Gross: How to survive the zombie trend
Posted: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 6:56 pm, Thu Jan 17, 2013.
A pop culture trend that has been taking over all forms of media lately is that of the apocalypse. Even though the end of the world prophesied by the Mayan calendar did not occur, society remains obsessed with the concept. Many movies, novels, and video games depict a devastated and ruined world brought about by aliens, biological or nuclear warfare, zombies or some other strange plot device. However, in the last decade, zombies have been the prevailing theme.
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The undead fit nicely in their small cultural niche when they were found only in horror films And, even when zombies first became common in other forms of media, it was pleasantly refreshing. For example, when the film “Shaun of the Dead” was released in 2004, its comedic view of an undead uprising was warmly received. The book “World War Z” by Max Brooks also dismissed previous boundaries of the living dead genre. As a fictional collection of narratives (in the style of Studs Terkel’s oral histories) about a post-apocalyptic world, the book was innovative and wildly successful.
From that point on, it seemed that the zombie movement was unstoppable. Every other book in stores and movie in theaters was filled with stumbling, rotting, risen corpses. Many people laughed incredulously when novels like “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” hit shelves. Though some have loyally stood by the genre through all its twists and turns, most people seem ready to abandon it completely. However, if you simply recognize that two or three books, video games, or movies are worthwhile and ignore the rest, the living dead genre retains its value.
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