Newcastle Brown Ale Using Dawn of the Dead Music?

This is apropos of nothing, it's just that whenever this commercial comes on, I think of zombie mall shoppers, banging into glass windows and cruising on escalators! Can that possibly be what they expected?

Any horror fan worth their salt immediately knows that music. It's Herbert Chappell's 1965 composition "The Gonk," from George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), the first (and best) sequel to Night of the Living Dead. Listen:

Anyway, if you like zombies, and you haven't ever seen the original Dawn, buy it now. Hey, maybe pick up some Newcastle Brown Ale while you're at it!

Blast from the Post: Night of the Living Zombies!

While watching the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead season 3, I was so taken with zombies, I thought it should be this weeks edition of Blast from the Past. It might also have something to do with spending part of my afternoon reading Deadline by Mira Grant, part two in the Newsflesh trilogy of zombie novels. Yeah, that's how I roll.

So, without further ado, here are some choice video zombie nuggets, from the sixties to today. Nomnomnom!

And that pretty much brings us up to date! There are, of course, other examples of the zombie genre (and some would exclude 28 Days Later), but these are the high points--and a few low ones!

Happy Monday, everyone, have a great week!