Before the 1980s, the zombie genre was very black and white in its content. It was horror, and nothing more than that. Luckily, after The Return of the Living Dead was released, this film managed to show a new face to the world of zombies by proving it isn't too hard to make a joke out of the undead. ParaNorman manages to take that lead and bring a new level once again to the zombie genre. In this case, making zombies "kid-friendly".
