“Zombi 2” was released in 1979 and it wasn’t long before it gained a huge reputation as a new classic of horror and gave worldwide recognition to director Lucio Fulci’s career. It also established him as a horror master after a long series of successful works in the Giallo sub-genre. While it was named by the studios as “Zombi 2” in an attempt to tie it to George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” (which had a tremendous success in Europe titled as “Zombi”); “Zombi 2” was written Elisa Briganti and Dardano Sacchetti and has no relation to Romero’s series other than the fact that they were based on the undead. - scumcinema
On this day, 30 October 1831, the previously-enslaved rebel leader Nat Turner was captured in Virginia. Two months prior, Turner and six other enslaved men owned by the Travis-Moore family in Southampton County began a rebellion, killing the family while they slept. They proceeded to go from house-to-house, killing slaveowners, taking horses and recruiting more rebel fighters. Eventually white authorities sent in armed militia as well as state and federal troops and succeeded in suppressing the uprising, but Turner escaped and went into hiding. After his arrest, Turner was tried, convicted, hanged and skinned. 54 other Black people were also executed, and up to 200 others murdered by white mobs in revenge attacks. However, other white people in the state began to advocate abolishing slavery, or repatriating all enslaved and free African Americans to Liberia. In 1832 public pressure forced an abolitionist bill to be considered by the Virginia state legislature but it failed to get enough votes to pass, and instead harsh repressive laws were passed against free and enslaved Black people to limit their rights to associate and learn to read to try to prevent future rebellions. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1250291788489302/?type=3
An Anon sent me a challenge to gif every film referenced in the Treehouse of Horror XXIV couchgag directed by Guillermo Del Toro and today it will be done!
I know, I know…Halloween was forever ago and the plan was to complete it and post it then, but we all run into bad luck so I had to postpone it. And all of today will be dedicated to this masterpiece
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