"The Marching Dead — World War One and the Cinematic..." Topic

…. Zombie Apocalypse.

"Nov. 11, 2018 marked 100 years since the cessation of hostilities in the Great War. At least 16 million soldiers and civilians died in what we now call World War One. Across the globe, in fighting that raged in Africa and Asia and to a limited degree in the Pacific, the war produced close to forty million casualties.

"Horror," and its various cognates, became the most common way to describe what soldiers and civilians had experienced. The word had a longer history and stories of the macabre had an enduring place in fiction and folklore. But horror in the modern sense of a physical repulsion to images of death and dismemberment took on a new meaning after the trenches and veteran's accounts of the savagery they had experienced.

Soon, what had been known as "weird" fiction would be called horror fiction. The horror film would have its definitive beginnings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Dracula and Frankenstein, all of them directed, written or starring veterans who found in such films a way to speak of the horror that had enveloped the world…."
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