Zombie Films Used to Have Brains. Now They’re Right-Wing Drivel.

In the decade between ‘Zombieland’ movies, Hollywood’s mindless monsters have become vehicles for racism and xenophobia

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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7 min readOct 18, 2019

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Credit: Columbia Pictures

TThe 2009 horror comedy Zombieland, whose sequel comes out this week, begins with a lament for the United States: “I wish I could tell you that this was still…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.