It’s somewhat difficult to reconcile the Zack Snyder of the “Justice League” #SnyderCut, the far-too-faithful “Watchmen” adaptation, and the style over substance duo of “300” and “Sucker Punch” with the director at the helm of “Dawn of the Dead.” Which is not to say that Snyder’s 2004 remake of George Romero’s 1978 film of the same name lacks style. Its sequel “Zombieland: Double Tap” catches up with the road warriors some years later, exploring their evolving relationships in a still zombie-ravaged landscape. Ranking among IndieWire’s selection of the best horror comedies of the 21 century, the 2009 original film follows an underdog outcast (Jesse Eisenberg), an unpredictable cowboy (Woody Harrelson), a snarky gunslinger (Emma Stone), and her whip-smart younger sister (Abigail Bresline) on a road trip looking for lost loved ones and snack food that’s sweet but fleetingly sincere and consistently funny. Image Credit: Courtesy Columbia Pictures/Everett Collectionįour travelers get the zombie apocalypse down to a science in Ruben Fleischer’s “Zombieland” duology. With editorial contributions by Christian Blauvelt, Tambay Obenson, Eric Kohn, Ryan Lattanzio, Leonardo Adrian Garcia. How’s that for an endorsement of cremation?īefore you suddenly rush to make your funeral plans, give a close read to this: IndieWire’s ranked picks for the greatest zombie films ever made. Sometimes, zombies can bear larger metaphors on their disintegrating shoulders - for our increasingly wired yet increasingly isolated post-internet world, say, as in “Shaun of the Dead.” But sometimes zombies are just zombies: walking corpses who shuffle around and remind us that, even if we’re never somehow reanimated, we’re actually going to look like this when we’re in the ground someday. Or rather, death confronts us, looking to scoop out our brains and have us join its ranks. So the intrigue of zombie movies is that this genre forces us to confront death face-to-face. “Go long” is the mantra of our youth-obsessed culture. We believe if we follow the right workout regimen, eat enough kale, and take the right expensive supplements we may just live forever. But it should: North Americans and Europeans are chronically averse to facing death.

When you’re putting together a list of the biggest taboos in Western culture, death itself might not make the cut.

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