Do you ever wonder how zombies became so played out? Or why blockbusters have to be 'dark and gritty' these days? Or why you can't shake that overwhelming feeling of exhaustion and nihilism when you watch a Zack Snyder movie? Dreaming in Neon has the answers.

This is a story about a bad film director, and the very bad ideas their movies are spreading. (Parts of this essay were greatly inspired by Christian Thorne's piece "The Running of the Dead": https://sites.williams.edu/cthorne/ar...)

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