“Post-Apocalyptic Rage” Scarezone, Universal Studios Singapore, 2011.
On this date in 1967, the fictional events of George Romero’s 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” occurred.
In the film, the reanimated bodies of the recently-deceased arise, seeking out and devouring any living flesh they find. A small band of survivors are besieged by these walking corpses (or “zombies”), and attempt to survive by barricading themselves in a remote country farmhouse.
While “Night of the Living Dead” was not the first film to feature “zombies” (referred to as ‘ghouls’ by Romero, himself), it was the first to portray them as the “reanimated, flesh-eating cannibals” [wiki] that have since become so popular. In fact, The Internet Movie Database lists nearly 700 “zombie films” that have been released since the original Night of the Living Dead.
Zombies are featured regularly at Halloween Horror Nights, whether in their own house (Florida’s Deadtropolis, Dead Exposure and Zombiegeddon) or scarezone (Hollywood’s Zombieville, Orlando’s Deadtropolis: Zombie Siege, War of the Living Dead, Zombi Gras and the roaming Zombie Drill Team). Their popularity has also expanded into other countries, as evident in the Halloween Horror Nights Singapore scarezone, “Post-Apocalyptic Rage” (seen above).
Photo by Dejiki.