Zombie Mania

[JashobeamZ]

I dont know about you but i have this unquenchable love for zombie movies, comics and games. and i have just recently been in the midst of reading "the walking dead" and absolutely love it. I just had to share with everyone that i have recently stumbled upon this new zombie series that is going to be coming out soon, and i am just pumped. if anyone has any other zombie related media that they love i would love to know what it is. Dead snow rules by the way.

here is a trailer for the walking dead TV series. super pumped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg46DWI_fCE

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

 

[Ickorus]

Looks good, I loves me a good zombie apocalypse.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I love Zombies and I like the fact that it is beginning to be mainstream, provided that they don't mess too much with the definition of zombie. This show looks like fun.

However, repeated "What would you do in a Zombie Apocalypse threads" are starting to earn my ire.

 

[Erana]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Why? Zombies, unlike say, Vampires, are pretty hard to mess up.
It can be tiring at times, but I don't see the harm. And pop culture likes supernatural things- something to be the subject of its phases. What would you rather the uncreative general populous obsess over?

 

[Broken Orange]

I am not a fan of zombie movies, I am a fan of good movies. Sometimes, good movies are zombie movies.

 

[L4hlborg]

However, repeated "What would you do in a Zombie Apocalypse threads" are starting to earn my ire.

I believe they have been created by scientists creating the ideal zombie virus. So don't post in them. They are only being created to eliminate the zombies' flaws.

I love zombie movies (especially Shaun of the Dead) and L4D on the gaming front, but I don't really get the concept of zombie books. Splatter is a pretty visual genre and I find it hard to imagine it written. On the other hand, I've never really read zombie books. This just came to my mind when I was trying to write something involving zombies.

 

[BelfastSpartan]

Are you me?

Really though I'm exactly the same.....just finished reading all the walking dead in the past few weeks, love all zombie movies and can't wait for the new tv show!
Dead rising 2 is definatley helping me get there quicker!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Are you me?

Really though I'm exactly the same.....just finished reading all the walking dead in the past few weeks, love all zombie movies and can't wait for the new tv show!
Dead rising 2 is definatley helping me get there quicker!

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[Casual Shinji]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Same here.

I'm getting sick and tired of these shallow zombie plot devices. It was cute at first but now it's getting really fucking annoying

 

[Jodah]

I don't love or hate the zombie crazy. The vampire craze, however, makes me want to punch kittens.

 

[XT inc]

I find it quite the opposite good zombie stuff is hard to find. People think there is an over saturation in the genre. lets see how many new zombie games are on consoles 2-5. Hell I barely count l4d because the zombies are the infected and it feels like a slap dash arcade shooter than a full on game. Dead rising is a bit better, but being straight outta japan, the bones feel old and undynamic.

Sure I've got the romero set, watched his glory turn to dust( hopefully to reanimate to the glory that was the first dawn of) Diary of the dead was just terrible. We can only hope that The walking dead show pans out and has a long life or else the only monsters on tv will be vampires.

 

[AlphaRam]

I am a big fan of zombie games and movies but sometimes i gotta stop cuz too much of it makes me sick.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Why? Zombies, unlike say, Vampires, are pretty hard to mess up.
It can be tiring at times, but I don't see the harm. And pop culture likes supernatural things- something to be the subject of its phases. What would you rather the uncreative general populous obsess over?

Why would you say they're "pretty hard to mess up"? They're just as easy to mess up. But it's not even an issue of "messing them up". It's an issue of saturating the market. The countless parodies and spoofs, and the equal number of "serious" zombie stories...there's just too many.

Best I can figure, the market saturation is deliberate, and is meant as a metaphor for an actual zombie uprising or something.

 

[Erana]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Why? Zombies, unlike say, Vampires, are pretty hard to mess up.
It can be tiring at times, but I don't see the harm. And pop culture likes supernatural things- something to be the subject of its phases. What would you rather the uncreative general populous obsess over?

Why would you say they're "pretty hard to mess up"? They're just as easy to mess up. But it's not even an issue of "messing them up". It's an issue of saturating the market. The countless parodies and spoofs, and the equal number of "serious" zombie stories...there's just too many.

Best I can figure, the market saturation is deliberate, and is meant as a metaphor for an actual zombie uprising or something.

"Hey... aren't zombies great?
I mean, all they do is eat, and eat, and eat. Growing in number... just like you red, white, and blue Americans." -Dead Rising

Except switch out the whole weird fixation on hamburgers with pop culture.

Still, I stick to the philosophy that its better Zombies than something else.

 

[Stryc9]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Where do you live? Whenever I walk into my local book store all I see on the shelves are crappy vampire romance books all over the place, everything from that Twilight dross to all the shittier wannabe knockoff crap it's spawned in it's wake.

 

[Jonsbax]

I, on the other hand, have been in a long search to find something good made out of zombies, especially on the gaming front. I've always picked PlayStation in the last 3 gens and good zombie games on those are pretty hard to come by (don't get me started on Resident Evil -series on PS). I always hear how poeple complain about overexposure to zombie-craze but I've never experienced any of it. The only movie I've liked is 28 Weeks Later (tried watching some old Romero flick... ugh, just too dated for me), though I should check out Shaun of the Dead.

Hopefully Dead Rising 2 will finally give me my fix.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Where do you live? Whenever I walk into my local book store all I see on the shelves are crappy vampire romance books all over the place, everything from that Twilight dross to all the shittier wannabe knockoff crap it's spawned in it's wake.

Like...do you really wanna know where I live? It's maybe half and half. But it's probably not even...a lot of those "crappy romance books" aren't vampires, but they are something "gothic". I made my peace with those a long time ago. The zombie thing is more recent, and it seems a lot more sudden as well. Not to mention that most of the concepts look way stupider than most of the gothic romances.

It helps that a lot of those gothic romances are kept in the teen section, not the sci-fi/fantasy section. My problem is, they're sticking all the zombie books in the sci-fi/fantasy section, when they're really neither. But we don't have a "horror" section at my local B&N, so I guess they had to stick them somewhere.