When Brad Pitt, as a producer-star, tackled the sprawling movie adaptation of Max Brooks’ zombie novel World War Z, there was a lot of talk about the zombie genre having reached its apex, and possibly being tapped out. On the other end of the budgetary spectrum, though, is something like debut director Alex Craig Mann’s Detention of the Dead, which shows that zombie movies are, pardon the pun, unlikely to die off anytime soon. I recently had a chance to talk to Mann one-on-one, about his film, his background and his ambitions. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.