The End of the World
Zombies allow people to deal with their own anxiety about the end of the world. Night of the Living Dead and its counterparts also illustrate the fear of widespread apocalyptic
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Zombies Symbolism
At various times, zombies have been credited as symbols of revenge. They represented capitalism, the Vietnam War, nuclear fear, even the tension surrounding the civil-rights movement.
Today zombies are almost always linked with the end of the world via the ‘zombie apocalypse’.
Exploitation
Control and related themes of power and exploitation are basic to the voodoo zombie films. “They work faithfully and are not worried about long hours,” says zombie master Legendre of
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Loss of values
Another element often found in zombie films is the freakishness of familiarity the victims seem to have with the creatures attacking them. When the main character is attacked by a
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Social mirrors
In any good zombie story, the zombies represent the weakness of a society or community of people they come after. Zombie films are therefore allegories. In Night of the Living
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