Zombie Children Floating in the Pipe
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impulsiveingenueRight now, I'm downloading Left 4 Dead 2 over Steam (yay, Mac people get love from Valve) and considering playing some more Dead Rising 2. This, of course, after a little bit of Unhallowed Metropolis, which I've been rereading bit by bit lately. I think at this point it is fair to say that I have something of an obsession with zombies.
I find this especially interesting because I am an enormous hypochondriac. I actually avoided the anime Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni for two years because someone described it to me as a biological disaster involving airborne super-rabies (surprise surprise, I finally watched it and it didn't freak me out nearly as much as I thought it would). The same thing happened, or near enough, in Quarantine (and, of course,REC - no true zombie aficionado could resist seeing the original), but I ran straight for the theater when Quarantine came out because it included the magic word: zombie.
It has historically been the case that if something involves zombies I am basically guaranteed to buy and/or see it at some point. As a result I have seen some pretty horrible movies and read some pretty horrible books. Gangs of the Dead springs to mind. It's unfortunate, but the zombie movie genre has pretty much degenerated into "Well, fuck, I dunno, let's have some people lurch around and try to eat other people." This is especially disappointing for me because I really enjoy the subtext of early Romero; specifically, that zombies were more a force of nature than an antagonist, and that other humans and human nature in general were the real enemy. Now, it's just "well hey dead cannibals sure why not."
It is getting to the point where I voluntarily pass on some zombie-driven media. And that's a little sad. I actually didn't see the latest Romero movie because basically everyone I talked to said it was a complete mess, and after seeing Diary of the Dead I could believe it. This from someone who seriously made plans with a co-worker about how to best defend our workplace in the event of a zombie outbreak.
I guess fans and fandoms change over time. But I still really like zombies.
I find this especially interesting because I am an enormous hypochondriac. I actually avoided the anime Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni for two years because someone described it to me as a biological disaster involving airborne super-rabies (surprise surprise, I finally watched it and it didn't freak me out nearly as much as I thought it would). The same thing happened, or near enough, in Quarantine (and, of course,REC - no true zombie aficionado could resist seeing the original), but I ran straight for the theater when Quarantine came out because it included the magic word: zombie.
It has historically been the case that if something involves zombies I am basically guaranteed to buy and/or see it at some point. As a result I have seen some pretty horrible movies and read some pretty horrible books. Gangs of the Dead springs to mind. It's unfortunate, but the zombie movie genre has pretty much degenerated into "Well, fuck, I dunno, let's have some people lurch around and try to eat other people." This is especially disappointing for me because I really enjoy the subtext of early Romero; specifically, that zombies were more a force of nature than an antagonist, and that other humans and human nature in general were the real enemy. Now, it's just "well hey dead cannibals sure why not."
It is getting to the point where I voluntarily pass on some zombie-driven media. And that's a little sad. I actually didn't see the latest Romero movie because basically everyone I talked to said it was a complete mess, and after seeing Diary of the Dead I could believe it. This from someone who seriously made plans with a co-worker about how to best defend our workplace in the event of a zombie outbreak.
I guess fans and fandoms change over time. But I still really like zombies.
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