Whenever someone mentions zombie movies, Romero's name is more than likely to come up. He was the one who made zombies as we know them today. But what is it about zombies that make them such a huge success, not just on the movies screen, but in comics, games and books, most of which were inspired by Romero himself.
I am going to show how Romero's use of 111his undead army to portray the fears of society at the time make his movies such a huge success.
In order to understand Romero's zombie movies, you first have to understand the horror genre. Horror as a genre is concerned with exploiting the fundamental fears, the primal fear of the unknown, and that which end life at any moment.
It is also important that you are able to understand the whole idea of222 zombies. Zombies originally in Haitian myth and legend were humans who were transformed by voodoo magic into slaves. This can be echoed in the fact Romero's films are hugely about racism and slavery. This is also apparent in pre-Romero zombie movies, such as 'The Plague of the Zombies' in which the owner of a tin mine uses magic to control the locals and make them into zombie slaves so that they work in his unsafe mine. This shows the exploitation of the working class, and for Romero, the oppressed racial minorities.
Zombie movies since Romero play on the idea of an apocalypse situation. This apocalypse scenario is usually caused by one of two things. Number one: A Nuclear attack or accident. Since before 'Night of the Living Dead' was released, there was, and still is, the fear of the threat of a nuclear attack. This was big back in the 6 's, when 'Night' was released, with the echoes of Hiroshima and the race for nuclear advancement and armament. Or number two: A religious apocalypse, shown in 'Dawn of the Dead' by the powerful, memorable line 'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth'.
This idea of course was taken straight out of333 the bible:
Corinthians 5:5 -52 'Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, imperishable.'
All zombie movies play on some major ideas: The fear of an unstoppable disease/virus, alongside chemical warfare, there are fears of a dirty bomb attack by terrorists. The ever present threat of the HIV virus was also a big inspiration behind zombie movies. This is clear in 'Night' when Ben says, regarding Hurry’s daughter, Who knows what kind of disease those things carry!
The terror of alienation, isolation, along with a lack of communication within society, is what makes zombie movies so powerful beyond the simple flesh eating. Although the cannibalism itself is a metaphor for the imbalance and ever changing power within society.
The lack of ability, in society, to communicate, is clear within 'Night' at 4 : , where Ben and Harry have an argument, because tensions are raised here, this is the eventual breakdown of the group. This initial argument eventually leads to the majority of the deaths within the group.
Zombies dehumanize humans, by eliminating their chance to feel normal feelings about death, such as grief, instead having to shoot; stab or burn recently dead loved ones. They also remove mortality, if infected; you neither live nor stay dead. These two factors remove the sacredness of death. There are no funerals, nor any mourning, just callous, unthinkable violence.
Zombies are the misanthrope's monster of444 choice. They represent fear and disgust of our fellow man. The anonymous animal masses. The dumb shuffling crowd. Them - the public. They're awesomely stupid. They have an IQ of one. Proper zombies can't operate a door handle or climb a ladder. Toss one a Rubik's Cube and it will bounce off his thick, moaning head. All they do it walk around aimlessly, pausing occasionally to eat survivors. Charlie Broker. - Reality Bites
Romero's zombie movies also exploit the fear that there will not be a happy ending. 'Night' results in the death of the hero. In the original 'Dawn' ending, both surviving characters kill them. However this was rewritten to both characters escaping in the helicopter. And in 'Land', they escape in Dead Reckoning. Although in both 'Dawn' and 'Land', the main characters escape, there is not a happy ending for society and humanity themselves.
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