Question: What's the longest film title ever? I know Dr. Strangelove, Marat/Sade and one of the Planet of the Apes films must rank up there!Answer: As my regular readers know, I'm always leery about superlatives — "first," "most," what have you — for a variety of reasons. Most people cite Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991) as the longest English-language title of all time, but it's clearly a gimmicky joke — the movie it's attached to is actually Night of the Living Dead (1968) with new, "comic" dialogue à la Blobermouth (1991). So I'd rather go with real movies whose titles are at least nominally straight-faced (note that I did say "nominally"), like The Persecution and Assassination
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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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