Every genre, sub-genre, and micro-genre eventually exhausts itself. But genres typically don't end; they expand, they evolve, and adapt, drawing on new ideas from outside the genre, mixing elements from other genres, and ultimately resurrect themselves, reborn on the ashes of the old. Someone, somewhere, is thinking far too much about the current state of the undead sub-genre. Fresh, bold, new ideas are what the exhausted zombie/undead sub-genre desperately needs. Instead, longtime fans of the sub-genre George Romero reinvented in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead have been subjected to the never-ending Walking Dead spin-offs and the occasional standalone straight-to-streaming, straight-to-the-memory-hole entry made on a micro-budget and D-level actors. Writer-director Lowell Dean (the Wolf Cop series) provides more than a few in his latest...

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