It's almost time to choose one (or several) films to celebrate Halloween, a choice that for many can be quite complicated, so this time you could focus on the theme zombie.
The options are many, but only a few can be considered Classic and worth seeing.
That is why we decided to make a guide with which there was no way to go wrong, but before giving you the four must-see titles, we will give you the context of how it was that these so gloomy beings became so popular on the big screen.
George A. Romero, the father of zombies
George A. Romero is known as the father of zombies and the irony is that he didn't even call these supernatural creatures that.
What he did do was present The night of the Living Dead (1968) to deceased beings who, reanimated, came out of their tombs to eat human flesh.
His creatures were called ghouls o eat meat (flesh eaters) and something also to underline is that he never used the phrase undead, because the title he originally proposed for his film was The Night of the Flesh Eaters), but the distributor was the one who decided to change the name.
Originally, a zombie is a voodoo term referring to a dead person resurrected through magic black in order to dominate his will.
Who started calling zombies ghouls de Romero were the fans of his film, so he gradually gave in and thus he became the famous father of the zombies.
The night of the Living Dead
(Night of the Living Dead)
USA, 1968.
Directs: George A. Romero.
Act: Judith O'Dea, George Kosana, Karl Hardman.
What it's about: Barbara and her brother Johnny visit their father's grave in a nearby cemetery. However, upon reaching the graveyard, they are attacked by hungry beings resurrected under mysterious circumstances. Barbara manages to flee and take refuge in a nearby barn, where she finds other survivors.
Despair of the Dead
(Shaun of the Dead)
USA, France, UK, 2004.
Directs: Edgar Wright.
Act: Simon Pegg, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost.
What it's about: A young man named Shaun wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, but he doesn't quite know how to go about it. A zombie apocalypse is the ideal opportunity to show her how much he loves her, if they both make it out alive.
Juan of the Dead
Cuba, 2011.
Directs: Alexander Brugues.
Act: Alexis Diaz de Villegas, Andros Perugorria, Andrea Duro.
What it's about: Juan is a man from Havana who, throughout his 40 years of life, has done absolutely nothing but get into trouble, so Camila, his teenage daughter, wants nothing to do with him. Things change when a strange army of blood-hungry subjects invades Cuba, prompting Juan to start a new business: exterminating zombies.
Extermination
(28 Days Later)
UK, 2002.
Directs: Danny Boyle.
Act: Cillian Murphy, David Schneider, Naomi Harris.
What it's about: Animal rights activists release a group of chimpanzees on which biological experiments have been performed, despite pleas from scientists. This spreads a virus that turns people into hungry zombies.