They're Alive... and Crowdsourced

As our culture evolves, so goes the zombie film. Race relations and disillusionment with the government played out in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. Ten years later, zombies in Dawn of the Dead attacked their victims in a suburban shopping mall while the nation tried to buy its way out of the last recession. Last year’s Diary of the Dead is mostly told through the lens of an amateur filmmaker documenting a monster attack, reflecting the voyeurism and narcissism of Youtube culture. And the genre keeps building… a new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based on the enduring Jane Austen classic, is even in the works.

Horror film fanatic Bryan White thinks he’s stumbled on the latest trend in zombie movies: community-generated filmmaking, an indication that we’ve entered the era of crowdsourcing. Bryan lives here in New Hampshire and edits the horror movie blog Cinema Suicide, and he joins us in the studio to talk about three of these projects: Lost Zombies, Nation Undead and Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated.

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