Even video games like State of Decay (2013), Days Gone (2019), and World War Z (2019) rely on the emergence of hordes to produce terror. World War Z (2013), in particular, is guilty of excessively overplaying the horde in its numerous scenes of zombies crawling over top of each other to scale walls and buildings. all feature at least one scene where a character has been devoured by a mob of hungry, decayed walkers.
Dawn of the Dead (19), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Resident Evil (2002), etc. Every film, it seems, references the fact that one zombie is easily dispatched, but you are in trouble when they coalesce into large groups. Since The Night of the Living Dead (1968), hordes have been a main source of terror and death in zombie films. In doing so, Black Summer masters a minimalistic horror that reignites the fear of the living dead.Ĭheck out the trailer for Black Summer, streaming on Netflix: However, in a landscape of continually evolving interpretations of the walking flesh eater– Train to Busan (2016), Cargo (2017), The Dead Don’t Die (2019), etc.– Black Summer innovates by opposing the massive hordes and the deadeye heroes of current zombie films and television. Wherever the critics and undead-lovers land on the series, there is no mistaking that Black Summer brings a new take on old lore. Some have called the show a rejuvenation of the zombie genre and others have balked at the story’s zombies and its ending. Black Summer (2019) has polarized critics and undead fans.
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