@ajroach42 I found it really difficult to get through, but that might be the fact that I waited until the end of a month of much more modern movies in general with something a little bit outside of my usual consumer scope.

I found most of the characters personalities to be essentially identical, and very boxed in by the era that they were written. Pretty much none of the feminine characters had anything outstanding or interesting about them that I would call memorable besides the catatonia of barbara.

The masculine characters spent as much time chest thumping and shouting at each other as they did failing to make a decision. The zombies themselves, being cast pretty much entirely from what I can tell to be totally normal people, we're highlight and I found it really curious that they weren't truly zombies but more like violence and stupidity emerged into one? Like they're smart enough to use tools, smart enough to pay attention to their environment for the most part, and guided by violent impulse and designer to consume flesh, but ultimately they don't seem mindless. Typical examples in the genre are animated dead, whereas these seem more like reduced sentience ravagers.

The audio I commented on elsewhere and that pretty much sums up my feelings about that.

I think the high point for me was actually the newscasts, the rapidity at which a "normal" was found in how to address the animate dead was all too familiar to an adult living in 2026 LOL. It just became a curiosity that you would have to go from house to house to house and blow the brains out of anyone vaguely zombie without really thinking about a different solution. I also liked that the newscasts and radio broadcasts and everything felt authentic for the time. Like this looks to have been taking place in which I'm thinking is 50s 60s, not as far back as the 30s or 40s but like part of the civil Rights era.