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Welcome to the 11th Edition of DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, starring your intrepid host, Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, who generously brings you an entertaining and insightful Horror movie review of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021)! During Episode 037, Dr. Bishop spends some time making some distinctions about the subgenre sorting of “Army of the Dead.” He discusses how the classification of “Zombie” has become less a genre type and more of a mode. As always, Dr. Walking Dead examines the noteworthy aspects of this zombie film and places it in context among its predecessors and contemporaries. Dr. Bishop also discusses the prequel to “Army of the Dead,” a film called “Army of Thieves,” which is also streaming on Netflix. Join us!
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Dead Man Still Walking is a biweekly, short-form solocast hosted by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).
Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 22 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.
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SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to this 11th edition of Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead.
Zombie Movie Feature Review
[ 00:00:41 ] – Army of the Dead (2021)
Dr. Walking Dead = 7 ( High-priority stream on Netflix )
- With a runtime of 2 hours, 28 minutes, “Army of the Dead” is reportedly the longest zombie movie in existence
- Features plenty of Zack Snyder’s signature slow motion
- “Army of the Dead” is reportedly the second-most expensive zombie movie ever made — after World War Z
- “Army of the Dead” is not a Horror film; it is a zombie film and a heist film
- The Zombie mode
- IMDb categorizes this film as Action / Crime / Horror
- A science fiction zombie film
[ 00:09:54 ] – “Army of the Dead” Film Setup
- Plot description
- Alpha Zombies or Super Soldier Zombies
- The Zack Snyder montage
- As in the “Zone One” and “I Am Legend” novels, there are two types of zombies: The Shamblers and The Alphas
- Zeus and The Alpha Queen
- Alpha Zombie Animals!
[ 00:22:05 ] – Prequel: “Army of Thieves”
- Dr. Walking Dead recommends watching “Army of the Dead”
- 7 out of 10 rating; High-priority stream on Netflix
- The prequel: “Army of Thieves” – a self-aware, postmodern heist film, streaming on Netflix
Final Thoughts / Wrap-Up
- Coming up next in the 12th edition of Dead Man Still Walking: Dr. Bishop goes back to an early zombie flick! Don’t miss it!
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Book: American Zombie Gothic
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— Kyle’s re-animated Twitter: @DrWalkingDead
– Learn more about Dr. Walking Dead
– Faculty Friday: Meet Dr. Kyle Bishop, English
– TEDx SUU Talk on YouTube: Why Zombies Matter
– YouTube: Zombies: An idea worth spreading about how ideas spread
– YouTube: 50+ Shades of Gothic: Zombies, Bodies and Boundaries
– YouTube: Why zombie culture is so popular?
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Thanks for the great review! I will have to revisit as, initially, I was not too fond of Army of the Dead (7 out of 10) either. This movie also reminds me of the sequel to Train to Busan (10 out of 10), Train to Busan: Peninsula (6 out of 10) which is also a heist/zombie film.
Dr. Bishop,
Just two quick notes that you may (or may not) care about… ha ha
“Army of the Dead” was in limited release in some theaters. It played in our local Salt Lake City-area theaters (but probably not in the Cedar City area). In fact, I could have watched it on Netflix, but I opted to see it on the big screen, and I was glad I did. This big, dumb movie has an epic quality to it. My biggest complaint with this film is that it completely skipped the fall of Las Vegas… I would have loved to have seen The Strip brought down by zombies.
Second, apparently, I still have years of learning and schooling to acquire from you because I almost fell off my chair when you said “Army of the Dead” is NOT a Horror movie! (I know, I’m always the annoying guy who quibbles over genre classification, but I guess I need to learn more about this distinction from you.)
Great episode! Thank you, Sir!
-J
Man, it’s action-adventure all the way. And a heist, obviously. And is slow-motion a genre now? But while there are monsters, I don’t get a lot of “horror.” “Army of the Dead” is barely the “Aliens” of zombie movies!
Ahhh, yeah… That’s right… You’re that RASCAL who doesn’t consider “Aliens” to be a Horror movie. This is all making so much more sense now.
Genuine question: So, if a motion picture is an ACTION movie, do you believe that eliminates / negates its potential to be considered as a Horror film, too, because — after all, MANY characters in Action films find themselves in peril and even suffer untimely and unpleasant deaths…?
So, maybe this is just your way of preventing all ACTION movies from being called Horror movies? Yes? No?
-J
Action movies can obviously be horrific and have horrifying moments, but is the ESSENCE the horror or the action? Action/horror or horror/action? This film definitely the former. 😉