Some say that Night Of The Living Dead basically ripped off Carnival Of Souls. I enjoy the latter movie more.

That being said, the ideas of masses of walking corpses shambling along and cutting off all routes of escape due to sheer numbers is certainly scary in it's own way. They just didn't have the budget to really showcase that.

I've always thought that Night of the Living Dead was more a ripoff of The Last Man on Earth (the original 1964 version) than Carnival of Souls.

And I agree that Carnival of Souls is superior to Night of the Living Dead. :beer:

I mean I was being somewhat hyperbolic but I do generally find the Hollywood depiction of zombies pretty uninteresting.

The Haitian voodoo zombies from which they are derived are much more creepy/interesting to me.

Also that movie was super hyped up to me by a friend who was traumatized by it as a kid so maybe the disappointment when I finally watched it skewed my opinion of it somewhat. The story of him being traumatized by it was infinitely more compelling than the actual movie to me.

I think the only movie I've seen that actually explores etymological zombies from voodoo is Serpent & The Rainbow.

Yeah that's a book too. Haven't read or seen it though.

The only movie exploring etymological Zombies might actually be Pontypool.

Lol good one.

Now everybody pretend to be surprised that Anteater and jwb were underwhelmed by a film criticizing race politics in America.

I was going to say it was a rip off of the original I Am Legend film but I guess the original I Am Legend film was The Last Man on Earth. Huh.

I didn't even catch that angle

Glad my instincts served me right then

Update on my gf's mom.

She's on day 10. Her fever keeps coming back and forth but yesterday she had some tightness in her lungs. No trouble breathing but her cough was a little worse and it hurt. Doctor says it's part of the process. She's going to beat this f*cker unless one of those rapid deterioration cases happens. She's healthy and not overweight so I'm going to hope that doesn't happen as it's less likely.

We're almost through this but it's really just a warm up to having to most likely do this with my own parents, relatives, friends, my gf, and even myself.