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In this age of horror movie send ups, Shaun of the Dead defies expectations, a refreshingly authentic and more satisfying zombie film than one might have anticipated given that its creators hail from TV comedy and stand up. And the good – and great – films nearly always layer an allegory about contemporary life on top of the requisite terror, gore and monsters. Obviously not all zombie films to follow would measure up to the standards set by these directors, but the benchmark was well and truly set. The work by such horror pioneers was significant. And later on Pittsburgh filmmaker George Romero took the zombie film to a new level, incorporating the civil rights movement of 1960s America into his frighteningly realistic zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968). Usually relegated to the realm of 'exploitation' or dismissed as lacking serious merit, zombie films have however often transcended their B-Movie brief: to scare the pants off audiences before the main attraction.įrom early movie history two titles in particular exemplify this conundrum: producer Val Lewton's I Walk With A Zombie (1943) offered up a treatise on colonialism, religious imperialism and the white man's ingrained fear of exotic cultures (for anyone who cared to listen), while ten years prior Universal's White Zombie (1932) starring Bela Legosi, presented a veritable cornucopia of comments on racial subjugation, America's slave past and 'gender politics'. Like most horror movies, zombie films inevitably battle movie snobbery.