Why do people make so many funeral films? Are there really zombies in the world?

Funeral film, also known as zombie film, is a thriller about zombies or zombies.

Zombies (Zombies)

It is an immortal creature. This word comes from voodoo belief.

There is also a saying called "Zombies".

Related movies:

* Stay away from strangers (Zombie Dawn, 1978)

* Residenevil series

* Chicago Ghost Series

* Day of the Living Dead (Day of the Living Dead)

* night of the living dead

* Land of the Dead.

* Real space zombies (Night of Life)

* Eat the living raw (Dawn of the Zombies, 2004)

* Eat alive (Shaun the Zombie, 2004)

* Operation Massacre starring Natsuki Kato.

* haunted house of death1&; 2 (House of the Dead,)

* A group of bodies crossed the cordon, (the pioneering work of Peter Jackson, director of the film The Lord of the Rings)

* Dawn of Zombies

* Day of the Dead

* 28 weeks of shock

* Zombie dancers

It is said that the first movie about zombies was White Zombie, which was released on 1932. This movie set in Haiti describes the wizard played by the famous actor Bela Lugosi, who awakens a large group of zombies through voodoo and makes them operate the machines of the sugar factory day and night. Bela Lugosi plays a wizard who viciously turns all the beautiful white women who come to the island into zombies. However, the zombies inside have no sense of terror except pity. Of course, what this drama wants to convey is not the fear of zombies eating people, but the psychological fear of turning people into zombies. Therefore, the protagonist of this play is not a zombie, but Bela Lugosi himself.

Since the beginning of this drama, although several movies with the theme of zombies have been released, zombies still rank second in the film and have not officially become the protagonist. Another early zombie movie, I Walk with a Zombie, I i walked with a zombie, is also based on a stage similar to Haiti, and its content is also centered on white women who become zombies. But the source of horror in this drama is not zombies, but the creepy voodoo drum melody. 1966, The Zombie's Plague, released by the famous British production company Hammer Files, was still used as labor in the play. However, the most noteworthy thing about this drama is that after the young doctor dreamed that his wife was turned into a zombie in a nightmare, hordes of zombies poured out of the grave, which became the standard for all zombie movies in the future. Of course, the unique atmosphere of this drama when describing zombies is also intriguing.

For the actual voodoo zombie belief, we can have a detailed look at the Great serpent and the rainbow written by Wade Davies. This book was also adapted into serpent and the rainbow by director wes Craven at 1988. According to this book, in fact, the witchcraft of making zombies is to use some kind of poison to make the victim fall into a state of suspended animation coma, and then when the victim wakes up from the coma, people around him and the victim will have the illusion of death and resurrection. It is said that the main toxic components are extracted from the venom of puffer fish. When the victim enters a state of suspended animation, his brain function will be destroyed, and even after waking up, his consciousness will become trance, and he is essentially a zombie. Therefore, under the background of black social culture in the West Indies, zombies do exist, and local residents are convinced of this. Voodoo originally belonged to the religion of black slaves in the West Indies, and it was also the spiritual pillar against the white ruling class. The evil, cunning and zombie-using images we see in the movies today reflect the anxiety and hatred of the white society in Europe and America against the rising resistance of slaves. 1932, the first zombie film "White Zombie" was filmed at the time when the United States ruled Haiti by force. During this period, many residents of the West Indies immigrated to the United States, so voodoo gradually penetrated into the black American society, and the fear of voodoo among white people was born.

Thanks to Wade Davis' research, it gave voodoo and zombies a brand-new glory, and also influenced all the horror movies in the future. Voodoo Dawn released by 1990 was obviously influenced by serpents and rainbows. The play is set in the black working society in the West Indies, which is the cotton supply area in the southern United States. Of course, the protagonist in the film is a voodoo wizard.

1968 George A. Romero's "night of the living dead" was well received, which made the zombie away from voodoo and became a monster with a new image. This is only two years before and after the zombie disaster produced by Hammer Pictures. Because of the appearance of night of the living dead and night of the living dead, zombies have become the new favorite of modern horror movies. The basic rules for building zombies because of night of the living dead night of the living dead are as follows:

1. Unexplained factors make god sleeps. Zombies themselves don't have any consciousness and thinking ability, and they rely entirely on instinct. (In night of the living dead, it was revived by the radiation of the universe. )

2. Zombies like eating human flesh. Attacking humans to find living human flesh is the only instinctive purpose of zombies. (This has something to do with cannibalism. )

3. Zombies will be infected. People who have been bitten by zombies will become zombies after death. Family members or relatives who acted with them a second ago, because of being bitten, slowly turned into zombies to attack themselves, just like a bottomless pit of fear.

4. Zombies don't die. Because he is dead, no matter how to hurt his body, the zombie will move on. If you want to stop the zombie from moving, all you have to do is break his head or set fire to him. There are groups of zombies who raise their hands and walk slowly with unsteady steps, and then they are driven into a closed space by the panic and inner entanglement brought by the living. Such a scene has also become a necessary scene for all zombie movies in the future.

The zombie image created by George A. Romero George A. Romero gradually became popular all over the world in 1970s. Children shouldn't play with dead things. This film was shot by bob clark in the United States, and it was shot at 1973. It tells the story of a group of performers who go to an island on the east coast and use spells to bring the dead back to life. This drama perfectly interprets the role of zombie with very good black humor, and because of this, this drama will become one of the classic masterpieces in the eyes of horror fans in the future. 1974, Italy and Spain jointly created "Let the Sleeping Body Lie", because the ultrasonic wave generated by the insect repellent revived the dead, and the bridge section in the second half of the hospital was even more impressive. But this play is obviously influenced by night of the living dead and night of the living dead.

1979 George A. Romero's zombie movie Zombie Dawn, the second part, has set off a global upsurge, and a large number of similar works have sprung up all over the world. In such a flood trend, the only outstanding work is Zombie 2 by Italian horror master lucio fulci, who is already disgusting and famous for his horror. On an island in the Caribbean, a large number of zombies wake up because of the curse of voodoo. In addition to making people feel extremely oppressive and panic, it seems to pierce their eyes? 6? The unprecedented cruel description of eating human flesh is also unprecedented. In addition, the romantic scenes unrelated to the plot in zombie movies and the first fight between zombies and sharks also fully show the unparalleled creativity of this Italian master.

Of course, countless B-level and even C-level zombie movies also stimulated the market at that time. In addition, the Crusaders became zombies, tombs for the blind, zombie lakes, places where Nazi soldiers became zombies, supernatural powers and so on. Some of them are historical (? ) Sex zombie movies fill the whole horror movie. There are so many movies about zombies that people can't imagine. Even some vampire or werewolf movies will be run over by zombies. Until the movie "The Return of the Living Dead" directed by Dan o'bannon (1985), zombies finally broke through the tradition of many years, and they could talk and move forward quickly. The most amazing thing is that you can't die without thinking.

Zombie age

George A. Romero George A. Romero's Zombie Trilogy, except for the performance full of urgency, clearly depicts the characters and metaphorical plot content, which is beyond the reach of all similar works at that time. The most important thing is that his works fully reflect the situation at that time. The sense of killing in night of the living dead reflects the social reaction of American society to the Vietnam War. Zombies who lost their humanity and were cruel and miserable, and self-defenders who killed zombies with weapons to get extreme pleasure, clearly described the decadent spiritual world of the United States at that time. In the second work Dawn of the dead, a huge supermarket is used as a stage for a long-term struggle against crowded zombies. This work is aimed at the fact that the United States has gained a stable and peaceful consumer society after the Vietnam War, but its heart is still decadent and helpless, creating an ironic effect. By the third work "Day of the Dead", zombies have spread all over the world, and only helplessness and despair survive, which reflects the loss of confidence in the future under the environmental damage and nuclear threat in the 1980s. It is precisely because George A. Romero's zombie films are closely related to the changes of the times that they can produce the same * * * sound as the audience.

Why can zombies become the new favorite of horror movies?

Zombies are different from other monsters in horror movies because zombies themselves are individuals without self-awareness. Although Frankenstein is an artificial monster made of corpses (people? But Frankenstein has the same self-awareness and feelings as human beings. Mummies are resurrected as corpses like zombies, but they are purposeful activities because they still retain the memory of this life. It's an instinct to eat human flesh-no, it should be said that the physiological reaction is more appropriate, and there is no memory before death, which is the obvious difference between zombies and other monsters. I remember reading in a report that George A. Romero George A. Romero said in an exclusive interview with a TV station that "many friends from all over the world want to be guest zombies, and they all want to be weird and disgusting zombies." Why? Because they also like to eat the living. "As you can see from this sentence, zombies are so attractive. In fact, the zombies in George A. Romero's George A. Romero movies are fans from all over the world who love George A. Romero. Everyone is happy to be a zombie in the film. It's not hard to imagine how happy zombies feel when filming.

In the movie "Day of the Dead", a zombie named Bob was raised by a doctor for experiments. The zombie still kept a fragment of his memory before he died, so he sometimes acted like a "human". Seeing the behavior similar to "human" in the materialized zombie, his presence impressed the audience and even made a good impression on the zombie. The pleasure of finally becoming a zombie after longing, or the affection for the zombie's similar "human" behavior, is the basic reaction of our modern people to the material situation in the long-term material life. Today, we live in an environment surrounded by machines and objects, which is brought by the ever-changing technology, and only allows mechanical civilization or computer civilization to quickly penetrate into our lives. In the past, the supremacy of human nature, which emphasized the absolute value of human beings, has gradually disintegrated with the ringing of the alarm bell. Just as the culture of Cyberpunk is gradually rising under such changes, zombies may just represent the end of the supremacy of human nature. Maybe zombies are a metaphor for our humanity.