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We the Living Dead.


An intriguing side note to Tim Cavanaugh's review-essay on zombie films : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #
  • 28 Days Later (2002)
  • 28 Weeks Later (2007)
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  • After Death (1988)
  • (Zombie 4: After Death
 ("We the Living Dead" February): George Romero has pointed to Richard Matheson's 1954 horror novel I Am Legend as an inspiration for Night of the Living Dead. Matheson's novel itself has had a long and still-ongoing afterlife on film: It was first filmed in the mid-'60s as The Last Man on Earth, a low-budget Italian-American co-production starring Vincent Price; it was remade re·made  
v.
Past tense and past participle of remake.
 and reimagined in 1971 as The Omega Man, a high-budget Charlton Heston vehicle; and it is being remade right now, right here in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, as I Am Legend, a very high-budget, high-profile production. It will star--interestingly, in view of Annalee Newitz's thesis that zombies Zombies

Companies that continue to operate even though they are insolvent. Also known as living dead.

Notes:
It's advisable to avoid investing in zombies at all costs their life expectancies are highly unpredictable.
 are symbols of racial oppression--Will Smith.

Mary Ellen Kelly

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Title Annotation:Letters
Author:Kelly, Mary Ellen
Publication:Reason
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:May 1, 2007
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