When “Dawn” was remade, in 2004, the Times called the unimaginative update “a cautionary tale for those dying to shop.”Ī shopping mall also features prominently in “ Severance” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Ling Ma’s zombie apocalypse of a début, which was published in August, won the Kirkus Prize for fiction in October, and has begun to pop up, as the year nears its end, on various best-of-2018 lists. This was an important place in their lives.” Romero’s satire, like the violence in his movies, could be blunt. When a still-living character asks, bewildered, “What are they doing? Why do they come here?” another answers, “Instinct, memory of what they used to do. At the mall, the creatures-stiff, as always, with frozen expressions-resemble the mannequins that surround them. Romero had more or less invented the modern zombie a decade before, in “Night of the Living Dead,” set mostly at a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. There is a scene early on in George Romero’s horror classic “Dawn of the Dead,” from 1978, in which a great tide of zombies converges on a once sacred American institution: the shopping mall.
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