Twin films from Edgar Wright and Zack Snyder collectively birthed the modern zombie movie genre in 2004, changing the living dead forever.
In the mid-1980s, 15 years or so after George A. Romero established the modern conception of the “zombie” as an reanimated flesh eater in, undead cinema found itself lurching toward a high water mark. The single greatest year for the zombie movie might best be pegged as 1985, which saw such classics as Romero’s own, if we’re being all-inclusive.
Granted, one would be remiss to launch into a discussion of 2004’s influential gruesome twosome without first acknowledging that the modern zombie revival actually had its first spark of the divine in 2002, with the release of Danny Boyle’s revolutionary.
Of course, this declawing of the undead didn’t simply show up fully formed in 2004. As the 1980s rolled on, the prevalence of horror comedy grew, perhaps out of a more jaded sentiment than anything else. Where the decade had begun with audiences titillated and aghast at the likes of, they quickly grew inured to the new level of splatter and transgression that saturated cinemas.
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