What's with zombies

[Hunter of Shadows]

and people's obsession with them

[Elendra]

The previous generation raised a bunch of necrophiliacs

[guster746]

Have you ever heard of Humans v. Zombies?
My college plays it.

It's fantastic.

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http://trumanzombies.org/

[Squee]

I don't really like them, personally.

[guster746]

Oh and The Walking Dead is pretty good.

[♥Cordi♥]

I think Resident Evil and Walking Dead popularized them. I've been a fanatic ever since I saw night of the living dead 3 . I think everyone has a fantasy of shooting someone In the face.

[guster746]

I think Resident Evil and Walking Dead popularized them. I've been a fanatic ever since I saw night of the living dead 3 . I think everyone has a fantasy of shooting someone In the face.

Truth.

[Hunter of Shadows]

I don't really like them, personally.

Thank you so much >_<

[Squee]

Thank you so much >_<

You're welcome.

[PaladinFoster]

I think Resident Evil and Walking Dead popularized them. I've been a fanatic ever since I saw night of the living dead 3 . I think everyone has a fantasy of shooting someone In the face.

Zombies where popular even before videogames. They've been a huge element in Western horror ever since the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead. Zombies represent a brilliant form of horror, something universal that can scare the crap out of anyone. Your loved ones, people you know and are friends with, even ordinary strangers, things that are familiar and comforting to us, are morphed into horrifically unfeeling, uncaring, soulless beings that only know a simplistic drive, to kill. Zombies represent a kind of paranoid fear that has been with use for a while.

More recently, with films like Zombieland, games like Dead Rising, and series like The Walking Dead, zombies have come to represent an entirely different thing. At this time, zombies represent a desire for freedom and self-sufficiency. We as a culture have grown dissatisfied with the confines of society. We long again for the days of the "wild west", the times when we could do what we pleased without anything to fear but what other people might do if we harmed them. The idea of the zombie apocalypse appeals to us because it would bring back that kind of a culture. We could do whatever we wanted, so long as we could survive. Americans love it. We have a strange love affair with self-sufficiency dating back to our origins as a nation.