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Zombies may have existed in film before George Romero’s horror milestone from 1968, Night of the Living Dead.  But the affable Pittsburgh filmmaker must be credited with creating the undead rules we all know so well.

• One, zombies devour the flesh of the living.
• Two, a zombie bite will turn a normal into a zombie quickly.
• And three, the only way to “kill” a zombie is to inflict major head trauma, preferably with a shotgun blast to the head.  Well, a blunt instrument will work, but a shotgun blast is perhaps the coolest way since the result is an exploding head!

These three rules are consistent both in and outside the Romero-verse of zombie movies where the undead walk the earth.  Sure, other filmmakers have taken license with the rules such as 28 Days Later which introduced us to the infected that run really fast.  Some may have seen recently deceased that could compete in the 50 yard dash as sacrilege, but it served to only advance both the genre and our love of those stupid flesh-eating corpses.  No matter how many new rules have been added to zombie lore via films, books, graphic novels like the amazing Walking Dead or videogames like Left 4 Dead, those three rules have always remained the same.

There seems to be no shortage of love for these poor undead creatures.  So to expand your horizons, here are some lesser-known zombie movies each worth boarding up the windows and locking yourself indoors to watch.

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1. Dead Set
This zombie outbreak takes place in the U.K. on the set of the popular reality show Big Brother.  The undead can be seen on the rise during disturbing news reports about “unrest and riots” spreading across the country.  After the production crew is nearly wiped out, all that remains are the ignorant and drama prone contestants from the Big Brother show. This five-episode mini-series from the BBC has yet to make it to the U.S., but it is perhaps the best use of a zombie apocalypse to make social commentary in decades.  So, if there were an Oscar for the Best use of zombie apocalypse to make social commentary, then Dead Set would be the clear winner.

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Austin, Texas student Emily Hagins is just your normal 12 year-old girl, unless you consider her obsession with blood, zombies and all-things horror-related to be out of the ordinary.  There is one thing that sets Emily dramatically apart as a pre-teen – she’s making her first feature film.  Like most filmmakers who passionately pursue the craft, Emily has no other choice than to write a script and get behind the camera.  But still, she’s only 12 and when it comes to things like scheduling actors or considering school-nights and bedtimes, she lacks the management skills. But she’s only 12!  That’s where Emily’s supportive, yet often frustrated mother comes in to see her daughter’s dream of making a zombie movie titled Pathogen come to life.

A team of three directors (Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck) spent two years following Emily’s journey to complete her first feature-length movie and made a movie of their own called Zombie Girl.   We observe her throughout the process as she writes, casts, shoots, rewrites, edits and then finally debuts the film to a packed audience of cast and crew at the famous Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Austin.  The resulting movie may not be the greatest film in the world, but it’s better than anything Uwe Boll has ever made.
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Emily Hagins found a minute to sit down with ChinaShop’s own Chris Gore. She is the subject of a documentary called  Zombie Girl, which is essentially about her making a feature horror film at the age of twelve.

Photos by Zoetica Ebb

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