George A. Romero's original 'Night of the Living Dead' from 1968 is still probably the scariest zombie flick. Others have been fun but not as creepy. And there've been a lot of them. So 'Shaun of the Dead' stands out of the pack, a comedy with horror overtones instead of a horror movie with comedic overtones. The movie's hilarious but manages to be scary at times too. Zombie's in general at the moment stand out of the pack, in a time when Vampires and Werewolves are getting their teeth pulled and their six-packs exposed, someone decided horror should be romantic, but it's a lot harder to put sparkles on a zombie. Earlier this year they did try with 'Warm Bodies' though...so the zombie thing might be wearing a little thin now too. Even if every incarnation is good in it's own right you can definitely have too much of a good thing but 'Shaun' beat a lot of them to the punch and rightfully so. As you may have guessed, I rewatched it recently and drew this a couple days later. Done with markers and red Uniball.
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