I thought it was a fascinating concept how Perry Kelvin repeatedly shows up in R's thoughts. By consuming his brain, does R actually infuse his thoughts with those of Perry's? Or is it simply his imagination? On page 122, he hears a collective voice of all the people he consumed: "We tried to make a beautiful world here" (Marion). Is he hearing these voices because, again, he consumed them, or are these voices made out of his own personal thoughts––what he thinks they'd say? Marion includes many twists into his book that many typical zombie fiction stories do not have, simply because there lacks a reputable number of fiction that presents the zombie's perspective.
In regards to the film we watched in class, The Cabin in the Woods, it starts out with a group of characters that are manipulated into cliches we are all familiar with. The plot line doesn't follow a typical horror movie's (for everything is controlled and operated by a secret government program to satisfy ancient gods––who thinks of that?), but the characters remain the same. There is the jock, intelligent and insensitive, who the government turns into the "alpha male." His girlfriend, a sensual blonde, lets loose her wild side when the agents let loose a certain hormone in the air for her to breathe in. There is the virgin, new to everything, and the stoner who smokes weed all day and has deep thoughts. I feel the way the director/screenwriter allowed these characters to turn into very stereotypical cliche characters in normal horror movies adds another distinct quality to The Cabin in the Woods.
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