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By Todd Garbarini
The widespread Covid-19 pandemic which took hold at the end of 2019 has made its way around the globe and looks like the sort of thing one would expect to see in either a David Cronenberg or George A. Romero film. Mr. Cronenberg has made a career out of making films which essentially depict human beings experiencing their bodies revolting against themselves while the late Mr. Romero directed a series of zombie films wherein droves of flesh-eating, reanimated corpses, presumably brought back to life by radiation emitted from a space probe returning from Venus that blew up in Earth’s atmosphere, wreak havoc among the living. Both directors present simultaneously dark and comedic visions of humanity, and we all now find ourselves in a precarious scenario that one would equate to the nightmares conjured up by these filmmakers since the quarantine...
By Todd Garbarini
The widespread Covid-19 pandemic which took hold at the end of 2019 has made its way around the globe and looks like the sort of thing one would expect to see in either a David Cronenberg or George A. Romero film. Mr. Cronenberg has made a career out of making films which essentially depict human beings experiencing their bodies revolting against themselves while the late Mr. Romero directed a series of zombie films wherein droves of flesh-eating, reanimated corpses, presumably brought back to life by radiation emitted from a space probe returning from Venus that blew up in Earth’s atmosphere, wreak havoc among the living. Both directors present simultaneously dark and comedic visions of humanity, and we all now find ourselves in a precarious scenario that one would equate to the nightmares conjured up by these filmmakers since the quarantine...
- 11/10/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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