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Continental DistributingEver since the inception of horror filmmaking, zombies have wandered the Earth. We all know George A. Romero as Godfather of the Dead or some other moniker, but historians track the first zombies on screen back to 1932’s “White Zombie” starring Bela Lugosi. Before “The Walking Dead” made flesh-munching a source of mainstream cable entertainment, voodoo curses turned the living into dead-eyed shufflers like in Jacques Tourneur’s “I Walked With a Zombie.” Then came the brain feasts, the often debated runners, the contemporary remakes, and Negan’s trusty Lucille.
Film historians can connect the dots between zombie benchmarks that travel at different speeds over decades of releases.