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148 PAGES OF INTERVIEWS, PREVIEWS, SET ACCESS, QUIZZES AND MORE
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WELCOME
Lurch inside for the ultimate celebration
of the undead! Within these pages you’ll
find us shambling around the sets of
some of the most influential zombie
movies ever – from Shaun Of The Dead
and 28 Days Later to the upcoming Pride
And Prejudice And Zombies and of course
the king of zombie TV shows The Walking
Dead (we’ve got the scoop on the horrors
season six has in store). Want more gore?
EditorRosie Fletcher Check out the 66 best zombie movies ever
Art Editor Bruce Mytton
made. How many have you seen? Plus:
Production Editor Russell Lewin
videogames, board games, zombie events,
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A sneak peek behind the scenes
of season six ofThe Walking Deaddd,
packed with interviews, insights
and all the gory details!
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THE 66 GREAAATEST
ZOMBIE TV
ZOMBIE FILMS
They’re taking over your telly too:
Our definitive countdown of the wecheck outDead Sett, iZombie,
best, grossest, bizarrest and most The Returnedd andIn The Flesh, and
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CONTENTS
ON SET SPECIAL
We get up close and personal with
the zombiesof Resident Evilll, 28 Days
Laterr, Shaun Of The DeaddandLand Of
The Deaddd. We even play a zombie!
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ROMERO
From the archives, a classic interview
with the king of the zombies – plus
98 George A. Romero’sDeadd series
broken down by numbers!
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82 128
NEW MOVIES ZOMBIELAND
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies,Cellll, We chat with the writers of the 2009
Nina Foreverr, The Girl With All The zom-com and learn the rulesof how
Gifts,Patient Zeroand more! Your to make a revolutionary zombie
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complete preview of upcoming films. movie without getting bitten!
OPINION EXTRAS 137 140Table top
terror! The
best zombie board
08Author and lecturer Allen Stroud on the 136Learn to fight games around.
place of the zombie in monster-lore. zombies with
these top real-life 144Know your
86Author David Towsey on sympathetic undead experiences. zombies! Pit
zombies and what makes them loveable. your wits in our quiz.
138Shoot ’em up!
126Author R.R. Haywood on the fascination Our top ten 139 146Zombie-proof
with zombies and why it’s a good thing. zombie videogames. your home!
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INTRODUCTION
and loving it
Author and Course Leader of the Film And
TV Production and Creative Writing For
Publication degrees at Buckinghamshire
Allen Stroud
New University, , explores our
lifelong love affair with the living dead.
e have a healthy Good monsters are a twisted reflection of our its living self, left to stumble
obsession with own human condition. There is a memory of towards a potential victim
monsters, one life in the zombie, its motive made all the more motivated only by its
that usually terrible owing to its inability to see the hunger. If you’re caught by
keeps us from ultimate end of its undying hunger. When all a zombie, the struggle is made
frequenting dark the world become zombies, what is left to all the worse by your enemy’s
alleys on our own, sate the hunger of the dead? At least weakness. Most gather in
saying names three vampires are selective predators and the bite of packs, are infectious and once
times in mirrors, sleeping in coffins and a werewolf may transform you into a raging you turn, you can’t come back.
electrocuting the dead, but the zombie has monster, but you get to be strong and When the human struggle for
a particularly special place in the fluttering powerful. There’s not much upgrading when survival is at its most pitiful is
hearts of horror fans. you get turned zombie. when it scares us most. Zombies
Since George Romero introduced us to We teach horror writing at provide that moment when
this particular form of shambling corpse Buckinghamshire New University. The rules desperate characters are
back in 1968 with his film Night Of The of writing a good horror story involve the brought down by sheer
Living Dead, we’ve seen the zombie appear narrowing of the narrative. Our viewpoint numbers, submerged and bitten
in movies, TV series, books, board games, character makes decisions that turn out bad and by a mindless supernatural horde only to rise
wargames, comics and conventions. Encounters is gradually ‘boxed in’ until they have few choices again as one of the monsters they fought so hard
range from comic to terrifying; there’s something and become a plaything of fate and/or the to get away from.
enduring about watching a mindless corpse monster. When zombies are involved, this The development of the zombie as a modern
shuffling towards you, intent on devouring process is particularly harrowing as our monster monster is something of a twisted path. The
human flesh. of choice is weak and pathetic; a broken ruin of word ‘zombie’ is similar to words from the
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OPINION
Kenneth Branagh gets
to know the downsides
of being Frankenstein.
28 Days Later… still
got that hangover.
Zombies representing
brain-dead consumers
in Dawn Of The Dead.
4)
Kongo language ‘nzambi’, ‘god’ and ‘zumbi’. become. Well-written L (
A
Some ideas are drawn from the animated dead of zombie stories play with B
O
Haitian rural folklore, where sorcerers animated the mysterious memory © K
servants with ‘no will of their own’. Older of humanity. It’s
references come from the epic tales of Gilgamesh important that we and the surviving zombies, they don’t come with quite
– “and I will let the dead go up and eat the living” characters are conflicted over what to as many suitcases, but you still have
– and the Bible Zechariah 14:12: “And the lord do. Maybe their zombified loved ones a fair bit to deal with. However,
will send a plague on all the nations that fought can be saved? The Walking Dead there’s an advantage to this. Readers
against Jerusalem. Their people will be like (2010) gets this right from the start have an image of your monster
walking corpses, their flesh rotting away.” with survivor Morgan Jones’ wife, already and will assume you’re
However, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Jenny (for more on The Walking Dead working within these parameters,
Modern Prometheus introduces us to the most head to p44). unless you challenge them – sparkly
famous of the animated dead. The monster made Undead monsters in stories build vampires anyone?
by Doctor Frankenstein is more sentient than our on the legacy that went before them. French theorist Roland Barthes
crowds of infectious shamblers, but comes from The most obvious example of this is identified this process as the
the similar stock in being a reanimated man. the vampire and archetype baggage referential code – the way in which
When Frankenstein’s monster demonstrates a writer has to contend with when Banned in Britain for we let the images of one story fill in
over 20 years!
intelligence, this provides a rationale for his writing a new vampire story. Write up the gaps of another. Imagine a space
actions. With zombies we see a memory of what a list of vampire weaknesses, idiosyncrasies and battle and you see Star Wars (1977), etc. The code
they were, a poor corrupted reflection of what other traits vampires have and you’ll find you’ve works for most genres of writing. You can apply
we are and if we’re not careful, what we might got quite a lot to contend with. If you introduce it equally to Jane Austen romance and zombie
stories. Or even, as in the case of Pride And
Prejudice And Zombies (see p70 for more),
The rotting and mouldy nature of
both at the same time.
That said, identikit horror on its own doesn’t
the zombie means we’re unlikely to
get as far as good writing allied with these
see many stories where they become memorable tropes. A good writer makes use
of the reader’s expectations, fulfilling and
heroes or protagonists confounding them at the same time.
Zombies become interesting when writers
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