Zombie movies have suddenly become highly respectable in the field of counseling psychology now that Harvard Professor Steven Schlozman has become a fan. Actually, Schlozman, a psychiatrist by trade, has actually long been a fan of zombie flicks and their respective place in psychology. An avid sci-fi and horror fan, especially if there’s zombies involved, […]
Archives for July 2013
The Walking Dead: The Series
Arguably the biggest hit of the 2010 television season, the apocalypse drama The Walking Dead pulls the zombie subgenre out of its overexposed doldrums and finds, ironically enough, the humanity and emotion beneath its rotting shell. Produced by Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd and based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, The […]
World War Z
In World War Z, United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.When the movie opens, Lane and his wife Karin (Mireille Enos), and his children Constance (Sterling Jerins) and Rachel (Abigail […]
Night of the Living Dead
Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner) travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny is murdered. Barbra runs and releases the brake of Johnny’s car since the keys are […]