Show The living love love- the living lining dead Melissa Baca Contributing Writer Rotting flesh with mindless mayhem combined with an insatiable hunger for brains Typically not such a tasty item but pop culture has seemingly embraced zombies as a cult icon It all began with a George A. A Romeros Romero's vision of the undead feeding on the flesh of the living in in his 1968 indie film Night of the Living Dead To many this film was the beginning of genius in the horror film industry Before Night of the Living Dead audiences were used to the delightfully scary flicks of the such as Attack of the Woman or The Blob So why do we love zombie lore so much In an interview with CNN author of the book Zombie new on I survival Survival Max Brooks says that You cant can't shoot the financial meltdown in the head you youcan youcan youcan can do that with a zombie All the other problems are too big As much as Al AI AlGore AlGore Gore tries you cant can't picture global warming You cant can't picture the meltdown of our financial institutions But you can picture a slouching zombie coming down the street Could it be that our obsession with zombies allows us to digest boundless social problems conspiracy theories and natural disasters Think about such movies like 28 Days Later where a virus has caused humans to turn into infectious flesh eating monsters Or when an experiment goes bad in Terror Planet and contaminates the air causing once again mindless zombies to start killing the innocent Who Vho cant can't relate to the spread of alarming viruses or government ups cover-ups Not only do we make the connection many of us arc ready for the day when our towns are invaded by zombies General Education major Jackson Caldwell age 18 says I would go straight for the gun store or grab a Samari sword That way if I was swarmed Id I'd start slicing and dicing because the best thing about a zombie is you can do anything to them without feeling bad about it A little sadistic but apparently its it's the view that many people share Another General Education major Dominic Olveda age 18 says that he would Get as much ammo guns and armor as ashe ashe ashe he can get Then hed he'd Get Geta a Hummer with a spiked plow and start taking them out These two students arent aren't the only ones that have a hankering for taking out zombies When asked what he thought about zombies General Education major Dusty Kenyon age 25 says Stupid people will be killed The smart will survive in the event Zombies Continued on Zombie mania m man an i 1 a Continued from of a zombie meltdown Honestly who doesn't want to take a machete to to someone's head Malik Meggett Broadcasting major says America has an obsession with death the dead killing the dead and the undead killing the living Plus we love gore in America baby There is definitely no question about the resilience of the zombie from Bela Lugosi's White Zombie to the new Woody Harrelson Chainsaws and shotguns wont won't keep these creatures from resurfacing One can only ponder whether it will be a low budget horror flick or an actual zombie apocalypse |