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Zombies are an undead funhouse mirror, a decrepit parody of humanity meant to reflect our worst traits back at us. Part of that critique means that real, living, breathing humans, should always be more dangerous than stupid, slow-moving zombies. Today, Meg unpacks and celebrates the Romero zombie for all its given us. She also has fun hating on Zack Snyder’s fast zombies.
Craig Gillespie’s 2011 remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 meta-horror classic streamline's characters, cuts out the creepy sexualized treatment of Amy, and favors a more action-oriented approach over Holland’s self-aware campiness and references to horror movies of yore. But in buffing out the original’s messy strangeness, the remake loses some of the magic that made the original a beloved gem.
