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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

Batman: The Movie (1966)

Tagline- MEN DIE! WOMEN SIGH! Beneath that Batcape- he's all man! (There were lots of taglines for this specific film but this one was the most amusing to me haha.) Hello friends!  Today i'm reviewing the 1966 action superhero movie called Batman: The Movie.  This movie is... crazy. In a good way of course.  It's not lacking in action that's for sure. It stars Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. There's also an extensive rogues gallery of Batman's most famous villains and i'll list those and who plays them later. It also accompanied a series that ran from 1966 to 1968 with 3 seasons and released a very respectable number of 120 episodes before its cancellation in 1968. There were 34 episodes in season 1, a whopping 60 episodes in season 2, and 26 episodes in season 3.  There are many more interesting things i could say about the production, behind the scenes, controversies, (there were quite a few), and so forth but that'd probably ta