As I've said, zombie movies are my absolute favorites. I've sat through some really REALLY horrible movies if there are zombies involved. But it seems now the general public is gravitating toward the zombie craze and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Take the recent tragedy in Florida. No need for description or pictures, the details have been done to death by every rag, website, television news channels, etc. around the world. They called it the Zombie attack. Zombie attack. Why does an incident of extreme violence due to drugs constitute it being called a Zombie attack?
Because right now zombies are really popular. They're everywhere. People have become bored with sparkling vampires and mass murderers that never die. Zombie is the new 'in' thing. What George Romero pretty much single-handedly started in the sixties has exploded into a major franchise. They're in candy and car commercials. There is heavy duty zombie ammunition and zombie targets that bleed. You can buy zombie clothes, kitchen accessories, in fact if there's anything you can possibly make gory, it probably already exists.
They pop up on TV programs and movies even though those programs and movies aren't about zombies. Zombie movies are plentiful (not really good, but plentiful). The Walking Dead has become one of the most popular television series ever. And that could be a problem.
You see, a crazed person on drugs who violently attacks a man is not a 'zombie' in any sense of the word. In fact, after a week or so the news drones finally caught on to this and changed their stories to the 'Cannibal attack' - a description that wasn't really accurate either since no human flesh was found in the attacker's system.
You see, a crazed person on drugs who violently attacks a man is not a 'zombie' in any sense of the word. In fact, after a week or so the news drones finally caught on to this and changed their stories to the 'Cannibal attack' - a description that wasn't really accurate either since no human flesh was found in the attacker's system.
But the media latched on to this 'Zombie attack' and proceeded to blame everything zombie related for it. They blamed gun manufacturers for cashing in on the craze and making 'zombie' ammunition and targets. They blamed the movies. They blamed everything except what should have been blamed: drugs.
Zombie movies have been around for decades. And as for the zombie ammunition and targets - they were developed long before there were any reports of so-called 'zombie attacks.' I know. I checked into it to see what made it special. Other than the shell being a little more heavy duty than normal the main difference is the price. That's it.
It has been theorized that a 'Zombie Apocalypse' is merely a sort of metaphor for the possible breakdown of civilization, a mass contagion of some disease that decimates the populace, or just the cruddy state of the world. It is not a 'thing'. It is simply a fictional being just like every other evil fictional being thought up by creative minds to entertain. It is not to blame nor is it a reason for the current violence encompassing the world.
Zombies are fiction. Vampires are fiction. Monsters are fiction. World peace is fiction. We need to get over it.
It has been theorized that a 'Zombie Apocalypse' is merely a sort of metaphor for the possible breakdown of civilization, a mass contagion of some disease that decimates the populace, or just the cruddy state of the world. It is not a 'thing'. It is simply a fictional being just like every other evil fictional being thought up by creative minds to entertain. It is not to blame nor is it a reason for the current violence encompassing the world.
Zombies are fiction. Vampires are fiction. Monsters are fiction. World peace is fiction. We need to get over it.
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