The By the mid-1980s zombie movie, much like the Slasher, had evolved into a solidified, familiar and recognizable format.

Fans knew when going to see a zombie movie exactly what they would be in for, a fun, raucous

blood-drenched ride about the end of civilization and a bunch of survivors banded together

facing off against flesh-eating monsters.

However, some horror filmmakers and horror writers were still interested in some of the more

spiritual and existential concepts which made

zombie movies so popular back in the 1930s.

In fact, in the late 80s, two films, both based on books, used the trope of the zombie to explore the

subject of grief, death and the existence of the soul and both movies considered the

bleak notion that if the reanimated corpses in some way did exist,

then actually sometimes dead is better. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and we discuss

Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow and Stephen King and Mary Lambert's

Pet Cemetery.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and

dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras

across seasons of weeks.

Now we are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and this is part

11.

In fact I think this marks the halfway point through our journey so we've come a long way but we've still got a long way to go

In which as the intro suggested we are going to be looking in spoilerific detail at two movies

Perhaps maybe slightly under-appreciated zombie movies

from the late 1980s, The Serpent and the Rainbow from 1988, and Mary Lambert's Pet Cemetery

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