The zombie movie is a genre unlike any other in film. It can be a complete exploitation vehicle or can serve as a metaphor for the time audiences are living in. When MovieWeb interviewed the Godfather of zombie movies, George A. Romero, he was asked if he wanted to make any more Dead films. To paraphrase, he said that he did, but he wanted to have the films "mean something." One could argue that you could do this in any genre, but there is something about the zombie genre that lends itself to metaphors.

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