
Conflict Begets Conflict
By
Michael C. Riedlinger
New Zombie Order:
Why Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead Marks a New Era in American Horror Cinema
Michael C. Riedlinger
Through the last two decades of the twentieth century, horror filmmakers seemed to create only those works that fit a certain stereotype. These films justified the detractors of the genre who claimed that they consisted only of simple clichés, and audiences were treated to sequel after sequel and rip-offs of rip-offs. The former masters of the horror genre, like Wes Craven and John Carpenter, tried different strategies to cope with this decline in innovation and meaning to varying effects.