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In this special BONUS episode, Dr. Walking Dead discusses a film that uses stereotypes to “fuel the parodic fire.” Just what you were looking for over your Thanksgiving weekend. Here Dr. Bishop throws us a surprise and squeezes in a brand-new, 2022 zombie Horror film for his 10th Edition of DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, a film streaming on Amazon Prime recommended by the Southern Gentleman himself, GregaMortis. So, here in Episode 033, your intrepid host, Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, brings you an entertaining and insightful Horror movie review of Marcus Dunstan’s Unhuman (2022)! As usual on DMSW, Dr. Bishop begins with some mild film setup, premise and such. And in due course, he stacks Unhuman (2022) up against the well-known conventions of zombie cinema, striving to detect originality and innovation! Dr. Bishop even includes a full-blown spoiler section; however, he does not reveal the film’s final ending. Listen! It’s a fun, 20-minute episode!
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Dead Man Still Walking is a biweekly, short-form solocast hosted by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).
Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 22 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.
You are welcome to reach out to Dr. Bishop with comments or questions via email:bishopk@suu.edu, Twitter: @DrWalkingDead, or by leaving him a voicemail: (801) 899-9798. You can also watch the documentary, Doc of the Dead (2014), which features Dr. Walking Dead. Find more links below for Dr. Bishop.
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SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to the 10th edition of Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead. This is a special BONUS episode, thanks to GregaMortis!
- GregaMortis recommended “Unhuman” (2022), written and directed by Marcus Dunstan
- “Unhuman” (2022) on IMDb.com
Zombie Movie Feature Review
[ 00:02:53 ] – Unhuman (2022) (Mild Spoilers)
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- Premise and subgenre classification
- Strikes an odd tonality
- Seems like an ’80s teen film that is also contemporary
- A movie set in a universe where zombies exist
- The intentional use of stereotypes
- Examining the use of parody
- A parody of zombie films and ’80s-era John Hughes teen movies
[ 00:14:07 ] – SPOILER Review
Unhuman (2022) (Spoilers)
- Streaming free for Amazon Prime members
- Is it a zombie?
- A parody of the teen revenge narrative
- More subgenre shifting
[ 00:18:41 ] – Final Thoughts / Wrap-Up
- Coming up next in the 11th edition of Dead Man Still Walking: “Army of the Dead” (2021)
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Links for Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop:
Email Dr. Bishop here: bishopk@suu.edu
Dr. Walking Dead’s Bio Page
Book: American Zombie Gothic
Book: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
— Kyle’s Amazon Author Profile
— Doc of the Dead zombie culture documentary
— Kyle’s re-animated Twitter: @DrWalkingDead
– Learn more about Dr. Walking Dead
– Faculty Friday: Meet Dr. Kyle Bishop, English
– TEDx SUU Talk on YouTube: Why Zombies Matter
– YouTube: Zombies: An idea worth spreading about how ideas spread
– YouTube: 50+ Shades of Gothic: Zombies, Bodies and Boundaries
– YouTube: Why zombie culture is so popular?
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ITS MILLER TIME. What’s up Dr walking dead? I won a free code to watch this from days of the dead. I thought it was decent. It was a fun teen zombie movie. The acting was so so, but not bad. The gore could of been better. There was a lot of slow motion action sequences that was bugging me! But I love the ideas they had and the twist! I would give it a 5.5 or 6 outta 10
Guh—why has slow motion become such a thing?! I think it’s a fun, at times silly film. A bit light on the horror, though, as you say. Thanks for listening!