Zombieland ( Part 1 )

After watching Zombieland (2009) which tells a story of Columbus trying to make his way to Ohio after a zombie apocalypse infected the world. On his journey, he teams up with Tallahassee, Wichita and Lil' Rock as he learns that although losing his family in Zombieland,  his gets a real family which actually is his friends as he battles together with his friends to survive in the world full of flesh eating zombies. The genre that are in the film are Horror, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Action and Roadfilm.

The Horror genre that is in the film is in the unnatural category, this means it is usually about ghosts. vampires, zombies, alien and so on. Unnatural category usually poses a threat to our normal life, it usually also means a threat that threatens the civilians. The threat is usually in forms like body mutations or creatures that can alter a normal human body. Moving on about the film, horror genre is used in the film here as unnatural category simply because the movie is about zombies. Zombies is not normal to our lives or civilization therefore it is considered as an external force, zombies also infect other people by turning them into zombies by using their bites or scratch, this also means zombies could alter a normal human body.

Besides from horror genre, comedy genre is also widely used in the film, the types of comedy used includes Slapstick, Dark comedy and Parody. Slapstick comedy is a style of comedy that involves exaggerated physical activity that  exceeds the boundaries of natural physical activity.  Slapstick comedy is used in the film. For instance, at the starting of the film, as Columbus talks to us about the set of rules he came up to keep himself alive, one of the rules was "Buckle your seat belts" where they showed the scene of the women speeding off from all the children that are infected as she bangs into a truck causing her to fly out of her windshield as skidding across the road with a trail of blood. Dark Comedy is comedy that makes humor out of serious or disturbing matter. Dark comedy is used in the film where they say the first people in the world of zombieland to go are the "Fatties", they even showed the scene where a fat person running across a field being chased by a zombie and lastly being eaten by it. Parody is a work that makes fun of the original work, Parody does not mean insulting the original work, but more of honoring the work by humor. Parody is used in the film where they are high on weed and reenacting Ghostbusters, they show whichita looking at the ceiling calling "Harry, harry is on the ceiling" while Tallahassee and Bill Murray running out with the vacuum cleaner trying to suck the ghost.  

Romance genre is basically about romance, which is love. Although this movie is about zombies, a love story exists between Columbus and Wichita. This could be seen in the end of the movie where Columbus gets his happy ending. This is shown in the scene where Columbus finally gets to save Wichita in Pacific Play-land from the zombies and she finally accepts him into her life by kissing and telling him her real name which is "Krista".