Day 10 of October Horror Month: The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman

The reason the comic book THE WALKING DEAD scores here as horror is that the world is infected/infested with zombies. However, Robert Kirkman's work is far greater than the greatest result that such a scenario can offer. His characters are real, suffering from a disaster of epic scale, and the catastrophe he writes about can be seen because rather than writing about heroes, he writes about real people facing horror.

It is soon to be on television screens everywhere.

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Day 8 of October Horror Month: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Truly, if there was a movie that started a trend in how any creature of the night was portrayed, it was with the depiction of zombies of Night of the Living Dead by George Romero. Rather than any other portrayal these were relentless, if slow, mindless, if hungry beings who desired to eat only one thing, your brains. But, Romero made his story to have context, and some social commentary as well. As such, while clearly not a well funded project, it was a distinct, powerful movie. Go watch it, and have a person with you who is really smart so that if you hunger for brains, you won't starve.

Oh, and, however fine version you can find out there, it is a public domain work, so you can probably find and watch it for very little money. Very very little.