Models of Death

Re “The Zombie Movie That Won’t Die” by Bill Steigerwald, Aug. 5: I was appalled to read that in order to “get the correct recently dead look” Everett Burrell and John Vulich, owners of a special-effects and makeup company, “studied footage from World War II Nazi death camps (because) . . . they were the closest thing to the living dead.”

Normal people react with shock, outrage, fear, revulsion, horror, profound sadness, terror and grief when they see the evidence of the Nazi evil. Burrell and Vulich, with their cynical and greedy exploitation of “splatter-film” fans, have conditioned themselves to be insensitive to monumental cruelty and pain. To get the true picture of the living dead, they should turn the camera on themselves.

LINDA Z. KNAB

San Pedro