FROM THE MAKERS OF TOTAL FILM & SFX U LT I M AT E C E L E B R AT I O N THE ON SET THE 66 THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 6 GREATEST ZOMBIE MOVIES EVER THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE UNDEAD 148 PAGES OF INTERVIEWS, PREVIEWS, SET ACCESS, QUIZZES AND MORE SHAUN OF THE DEAD PRIDE & PREJUDICE 28 DAYS & ZOMBIES LATER ALSO INSIDE ZOMBIELAND ||| GREG NICOTERO ||| RESIDENT EVIL ||| GEORGE ROMERO ||| THE RETURNED WELCOME Lurch inside for the ultimate celebration of the undead! Within these pages you’ll find us shambling around the sets of some of the most influential zombie movies ever – from Shaun Of The Dead and 28 Days Later to the upcoming Pride And Prejudice And Zombies and of course the king of zombie TV shows The Walking Dead (we’ve got the scoop on the horrors season six has in store). Want more gore? EditorRosie Fletcher Check out the 66 best zombie movies ever Art Editor Bruce Mytton made. How many have you seen? Plus: Production Editor Russell Lewin videogames, board games, zombie events, CONTRIBUTORS Allen Stroud, Ian Berriman, Paul Bradshaw, Jordan Farley, Joseph McCabe, Tara Bennett, Dave Golder, Richard Edwards, James Mottram, Jane Crowther, Dave Bradley, David Towsey, Mark Salisbury, Cam quizzes, the obligatory interview with Winstanley, Jamie Graham, Matt Glasby, Will Salmon, R.R. Haywood, Ali Gray, Simon Bland, Roger Hadfield Zombies would like to thank the following picture libraries: Getty Images, Kobal Collection, George Romero – we’ve got ’em all! Shutterstock and Rex Features. 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ZOMBIES THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION 6 | ZOMBIES: THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION CONTENTS ON SET SPECIAL We get up close and personal with the zombiesof Resident Evilll, 28 Days Laterr, Shaun Of The DeaddandLand Of The Deaddd. We even play a zombie! 93 76 122 ROMERO From the archives, a classic interview with the king of the zombies – plus 98 George A. Romero’sDeadd series broken down by numbers! 70 82 128 NEW MOVIES ZOMBIELAND Pride And Prejudice And Zombies,Cellll, We chat with the writers of the 2009 Nina Foreverr, The Girl With All The zom-com and learn the rulesof how Gifts,Patient Zeroand more! Your to make a revolutionary zombie 110 complete preview of upcoming films. movie without getting bitten! OPINION EXTRAS 137 140Table top terror! The best zombie board 08Author and lecturer Allen Stroud on the 136Learn to fight games around. place of the zombie in monster-lore. zombies with these top real-life 144Know your 86Author David Towsey on sympathetic undead experiences. zombies! Pit zombies and what makes them loveable. your wits in our quiz. 138Shoot ’em up! 126Author R.R. Haywood on the fascination Our top ten 139 146Zombie-proof with zombies and why it’s a good thing. zombie videogames. your home! ZOMBIES: THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION | 7 INTRODUCTION and loving it Author and Course Leader of the Film And TV Production and Creative Writing For Publication degrees at Buckinghamshire Allen Stroud New University, , explores our lifelong love affair with the living dead. e have a healthy Good monsters are a twisted reflection of our its living self, left to stumble obsession with own human condition. There is a memory of towards a potential victim monsters, one life in the zombie, its motive made all the more motivated only by its that usually terrible owing to its inability to see the hunger. If you’re caught by keeps us from ultimate end of its undying hunger. When all a zombie, the struggle is made frequenting dark the world become zombies, what is left to all the worse by your enemy’s alleys on our own, sate the hunger of the dead? At least weakness. Most gather in saying names three vampires are selective predators and the bite of packs, are infectious and once times in mirrors, sleeping in coffins and a werewolf may transform you into a raging you turn, you can’t come back. electrocuting the dead, but the zombie has monster, but you get to be strong and When the human struggle for a particularly special place in the fluttering powerful. There’s not much upgrading when survival is at its most pitiful is hearts of horror fans. you get turned zombie. when it scares us most. Zombies Since George Romero introduced us to We teach horror writing at provide that moment when this particular form of shambling corpse Buckinghamshire New University. The rules desperate characters are back in 1968 with his film Night Of The of writing a good horror story involve the brought down by sheer Living Dead, we’ve seen the zombie appear narrowing of the narrative. Our viewpoint numbers, submerged and bitten in movies, TV series, books, board games, character makes decisions that turn out bad and by a mindless supernatural horde only to rise wargames, comics and conventions. Encounters is gradually ‘boxed in’ until they have few choices again as one of the monsters they fought so hard range from comic to terrifying; there’s something and become a plaything of fate and/or the to get away from. enduring about watching a mindless corpse monster. When zombies are involved, this The development of the zombie as a modern shuffling towards you, intent on devouring process is particularly harrowing as our monster monster is something of a twisted path. The human flesh. of choice is weak and pathetic; a broken ruin of word ‘zombie’ is similar to words from the ZOMBIES: THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION | 9 OPINION Kenneth Branagh gets to know the downsides of being Frankenstein. 28 Days Later… still got that hangover. Zombies representing brain-dead consumers in Dawn Of The Dead. 4) Kongo language ‘nzambi’, ‘god’ and ‘zumbi’. become. Well-written L ( A Some ideas are drawn from the animated dead of zombie stories play with B O Haitian rural folklore, where sorcerers animated the mysterious memory © K servants with ‘no will of their own’. Older of humanity. It’s references come from the epic tales of Gilgamesh important that we and the surviving zombies, they don’t come with quite – “and I will let the dead go up and eat the living” characters are conflicted over what to as many suitcases, but you still have – and the Bible Zechariah 14:12: “And the lord do. Maybe their zombified loved ones a fair bit to deal with. However, will send a plague on all the nations that fought can be saved? The Walking Dead there’s an advantage to this. Readers against Jerusalem. Their people will be like (2010) gets this right from the start have an image of your monster walking corpses, their flesh rotting away.” with survivor Morgan Jones’ wife, already and will assume you’re However, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Jenny (for more on The Walking Dead working within these parameters, Modern Prometheus introduces us to the most head to p44). unless you challenge them – sparkly famous of the animated dead. The monster made Undead monsters in stories build vampires anyone? by Doctor Frankenstein is more sentient than our on the legacy that went before them. French theorist Roland Barthes crowds of infectious shamblers, but comes from The most obvious example of this is identified this process as the the similar stock in being a reanimated man. the vampire and archetype baggage referential code – the way in which When Frankenstein’s monster demonstrates a writer has to contend with when Banned in Britain for we let the images of one story fill in over 20 years! intelligence, this provides a rationale for his writing a new vampire story. Write up the gaps of another. Imagine a space actions. With zombies we see a memory of what a list of vampire weaknesses, idiosyncrasies and battle and you see Star Wars (1977), etc. The code they were, a poor corrupted reflection of what other traits vampires have and you’ll find you’ve works for most genres of writing. You can apply we are and if we’re not careful, what we might got quite a lot to contend with. If you introduce it equally to Jane Austen romance and zombie stories. Or even, as in the case of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (see p70 for more), The rotting and mouldy nature of both at the same time. That said, identikit horror on its own doesn’t the zombie means we’re unlikely to get as far as good writing allied with these see many stories where they become memorable tropes. A good writer makes use of the reader’s expectations, fulfilling and heroes or protagonists confounding them at the same time. Zombies become interesting when writers 10 | ZOMBIES: THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION