My background (and degree, at least until Indiana University realizes what they’ve done) is in Political Science, and I also desperately crave original Zombie projects for the ZRC to look at, so this sounds right up my alley. In fact, I think it may have parked there long-term:

Bringing blood-thirsty zombies and communists to the Peninsula City, a screening of the film, “Red Scare,” a movie whose parts were filmed in Bayonne and Jersey City, will take place this evening at the Frank Theatres South Cover Stadium 14, on Lefante Way.
“It’s a black-and-white, Mel Brooks-type spoof of zombie movies [set] in 1950s communist era,” said local actor Chris Lucas, 43, who plays a general in the film.
The film centers around a Russian plot to send zombies over to the United States in an attempt to take over the country, according to Lucas, whose acting credits also include parts on ABC daytime soap opera, “One Life to Live,” and a part in the film, “Quiz Show,” which didn’t make the movie.

Now that could be interesting! A film that shows the parallels between the unjust and overzealous persecution of political dissidents at the height of the Red Scare with the unjust and overzealous persecution of Zombies? Very promising!

A ripe area for cinematic investigation too, since so many Anti-Zombie films (as well as other mid-20th century ‘monster’ movies) are often seen as coded attacks on collectivism in the first place. Which we just don’t approve of; you can make your political polemics WITHOUT besmirching the reputation of the Zombie Community, people!

We’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for ‘Red Scare’ here at the ZRC.

Tags: Movies, Social Justice

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