Episode 22 - It's A No Brainer! Zombies in Pop Culture part 2

Episode 22 - It's A No Brainer! Zombies in Pop Culture part 2

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Our second and very much requested special on Zombies in Pop Culture!

In the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed that the souls of the dead could return to earth and haunt the living. The belief in revenants (someone who has returned from the dead) is well documented by contemporary European writers of the time, such as William of Newburgh and Walter Map. According to the Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were^[7], particularly in France during the Middle Ages, the revenant rises from the dead usually to avenge some crime committed against the entity, most likely a murder. The revenant usually took on the form of an emaciated corpse or skeletal human figure, and wandered around graveyards at night. The "draugr" of medieval Norse mythology were also believed to be the corpses of warriors returned from the dead to attack the living. The zombie appears in several other cultures worldwide, including China, Japan, the Pacific, India, and the Native Americans.

The Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Sumer includes a mention of zombies. Ishtar, in the fury of vengeance says:

Father give me the Bull of Heaven,
So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!

Episode 22 - Playlist

1- Naked Lunch Intro

2- Thriller sound byte

3- Sic Ric Intro

4- The Runabouts - The Strangeness

5- Shaun of the Dead sound byte

6- Evil Dead sound byte

7- Evil Dead review

8- Evil Dead sound byte

9- The Sparkles – Hipsville

10- Evil Dead 2 sound byte

11- The Frantics - Mr.Werewolf

12- Zombie films from the 90's

13- Return of the Living dead sound byte

14- The Cramps - Return of the Living Dead

15- Zombies in video games

16- Zombies in Asian cinema

17- Guitar Wolf – Satisfaction

18- DVD Talk

19- Beowulf sound byte

20- DVD talk

21- Murder Party sound byte

22- DVD talk

23- Asha Bhosle & Kisore Kumar - Typewriter, Tip, Tip, Tip

24- Planet Terror Sound byte

25- Zombies films from the past ten years

26- Shaun of the Dead sound byte

27- Zombies films from the past ten years

28- Shaun of the Dead sound byte

29- Smiths - Panic in the Streets of London

30- 28 Days Later review