"I'm thinking zombies, you know, ghouls — the undead," says Driver, rolling up to the crime scene in a red convertible Smart car .
As the outbreak begins to spread, the town's visiting mortician, Zelda, a samurai sword-wielding albino Scot played by — who else — Tilda Swinton, seems suspiciously well-prepared for the invasion. Zelda is fond of making up her straight-faced clients as Leigh Bowery performance pieces, and typing via a glowing-green matrix computer screen, like some half-human anime character from Ghost in the Shell.
Refreshingly, Jarmusch has skewed his movie toward an old-school zombie flavour, less The Walking Dead than I Walked With A Zombie, with a deliberate embrace of George Romero — in particular 1978's Dawn of the Dead, with its lumbering ghouls an enduring metaphor for unchecked consumerism.
Should have been a classic, it really wasn't.
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