The best source for information on zombie movies are Volumes 1 (2001) and 2 (2011) of The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by English professor Peter Dendle. As I discovered when I interviewed director Corin Hardy, he didn't bother with a Catholic theological consultant for his 2018 film "The Nun," and research consisted of watching other movies about exorcisms. Mary's.' " The devil, or films about exorcism, are practically their own genre.
The best exorcism film was, of course, "The Exorcist" (1973), which Pauline Kael once called "the biggest recruiting poster the Catholic Church has had since the sunnier days of 'Going My Way' and 'The Bells of St. I suppose some of them may have immoral or seemingly inappropriate content, but from those I have seen, they range from supernatural schlock with bad theology (" Constantine," 2005) to socio-psychic brilliance (" Get Out," 2017) and every place in between. I cannot tell you how many times my readers have told me they think that horror films are immoral. My dad and older brother, who was 8, went to see "The Ten Commandments." My older brother became a hippie and I became a nun. I was 7 years old and my little brother was 6.
While I am not a particular fan of horror films, the very first one I saw in a movie theater was the 1959 " House on Haunted Hill," starring Vincent Price. To some, zombie films are a subgenre of vampire movies, that are a subgenre of good, old-fashioned horror. Zombies seem to have originated in West African and Haitian folklore. Zombie movies have been around since at least 1932. He explains that his Trinidadian grandfather used to say, "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Romero's 1978 zombie horror classic, " Dawn of the Dead," the character Peter (Ken Foree) tells Francine (Gaylen Ross) that the creatures they are fighting off are part of Macumba voodoo.
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