I write this review out of duty to my fellow zombie aficionados. If you are seeking a comprehensive work on zombies in film, and their deeper significance, you should feel free to ignore this book entirely. It fails on a number of levels. First, its not about zombies at all! The scope of this book is far too wide yet simultaneously far too narrow. The author regards a "zombie" as any reanimated lifeless thing, and spends most of the book prattling on about vampires, mummies, and even possessed vent dummies! However, only a few pages are devoted to zombie films, most of these are concerned with old school voodoo zombie films (I.e., Lugosi's White Zombie) The author only mentions Romero's masterful work once, and he disses it! "Why this last film (Night of the Living Dead) became something of an underground cult classic remains as much of a mystery as the actual alien influence controlling the Living Dead. Ghoulish and grisly the film may be, but its wooden-looking undead made Lugosi at his most somnolent look like Nijinsky." (Did I mention he really hates Bela Lugosi?) You should note, this is not an illustrative quote, this is his entire mention of modern zombies on film! As you might tell from this blurb, his writing style is both pedantic and oddly glib, not to mention amateurishly brief and poorly detailed. In fact this exceedingly slim book is mostly taken up by huge publicity stills. The actual text might qualify as a short college essay, but certainly not a scholarly reference work. In fact, the writing is so simplistic that if it weren't for a few salacious topless photos (grainy things, in B&W, so don’t get too interested!), and a handful of snobbishly obscure references, this book would be more suited for the young adult non-fiction section (ala Daniel Cohen's children's books concerning film monsters), rather than being considered as a work of adult reference. A few interesting photos, particularly of some ancient gnarled mummies in an old Mexican catacomb, but that's about it.