@MartyMcFly
I came across this interesting research analysis bc I know we discussed Romero before but I thought it was timely bc we were talking about The Blob, etc along with consumerism with an underlying theme to his movies.
"One Generation Consuming the Next: The Racial Critique of Consumerism in
George Romero’s Zombie Films" (2009).
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1475&context=honorstheses
In an interview with the
New York Times, George Romero describes his zombie
films as “being about revolution, one generation consuming the next… all my films are
snapshots of North America at a particular moment. I have an ability within the genre to
do that.”1 Romero, one of the greatest innovators in the zombie film genre, uses gory
images of zombies consuming human flesh to represent what he sees as a crumbling
America.