"An outstanding book that does a great job of informing readers. Despite the last few years being pretty busy in the zombie publishing industry, this book is more than a welcome new edition easily put many of the others to shame. In first look, it’s filled with a number of great color photos on every page. I have read quite a lot of zombie books, and I’d put this one at the front. Horror fans, this is your book!"
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"With The Zombie Film, film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini have compiled an irresistible companion to their book-length study of The Vampire Film. While the author duo is known primarily for works on film noir, they know their subject well no matter what that subject is, and I devour every book they write. Especially here, their work occupies that space between academia and entertainment; they have it both ways, approaching the subject seriously while also having fun with it. Who else, for instance, would write about Bela Lugosi’s distinctive eyes in White Zombie, then plop a tiny photo of those peepers right within the text? The breadth of coverage is as impressive as the illustrations on every page, presented in full color. This is a volume to pore over for hours on end and then treasure for years after."
Read the full review by Rod Lott at Flick Attack.
The authors of The Vampire Film and More Things Than Are Dreamt Of pivot to a study of the zombie genre. Alain Silver and James Ursini focus their horror-film expertise on a different kind of undead that continue to draw audiences around the world and expand the first edition with a new chapter on the key films from the last dozen years.
This new edition of The Zombie Film contains everything from the original and more. Still starting with an introduction to the zombie cult, the film survey ranges from the early classic 1932’s White Zombie. through the Romero transformations and the bloody Euro classics by filmmakers like Lucio Fulci and Amando de Ossorio, to the newest iterations after the millennium with mainstream works like Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, the comic Shaun of the Dead, the popular TV series The Walking Dead, and the blockbuster World War Z. Also given their due are thoughtful low-budget zombie movies like Zombies Anonymous and The Dead Outside. The newest chapter examines stand-out recent releases from around the world from Korea’s Train to Busan, France’s Night Eats the World, Australia’s Cargo and We Bury the Dead, and , of course, the latest 28 Years Later films.
A dozen Sidebars explore a wide range of themes and motifs from visual style at Val Lewton's low-budget, 1940s horror factory at RKO to Alice's weapons in the Reisden Evil series. It now includes nearly 600 illustration and the first edition's most complete filmography ever compiled.
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