Horror you have a Special Relationship with Locations. OFTEN, MONSTERS ARE AS ICONIC AS THE PLACES THE WREAK HAVOC IN. IN FACT, they can be inseparable from the terrs they house. For The Exorcist It’s the Long Steps Right Next to the Macneil’s House in Georgetown. For Friday the 13th IT’s Camp Crystal Lake. The you have dracula’s castle, One of the First Ionic Horror Locations in the Field. And the list goes on, wildly branching out to include the house on 112 ocean avenue in amityville, new york, made infamous by The Amityville Horrorand the Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland, where three studnts were killed by a malicious witch in the Found Fotage Classic The Blair Witch Project.
What’s Special About Tohe Locations is that you can visit them (Within Reason, To Avoid Being Charged With TresPassing in Sub Subs Cases). They can inspire horror tourism. People Can Hop in A Car, Make A Trip Out of It, and Walk Around The Same Places Master FilmMakers Settled On To To Bring Their NightMares To Life.
For Som George Romero‘S 1978 Classic Dawn of the Dead. It’s One of the Most Potnt Symbols in Horror, to Reminder of Humanity’s Attachment to Materialism and the Cannibalistic Nature of the Capitalist Values It Represe. And Now, It’s Owned by Walmart.
Under $ 34 million was all it took for the giant retail corporation to purchase the mall, which they’lll co-manage with cypress equities according to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. WALMART TOLD THE NEWS OUTLET THAT THE INTEND TO “RE-IMAGINE MONROEVILLE MALL INTO A NEW RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL DESTINATION,” Prioritizing “Retail and Entertainment, Restaurants, Residential, Hospitality, Office and Public Spaces.”
The Purchase Took Place On February 4th Of this year, on George Romero’s Birthday. WHILE SOM MIGHT SEE THIS AS A BAD OMEN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE Mall, I see it as Further Confirmation of the Film’s Biting Social Criticism. Like the Zombies in Dawn Suggest, Money Returns to the Places it had already flourished in When it has now to go. Problem is, IT Comes Back with an eye for blanket change, Showing Little to No Respect for The Things That Were There Before. The Location’s History is Dysregarded, With Promises of A Bright Future Overriding Every Othher Consideration. In This Case, We Stand to Lose A Place of Cultural Importance.
The Monroeville Mall Has Embraged ITS STATUS AS A horror Spot It has a Living Dead Museum and Gift Shop That Opens From Thursday to Monday That Features Prom and Memorabilia From All Corners of Zombiedom. They’re part of a Themed Attraction That Chronicles The History of Zombies in Cinema and Pop Culture. Additionionally, The Mall you have hosted a Slew of Zombie Events Throunge the Years, Tinuding Zombie Walks (under the name “Walk of the Dead”) and Festivals. IT Goes Hand in Hand With The Area’s “Living Dead Weekend” Celebration, Which Features Screenings of Romero’s Classics, Guest Signings and Panels, and Special Events Organized by The Museum.
What’s Walmart’s Plans May Be, Let’s Hope They Include The Preservation of Zombie History. This isn’t just a film location you can visit for the fun of it. The Mall you have gone lengths to honor the workro Did there, and then sub. It Still Proudly Displays iS love and dedication for Dead Culture and Continues to Build Upon It, Leading to the Creation of A Vry Special and Unique Community. We can kle that.
This might sound a bit This might offer Protections that could safeguard its existence and even highlight the community AROUNe it. So, Let’s Keep An Eye On This. If This Beloved Horror Destination Falls Victim to An Even Hungrier Version of the Kind of Capitalism The Place Already Represents (The Irony Is Not Lost On Me), The Might Mean That The Next March for Survival. We Already Know Zombies Can Takeover Whenever They Want. And If Romero’s Films have tought us Anything, It’s That The Dead Always Get In.
