Comments on: All Hail the Zombocalypse http://bankruptmag.com/all-hail-the-zombocalypse/ Vancouver Fiction and Non-Fiction Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:35:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danielle http://bankruptmag.com/all-hail-the-zombocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Danielle Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:31:00 +0000 http://bankruptmag.com/?p=164#comment-43 "My heart still skips a beat when I watch zombie flicks, and I feel this emptiness in my gut." Yes! This is what compels me to see all the zombie movies I can. Not that it is a particularly enjoyable feeling. But there is something about zombies that feels true -- or maybe "true" is a little unpragmatic...rather, they encompass the dark possibilities of humanity, and undermine comfortable society as we know it. They are representatives from an adjacent, more horrible reality!! Movies like "Dawn of the Dead" and "28 Weeks Later" made me feel hollow. But also kind of cleansed and relieved, like I'd been granted a reprieve from something terrible after the credits rolled and whew...none of it was true. I don't get so involved when viewing movies featuring the regular gamut of monsters. It's kind of ridiculous. Fantastic to come across a thoughtful zombie essay too. They mean something, dammit! I like they've been treated with some credibility lately in pop culture. “My heart still skips a beat when I watch zombie flicks, and I feel this emptiness in my gut.” Yes! This is what compels me to see all the zombie movies I can. Not that it is a particularly enjoyable feeling. But there is something about zombies that feels true — or maybe “true” is a little unpragmatic…rather, they encompass the dark possibilities of humanity, and undermine comfortable society as we know it. They are representatives from an adjacent, more horrible reality!!

Movies like “Dawn of the Dead” and “28 Weeks Later” made me feel hollow. But also kind of cleansed and relieved, like I’d been granted a reprieve from something terrible after the credits rolled and whew…none of it was true. I don’t get so involved when viewing movies featuring the regular gamut of monsters. It’s kind of ridiculous.

Fantastic to come across a thoughtful zombie essay too. They mean something, dammit! I like they’ve been treated with some credibility lately in pop culture.

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