Do We Really Need Another
Zombie Movie?

PRO: WE OWE MODERN HORROR TO ZOMBIE MOVIES!
Before Romero shot his black-and-white cheapie Night of the Living Dead, horror films were all about cobwebbed castles, rubber bats, and Vincent Price. But Romero gave us a faceless, relentless threat, the claustrophobia of an abandoned farmhouse, a groundbreaking African-American hero, and a sucker punch of a downer ending. It all started with the zombie.

CON: ZOMBIE MOVIES ARE HACK FODDER!
For every genuinely clever zombie movie, we are subjected to 15 godawful ones. Granted, this is not unique to the zombie subgenre – but the nature of the zombie movie makes it very accessible to low-budget filmmakers and therefore that much more likely to spawn an unwatchable mess from anyone who thinks up a punny title with the word “Dead” in it. Dead and Breakfast is a real movie. Juan of the Dead is, too. Do we have to go on?