Zombie Strains – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Opening Weekend Box Office, March 19, 2014

2004 Box Office

Dawn of the Dead Box Office

Top grossing horror films of 2004

New York Times review

Roger Ebert review

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The Girl with All the Gifts (2017)

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 • Duration 01:01:49

It’s Andy’s turn to present his baseline zombie film. His choice, The Girl with All the Gifts (2017), is strikingly different than John’s. Fast zombies? Check. Fast transmission? Check. Hordes of children who turn into zombies at the scent of humans? That’s new! Andy and John discuss this thought-provoking movie as they take another step on their zombie journey.

US Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 2017

Box Office for February 24, 2017

The Girl with All the Gifts Box Office

Top grossing horror films of 2017

New York Times Review

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Dan Ackroyd cites The Ghost Breakers as inspiration.

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The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Season 1 · Episode 7

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 • Duration 01:11:47

We have a new Strain of zombie movie! Our first zombie comedy, starring Bob Hope(!?), Paulette Goddard, and Willie Best. Released in 1940, it is one of the first horror comedies. Dan Akroyd even cites it as a huge influence on Ghostbusters! Join Andy and John in the lab to analyze all of these new zombie developments. Producer Brad tells the tale of how he met Bob Hope decades ago. Don’t miss it!

US Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1942

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Top Grossing films of 1940

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Dean Jagger in Game of Death

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Revolt of the Zombies (1936)

Season 1 · Episode 6

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 • Duration 01:15:34

Revolt of the Zombies (1936) is our fourth and final zombie film from the 1930s. Set in Cambodia during World War I, it was intended to be a sequel to White Zombie (1932). It trades Haitian voodoo zombies for ancient Asian zombies. It starts off with a collection of generals fearful that zombies will disrupt the balance of world power. In the end, this is another love story about a boy, standing in front a girl, asking her to love him, and using his zombie powers to make it come true.

US Theatrical Release Date: June 4, 1936

1947 Re-release Poster

AFI Archives

Movies released in 1936

Tere Shimado as Osato

History of Yamashiro restaurant

Rhodes, Gary D. White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film. McFarland, 2006

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Link to view restored version with discussion hosted by UCLA.

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Ouanga (1936)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 • Duration 56:11

After watching Maniac (1934), John and Andy are praying that the next zombie movie on their list, Ouanga (1936), is a return to the horror movies they love. What looked like another run-of-the-mill “voodoo” zombie movie contained an unexpectedly amazing performance. What other secrets does Ouanga hold?! Listen on your podcast app!

US Theatrical Release Date: 1942

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Maniac (1934)

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 • Duration 01:14:38

John and Andy take an unexpected turn on their zombie journey and stumble into Maniac (1934), an early exploitation flick. The film’s poster promises “dynamic sex lectures” and “strange loves exposed”, but the movie delivers mad scientists, murder, a cat named Satan and maybe one zombie.

US Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1934

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White Zombie (1932)

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 • Duration 01:06:11

John and Andy go back 93 years to the dawn of zombie films to watch White Zombie (1932), the very first zombie movie. Horror movie legend Bela Lugosi stars as a sinister zombie master, just one year after he terrified audiences as Dracula. What connections to modern zombie strains will John and Andy find?

US Theatrical Release Date: August 4, 1932

AFI Archive

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Ritual (2002)

Season 1 · Episode 13

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 • Duration 01:29:20

After the cinematic high of I Walked with a Zombie it was inevitable that the pendulum would swing in the opposite direction. Specifically in the direction of 2002's Ritual, a loose remake of I Walked with a Zombie that stars Tim Curry, Jennifer Grey, and... the Crypt Keeper. How do the nuanced themes of the 1943 original interact with the salacious direct-to-DVD horror of this Tales from the Crypt production? Your intrepid zombie reporters John, Andy, and Brad are on the scene.

US Home theater release date: May 2, 2006

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2002 US box office

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