m. c. de marco

Groundhog Day is this week’s 99 cent movie rental in the iTunes store. According to Wikipedia,

In 2006, Groundhog Day was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

I played Zombie Fluxx for the first time last night, and it got me thinking about zombies and horror again. So I will attempt to explain their appeal.

My usual branch of horror is a subgenre deader than the Western: supernatural fiction along the lines of Charles Williams. Like much horror it can easily be classified away into other genres—magical realism for him and Chesterton, science fantasy for Canopus in Argos, thrillers for all the Da Vinci Code variants—but I still think of it as horror for its supernatural content, no matter how unhorrifying an individual instance of supernatural fiction may be.