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Les Diaboliques

Train to Busan vs World War Z

If thou openest not that I may enter I will smash the doorpost and unhinge the gate. I will lead up the dead, that they may eat the living.”    (Enheduanna). Excerpt from “Descent of Ishtar/Inanna to the Underworld.” Written somewhere between 3000 B.C. to 1900 B.C. Train to Busan and World War Z: A Comparative Approach Call them what you want: the undead, revenant (French word meaning come back or one who has returned), Zombi or Zombii in Haitian, or as many Western viewers know them, zombies. There are fast zombies (both of these movies) , slow zombies (George A. Romero’s classic 1968 film Night of the Living Dead), zombies who are under mind control through nefarious black magic or sorcery, and many more. Zombies are a very important concept in pop culture and society. Specifically, lots of movies have been made about them.   Two interesting films about zombies are World War Z (2013) and Train to Busan (2016). Even though World War Z is has more jump scares and fits into the

The Sixth Sense

    Happy Halloween! Tagline-  Not every gift is a blessing Be warned this review and my thoughts on the film will contain some spoilers and some are pretty major!  All right everyone ready?   The Sixth Sense is a 1999 film by director M. Night Shyamalan. It follows Dr. Malcolm Crowe a child psychologist who is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted by one of his disillusioned former patients named Vincent Gray. He takes on a new patient named Cole Sear who reminds him of Vincent and discovers that Vincent and Cole share a lot of symptoms. They both are very antisocial and can apparently "see" ghosts. Malcolm of course is skeptical at first and thinks Cole is mentally ill but further work with Cole and disturbing events slowly change his mind...    It turns out that Cole can see ghosts and needs Malcolm's help to make them go away and help him not to be scared anymore. Now on to the review. In my opinion The Sixth Sense is one of those movies that don't quite fit i