The Dead Don’t Die: The zombie comedy has a gloomy political angle

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Written By Chris Well

“This is going to end badly.”

In this ludicrous horror comedy, something goes wrong in a small town—and the police have deal with a zombie invasion. A zombie comedy that focuses on how people tend to make bad situations even worse, The Dead Don’t Die is written and directed by Jim Jarmusch (who was also responsible for the vampire comedy Only Lovers Left Alive).

The amazing cast includes Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Carol Kane, Austin Butler and Selena Gomez.

In the New Yorker, the reviewer called The Dead Don’t Die a political horror comedy that reminded him of an actual documentary that accounted social life and civic routines in a small Midwestern town:

“The Dead Don’t Die is a vision of people reduced to the state of loveless, lonely consumers, or…people who’ve sold their souls. But it’s a teeming comedic vision nonetheless, filled with gleeful views of cars…and of ubiquitously commonplace firearms, of whimsical dialogue and gestures, and an ample supply of genre-centric gratifications, including sometimes grotesque, sometimes parodistic cannibalistic gore.”

In the video playlist below, you can watch the trailer, see interview clips with several of the actors (including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, and Tilda Swinton), learn about the making of the movie, and even listen to the original song.

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Monster Complex playlist: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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