2005's "Land of the Dead" didn't just lampoon wealth disparity, it also offered audiences more than a decade's worth of dramatic catharsis by allowing John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper to work out their shared professional aggression following 1992's "Super Mario Bros. His 1978 follow-up oozed disdain for mindless American materialism. "Night of the Living Dead" had painfully apt parallels to the Civil Rights movement. "I've always tried to put a little something in there." It's difficult to miss, looking back on his original run of "(Blank) of the Dead" pictures. It's not gore, it's not just horror," he continued. Speaking to IndieWire just a few days before his death in July of 2017, the horror pioneer stated that his shambling corpses had "always been political.
George Romero, the father of the undead genre as we now know it, certainly thought that they might be. Here's a hot take that literally no one on the internet has ever discussed before: zombies might be a metaphor for something.
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