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Time for Double Trouble with Dr. Bishop! This 25th Edition is a special “Double Episode” of DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, in which your intrepid host, Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, discusses Gaia (2021) and The Girl With All the Gifts (2016)! These two films feature depictions of the fungal zombie (aka “mycological zombie”), which is a type of zombification that actually occurs in the real world — just not among humans … yet. Kyle explores how these unusual zombie films are a little more “Science” and a little less “Science Fiction.” Speaking of which, you don’t want to miss Dr. Bishop’s creepy preface about ophiocordyceps unilateralis — the “zombie ant fungus”! Nightmare fuel, especially if you’re an ant. 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.
You are welcome to reach out to Dr. Bishop with comments or questions via email: bishopk@suu.edu, Twitter: @DrWalkingDead, or by leaving him a voicemail: (801) 899-9798. You can also watch the documentary, Doc of the Dead (2014), which features Dr. Walking Dead. Find more links below for Dr. Bishop.
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Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Kyle Bishop is brought to you by Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, an audio Horror movie podcast. It features nine experienced Horror hosts review new Horror movies and deliver specialty Horror segments. Your hosts are Jay of the Dead, Dr. Shock, Gillman Joel, Mister Watson, Dr. Walking Dead, GregaMortis, Mackula, Ron Martin and Dave Zee! Due to the large number and busy schedule of its nine Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies will be recorded in segments, piecemeal, at various times and recording sessions. Therefore, as you listen to our episodes, you will notice a variety of revolving door hosts and segments, all sewn together and reanimated like the powerful Monster of Dr. Frankenstein!
SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to the 25th edition of Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead
- Follow Dr. Walking Dead on Twitter
- Follow Dr. Walking Dead on BlueSky
[ 00:03:17 ] – Mycology and the “Fungal Turn”
- Nov. 24, 2017 article from The Atlantic this article about zombie ants titled “How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants’ Bodies to Control Their Minds”
– Present for this review: Dr. Walking Dead
Modern Zombie Movie:
[ 00:08:32 ] – Gaia (2021)
Dr. Walking Dead = 8 ( High-priority Rental )
– Present for this review: Dr. Walking Dead
Modern Zombie Movie:
[ 00:18:36 ] – The Girl With All the Gifts (2016)
Dr. Walking Dead = 9 ( Buy it! )
Next time for the 26th edition: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) (aka “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue”)
Special thanks to website developer Jaxon Carroll and graphic designer Trump Widdop for their excellent work in helping Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies to have a nice, new website. Thank you! And big shout-out and thanks to Mister Watson and his son, Skylarr, for composing the music for Mister Watson’s Horror Hierarchy segment.
LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Links for Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop:
Email Dr. Bishop here: bishopk@suu.edu
Dr. Walking Dead’s Bio Page
Book: American Zombie Gothic
Book: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
— Kyle’s Amazon Author Profile
— Doc of the Dead zombie culture documentary
— 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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YouTube Music Video: “Voltairine” by Frederick Ingram (the theme music for Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies)
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Frederick Ingram’s Fish Bowl (Funky Margarita Mix)
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Yay! I’m so happy to hear your reexamination of The Girl With All The Gifts. I loved that one, thought it was such a unique take on this type of narrative.
Maybe I need to give Gaia another chance. I got so bored in my first watch, a couple of years ago now. Thanks for another great episode!
Gaia is, well, kinda boring. But I loved the vibe in contrast to other zombie movies. And it was all strangely . . . beautiful?