From CHUD, American Zombie is the latest in a trend of zombie films that attempt to recontextualize and tinker with the meaning and the iconography of the ghoul. It's sort of what was happening with the vampire for the last twenty years, where filmmakers would play with bits and pieces of the mythology of the vamp to make new statements. It would take a real commitment to see every zombie movie made - IMDB lists over 100 for the last two years alone - but the vast majority of zombie films seem happy to leave the basics of the undead alone and instead tinker with things like setting and speed. In American Zombie the living dead (or revenants, as they're officially called) aren't the mindless flesh eaters that we know - they're regular people, just like us, who happen to have acquired a virus that re-animated them upon death. Very slowly decomposing, the zombies try to live lives as normal as possible in a world that won't let them get credit cards, get married or have a license.
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