this is the purpose zombie movies serve (the same as the court jester in older times): to cloak the real in a plausibly deniable costume so as to speak the unspeakable.
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Replying to @MorlockP @drethelin and
Seriously, what kind of deep seeded paranoia feeds the popularity of stuff like that
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Replying to @ElamBend @drethelin and
my personal theory about the zombie boom is that it was because post 9/11 we weren't "allowed" to say that we feared Islam 1999: 3 2000: 6 2001: 7 2002: 5 2003: 12 2004: 20 2005: 23 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_films …
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Replying to @MorlockP @drethelin and
I’ve kind of assumed as much as well
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann and
I'm not asserting that the creators of the zombie fiction are scared of Islam. I'm asserting that the DEMAND CURVE for zombie fiction has shifted upward Woke creators can sell zombie fiction without realizing why people are buying it (& the ppl themselves need not know either!)
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyaellenmann and
yeah, like carpenter thinking he was making a movie about consumerism
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @sonyaellenmann and
modern literary analysis asserts that the auteur makes what he makes, but it's the audience that gives it meaning!
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy and
I think Romero’s choice of actor for the protagonist in his 1st is a tell that he knew what nerve he’d be hitting
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from GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER to GUESS WHO'S COMING TO EAT YOUR BRAINS in just one year?
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I guess the dinner didn't satisfy ?
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LOLLL wonder what unrelated film you could tie in to make a trilogy
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @ElamBend and
GUESS WHO'S VOMITING IN THE URINAL THEN GOING BACK TO THE BAR FOR MORE RUM AND COKES ?
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