
of the Living Dead"
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does not end on any kind
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Your hero is shot by police.
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It's the most upsetting ending
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And then that has continued
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through horror cinema
of actually--
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It doesn't always have
a happy ending.
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lthink that's the joy
of horror cinema,
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is that it can, like,
affect you in lots
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of different ways.
- If George Romero
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had only made
"Night of the Living Dead,"
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he would still be a legend...
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- But he didn't stop.
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"Night of the Living Dead"
and its sequels
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changed the course
of film history.
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and inspired the best
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the horror genre has to offer.
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He was such a big influence
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on "Shaun of the Dead."
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We liked this idea
of our film taking place
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within George Romero's
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"Shaun of the Dead"
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was so well done
that it opened the floodgates
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to, like, everybody to try
and make a zombie movie.
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- Today, zombie movies
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and TV shows are everywhere.
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but not so long ago,
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they had virtually
disappeared.
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Edgar Wright's
"Shaun ofthe Dead"
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helped bring them back
bigger than ever.
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- When we thought up the idea
for "Shaun ofthe Dead,"
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one of the inspirations for it
is because there hadn't been
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a zombie film
for, like, 15 years.
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We always had this theory
that, like,
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John Landis' video
for "Thriller"
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sort of killed off zombies
for the second half
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of the '80s and early 'SDs.
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- So I think what happened was,
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all ofa sudden
the zombie genre--
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which traditionally had
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and then all of a sudden
you have all these
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zombie video games
and they're like, ",
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man, people love
shooting zombies."
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- It was around, like,
the late 1990s
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when "Resident Evil" came out--
the game.
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So people started
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to take an interest
in the genre again.
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- Every now and then,
we see a movie
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that is supposedly horror...
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but yet uses
social commentary brilliantly,
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and the best example
is "Shaun of the Dead."
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You want to know
where Britain was
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at that time, you look at
"Shaun of the Dead."
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- In the '905 and the dawn
of the new century,
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we were in a new phase
in Britain...
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and a whole new generation
of Britons were asking:
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"What's next?"
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And they were a little lost.
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Hey, man, listen, um--
top left.
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l was gonna say--
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reload.
- I'm on it.
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-And it was brilliant.
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- What I love about
"Shaun of the Dead"
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is they're not making fun of...
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zombie movies,
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they're making
a funny zombie movie.
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- I'm not gonna say,
"If you love her, let her go,"
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and I'm not gonna bombard you
with cliches.
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But what I will say is this...
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It's not the end of the world.
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-And they play on
all the tropes...
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- Sorry, we're closed.
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- I'd been playing
"Resident Evil 3,"
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like, all night.
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My girlfriend at the time
had gone away...
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-And I promised her
lwouldn't play video games
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all weekend,
and I did exactly that.
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I remember, vividly,
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playing it until
the sun came up.
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- And then walking
across the street
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to the news agent
to get some milk
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to make some tea...
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and I walked across the street,
and it was completely empty
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on a Sunday morning.
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And the shop was
the only thing that was open,
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and in that moment,
I had a thought of thinking,
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"What would it be like if
if zombies were here right now,
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and what would I do?‘I
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Because we don't really
have guns in the UK,
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How would I defend myself?
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- It's just
that little thought
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really sort of started
to inspire the sequence
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where Shaun walks
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to the store and back
hungover.
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- So the zombie apocalypse
has started,
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but he's still unaware of it.
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- But he does this walk--
it's a long,
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steady cam shot--
and he goes into the shop
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and he doesn't notice...
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little things.
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- The bloody handprints
on the wall,
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and he's walking away
from the refrigerator
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and he just slips in blood.
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It's so subtle, but it‘s...
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It's such a great moment
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because you know--
you as the audience
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know what's coming--
his character doesn't
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know it yet, and it's--
he--he's still out of it.
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- Nelson.
- It's such a simple moment
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but it‘s one of my favorite
moments in the movie.
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- It's wonderful,
the way they show
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the collapse of society.
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Zombies become a symbol
of anarchy,
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and the collapse
ofthe system,
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and all that protects us.
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Top leftl
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-Ahl
- Reload.
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- I'm on it.
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- We wanted to stay true
to the spirit
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of "Night of the Living Dead"
and " Dawn of the Dead."
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The film is like a valentine
to George Romero
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because we love those movies.
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We're, like, sharing our deep,
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deep love forthe subject.
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- Right down to its title,
"Shaun of the Dead"
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is a tribute to what
any horror fan will tell you
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is the greatest zombie film
of all time.
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- There's no greater
zombie movie
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than "Dawn of the Dead."
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- I think "Dawn of the Dead"
is a real masterpiece.
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- It's that rare kind
of, like, nightmare world
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which you actually wouldn't--
I mean, maybe this isjust me,
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but you wouldn't mind
being in it.
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- Nol Nol
- George Romero's
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"Night of the Living Dead"
created the modern zombie.
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That was a hard act to follow,
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but the director topped it
with his sequel,
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"Dawn of the Dead."
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"Dawn ofthe Dead"
was a potent mixture
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of horror, satire,
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and outrageous
special effects.
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It's, basically
a continuation of the--
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of "Night of the Living Dead,"
where zombies are
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taking over the world.
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- This was the first depiction
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of a full-scale
zombie apocalypse,
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a nightmare vision
of social collapse
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that became the template
for virtually
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every end-of-the-world story
we see today.
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Once again, Romero used horror
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to comment on American values.
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- He is masterfully executing
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all of those horror elements
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in a way that brings it
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right to a social justice
scenario...
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- Martinezl
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You've been watchingl
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You know we've got
this building surrounded!
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- Particularly that opening
when in the ghettos,
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all of the poor
are keeping their loved ones
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hidden away from the rest
of the world,
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because they know that
they will kill them.
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- People in this project
are your responsibility.
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- In the first 20 minutes,
there's a SWAT team
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raiding a house...
-Yeah.
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-And one
of the police officers
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- Yeah, come on, Martinez.
Show your greasy little
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Puerto Rican ass
so I can blow it right off.
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-And l was like,
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"Why is this guy concerned
with racism?"
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Like, there's zombies
in the building.
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It was unbelievable.
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l was like,
"Aren't there bigger problems?"
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- Let's go. let's go]
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- That blew my mind as a kid
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because I realized
I was watching
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a political story
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about the race
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and class system in America.
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- After showing
society crumbling,
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the film shifts focus
to a small group of survivors
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who take refuge
in a suburban shopping mall.
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- I think the great thing
about zombies
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is they are like
a catch-all metaphor
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of the world‘s ills,
and I think George Romero
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doesn't really get
enough credit as a satirist
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as well as a horror film maker.
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Come onl
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- "Dawn of the Dead"
being the most
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kind of savage statement
aboutthe state of consumerism
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in the late '70s.
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The idea of
the mindless hordes
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flock to the big
fancy shopping mall...
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That was very pointed
and very funny.
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- What are they doing?
Why do they come here?
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- Some kind of instinct.
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Memory ofwhat
they used to do.
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This was an important place
in their lives.
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- You can't watch that movie
and not become aware
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of the fact
thatthis is a story about
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what humans really are:
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grasping, vampiric creatures
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that kind of return endlessly
to their old habits
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because it‘s
what they're taught.
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- I think "Dawn of the Dead"
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should be sold in a box set
with "Easy Rider."
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It should be called
"The Baby Boomers:
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The Beginning and the End.‘I
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Romero has managed
to distill...
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The worst of every generation
into all of his movies.
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You see the baby boomers
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losing their souls.
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- What have we done
to ourselves?
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- Because what Romero did
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was channel his outrage
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at his generation's
ultimate surrender
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of all their ideals
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and he put it in a movie.
- So, I mean,
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if you were gonna go out and do
atalky little, drama
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to try to criticize
the consumer society
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that we have here,
you couldn't make
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$30 million, you know?
- That's for sure.
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- So, terrific.
You get a couple of jabs in
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while you‘re having fun
with the rollercoaster ride
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which really is the surface.
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- Romero was a man
with a message,
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but his gleeful embrace
of gore
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made him a horror favorite.
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"Dawn of the Dead,"
I had never seen that level
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of a body count in a movie.
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- You're, like, watching like,
"Who made this?"
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- Yeah.
- Like, a maniac?
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- But normally, one movie,
there'd be one kill
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that was amazing,
and it was like
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every 30 seconds,
each kill was different.
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That helicopter blade...
- Yeah.
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00:20:02,205 --> 00:20:03,793
- Pulling it off the head...
- The guy with
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the giantforehead.
- Which--which if you were--
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- Exactly.
- By the way, when you're a kid
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you never see that coming.
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You see he staggers out
and his head...
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- You never put
two and two together.
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Now you look at it and go,
"Of course, he‘s gonna
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get his head cut off.‘I
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- Really accomplished
horror directors knew
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having Tom Savini doing
the make-up special effects
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that it was gonna
elevate that film.
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and give them a wider audience
than they ever anticipated.
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- Well, it was Halloween
every day.
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We did that for three months
in a shopping mall.
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- 80% of the effects in that
were stuff that
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we came up with.
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We'd go to George and say,
"Hey, how about if we drive
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a screwdriver through--
through the zombies, here."
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And he'd go, "Okay."
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So then two hours later
we're making
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retractable screwdrivers
and, you know,
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- But the scene
that makes you like, wonder,
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"Wow...
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can I even handle this?"
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ls when the zombie
in the project--
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when, his wife...
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- He‘s still alive,
comes to her and--
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and embraces him.
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"My baby. my baby."
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And then she--he just bites--
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just a chunk out
of her shoulder.
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Carlito...
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- It just looks real.
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It just--it just--
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you buy it.
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ll humans had
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shark-like mouths,
that's probably the effect
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of what would happen
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if a sharky human bit you.
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- It's just an effect
we had never seen before,
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and it draws a line
in the sand.
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"Am I ready
for the rest of this?"
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- George Romero's vision
was so influential
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that for decades,
most screen zombies
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were slow-moving ghouls.
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But in 2002,
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Danny Boyle's
"26 Days Later"
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gave us a zombie
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for the fast-moving
21st century
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and set off a controversy
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that rages to this day.
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- I'm a slow zombie guy.
- I like fast zombies.
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- I'm a card-carrying
slow zombie fan.
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- Imagine waking up in a world
ravaged by a disease
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that turns ordinary people
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into mindless predators
driven to kill.
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J‘J‘
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This is the premise
of "26 Days Later,"
506
00:22:20,278 --> 00:22:23,230
director Danny Boyle's
groundbreaking reinvention
507
00:22:23,272 --> 00:22:24,305
of the zombie film.
508
00:22:30,138 --> 00:22:32,771
- Fightl Fightl
509
00:22:32,812 --> 00:22:34,367
- "28 Days Later'I
510
00:22:34,409 --> 00:22:37,315
is a perfect horror movie
511
00:22:37,363 --> 00:22:40,110
because it's based
on a premise
512
00:22:40,157 --> 00:22:42,144
you can completely believe.
513
00:22:42,193 --> 00:22:43,907
I don't know what it's like
514
00:22:43,989 --> 00:22:45,816
to be bitten by a vampire.
515
00:22:47,342 --> 00:22:49,090
by a werewolf.
516
00:22:50,575 --> 00:22:52,879
- But I can imagine
what it's like...
517
00:22:52,930 --> 00:22:55,961
to have a plague spread
like wildfire
518
00:22:56,004 --> 00:22:58,592
because it‘sjust too close
519
00:22:58,638 --> 00:23:01,067
to the headlines
of today's news.
520
00:23:02,949 --> 00:23:04,584
It could happen.
521
00:23:05,983 --> 00:23:07,731
- "28 Days Later'I came out
522
00:23:07,779 --> 00:23:10,288
a year after um,
and it includes
523
00:23:10,334 --> 00:23:12,321
these really haunting scenes
524
00:23:12,370 --> 00:23:14,560
of a deserted London...
525
00:23:14,605 --> 00:23:17,874
J‘J‘
526
00:23:17,918 --> 00:23:21,063
Missing persons flyers
pasted to bulletin boards
527
00:23:21,112 --> 00:23:23,337
like we saw post 9/11...
528
00:23:25,542 --> 00:23:28,210
It also was able to,
529
00:23:28,257 --> 00:23:31,129
capitalize on a lot of the--
the anxieties
530
00:23:31,171 --> 00:23:33,044
and fears ofthe time.
531
00:23:34,564 --> 00:23:36,516
SARS and anthrax
532
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,863
and Mad Cow's Disease,
bird flues...
533
00:23:39,913 --> 00:23:41,900
Father...
534
00:23:41,948 --> 00:23:44,299
Also, Danny Boyle
535
00:23:44,343 --> 00:23:45,898
was commenting on,
536
00:23:45,940 --> 00:23:48,210
the rage that he saw
in society.
537
00:23:48,255 --> 00:23:50,401
Road rage,
people fighting on line
538
00:23:50,451 --> 00:23:51,767
in the supermarkets...
539
00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:56,630
- He envisioned a zombie story
that took advantage
540
00:23:56,678 --> 00:23:59,391
of this psychological virus
541
00:23:59,432 --> 00:24:01,657
that could be unleashed
and have, like,
542
00:24:01,707 --> 00:24:03,819
a zombie effect on people.
543
00:24:06,258 --> 00:24:08,006
- There was one big difference
544
00:24:08,054 --> 00:24:10,358
between George Romero's'
zombies and the infected
545
00:24:10,409 --> 00:24:12,600
in "25 Days Later":
546
00:24:12,685 --> 00:24:14,319
these zombies were last.
547
00:24:14,361 --> 00:24:17,664
People talked about sort of
the next quantum leap
548
00:24:17,714 --> 00:24:19,826
in zombie movies...
549
00:24:20,868 --> 00:24:23,695
As "28 Days Later"
'cause it had running zombies.
550
00:24:23,742 --> 00:24:25,490
Even though there were
running infected
551
00:24:25,538 --> 00:24:27,604
in Umberto Lenzi‘s
"Nightmare City" from 1960.
552
00:24:32,763 --> 00:24:34,829
- I'm a slow zombie guy.
553
00:24:34,879 --> 00:24:36,627
Not that I don't like
554
00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:38,662
a good fast zombie movie.
- Somebody!
555
00:24:38,711 --> 00:24:40,504
I loved "28 Days Later.‘I
556
00:24:40,547 --> 00:24:42,023
Yes, I know.
557
00:24:42,064 --> 00:24:44,448
They're not technically dead.
558
00:24:44,499 --> 00:24:46,167
They are rage virus.
559
00:24:46,215 --> 00:24:48,042
I get that.
560
00:24:49,967 --> 00:24:52,271
- lfl can make a criticism
of running zombies, it's this:
561
00:24:52,322 --> 00:24:53,957
It's that running zombies
generally--
562
00:24:53,999 --> 00:24:55,633
there's kind of like
a fitness level.
563
00:24:55,675 --> 00:24:57,662
If you look at the zombies
in "26 Days Later,"
564
00:24:57,711 --> 00:25:00,174
they're nearly always, like,
sort of fit.
565
00:25:00,226 --> 00:25:03,053
You know, like they're in
like a sneakers commercial.
566
00:25:05,934 --> 00:25:08,523
When you increase the speed,
the people that lose out
567
00:25:08,569 --> 00:25:10,998
are the old zombies,
and the overweightzombies,
568
00:25:11,043 --> 00:25:13,314
and the little kid zombies,
and I would rather have
569
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,390
a more inclusive range
of zombies.
570
00:25:17,630 --> 00:25:20,695
- Zombies that are slow are
infinitely more terrifying.
571
00:25:20,743 --> 00:25:22,093
It's the difference between
getting shot
572
00:25:22,140 --> 00:25:24,695
and getting cancer.
573
00:25:24,735 --> 00:25:27,801
You get killed by, say,
a fast zombie
574
00:25:27,849 --> 00:25:31,198
in the "World WarZ" movie
or "28 Days Later,"
575
00:25:32,958 --> 00:25:34,831
Happens too fast.
576
00:25:34,874 --> 00:25:36,701
J‘J‘
577
00:25:36,750 --> 00:25:38,543
But the slow zombie...
578
00:25:38,586 --> 00:25:40,812
the zombie that gives you
time to think...
579
00:25:40,861 --> 00:25:44,165
allows you to visualize
your own death...
580
00:25:48,246 --> 00:25:50,153
And that is one
of the darker elements
581
00:25:50,202 --> 00:25:52,154
of the human mind.
582
00:25:52,198 --> 00:25:53,708
Fast or slow...
583
00:25:53,755 --> 00:25:55,582
- Zombies are usually created
584
00:25:55,631 --> 00:25:58,537
by accidental radiation leaks
of rogue viruses.
585
00:26:00,660 --> 00:26:02,488
- But there is another kind
of zombie:
586
00:26:02,536 --> 00:26:04,999
The deliberately
reanimated corpse,
587
00:26:05,051 --> 00:26:06,720
like Frankenstein's monster.
588
00:26:06,768 --> 00:26:08,833
-Alivel
- Created by Mary Shelley
589
00:26:08,883 --> 00:26:11,835
in 1818,
Frankenstein's monster
590
00:26:11,877 --> 00:26:14,624
is the most famous member
ofthe walking dead.
591
00:26:14,671 --> 00:26:16,340
- Frankenstein's monster
592
00:26:16,388 --> 00:26:18,375
is a zombie for sure.
593
00:26:18,424 --> 00:26:20,058
In the novel, he's just a--
594
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,688
a zombie that can talk
way too much.
595
00:26:23,732 --> 00:26:25,401
-As a kid,
I really felt connected
596
00:26:25,449 --> 00:26:27,004
to Frankenstein's monster,
not so much
597
00:26:27,046 --> 00:26:28,362
to Frankenstein himself.
598
00:26:30,199 --> 00:26:32,106
ofthose
original horror classics.
599
00:26:32,155 --> 00:26:34,221
Those characters
are sort of stand-ins
600
00:26:34,271 --> 00:26:36,904
for people that are
on the fringe of society
601
00:26:36,945 --> 00:26:38,614
or castaways--cast outs.
602
00:26:41,176 --> 00:26:43,128
- Boris Karloff's
Frankenstein
603
00:26:43,172 --> 00:26:44,965
is still
the definitive version
604
00:26:45,008 --> 00:26:46,518
of this monster.
605
00:26:46,565 --> 00:26:48,234
Its direct descendant
606
00:26:48,282 --> 00:26:51,029
is ”H.P. Lovecraft's
Re-Animator."
607
00:26:51,076 --> 00:26:52,949
With "Re-Animator,"
608
00:26:52,992 --> 00:26:55,898
director Stuart Gordon
reimagined the zombie film
609
00:26:55,946 --> 00:26:58,659
as a wildly transgressive
horror comedy.
610
00:27:00,297 --> 00:27:02,681
I remember I went to a--
like a--a bunch of kids
611
00:27:02,731 --> 00:27:04,718
were hanging out at a house
like have--having a party
612
00:27:04,767 --> 00:27:06,436
and they watched
”Breakfast Club,"
613
00:27:06,484 --> 00:27:09,117
and l was never--l had never
been so bored in a movie.
614
00:27:09,158 --> 00:27:11,270
I wasjust, like, waiting
for something to happen.
615
00:27:11,314 --> 00:27:12,902
- Somebody gets the hot potato.
- Something.
616
00:27:12,990 --> 00:27:14,466
And I was like, "I have
a much better movie."
617
00:27:14,507 --> 00:27:15,732
And I put on "Re-Animator..."
618
00:27:15,784 --> 00:27:17,056
-And the whole party
cleared out.
619
00:27:21,772 --> 00:27:23,962
- Well, the film
is about medical students
620
00:27:24,007 --> 00:27:25,994
who find a way to bring
the dead back to life.
621
00:27:26,043 --> 00:27:27,836
Particularly,
there's this one genius,
622
00:27:27,879 --> 00:27:31,024
Herbert West--
he‘s developed a serum which,
623
00:27:31,073 --> 00:27:34,183
when it's injected
into a dead body, revives it.
624
00:27:36,980 --> 00:27:39,728
- But the dead
are never very grateful.
625
00:27:42,050 --> 00:27:45,319
- What was great about
Stuart Gordon's take on it--
626
00:27:45,363 --> 00:27:47,270
he put a really interesting
sense of humor
627
00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:48,795
in the whole thing.
628
00:27:50,472 --> 00:27:52,698
'Cause you can look
629
00:27:52,748 --> 00:27:54,336
at "Re-Animator" as a comedy.
- You'll never get credit
630
00:27:54,384 --> 00:27:55,780
for my discovery.
631
00:27:55,861 --> 00:27:57,257
Who's going to believe
a talking head?
632
00:27:57,298 --> 00:27:59,013
Get a job in a sideshow.
633
00:27:59,055 --> 00:28:01,166
- "Re-Animator"
was like nothing
634
00:28:01,210 --> 00:28:04,037
I had seen before--
like nothing anyone
635
00:28:04,084 --> 00:28:07,547
had seen before--
and the audacity of it
636
00:28:07,597 --> 00:28:09,629
is what makes it
so powerful.
637
00:28:12,666 --> 00:28:15,777
J‘J‘
638
00:28:15,820 --> 00:28:17,454
- Boy, that's a sick picture.
639
00:28:17,496 --> 00:28:19,528
Really transgressive.
640
00:28:19,572 --> 00:28:22,319
Got a lot of crawling hands
and heads rolling around
641
00:28:22,366 --> 00:28:25,272
like bowling balls.
642
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,307
- You should not be
censoring yourself.
643
00:28:29,152 --> 00:28:30,299
You know, they'll be doing
everything they can
644
00:28:30,350 --> 00:28:31,462
to censor you.
645
00:28:31,507 --> 00:28:33,096
You should not give them
an inch.
646
00:28:36,776 --> 00:28:38,763
- "Re-Animator's" fun.
I don't know what it's about,
647
00:28:38,812 --> 00:28:40,481
like, that--| don't know
that it's about
648
00:28:40,528 --> 00:28:42,833
any big ideas whatsoever,
649
00:28:42,884 --> 00:28:44,915
except that it would be fun
to keep heads alive
650
00:28:44,959 --> 00:28:47,422
in a basket.
- It's about conquering death.
651
00:28:47,514 --> 00:28:49,739
That's really what it's about.
652
00:28:51,186 --> 00:28:53,615
My father passed away
653
00:28:53,661 --> 00:28:55,852
when lwas 14 years old,
654
00:28:55,897 --> 00:28:59,200
and lthink that
thatwas the hook for me.
655
00:28:59,250 --> 00:29:00,918
People always say,
"If you could
656
00:29:00,966 --> 00:29:03,236
bring anybody back's life,
who would it be?"
657
00:29:03,281 --> 00:29:05,949
In my case, it's a--
it's a no-brainer:
658
00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:08,498
It would be my father.
659
00:29:10,187 --> 00:29:12,412
- When you look at
most horror movies, I think,
660
00:29:12,462 --> 00:29:14,925
they're about
an impossible dream.
661
00:29:14,977 --> 00:29:17,327
- In 1985, "Re-Animator"
662
00:29:17,372 --> 00:29:19,756
and Dan O'Bannon‘s
"Return of the Living Dead"
663
00:29:19,807 --> 00:29:22,440
explored the comic frontiers
of the zombie genre.
664
00:29:23,479 --> 00:29:25,386
- Brainsl
665
00:29:25,435 --> 00:29:28,103
- That same year,
the king ofthe zombies--
666
00:29:28,150 --> 00:29:31,612
George Romero--was crafting
a much darkerfilm,
667
00:29:31,662 --> 00:29:33,694
what he hoped would be
the zombie film
668
00:29:33,738 --> 00:29:36,928
to end all zombie films:
"Day of the Dead."
669
00:29:36,971 --> 00:29:38,958
- "Day of the Dead"
was intended
670
00:29:39,007 --> 00:29:41,959
to be George Romero's
$10 million opus.
671
00:29:46,990 --> 00:29:48,023
- No...
- George Romero's
672
00:29:48,068 --> 00:29:49,703
first two zombie films
673
00:29:49,745 --> 00:29:51,175
invented a new kind
of monster...
674
00:29:51,222 --> 00:29:52,890
And a new metaphor
675
00:29:52,938 --> 00:29:54,005
for life in America.
676
00:29:54,056 --> 00:29:56,610
- One, two, three, go.
677
00:29:58,566 --> 00:30:00,439
- By 1985, he was making
678
00:30:00,482 --> 00:30:03,071
what he hoped would be
his ultimate statement,
679
00:30:03,117 --> 00:30:05,229
a zombie film that combined
680
00:30:05,272 --> 00:30:07,304
incredibly realistic
special effects
681
00:30:07,348 --> 00:30:08,574
with a powerful message.
682
00:30:11,579 --> 00:30:14,134
- The message
of the Reagan era was...
683
00:30:14,174 --> 00:30:17,443
no more war on povefly.
no more war on crime,
684
00:30:17,487 --> 00:30:20,711
no more war
on racial segregation.
685
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,032
Screw it.
686
00:30:24,313 --> 00:30:25,663
We've lost.
There's more of them
687
00:30:25,710 --> 00:30:27,458
than there are of us,
so you need to retreat
688
00:30:27,506 --> 00:30:30,809
into your protective enclaves
and husband your resources.
689
00:30:30,859 --> 00:30:32,528
And that‘s exactly
what our characters do.
690
00:30:32,576 --> 00:30:36,243
- You must listen!
- Listen to this.
691
00:30:42,994 --> 00:30:45,026
- In "Day of the Dead,” we see
the military rule,
692
00:30:45,070 --> 00:30:47,295
and that's even scarier.
- I'm running
693
00:30:47,385 --> 00:30:49,451
this monkey farm now,
Frankenstein,
694
00:30:49,501 --> 00:30:51,963
and I want to know
what the
695
00:30:52,015 --> 00:30:54,320
you're doing with my time!
696
00:30:54,370 --> 00:30:56,244
-A bunch of people
who are trying to do good
697
00:30:56,287 --> 00:30:57,841
and find a cure
are being ruled
698
00:30:57,883 --> 00:31:01,108
by this military presence
that is very aggressive
699
00:31:01,156 --> 00:31:04,426
and will do anything it takes
to preserve itself,
700
00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:06,184
so that's terrifying as well.
701
00:31:07,862 --> 00:31:09,451
- The zombies are
in some ways, you know--
702
00:31:09,499 --> 00:31:11,531
the ones who are being
experimented upon--
703
00:31:11,575 --> 00:31:14,084
kind of more sympathetic
than many of the humans.
704
00:31:15,447 --> 00:31:17,751
- Rhodesl
705
00:31:17,802 --> 00:31:20,549
- In "Dawn ofthe Dead,"
we're losing.
706
00:31:20,596 --> 00:31:22,310
In "Day of the Dead,"
we've lost.
707
00:31:22,352 --> 00:31:25,100
- Most good directors
that really have a grasp
708
00:31:25,147 --> 00:31:26,815
on the medium
can do horror.
709
00:31:26,863 --> 00:31:28,929
It's not as delicate as humor.
710
00:31:28,979 --> 00:31:30,329
- It's not as delicate.
711
00:31:30,376 --> 00:31:31,488
There are some tricks
of the trade
712
00:31:33,330 --> 00:31:35,203
- Like his otherzombie films,
713
00:31:35,246 --> 00:31:38,118
"Day of the Dead" was shot
in Romero's hometown
714
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,385
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
715
00:31:40,435 --> 00:31:42,705
far outside
of the Hollywood system.
716
00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:45,213
- But that's what made...
717
00:31:45,265 --> 00:31:47,297
George Romero...
718
00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:49,009
such a terrific filmmaker,
719
00:31:49,057 --> 00:31:52,406
was that he was a legit,
regional filmmaker,
720
00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:55,039
and what made it special
721
00:31:55,084 --> 00:31:57,639
was the slightly
homemade quality
722
00:31:57,679 --> 00:31:59,393
to the movies.
723
00:31:59,435 --> 00:32:02,501
- Everywhere that he would go
in Pittsburgh,
724
00:32:02,549 --> 00:32:04,376
you knew somebody
that was a zombie.
725
00:32:04,425 --> 00:32:06,332
You knew somebody
that was involved
726
00:32:06,381 --> 00:32:08,095
with George Romero's movies,
727
00:32:08,137 --> 00:32:09,852
and that's howl got
into the business.
728
00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,402
Because when "Day of the Dead"
came along,
729
00:32:12,448 --> 00:32:14,832
I had befriended George
730
00:32:14,883 --> 00:32:16,790
because of some mutual
family friends, and he's like,
731
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:18,156
"Hey, I'm doing a sequel
to 'Dawn of the Dead.‘
732
00:32:18,196 --> 00:32:19,831
Do you want a job?"
I'm like...
733
00:32:25,182 --> 00:32:27,532
- And this is where
George Romero
734
00:32:27,577 --> 00:32:30,404
and Tom Savini--
arguably their creative peaks
735
00:32:30,451 --> 00:32:33,437
at the same time,
working together.
736
00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:35,472
- Special effects artists
like Rick Baker
737
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,228
and Tom Savini were heralded
738
00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:40,465
as, like, kings and icons
of the horror film
739
00:32:40,510 --> 00:32:41,940
because they were creating
special effects
740
00:32:41,987 --> 00:32:43,497
that were out of this world.
741
00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:45,814
Like something
we'd never seen before.
742
00:32:45,859 --> 00:32:48,209
- Vietnam was a lesson
in anatomy for me.
743
00:32:48,254 --> 00:32:50,161
lwas a combat photographer.
744
00:32:50,210 --> 00:32:51,845
I saw horrible stuff.
745
00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:53,521
In fact, I'm the only
make-up artist, I think,
746
00:32:53,563 --> 00:32:55,709
that has seen the real stuff.
747
00:32:55,758 --> 00:32:57,393
In a movie,
748
00:32:57,435 --> 00:33:00,579
when someone dies
they close their mouth
749
00:33:00,628 --> 00:33:02,024
and they wanna look pretty
for the camera...
750
00:33:03,582 --> 00:33:05,614
And thatjust takes me
right out of it,
751
00:33:05,658 --> 00:33:07,724
because that actor doesn't
know how to portray death,
752
00:33:07,773 --> 00:33:10,282
or the director doesn't know
to tell them...
753
00:33:10,328 --> 00:33:12,632
the mouth always goes slack.
754
00:33:14,839 --> 00:33:16,905
My masterpiece
is "Day ofthe Dead."
755
00:33:16,954 --> 00:33:19,588
J‘J‘
756
00:33:21,705 --> 00:33:24,089
There a lot of cool stuff
in--in "Day of the Dead."
757
00:33:25,497 --> 00:33:27,007
We cut the guy's arm off,
you know.
758
00:33:27,053 --> 00:33:28,802
I dug a hole under the guy
759
00:33:28,850 --> 00:33:30,677
so his real arm goes
into the hole.
760
00:33:32,881 --> 00:33:34,630
And tearing Taso's head off...
761
00:33:36,314 --> 00:33:39,062
-And it's actually
Greg Nicotero's fingers
762
00:33:39,108 --> 00:33:41,060
in the eyeballs
of the fake head,
763
00:33:41,104 --> 00:33:42,454
and we're running cables down
764
00:33:42,501 --> 00:33:43,977
to make the head work,
you know,
765
00:33:44,018 --> 00:33:45,733
so it was effects guys
766
00:33:45,775 --> 00:33:48,159
that were the featured zombies
tearing the head off.
767
00:33:48,210 --> 00:33:49,685
- My head comes back
768
00:33:49,726 --> 00:33:51,838
as a zombie head
in "Day of the Dead."
769
00:33:51,882 --> 00:33:54,232
You gotta think about the way
that Tom designed things,
770
00:33:54,277 --> 00:33:55,502
because he approached
everything
771
00:33:55,554 --> 00:33:57,064
like it was a magic trick.
772
00:33:57,111 --> 00:33:58,825
You know, the idea
that you're--you're taking
773
00:33:58,867 --> 00:34:01,853
a special effect
and you're deconstructing it
774
00:34:01,901 --> 00:34:04,887
to the point where it's gotta
be a magic trick that's gonna
775
00:34:04,935 --> 00:34:06,842
fool the audience.
- The disembowelments
776
00:34:06,891 --> 00:34:08,401
in "Day of the Dead"
are unmatched.
777
00:34:10,563 --> 00:34:12,629
- Without a doubt,
and that's why you get into--
778
00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,665
people who--who watch movies
and get--get offended
779
00:34:15,712 --> 00:34:17,427
by the--the gore,
and you're like,
780
00:34:17,469 --> 00:34:19,659
”Well, you know
it's corn syrup..."
781
00:34:19,704 --> 00:34:21,214
- It's a real presentation.
- Red powered--
782
00:34:21,261 --> 00:34:22,657
red powdered food coloring.
783
00:34:22,698 --> 00:34:24,412
- Millerl
784
00:34:24,454 --> 00:34:26,327
Millerl
785
00:34:26,370 --> 00:34:29,753
- The special makeup effects
pioneered by Tom Savini
786
00:34:29,803 --> 00:34:31,755
and Greg Nicotero
on "Day of the Dead"...
787
00:34:31,799 --> 00:34:33,354
Led directly
788
00:34:33,396 --> 00:34:35,223
to the amazing work
we see today
789
00:34:35,272 --> 00:34:37,701
on "The Walking Dead.‘I
790
00:34:37,747 --> 00:34:40,301
- The kind of household
I grew up in was, you know,
791
00:34:40,341 --> 00:34:41,896
"You can't go see
'Day ofthe Dead.‘
792
00:34:41,938 --> 00:34:43,448
That's too--that's too much."
793
00:34:43,495 --> 00:34:45,765
But now you see,
794
00:34:45,810 --> 00:34:48,920
the level of gore that we saw
in George Romero's,
795
00:34:48,963 --> 00:34:51,711
"Day of the Dead"
on "Walking Dead" every week,
796
00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:53,267
which is insane to me.
797
00:35:03,294 --> 00:35:05,008
J‘J‘
798
00:35:05,050 --> 00:35:06,843
- Go to the leftl
799
00:35:08,403 --> 00:35:10,390
- In the wake
of a zombie apocalypse,
800
00:35:10,439 --> 00:35:12,187
a small band of survivors
801
00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,824
look for a safe place to live.
802
00:35:14,870 --> 00:35:17,503
The biggest threat they face
aren't zombies,
803
00:35:17,544 --> 00:35:19,690
but other people.
804
00:35:19,739 --> 00:35:22,567
This is the premise
of "The Walking Dead,"
805
00:35:22,613 --> 00:35:25,519
the TV series that brought
realistic horror
806
00:35:25,567 --> 00:35:27,679
to the small screen.
807
00:35:32,074 --> 00:35:33,901
- People used to come to me
and say, "Can you make us
808
00:35:33,950 --> 00:35:35,618
a violent TV series?‘I
809
00:35:35,666 --> 00:35:37,381
And I'd say, "Well,
what makes horror work is you--
810
00:35:37,423 --> 00:35:39,137
"is you have the threat
of killing your characters,
811
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:41,734
"and what TV--what makes TV
work is you want to see
812
00:35:41,774 --> 00:35:43,408
those characters every week..."
- Right.
813
00:35:43,450 --> 00:35:45,039
- So you can't have them
almost die, and I could never
814
00:35:45,087 --> 00:35:46,233
do the violence I wanted to do.
- Yeah, yeah.
815
00:35:46,284 --> 00:35:47,760
- Cut to...
- Here we are.
816
00:35:47,801 --> 00:35:49,550
- Greg Nicotero
and "The Walking Dead."
817
00:35:53,709 --> 00:35:55,502
- "The Walking Dead" for sure
818
00:35:55,545 --> 00:35:58,656
is the next
cultural milestone
819
00:35:58,699 --> 00:36:00,810
really since "Dawn ofthe Dead"
and "Night of the Living Dead."
820
00:36:00,854 --> 00:36:02,761
And, you know,
that‘s really been you.
821
00:36:04,487 --> 00:36:07,392
- "Walking Dead"
is basically a Western with--
822
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,392
with the zombie,
apocalypse
823
00:36:09,436 --> 00:36:11,025
set as the backdrop.
824
00:36:11,073 --> 00:36:13,536
If "The Walking Dead"
had to be told
825
00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:16,221
in a 2 1/2 hour time slot,
you'd never be able to do it.
826
00:36:16,262 --> 00:36:17,738
You wouldn't care
about the characters.
827
00:36:17,779 --> 00:36:19,209
You wouldn't really know
who Daryl is...
828
00:36:19,256 --> 00:36:20,766
- Yeah.
- Who--who Rick is.
829
00:36:20,813 --> 00:36:22,720
- I'm sorry
this happened to you.
830
00:36:24,645 --> 00:36:27,358
- The plight of the survivors
is a dark reflection
831
00:36:27,399 --> 00:36:29,828
of life in America today.
832
00:36:29,874 --> 00:36:33,098
The mortgage crisis of 2008
resulted in more than
833
00:36:33,147 --> 00:36:35,134
3 million people
losing their homes.
834
00:36:35,183 --> 00:36:37,170
- Problems with
the housing market...
835
00:36:37,258 --> 00:36:39,892
- Since then,
rising housing prices
836
00:36:39,933 --> 00:36:41,965
in the major cities
have forced more people
837
00:36:42,009 --> 00:36:44,563
to live on the street.
- Global meltdown.
838
00:36:44,603 --> 00:36:46,987
- There's a sense
that civilization is fragile.
839
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:48,627
That any day now,
840
00:36:51,788 --> 00:36:53,343
always moving,
841
00:36:53,385 --> 00:36:55,814
surrounded by threats
on every side.
842
00:36:58,734 --> 00:37:00,368
- That‘s what I always loved--
when "Walking Dead" came out,
843
00:37:00,410 --> 00:37:02,317
lwould say to people, like,
"If the zombie apocalypse
844
00:37:02,366 --> 00:37:04,115
"were real,
this is the closest thing
845
00:37:04,163 --> 00:37:07,114
"that I've seen to what
that would probably feel like
846
00:37:07,156 --> 00:37:08,745
and be like."
847
00:37:08,793 --> 00:37:11,506
- When I first read
that script, I didn't--
848
00:37:11,547 --> 00:37:13,613
you know, I didn't read it
as a zombie thing.
849
00:37:13,663 --> 00:37:15,456
| read it as this guy
lost his family,
850
00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:17,054
and he woke up, and he didn't
know where he was.
851
00:37:17,096 --> 00:37:18,889
And he was gonna do anything
852
00:37:18,892 --> 00:37:20,527
to go find his family,
and that's--
853
00:37:20,569 --> 00:37:22,839
that stuck out on the page
way more than a zombie
854
00:37:22,884 --> 00:37:24,394
here and there, you know?
855
00:37:24,441 --> 00:37:25,871
And everybody
played it like that.
856
00:37:27,634 --> 00:37:29,666
You have to play everything
as real as possible.
857
00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:33,214
- There's so many examples
on that show where, like--
858
00:37:33,262 --> 00:37:34,454
You're like, "My God,
is this gonna work?"
859
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,009
And the actors...
- No, no, nol
860
00:37:36,056 --> 00:37:38,043
- Just pulled it out
and made it perfect.
861
00:37:38,092 --> 00:37:40,362
No!
862
00:37:40,407 --> 00:37:43,041
She was playing with me!
863
00:37:43,082 --> 00:37:45,670
She wanted a friendl
- She wanted to kill you!
864
00:37:45,716 --> 00:37:47,828
- I was gonna lead her away!
865
00:37:47,872 --> 00:37:49,586
- You could have died.
- It's the same thing!
866
00:37:49,628 --> 00:37:52,057
You killed her!
You killed her!
867
00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:53,374
- There's a reason
there wasn't really
868
00:37:53,420 --> 00:37:55,975
a zombie TV show before.
869
00:37:57,652 --> 00:37:59,240
Effects need
870
00:37:59,288 --> 00:38:00,957
to be really good
on a television show
871
00:38:01,044 --> 00:38:03,599
so that people don't fall out
of the reality
872
00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:05,989
thatyou're trying to sell.
873
00:38:06,034 --> 00:38:08,260
- The best zombies, I think,
are what Greg is doing
874
00:38:08,309 --> 00:38:10,261
in "The Walking Dead."
The best zombies today.
875
00:38:10,305 --> 00:38:12,132
And there's a lot
of CGI there, you know,
876
00:38:12,181 --> 00:38:15,212
and necessary,
because the zombies
877
00:38:15,255 --> 00:38:17,048
have been around for so long,
878
00:38:17,091 --> 00:38:20,315
now they're decaying
and rotting, you know?
879
00:38:20,364 --> 00:38:22,192
' - Just a little more.
880
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:24,148
There's that one famous--
881
00:38:24,196 --> 00:38:26,228
the "well walker..."
- Stopl
882
00:38:26,272 --> 00:38:27,782
- Come on!
- Where he's just
883
00:38:27,829 --> 00:38:29,463
so waterlogged and bloated
884
00:38:29,505 --> 00:38:31,571
that he just sort of, like,
comes apart.
885
00:38:33,617 --> 00:38:39,157
J‘J‘
886
00:38:40,922 --> 00:38:44,112
that Greg does, is his team--
887
00:38:46,430 --> 00:38:48,065
behind the monster, you know?
888
00:38:48,107 --> 00:38:49,980
That's--that's when
they become scary.
889
00:38:50,023 --> 00:38:52,815
- I never get sick of it,
honestly.
890
00:38:52,857 --> 00:38:54,367
They keep--they keep
reinventing the wheel
891
00:38:54,414 --> 00:38:56,639
with the zombies, it's nuts.
892
00:38:59,084 --> 00:39:02,036
- Obviously the--the irony is,
who are the walking dead?
893
00:39:02,078 --> 00:39:04,143
Is it the actual zombies
or is the people?
894
00:39:04,193 --> 00:39:05,748
- Right, right.
- What are they willing
895
00:39:05,790 --> 00:39:07,425
to do to each other to survive?
896
00:39:07,467 --> 00:39:08,692
And that's...
- Yeah, at what point
897
00:39:08,744 --> 00:39:10,617
do you lose your humanity?
- Right.
898
00:39:10,660 --> 00:39:13,169
- "Walking Dead" being on
for so long surprises me,
899
00:39:13,215 --> 00:39:16,439
'cause y'all should be dead
by now, man.
900
00:39:18,524 --> 00:39:20,397
You know,
because it doesn't make sense.
901
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,427
To me.
902
00:39:24,352 --> 00:39:27,019
- Doesn't it feel like zombies
are cresting now, too?
903
00:39:27,066 --> 00:39:29,336
Yeah, right now it does
seem like we're in the middle
904
00:39:29,381 --> 00:39:31,368
of a zombie apocalypse.
905
00:39:34,131 --> 00:39:35,527
Yeah.
906
00:39:35,608 --> 00:39:38,037
The dumbing down of society.
907
00:39:41,117 --> 00:39:43,024
We're all zombies.
908
00:39:46,186 --> 00:39:47,979
- Zombies are representative
909
00:39:48,022 --> 00:39:49,974
of--ofAlzheimeI’s...
910
00:39:50,018 --> 00:39:51,573
a just terrifying disease.
911
00:39:51,615 --> 00:39:55,202
And zombies
are representatives of cancer.
912
00:39:55,247 --> 00:39:57,120
To me, what's happened
with the zombie
913
00:39:57,163 --> 00:39:59,389
is now they're representatives
of anarchy
914
00:39:59,439 --> 00:40:01,470
and the collapse
of government.
915
00:40:01,514 --> 00:40:03,466
The collapse of order.
916
00:40:05,426 --> 00:40:08,492
- Zombies are really sort of
a wonderful catch-all metaphor
917
00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:10,413
because they can mean
absolutely anything.
918
00:40:10,456 --> 00:40:12,124
Zombies in 1968
919
00:40:12,172 --> 00:40:14,284
are the breakdown
of American society.
920
00:40:15,805 --> 00:40:18,393
In 2017
with "The Walking Dead..."
921
00:40:21,593 --> 00:40:24,942
who knows
what it represents.
922
00:40:30,534 --> 00:40:33,600
- One take-away could be
that everything's hopeless...
923
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,754
-Another take-away could be
that humans
924
00:40:39,795 --> 00:40:43,303
will always persevere
even when...
925
00:40:43,347 --> 00:40:45,221
it seems like there's
no reason to
926
00:40:45,263 --> 00:40:46,898
or that it's impossible to.
927
00:40:50,014 --> 00:40:51,490
- Yeah, zombies will never die.
928
00:40:51,530 --> 00:40:53,040
No pun intended.
929
00:40:55,682 --> 00:40:58,270
- It's so interesting,
the resurgence of zombies,
930
00:40:58,316 --> 00:41:00,667
and the fact that they kind of
won't ever go away.
931
00:41:03,067 --> 00:41:04,542
We'll always be
telling stories.
932
00:41:04,583 --> 00:41:06,535
I think we'll--
we're never gonna lose
933
00:41:06,579 --> 00:41:08,248
our fascination with them.
934
00:41:08,296 --> 00:41:09,930
- Half a century ago.
935
00:41:09,972 --> 00:41:12,606
George Romero created
the modern zombie--
936
00:41:12,647 --> 00:41:15,677
America's great contribution
to monster horror.
937
00:41:17,596 --> 00:41:20,582
Now, zombie movies are
an international phenomenon.
938
00:41:20,630 --> 00:41:22,219
J‘J‘
939
00:41:22,267 --> 00:41:24,617
The zombie plague
has infected the world.
940
00:41:24,662 --> 00:41:26,216
As relentless
941
00:41:26,258 --> 00:41:28,052
and unstoppable
942
00:41:28,095 --> 00:41:30,320
as the flesh-eating undead.
943
00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:40,068
- We wake them
and we got it all!
944
00:41:41,172 --> 00:42:41,523
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