Almost daily, another low-budget or indie zombie flick shuffles up off the cutting room floor and goes to join it's innumerable brothers and sisters in crowding out the discount rack of video stores everywhere.
They've infiltrated Hollywood, through films like 'Shaun of the Dead,' 'Planet Terror,' and 'Zombieland'- and a quick check through IMDB reveals this is only the beginning of what will probably be a tidal wave of biblical proportions.
They've taken over literature as well, or at least, what passes for literature in the humour section. The runaway success of books like 'The Zombie Survival Guide' and 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' which is soon to be a major motion picture, has only began to manifest itself on the industry as a glut of copycats begin to go to press.
Not only that, but zombies have begun invading real life. Groups are hosting Zombie Walks in cities across the globe, and all sorts of other weird events are springing up, like week-long, admittedly AWESOME games of Zombie-Tag played at college campuses.So, given the title of this particular piece, it's my guess that you're here because you see all this going and are feeling a bit left out. Perhaps your son or daughter was saying something like "OMG ZOMBIES ARE TEH COOLEST!1!1" and you had no idea what that meant, and thought they were on drugs. Perhaps you were totally macking on this chick at the bar, and then you missed her Evil Dead reference and she dropped you like a rabid koala. Perhaps, you just woke up one day and realized popular culture had passed you by, and you were getting dangerously old and out-of-touch.
Who knows? All that matters now, is that you're here, and I'm going to do my damnedest to make this whole zombie thing easy, and easily palatable, for you.Why, you ask, does any of this matter?
Well, it doesn't really. But zombie movies are a lot of fun. They can have a creative, manic energy. They appeal to those of us with apocalyptic or murderess urges, but who don't actually want to kill another human being. More seriously, they frequently can be used as a device to show us about cultural attitudes towards death, towards disaster, and towards the things we fear and the things that lurk beneath the service of society.
THEY ALSO EAT PEOPLE!
Spend a few minutes on this site, and we'll help steer you from your poor, deprived, undead virginity, into a new and glorious world of bad makeup, bad acting, and flesh eating monsters.
Here are some links to get us started:
Here are some links to get us started:
