BBC Films is developing a revival of Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre and has attached Ellen Page to front the period piecePage Oscar-nominated for her turn in Juno next can be seen in the roller-derby comedy Whip It and the dramatic thriller PeacockWhats your take Think the utterly contemporary teen can fit into Brontes world MWMMore Movie Newsbull Christmas Spirit Frank Millers Latest Arrives Early149 Jonas Brothers Concert Pic Goes 3-D149 Redstone Wont Keep Cruise from Fourth Mission149 WATCH VIDEO The New Dark Knight Trailer
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Question: I saw a movie in my horror-film class that was filmed in the '30s or '40s. It took place on an island, and I think there were zombies and voodoo. It was really good. Do you by any chance know what it might have been?
Answer: I have two suggestions, one from the '30s and one from the '40s. Zombie movies were actually relatively uncommon until the '70s. George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) reconceived the walking dead, with a heavy dose of inspiration from Richard Matheson's novella I Am Legend, which was filmed first as The Last Man on Earth (1964) and subsequently as The Omega Man (1971). Romero's zombies are sort of rotting lan
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