2001, UK

Expanding on the themes and social-realist aesthetic of his debut feature I, Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain, Parkinson's sophomore feature is, on the surface, a story about a group of female zombie-cannibals in London who are being hunted by an unidentified man with a rather nasty impalement weapon.

London doesn't seem to be overrun with zombies - although radio news reports are audible at times, debating vague issues relating to genetic experimentation and environmental hazards - so this is far from a zombie apocalypse film.

While Britain is depicted as desolate and in ruins, it is in fact filmed just as it is - which is telling when we consider our preconceived notions of what constitutes an 'apocalypse'.

All of these women were, at one time or another, normal living humans.

As they in turn found themselves alone, disoriented and ravenously hungry after a zombie attack, they were taken in by Ali, who formed a loose-knit group with new 'rules' of moral and safety conduct to keep them all alive and healthy for as long as possible before decay inevitably sets in.

At the opening of the film, Ali herself is on the verge of death, unable to walk or feed herself, her flesh rotting off.

The other girls cater to her with affection and patience - they know it could be their turn next.

They try to remember what their lives used to be like before they had to unlearn the rules of socialization (i.e. that eating people is wrong).

“Memories are important", says Ann (Antonia Beamish), "They keep things in perspective. Make things straight."

There are many gruesome, stomach-turning scenes of these everyday zombies devouring raw flesh from distinctly human carcasses, but through its many domestic conversations - the film takes place mostly in a series of small apartments - the film is instead revealed as a study of the bond that could develop between women in a crisis situation.

Cut off from their families, they try to persevere and to maintain hope despite a daily regimen that consists of seducing food sources through prostitution and murder, watching TV talk shows, decorating and re-decorating as apartments change, and being on the lookout for the strange self-appointed zombie-hunter who stalks them.

They maintain their daily ablutions - "wishful make-uping" - and are able to pass for human, but they are rotting away inside (foul breath and bloody urine among the signs of encroaching decrepitude).

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Dead Creatures on Chile Beaches

THOUSANDS OF TONS OF DEAD CREATURES HIT CHILE’S BEACHES

SOURCE: TELESUR

At the start of this year, an estimated 40,000 tons of salmon and some 8,000 tons of sardines washed up the Chilean coast as a result of El Niño.

Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Niño freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile’s Pacific beaches in recent months.

At the start of this year, a surge in algae in the water choked to death an estimated 40,000 tons of salmon in the Los Lagos region, where the Andes tower over lakes and green farming valleys down to the coast.

That is about 12 percent of annual salmon production in Chile, the world’s second-biggest producer of the fish after Norway.

This month, some 8,000 tons of sardines were washed up at the mouth of the Queule river. And thousands of dead clams piled up on the coast of Chiloe Island.

On the shores of Santa Maria Island off the center off Chile’s long coast, cuttlefish have been washed up dead in the thousands.

Scientists largely blame the anomalies on El Nino, a disruptive weather phenomenon that comes with warming sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific.

Chiles has 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) of Pacific coastline making it highly vulnerable to El Nino.

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