https://vo.rs/tags/george-romero/Latest from the George Romero desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/why-zombies-keep-changing-what-they-mean/<p>The vampire has a castle, a wardrobe, a personality and a set of rules you can break. The werewolf has a calendar. The zombie has nothing. It has no lair, no seductive intelligence, no origin story worth the name, no individual identity — it is a body with the person scooped out, moving in a crowd of other emptied bodies. And this poverty, which ought to make it the dullest monster in the catalogue, is precisely why it has outlasted almost all the others as a vehicle for meaning. You cannot pour much into a monster that already means something. The zombie means nothing on its own, so every era fills it with whatever that era is afraid of. The blankness is the whole trick.</p>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000