The always interesting John Shirley has a posted an entry about immortality research and Dawn of the Dead, and why they are related.
I just saw the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD, which I thought worked well–though it lost touch with Romero's satirical metaphor about living/dead shoppers in the mall–and which reminded me that zombie movies are not really about corpses coming to get us, they're about death coming to get us. The hungry corpses in such films (28 Days Later, the Evil Dead etc) very simply stand for our own death. Our own corpses, seen in advance. Aggressive, because death is always stalking us, near or far; because it's inexorable, shuffling toward us slowly but never stopping, as the zombies do. In those movies, the humans never completely win out over the zombies. Can't beat death itself.
(John also has a new book out about the life of Gurdjieff.) Link
