blacksundae

This article is a fairly standard, albeit well-written, list of the “top 10 zombie films of all time.” Any list that claims to be the top ten of anything is bound to attract critics, but I find little to quibble with here (other than Night of the Living Dead not being number one). The only reason it stands out to me is this line, regarding Jacques Torneur’s I Walked With a Zombie, which puts rather simply something I’ve struggled to articulate to people:

This may be a creaky, outdated and depraved representation of ‘The Islands,’ but only in the same way that Conrad uses the Congo or Philip K. Dick the future. Stories have to be set somewhere and it’s only right they use the fears of the day to express themselves.

I’ll think of this next time I hear about people getting their panties in a bunch over something like a Song of the South re-release.