Colin
2008 Dir. Marc Price Colin is bitten by a zombie. He dies alone on his kitchen floor, only to return from the dead as a zombie. We follow him as he wanders through a bleak suburban landscape in the midst of a cadaverous apocalypse. Excerpt of dialogue from Dawn of the Dead , 1978: Francine: ‘What are they doing? Why do they come here?’ Stephen: ‘Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.’ Peter: ‘They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here. They're us, that's all; when there's no more room in hell.’ Amongst the array of provocative ideas explored by Romero in his seminal masterpiece Dawn of the Dead , was how the survivors viewed the masses of the undead. From their vantage point in the shopping mall they were allowed momentary respite to consider just who and what the zombies were. The conclusion? They are us . Viewing events from this particular angle imbued Romero’...