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Mar. 20th, 2014 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreIn which being a horror film weirdo probably makes me irritatingly pedantic:
A patron was explaining The Walking Dead to my coworker - "And these aren't like old fashioned zombies like in 1945."
And I thought, "Well, no, because 1945 is pre-Romero and most of the zombies in films were loosely based on badly understood voodoo legends, rather than blaming the zombies on a viral or vague supernatural agent. Also, in 1945, the Hays Code was still very much in effect, so of course you wouldn't be able to have the sort of gutmunching you can get away with today. Incidentally, did you know that 1945 saw the release of a film starring Bela Lugosi entitled Zombies on Broadway?"
And that is why it's a good thing that she was having the conversation with my coworker and not with me.
A patron was explaining The Walking Dead to my coworker - "And these aren't like old fashioned zombies like in 1945."
And I thought, "Well, no, because 1945 is pre-Romero and most of the zombies in films were loosely based on badly understood voodoo legends, rather than blaming the zombies on a viral or vague supernatural agent. Also, in 1945, the Hays Code was still very much in effect, so of course you wouldn't be able to have the sort of gutmunching you can get away with today. Incidentally, did you know that 1945 saw the release of a film starring Bela Lugosi entitled Zombies on Broadway?"
And that is why it's a good thing that she was having the conversation with my coworker and not with me.
