Zombie Apocalypse
By Max Musson: Most of us will at some time or another have watched a horror film that depicts some sort of ‘zombie apocalypse’, in which ‘zombies’, once dead humans who have been transformed by a plague or virus into crazy flesh-eating beings, rise from the dead and launch a frenzied cannibalistic attack upon the rest of humanity. Examples of this genre of horror fiction include George A. Romero’s 1968 film ‘Night of the Living…
Do Bad Things With You …
By Max Musson: Years ago the story lines of horror films often featured vampires, and in those early films the vampire was always the villain, visiting terror upon some hapless Transylvanian community, until a suitably handsome hero came to the rescue, saving the community preyed upon, and of course the obligatory fair maiden, from the clutches of evil. Increasingly however, first vampires and now werewolves and other demons are being portrayed in a sympathetic light.…