I'm the Host

"Unnnnnnnhhhhh…. Uuuuhhhhhh! Brrrrraiiiiiiiinnssssss…"

Yeah, that's what you’d LIKE to hear, isn't it? Well too bad! This week Ally, our understudy of the undead, is exhuming the zombie genre as we talk Train to Busan (2016) and The Girl With All The Gifts (2016). We'll find out where all the bodies are buried in the history of zombie lore, from its Afro-Haitian origins, to its dark fusion with Romero's ghouls, to its chaotic re-imagining for a hilarious/horrifying present.

We'll also sink our chompers into more practical concerns, such as tube-cream manufacturing, our classic "girl-in-a-box" problem, and whether one dead deer will spell the end of humanity.

EPISODE LINKS
YouTube - White Zombie (1932) trailer
**YouTube - Night of the Living Dead (1968) FULL MOVIE!**
YouTube - Dawn of the Dead (1978) trailer
YouTube - Return of the Living Dead (1985) trailer 
YouTube - Day of the Dead (1985) trailer
YouTube - Night of the Living Dead (1990 remake) trailer
YouTube - Dead Alive/Braindead (1992) trailer
YouTube - My Boyfriend’s Back (1993) TV teaser 
YouTube - 28 Days Later (2002) trailer 
YouTube - Shaun of the Dead (2004) trailer
YouTube - Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake) trailer
YouTube - Land of the Dead (2005) trailer 
YouTube - Fido (2006) trailer 
YouTube - The Signal (2007) trailer 
YouTube - Diary of the Dead (2007) trailer 
YouTube - The Crazies (2010 remake) trailer 
YouTube - The Walking Dead (2010) trailer 
YouTube - Santa Clarita Diet (2017) season one trailer

YouTube - Kairo (Pulse) - basement ghost scene 
Wikipedia - Childhood's End (novel) 
Wikipedia - Cell (novel) 
Wikipedia - The Last of Us (video game) 
Wikipedia - Zombie 
Wikipedia - Uncanny Valley
Wikipedia - Aloha Oe

The Josef K. Stories - "Up"
Atlas Obscura - "How Haitian Slave Culture Gave Life to Zombies"
Den of Geek - George A. Romero and the Meaning of his Zombies

ExtraLife Team!