Are you tired of zombies in fiction?

[Whiskey Tango]

As per the title and poll. Zombies have enjoyed a big resurgence of popularity in media in the last decade, from Zak Snyder's awesome Dawn of the Dead remake in 2004* to AMC's The Walking Dead, Max brook's novel World War Z and many other films, games, and books. What's your take?


*Holy **** it didn't Dawn on me until writing this post that DotD '04 is ten years old! That's pretty huge and surely makes the zombie thing more than a passing fad, right?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Keep the walkers on my screen and off my streets!!

 

[Thundercrack85]

I wouldn't say I am tired of them. But then I tend to ignore most of the zombie stuff.

They have given us mildly entertaining stuff like the Walking Dead, and truly great stuff like The Last of Us. So, given that, I don't mind things like World War Z too much (the movie that is).

 

[Ant-manic]

i tired of life-after-the-apocalypse shows. dirty overly tanned unshaven people don't do anything for me; unless it's Walter White running around the desert.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

dirty overly tanned unshaven people don't do anything for me

I'm guessing you don't watch much Jersey Shore then.

unless it's Walter White running around the desert.

Coming Soon:

Dawn of the Broken Bad- High school chemistry teacher Walter White and his young protege Jesse hatch a plot to manufacture and sell methamphetamines, but get more than they bargained for when their product 'Baby Blue' begins turning users into mindless, flesh-eating monsters!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Coming Soon:

Dawn of the Broken Bad - High school chemistry teacher Walter White and his young protege Jesse hatch a plot to manufacture and sell methamphetamines, but get more than they bargained for when their product 'Baby Blue' begins turning users into mindless, flesh-eating monsters!

Great... If they did that, and Walter could continue cooking meth from beyond the grave then the show would never end, and those of us who haven't seen it yet would have to put up with the show's smug superior fans forever.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Zombies have oversaturated TV, movies, videogames and comics and so the whole genre's becoming quite stale. It's still interesting when a new element is introduced, like the super-fast virus zombies from '28 Days Later' or the biting satire of 'Shaun of the Dead', but on the whole it's lost its punch. While the concept of zombies has been around for centuries, the modern framework of zombies as mindless creatures that need to eat the flesh or brains of the living started with Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' in '68 and that was an allegory for the Vietnam war and racism. Then a few years later he critiqued rampant commercialism with 'Dawn of the Dead' taking place in a besieged mall. Today's flicks and games are mostly just generic copies of what Romero did almost half a century ago completely stripped of the deeper thematic meanings and emotional resonance that made his films memorable and unique, and are just like the zombies they portray, quite mindless.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Great... If they did that, and Walter could continue cooking meth from beyond the grave then the show would never end, and those of us who haven't seen it yet would have to put up with the show's smug superior fans forever.

I can't say much about the smugness of the shows fans but I will say that if you are interested in compelling television then you should give it a try so you can finally move out of the sticks and join the rest of us on Planet Good Taste.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I don't care much for zombie stories, too much of them doesn't bother me

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I can't say much about the smugness of the shows fans but I will say that if you are interested in compelling television then you should give it a try so you can finally move out of the sticks and join the rest of us on Planet Good Taste.

t: I'm sure YOU'RE cool beans WT, but much like THE WIRE fans, BBAD fans can be a bit much sometimes. Not all of them, but a lot. And they tend to push it into almost every single convo you have with them. I guess what I'm saying is... [BLACKOUT]I'm happy Walt White is dead and not coming back. [/BLACKOUT] t:

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I won't be satisfied until we have a real Zombie Apocalypse...

 

[KevanG]

I still enjoy my zombie stuff. Look at the Dead Rising games, they're my favorite zombie games out there. It can get over done often but it's still fun.

 

[chamber-music]

I am fine with Zombies as long as the stories are good and they do something different with them or the genre.

I watched three different Zombie TV shows last year from three different countries and each was very different from the other.

The Walking Dead which is a post apocalyptic zombie survival show on AMC with your typical flesh consuming rotting corpse Zombies.

French Canal+ Les Revenants which is more of a Twin Peaks supernatural, fantasy drama take on Zombies. In the show the people who return from the dead are exactly the same as when they died and they don't eat people. They try to reconnect with their loved ones after being dead for decades in some cases while strange mysterious things start happening around the french town upon their return.

Finally In The Flesh a BBC Zombie show that is about the post Zombie apocalypse in which humans have won, managed to cure most of the Zombies of their desire for flesh and have returned their humanity. The show is about the now living dead cured of their desire to eat/bite humans being introduced to a world that just spent years killing them.

All different yet all entertaining in their own way.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I'm pretty much sick of zombies, werewolves, vampires and any other horror monster tropes being over saturated in the media. You know who deserves a lot of love? The Creature From the Black Lagoon.

 

[webhead9707]

Zombies have oversaturated TV, movies, videogames and comics and so the whole genre's becoming quite stale. It's still interesting when a new element is introduced, like the super-fast virus zombies from '28 Days Later' or the biting satire of 'Shaun of the Dead', but on the whole it's lost its punch. While the concept of zombies has been around for centuries, the modern framework of zombies as mindless creatures that need to eat the flesh or brains of the living started with Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' in '68 and that was an allegory for the Vietnam war and racism. Then a few years later he critiqued rampant commercialism with 'Dawn of the Dead' taking place in a besieged mall. Today's flicks and games are mostly just generic copies of what Romero did almost half a century ago completely stripped of the deeper thematic meanings and emotional resonance that made his films memorable and unique, and are just like the zombies they portray, quite mindless.

Well said!

I like zombies as long as they're used properly. I liked World War Z, honestly. Walking Dead is fantastic to me. Also Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead. It's when they aren't done well and are just zombies for the sake of zombies that I don't like them. I want to see a zombie musical though. This video is only a few minutes but it's so well done and more creative than most of what we see.

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[JJJ's Ulcer]

Finally In The Flesh a BBC Zombie show that is about the post Zombie apocalypse in which humans have won, managed to cure most of the Zombies of their desire for flesh and have returned their humanity. The show is about the now living dead cured of their desire to eat/bite humans being introduced to a world that just spent years killing them.

This is something I'd be interested in seeing!

 

[Victarion]

I enjoy zombies in the context of the Resident Evil games, as bi-products of bio-organic weapon engineering. The Las Plagas were cool too, though they weren't zombies in the sense of being decayed corpses.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

This conversation inspires me to see Nostalgia Critic video on zombies again

 

[the last son]

I won't be satisfied until we have a real Zombie Apocalypse...

That's why I'm working out now, lol. Seriously though I am working out to survive a post apocalypse world. I have to be able to run for miles to escape horror.

 

[The End]

There's just so much that can be done with the concept that its almost unreal.

The Walking Dead, from the comic to the tv show and the excellent TellTale game, can continue to mine a seemingly bottomless bit of intense human drama and emotion.

 

[Galactus123]

I don't think I'm tired of them just yet but it definitely feels that there is too much.

 

[NickNitro]

Not as tired as I am with ****** vampire movies.

 

[:eek:]

Horror literature isn't what it used to be. Looking on sites like Amazon it feels like every damn horror novel on their top selling list is about some kind of zombie apocalypse. Unless it's about vampires...

 

[NickNitro]

With horror films though, Insidious and The Conjuring I feel are the best horror films of the last decade.

I hate slashers so paranormal movies are top of my list for the Horror genre.

 

[KevanG]

I'm still waiting for another Nightmare on Elm Street movie. **** Halloween and Ft13! I wants me some Freddy!