Forum Overview :: Dead Trees :: Yes, all zombie fiction gets worse the stronger the allegory

[quote name="FABIO"][quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="FABIO"]That is some awfully deliberate dialog! If anything it serves to showcase how the slow zombie genre is forever obsolete. Characters can only be killed by zombies when acting incredibly stupid like turning around in front of a dark doorway to tell someone they'll be right back. Maybe the zombies were able to take down that army tank when it tripped over some furniture.[/quote] That's kind of the point of zombie movies: the inevitability of death. It's death incarnate slowly creeping after you! All humans die. You may think you can outrun it forever, kid yourself, board up the windows and stay vigilante, but it'll get you. You'll make a mistake eventually, and they are ever persistent and waiting. It's fucking poetry, Fabio.[/quote] Dawn of the Dead: you can shop and try to horde all the material goods you want, but death still gets you in the end? (until you chopper out and leave it to biker hordes). 28 Days Later: No matter what, rape will find a way in (Zseni's ultimate horror movie). It's no coincidence that the the 2004 DotD remake is the superior zombie movie: zero commentary. A sharp contrast to the absolute nadir of the genre, 28 Weeks Later. American GIs tasked with occupying a foreign city, but despite state of the art technology are helpless when all hell breaks loose and <i>they can't distinguish civilians from the enemy!</i> Anyways, let's not go on about the inferiority of Limey zombie flicks. Instead I'll just share my Walking Dead breaking point: wandering trench coat samurai katana chick. I think she was a carefully constructed metaphor of comic writers running out of American cliches. [/quote]