Zombies

I had no idea that zombies could and do play such a significant role in symbolism. I never thought that any sort of “zombie craze” would happen after major tragic world or country events. This paper really opened my eyes and my mind even if that sounds cliché. It can be proven that movies after events such as the Vietnam War and September 11th led to the creation of zombie apocalyptic movies. The question is why?

The article described that after such events people are more inclined to watch zombies movies because of the idea of horror, people liked being scared, and when there is fear of terrorists, the film industry thinks of ways to create their own “terrorist”, and the terrorists they chose was in the form of zombies, but why? The article described that zombies are a more frightening being than any vampire or ghost, because zombies are known as the living dead. Vampires are normally portrayed as being very sexually attractive, take Dracula or Edward Cullins, the girl always seems to fall in love with the vampire. Zombies however are dirty, ugly, probably smelly, and want to eat your flesh. So the film industry created a “zombie-terrorist” because they are usually someone who you knew but is now infected or bitten and turned zombie. Finally, they are already in your territory, what better type of terrorist than one that is already living in your neighborhood? I enjoyed this article a lot. I did not know that a zombie book has never been written. Most other monsters i.e. Frankenstein or vampires, first rose to stardom after the publishing of a book, but not zombies; their whole creation was from death, of no one knowing what they were, to life, in their movie roles, and I feel that is very appropriate in the sense of who they are. The living dead.

My link is to a symbolism of zombies website: http://www.umich.edu/~engl415/zombies/zombie.html

My picture is from my favorite game!! Plants vs Zombies!! http://www.download-free-games.com/pc/plants_vs_zombies.htm