The zombie’s grotesque in each movie Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead have developed revolutionized zombie films. In Romero’s zombie films they have a wild appetite for human flesh, a bite that kills ordinary human beings by an unknown infected person, which quickly reanimates the bodies of it’s victims, transforming them into new zombies. The zombies have poor coordination and little to no ability to reason and a zombie can be killed by shooting or bashing it in the head. Romero’s movies have since become a staple of the zombie horror genre and the social criticism he’s been given because his early films have become a tradition in many zombie films later. Romero made his zombies into a form of deadly contagion. A single bite from a zombie will kill and turn one into a…show more content… Since Romero’s film, the zombie has usually been associated with human corpses that have risen from the dead to devour the living. Romero took his social criticism a step further in his second zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead. In this film, survivors camp out in a shopping mall as zombies invade from the outside. The images of zombies mindlessly walking around, moaning, and drooling over consumer goods provides a very blunt image of the cult of consumerism and American capitalism. George Romero's Dawn of the Dead shows how people have been programmed to being consumers. After ten years in the making, Romero brings us to the apocalyptic world where human society is on the brink of losing over the living dead, a bigger and much more violent than its predecessor. When consumerism was brought to the American culture in the seventies, credit cards became a trend, the society became addicted with the pleasure of going shopping, spending money left
