As the title suggests, the idea is to make a timeline of the zombie through movies (though insurance will include after, as they arise, and animation series). Since the first appearance attributed to White Zombie (Despite flirting with Dr. Caligari) to our current year ... do not know, between 200 and 300 (I think I will not find all that look). Chronologically **
put the title and year, plus some data. Giving click the title go to the review / critique I did, and there are also links where you can go to download.
White Zombie [The legion of soulless men] (1932)
Director: Victor Halperin / / Terror - Voodoo - Fantasy / / USA
Synopsis: A loving couple travels to Haiti invited by a mysterious man who only wants to get the girl. To achieve its objective does not hesitate to seek help from a sinister character named Legendre, who turns people into zombies.
Relevance: The Zombie first appearance in the film, its origin lies in the voodoo . Obey orders, are automata, slaves. Love played an important role.
The Walking Dead (1935)
Director : Michael Curtiz / / Horror - Science Fiction / / USA
Synopsis: Tells the scientific resurrection of an innocent person sentenced to the electric chair once again to life, he sets out for revenge.
Relevance: The first referring to the origin is scientific and is only a "zombie." Not obey orders, their reason for existence is venganrce. You need to do to relax. She has memories, is actually a human life again. Any version of Frankenstein?
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Director: Jacques Tourneur / / Terror - Voodoo - Romance / / USA
Synopsis: Voodoo, zombies and black magic are combined on a mysterious island in this classic horror series B led by Jacques Tourneur ("Cat People"). Produced by Val Lewton for one of the mythical title of the genre.
Relevance: Again voodoo and automatic source ... however, there are no bad. Love played an important role.
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Director: Steve Sekely / / Horror - Science Fiction - World War II - Comedy / / USA
Synopsis: A Nazi scientist plans to create an army of zombies to help Germany to win World War II.
Relevance: scientific Originally created to be soldiers. A film steeped in the historical context in which it occurs, feminism and Nazism o. The "first" which includes comedy, and more importantly, posed the first attack the brain to stop the zombies. The body is white, the head itself.
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Director: Edward L. Cahn / / Horror - Science Fiction - Police / / U.S.
Synopsis: A gangster funds a scientist to create corpses revived with superhuman strength, the former used for purposes of revenge. The police are puzzled, since the chemical evidence point to the unrealistic nature of the crimes
Relevance: Its origin is scientific and zombies are used simply. Handled remotely. The intervention of the police is something new. Also for the first time the scenario is no longer involved tropical landscapes of the African folklore, zombies are no longer slaves under white rule, no ... here we are in a city, and there blacks but white zombies Americans, neat and well dressed.
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Director: Ed Wood / / Horror - Science Fiction - Aliens / / USA
Synopsis: A young couple goes to live near a cemetery will witness strange events. The reason is that an alien race invading Earth, seeking, and for that purpose, is raising the dead to be with them an army. The police will investigate what is happening.
Relevance: Although the zombies stopped being black has not been much evolution (science / voodoo) remain the same robots controlled by someone. The novelty here is that they are reanimated by aliens . Dasarrolla is again in the same city and the police intervened.
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Director: Terence Fisher / / Horror - Science Fiction - Aliens - Robots / / United Kingdom
Synopsis: After a long journey, a pilot space back to Earth and is devastated. With the help of survivors, will launch a plan to defeat the murderers robots that dominate the planet and return to life in him.
Relevance: First película Europea. Los zombis mueren de un tiro al cuerpo lo cual hace pensar que no son plenamente zombis. Por vez primera un grupo de sobrevivientes trabaja en equipo a pesar de sus diferencias. Por primera vez se enfoca el cine al desarrollo psicológico y social de estas personas . Se perfila el típico Lider, sus cualidades.
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Director : John Gilling // Terror - Vudú // Reino Unido
Sinopsis : En una pequeña ciudad de Gran Bretaña, varios trabajadores mueren a causa de una misteriosa epidemia. Desesperado, el doctor Peter Thompson seeks help from his friend Sir James Forbes, who comes ready to locate the source of the horrible scourge. The two doctors embark on a dangerous investigation that hides a terrible secret that will take you to the astounding truth: someone is using black magic to restore life to the dead.
Relevance: On the subject ... there. It may be that this is the first zombie film and color but before there was another. Is devoted rather to rescue the old issue of vudo towards a capitalist pandemic .... as White Zombie.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Director George A. Romero / / Terror - Gore / / USA
Synopsis: The radiation from a satellite cause a terrifying phenomenon: the dead leave their graves and attack men for food. The action begins in a cemetery in Pennsylvania, where Barbara, after being attacked by an undead, flees to a farm. There has also been a refugee Ben. Both built barricades to defend against a multitude of vicious zombies that can only be defeated with a blow to the head.
Relevance: Although it largely on The earth dies screaming and Revenge of the zombie to develop two important elements: how to kill a zombie and survival of a group of persons (enemy among them), has some good insights: zombies are an uncontrollable horde , nobody handled, are cannibals and infected with a bite. I think even here we have all the elements that define today the zombie film.
In this first part of Zombies had trouble with the subtitles of Revolt of the Zombies (1936), and to download and subtitles Teenage Zombies (1959) and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964 .) If anyone can help me get them, great.
Indeed, in a few days back to edit this entry to include a couple of films, pre-68, I went to see.
Part ... the next 10 I will make another entry. Maybe start a chronology of Cyberpunk movies or some other topic.
Abstracts are Filmaffinity footage.
I chose those because they are short and sometimes confusing ...
I chose those because they are short and sometimes confusing ...
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