Thursday, July 5, 2012

Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304708604577505210356532588.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop


An actual zombie apocalypse is ‘frightening,’ says  ‘Walking Dead’ producer Gale Ann Hurd 

Reports of cannibal attacks are scary, says series executive, but a show about the undead running rampant on Earth is as timely as ever

"All the news reports about the so-called real-life zombie apocalypse — a spate of gruesome cannibalistic attacks, including one that left a homeless man in Miami with most of his face bitten off – have been creeping out the makers of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

“It’s frightening,” says executive producer Gale Ann Hurd. “My Twitter Timeline people, every time there is one [of those stories], someone sends me a link that is very disturbing.”

Disturbing or not, the time has never been riper for the sight of a good old-fashioned horde of decaying bodies shambling down the side of a highway."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/actual-zombie-apocalypse-frightening-walking-dead-producer-gale-ann-hurd-article-1.1107081#ixzz1zknFxC1c

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