Song of the Day #5,595: ”Cause I’m a Man’ – The Pretty Things

Though certainly appropriate for the Monster and Sci-Fi sub-genres, Zombie films deserve their own category. There’s something undeniable about hordes of the walking dead shambling around in the single-minded pursuit of human flesh.

The zombie genre will forever be associated with the name George Romero, the writer/director who helmed 1968’s Night of the Living Dead and a host of sequels. Those movies popularized the zombie as a metaphorical threat and worked as both scary horror flicks and effective social commentary.

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