What's with zombies

[Hunter of Shadows]

Zombieland is probably the only thing about zombies I don't dislike, that and Dead Space

[KuroTenshi]

I have a strange love affair with the zombie genre. On the one hand I've had too many nightmares about them, on the other hand I'm currently in an rp about zombies lol

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 humor, 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.

Pretty much this

[PaladinFoster]

Ack! I said humor instead of horror in the third sentence!

[Herzinth]

Ack! I said humor instead of horror in the third sentence!

Your post suddenly makes much more sense.

[aMARIKanIshtar]

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.

I... Wow, that's a great view on things.

[Clirkus]

and people's obsession with them

Because we live in a fallen world with sparkley vampires.

[Vena Sera IV]

^ That

When vampires sparkle it sort of loses that original "Dracula is going to eat your face" feel, no matter how much they may hiss and snarl like some saturated cat whose tail you may just have stepped on.

[Clirkus]

^ That

When vampires sparkle it sort of loses that original "Dracula is going to eat your face" feel, no matter how much they may hiss and snarl like some saturated cat whose tail you may just have stepped on.

I have something for you.

[Vena Sera IV]

Why does a gift from Clirkus concern me...?

[Clirkus]

Why does a gift from Clirkus concern me...?