In the documentary Creating an Army of the Dead, producers, actors, and crew, Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team examine the film’s stunts. The ground-breaking effects, and the development of the zombie genre, with a focus on post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. The documentary explores the elaborate interviews of the production team, stars, and crew about the making of the movie Army Of The Dead. H...[Read More]
Last year, a genre usually filled with shambling zombies and sentient mounds of carnivorous goo birthed leftfield successes like M3GAN and Skinamarink, low-budget horror hits that elbowed their way to viral status, even amid the giddy fluorescence of Barbie and prestige awardsiness of Oppenheimer. By contrast, this year’s slate of scares probably won’t catch too many people sleeping. 2024 is loade...[Read More]
Fran (Gaylen Ross) heads to the mall to escape zombies in Dawn of the Dead.Screenshot: United Film Distribution Company George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead arrived 10 years after he invented the modern zombie movie with 1968's Night of the Living Dead. To mark the 45-year anniversary of its U.S. release in 1979—an international co-production, it world-premiered in Italy in 1978—star Gaylen Ross,...[Read More]
Gaylen Ross has only a handful of acting credits to her name, but the first of them remains significant enough even today for her to be permanently canonized in horror film history: “Dawn of the Dead.” Playing television producer Fran Parker for writer-director George A. Romero, Ross joins what’s otherwise a boys’ club cast to combat zombies (and post-apocalyptic boredom) in an abandoned shopping ...[Read More]