A World on Fire - A Zombie Blog

I’ve been spending a lot of my off hours recently thumbing through the excellent Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay and one thing that keeps appearing in each review is a quick blurb about the gore content. In the book, there’s quite a lot of side discussion directed to the gore hound which made me consider other reviews which of course, follow a similar format.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but gore is a staple of the genre. I remember watching Shaun of the Dead for the first time upon seeing one of the characters pulled apart by a zombie mob, the zombie gore lover inside of me felt satiated. Had that scene not been in the film, I think some part of me would have been disappointed.

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