The uncanny is not only mysterious but also frightening, it is a psychological experience of what is often strangely familiar but also foreign. The word uncanny is used to describe things that are intriguing and frightening, and it is generally associated with fear.
Published in Chapter:
28 Weeks Later-28 Days Later: Downfall and Personal Apocalypse
Gülin Terek Ünal (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7864-6.ch010
Abstract
When the necromancy, which was a distinctive talent of gifted and powerful voodoo witch, transforms to a radioactive sprinkle or to a disease as common as a flu, the audience encounter zombies. Today, zombies reveal themselves in various forms of art, like literature, cartoons, comic strips, games, TV series, and movies. This topic provides researchers with a comprehensive study opportunity in main areas such as politics, religion, sociology, gender studies, and psychology. This study aims to examine zombies in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later films within the framework of topics such as ideology, surveillance society, military and war, ethical values, and family relations. In addition, another important issue to be addressed is the problem of what kind of results will hunger, which is one of the most basic human instinct, when combined with anger.