Answer: When it's done like George A. Romero.
Romero has become one of the most defining, successful and imitated director/writer in recent times, almost single handily spawning a sub-genre of films. Still, he has readily admitted that Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls influenced in his making of Night Of The Living Dead (NOTLD).
I miss that cult feel that Romero’s zombie incarnations had, you know before they went mainstream. Although entertaining I'm not a big z-omedy fan, the likes of Return of the Living Dead (1985), Peter Jackson's Brain Dead (1992) and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) to name a few have thier respected places. And not forgetting alternative virus-like flicks Resident Evil and 28 Days Later (2002). There's also a few little gems out thereCemetery Man (1994), Eaters (2011) and Mutants (2009) are worth checking out.
When being dead no longer means the end...
So with a staple on George A. Romero's dead mythos while paying homage to his 'rules' I wrote Dead Pulse. Without reinveting the wheel I give an insight into the zombies pecking order, their thought process and how they actually function for the first. Dead Pulse also explores what it truly means to survive a zombie apocalypse through the harsh seasons on the land, sea and air. Of course there's all the zombie action you'd expect from the genre and more.
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Dead Pulse the horror adventure is out now from a variety of online books stores, including Amazon US and Amazon UK you can also order it from your local store.
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