Zombie cities
In George Romero’s new film Land of the Dead, armoured vehicles roam the suburban and zombie-infested wasteland outside the walled city.
The world (as humankind has known it) is merely a memory. In its place is the never-ending nightmare existence of US - the living - and THEM - the ‘walkers’. What’s left of mankind is cordoned off behind the walls of a fortified city while the walking dead roam the vast wasteland beyond. The few wealthy and powerful try to maintain an illusion of life as it was, dwelling high above the city in the exclusive towers of Fiddler’s Green, the last bastion of the ruling class. On the streets below, however, the remaining, less fortunate of the city’s inhabitants eke out a hard-scrabble life, seeking what little solace they can in the vices available - gambling, flesh trade, drugs - anything that offers even a fleeting from the hell their lives have become. Unrest and anarchy are on the rise among the city’s disenfranchised and outside, the army of the dead is changing, evolving, learning to organise and communicate…”
Perhaps not as ironic as Romero’s 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead (or last year’s poor remake), where survivors barricaded themselves in a shopping mall, Land of the Dead looks like it will still offer up some good social commentary along with the gore. I can’t wait!
And for now, I’ll just add this to my notes for a still-unwritten-but-far-from-dead paper about zombie cities.
Related: Kevan Davis’ Zombie Infection Simulation
- Anne