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Night Shopping has 6 ratings and 2 reviews. Randy said: A good short story about the start of a zombie apocalypse. Nothing exceptional, but it kept my in. From the Master of the Zombie Short Story comes this Best of Eric S. Brown. like Dark Wisdom, The Edge, Story House, The Eternal Night, and many others.

The third option is to make an idiot picture. An idiot picture, according to film critic Roger Ebert, is a film whose plot could only work if every character in the story is an idiot. Sadly, most post-Romero zombie movies fall into this category. A good example is the mind-numbingly stupid Resident Evil These geniuses wasted hundreds and hundreds of bullets in a clearly ineffective manner, without once trying a head shot. The film is set at a military base in Florida, where a handful of soldiers and scientists are desperately trying to hold out against the zombies, which have overrun the United States.

The soldiers react like complete idiots, running around like headless chickens, and get slaughtered as a result — despite the fact that they are all heavily armed and have plenty of ammunition, and cannot be facing more than a hundred zombies. Each of the soldiers still manages to kill a few zombies, highlighting the fact that the soldiers could easily have survived had they demonstrated even minimal intelligence.

And if this holds true for a handful of survivors hopelessly outnumbered by zombies, it holds true all-the-more for the fully-functioning military units that surely outnumbered the zombies when the dead first began to rise. In other words, the zombie apocalypse could only succeed in a world of complete imbeciles. Romero is famous not just for zombies, but for dealing with important social or moral issues.

For example, the second of his zombie movies, Dawn of the Dead , depicts zombies mindlessly walking around… a shopping mall! No explanation of the symbolism is required, I trust. Romero might seem to have a point. No sane person could fail to be depressed by the capacity of the human race to ignore problems like climate change — problems serious enough to threaten human civilization.

Nevertheless, I somehow think that if global warming shuffled up to your front door and tried to eat you, you would probably stop ignoring it real fast. Climate change does not happen all at once; the danger it poses creeps up on us at an imperceptibly slow rate.

It takes some scientific understanding to grasp the models used to predict its effects, and there are vested interests that stand to make money by encouraging inertia and lack of action; and inertia is easy to encourage among people who already have a lot of things on their minds. None of these points would apply, however, if corpses started getting up and murdering people.

The problem would be immediately apparent, its effects dramatic and obvious. Nobody stands to gain anything from ignoring it. And the actions necessary to handle the problem are pretty simple. Failure to join the fight against the zombie apocalypse would be just stupid.

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Remember that they want to be in here. After widespread protests by fans, United Film Distribution the original distributors of Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow publicly surrendered the MPAA-sanctioned rating and vowed only to release "Dawn of the Dead" in it's unedited, unrated state. It has no more strength than an average living person. The shopping mall invites the zombies in the same way the house invites the home invaders from The Strangers. When supplies begin running low and other trapped survivors need help, the group comes to the realization that they cannot stay put forever at the Shopping Mall, and devise a plan to escape. A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.

That is the point I would like to make about zombie movies, or indeed any horror movie with a message about the human condition. These movies impart a message by telling a story that, although possessing supernatural elements, is recognizably like real situations. By setting the story in an unreal context, the storyteller creates a critical distance between the audience and those situations.

If all goes well, the story will cause people to see something about the way the characters behave e. In effect, horror films with a message hold up a funhouse mirror: Yet while a mirror can distort a picture, it cannot outright falsify it. If a story is to impart a lesson, the circumstances facing its characters must resemble those faced by real people. If they do not, the storyteller has only two options. She can have the characters behave in a way that makes sense in context, but that does not resemble the real behavior about which she wishes to make a point.

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Or she can have the characters behave in a way that makes her point, but that makes no sense in the story for example, by the people behaving like idiots. This, all too often, is what happens in zombie movies. Human beings face real existential threats, such as climate change. But zombies pose no such threat, except in very special circumstances.

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And so either the zombie menace is ultimately overcome — in which case, the big message is lost climate change is a much tougher nut to crack — or else it is not overcome due to the unrealistically stupid behavior of the characters. Neither option sheds much light on the human condition. There may be lessons to be learned from the living dead, but those lessons would have to be compatible with the slow, plodding, and stupid nature of the zombies themselves. Otherwise, the result might simply be a slow, plodding, and stupid movie.

He is the author of The Luck of the Draw: Sadly, the book contains no zombies. This site uses cookies to recognize users and allow us to analyse site usage. By continuing to browse the site with cookies enabled in your browser, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy. Bowie Ibarra Author of the "Down the Road" zombie horror series. I've read a few zombie novels over the past year.

Night Shopping: A Zombie Short Story

So, I went into A. Fuchs's Zombie Fight Night with excitement. The war with the zombies is over. Though the casualties were high, the humans finally won. Now, an enterprising and quite ruthless man named Tony Sterpanko, has stepped in and created "Zombie Fight Night," where warriors battle zombies. Fortunes are won and lost over these battles. Fuchs is a master storyteller, for sure. He did exactly what he set out to do.

He gave us a number of gladiatorial-style battles vs. There was a story in there to hold them together but I read the book for the fights. On a side note regarding the plot, I felt that the ending was bittersweet. One character did get what was coming to said character. The violence, detailed blow for blow, is probably the one thing that keeps this from being for the kids.

Sexuality doesn't really show up and only one swear word that I can remember shows up on the last page of the main story. One person found this helpful. I enjoyed this book. More than anything, I enjoyed the concept of it. In fact, I wish I'd come up with it first. That being said, it's well-written and helped me fill in the nothing-else-to-do moments. It was good, not great.

I loved Fuchs description.

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I bought into Mick's motivation and found myself rooting for him when he placed his bets. I found myself hooked on the fights themselves, believing who would win and being surprised when I was wrong and right. The biggest problem with this book was the main bad guy's motivation. I don't get why Sterpanko does what he does, or rather, why he allows to happen what happens. Some things that happen in the fight scenes are a little clumsy, like a zombie being able to catch up to a werewolf, but that never elevated to the point of pulling me out the story. I'll definitely give more of AP Fuchs' stuff a try.

Gerald Rice, author of 30 Minute Plan. The description tells you everything. I don't need to repeat that. Now how did it play out? Very damn well thank you! The noirish side story of the losers last chance at winning plays very well around the exciting zombie fights. Almost every creature you can think of takes on zombies. The matches are great, it may look like zombies don't stand a chance but they do surprise you. Hey the Undertaker and Mankind can't top this. A really unique and well written take on the zombie genre. One of my fav zombie books I've read so far.

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