In our current movie and TV landscape, it feels like tales of an apocalypse or of the living undead are a dime a dozen. While a show like The Walking Deadhas become one of the biggest franchises of the last 15 years, as it loses steam, the adaptation of the video game series The Last of Us is poised to continue its undead legacy. On the big screen, we’ve also gotten titles like 28 Years Later, Train to Busan, World War Z, and Zombieland over the past two decades. Some might think these concepts are recent sensations, but there’s a long history of such stories being brought to life.

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