The article talked about how the word “Zombies” has become a feature in the American culture. In one part of the article it talked about how it can be used in many different forms, from voodoo magic to hypnosis. It then says that in narrative form it means more unnatural creatures, raised from the dead. The article also shared that Zombies were the only American creation that went from folklore to the movie screen. It continued to say that zombie cinema has been around for 70 years in one form or another. Night of the living dead movie was the next big thing to feature zombies in it, with each zombie being more independent more like vampires unlike Invisible Invaders, Night of the living dead made over $30 million worldwide. The article continued to say that because of the success with Night of the living dead, producers went on to make more movies similar to that. Some is including Garden of the dead, and Dawn of the dead. These movies led to the very popular Michael Jackson song, Thriller where the video involved zombies dancing down the street. But unlike the movies where they were supposed to be scary throughout, the producers of the music video Thriller they started out somewhat scary, but when they started dancing it was looked at as more of a joke. Shortly after this phase of the American culture loving Zombies it began to die off in 1985 when The Return of the living Dead came out, many people did not see the need to watch movies of that value and the young adult crowds became more interested in comedic films like Dan O’ Bannon’s The Return of the living Dead. The article goes onto talk about the Twenty-First Century Zombie and how they sell and how the demand for them is an increasing supply. Later the movie 28 Days came out, in this film it shows that a virus could possibly wipe out all United Kingdom and they referred the viral plague almost as bad as AIDS. The article goes on to talk about more movies and the affects they had on the culture.
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