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The zombie thing seems to be all the rage these days, and so Slash Film does well to remind us that

One of the greatest horror films in the history of cinema already blends a literary classic with Zombie lore. If you haven’t yet seen I Walked With a Zombie, order it right now - indeed, I’d recommend you just go the whole hog and nab the entire Val Lewton collection.
I Walked With a Zombie relocates the plot and structure of Jane Eyre to a Caribbean plantation and inserts a dash of pre-Romero voodoo-style zombism. Jacques Tourneur’s incredible sense of atmosphere and tone ensures a completely engrossing, utterly compelling experience that ranks amongst the most poetic of classic horror pictures. (Brendon Connelly)

Digital Spy carries on with the zombies but either we took what The Times reported a few days ago too lightly or they have taken it too seriously:

Hollywood talent agencies are also looking to make furthur [sic] "monster-lit" movies, including a version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights with a ghost story twist. (Simon Reynolds)

What do you think - is it true or is it a joke?

The good thing about the zombies is that so far they have been taking up the space that the usual run-up to Valentine's Day has had previous years. Still, some mentions still seep in, as in today's Santa Monica Daily Press:

Along comes high school with the joys of puberty and hormones raging, and what do the teachers have us read? "Romeo and Juliet," "Wuthering Heights," and love sonnets. We spend this most impressionable period in our life, that time of rebellion and angst, when everything our parents did was wrong, when we weren't going to be like them, when we were better and smarter than they were — we spent this time, learning all about romantic love, from poets and dreamers.
It's wonderful. We fall in love with the idea of love. We crave that enduring love of Heathcliff, and the burning lust of Pan. This schoolhouse idealism is what most of us take into the world as we enter our 20s. (David Pisarra)

And it looks like the condensed summaries of the classics are also in vogue. Yesterday we posted about The Mirror discovering Book-a-minute and today Change of Subject, a Chicago Tribune blog, brings to our attention TwitterNovels, a Twitter thread started by Peter Sagal where people summarise classic works of literature in 140 characters or less. Wuthering Heights doesn't seem to be there yet, but Jane Eyre sure is in several variations:

Plain girl takes up with a posh man after a harsh childhood. Only life is still harsh cos she has to look after man (Nynyflower)
I'm plain Jane. You love me? Let us marry. Crazy wife? Oh, well. Let us share this manna from heaven. (kweenie)
Abused child grows up to narrowly escape marrying husband of madwoman. Then, reader, she marries him. (mandahill)
Why is everyone hatin' on me? I'll come back when the crazy beotch is dead. (J_E_Smedley)

Let's take a look at the blogs to continue with the Web 2.0 section. It's not a good day for Wuthering Heights as it makes it to number 2 on Listverse's Top 10 Most Overrated Novels and Relateable Me is not enjoying it either. On the other hand, ikinehir writes positively about it in Turkish. The Musings of MissFifi discusses adaptations of Brontë novels.

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