Dawn Break

Anti-eroticism. Architectural literacy. Consumerism finger-poking. And zombies, lots of zombies. I wrote about the original Dawn of the Dead (1978), one of my favorite movies of all time, for Hilobrow’s ongoing horror series. The 25-part collection, titled Scream Your Enthusiasm, has some great contributors, including comic book artist and playwright Dean Haspiel, film editor Crockett Doob, author Lynn Peril, and series editor Heather Quinlan, just to name a few. I didn’t have space to get into the music, but of course the film’s classic score was the result of a team-up between the band Goblin (“the Goblins” on the poster) and Dario Argento. I dedicated the short essay (as I did an earlier Hilobrow piece on Celtic Frost) to my late friend Eric Engelhardt.