WHY WON'T ZOMBIES JUST DIE?

The zombie craze is much like the zombies themselves:

Just when you think they’re finished, 

they get up again and shamble towards you moving faster.

Even Victor Standish deals with zombies in the beginning of CARNIVAL OF THE DAMNED.


In Danny Boyle’s 2002 hit 28 Days Later the mindless cannibals weren’t called zombies 

− they were simply ‘the infected’ − 

but they were close enough to remind the film industry that there was money to be made.


 By the time Brad Pitt’s World War Z was released, it seemed it was several years late to the party. 

Surely there was nothing new to be said about the undead? 

 Instead, it went on to rake in $540m, making it one of 2013’s ten biggest blockbusters.


In The Walking Dead, the rule of law ceases to exist. 

Humanity’s last survivors are forced to forage for food in a dystopian desert, 

while trying to avoid becoming food themselves.


 It can’t be a coincidence, then, that zombies are in vogue during a period 

when banks are failing, when climate change is playing havoc with weather patterns, 

and when both terrorist bombers and global corporations seem to be beyond the reach of any country’s jurisdiction.

Stephen King says 

that zombies represent the terrorist in modern parables.  

Just like zombies, terrorists cannot be reasoned with or threatened -- they can only be killed.

 Zombie stories give people the opportunity to witness the end of the world they’ve been secretly wondering about 

while, at the same time, allowing themselves to sleep at night because the catalyst of that end is fictional.

 Zombies embody the great contemporary fear 

 that we’ll soon be surrounded by ravenous strangers, with only a shotgun to defend ourselves. 

Compared to that, facing a werewolf or a vampire is a breeze.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Midnight keeps curled up by the autographed
poster of IRON MAN 2

Now I know why: