The present paper discusses dystopia in the genre of horror on the basis of George A. Romero’s zombie fi lms.Dystopia seems to be inextricably linked with the vision of the world in which the very structure of the societyhas been destroyed along with moral codes and the only remaining thing is the will to survive. In the LivingDead Trilogy Romero skilfully used the zombie apocalypse motif to portray both vices as virtues characteristicto American way of life. Moreover, in his motion pictures, he envisages what may be the implications of possibledystopias arising from the ashes of destroyed human civilisation and, thus, gives the audiences, and thecritics, an incredible resource for interpretation and further analysis.The methodology involves the paradigmatic analysis of the plots in order to show how the motif of zombieapocalypse is used to explore the notion of dystopia. Moreover, the mentioned analysis will also cover explicit,implicit and symptomatic meaning created by the analyzed films.
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