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Recent Examples of zombiesThere’s something reassuring, if also terrible, about the inexhaustibility of zombies, and of content, and of zombie content.—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Written by Port and Wiseman, Eternally Yours is an eternal love story about two vampires, Liz (Edwards) and Charles (Weeks), who have been married for five hundred years, and their struggles to accept the human, Max (Lewison), who is dating their daughter, Emma (Shen).
Even a half-century later, the undead ghouls that descend upon survivors in a Pennsylvania farm house are timeless and the gut-punch ending couldn't be more timely.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
With Adam Roberts announcing the tempos on the baby grand piano, the ghouls in Tevye’s nightmare emerge from around the fourposter.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026