cheezydemon3
Well-Known Member
What is the appeal of these rotting, cannibalistic adversaries?
In video games such as resident evil, the appeal was obvious. In the days before people stopped giving a rat's ass about violence in games, you could blow away these humanoid adversaries and not only were you not a mass murderer, you were performing a valuable public service.
In movies, they present several risks.
You could:
Be infected
Be eaten
Be trapped with no escape
Be trapped with no escape by a loved one who first infects you , then eats you.
You get it.
The whole apocalyptic survival thing has it's own bent appeal. It has been done successfully with disease, aliens, environmental factors, etc. other than zombies.
Are they a perfect storm?
The old zombies also had the psychological appeal that the old mummy had.
They were slower than you, but they never stopped.
Of course, in our MORE is BETTERsociety, zombies are world class sprinters and mummies are the ********* from Titanic.
My conclusion?
EVERYTHING IS COOLER WITH ZOMBIES.
God DAMMIT I love halloween.
In video games such as resident evil, the appeal was obvious. In the days before people stopped giving a rat's ass about violence in games, you could blow away these humanoid adversaries and not only were you not a mass murderer, you were performing a valuable public service.
In movies, they present several risks.
You could:
Be infected
Be eaten
Be trapped with no escape
Be trapped with no escape by a loved one who first infects you , then eats you.
You get it.
The whole apocalyptic survival thing has it's own bent appeal. It has been done successfully with disease, aliens, environmental factors, etc. other than zombies.
Are they a perfect storm?
The old zombies also had the psychological appeal that the old mummy had.
They were slower than you, but they never stopped.
Of course, in our MORE is BETTERsociety, zombies are world class sprinters and mummies are the ********* from Titanic.
My conclusion?
EVERYTHING IS COOLER WITH ZOMBIES.
God DAMMIT I love halloween.