Photo by Jessica Streeter.Īlthough zombie fiction has only recently saturated movies, television, and even government preparedness websites, zombies have been a part of folklore for as long as stories have been told. If messenger bags, temporary tattoos, and other cultural artifacts are any indication, the zombie cultural apocalypse is well underway. In organized “zombie walks,” people dress up and shuffle about town for a few fun hours, while in zombie runs and zombie hunts, people pay event organizers to be chased by actors dressed in tattered rags and decaying “skin.” Even just saying you “feel like a zombie” has specific meanings-we conjure images of slovenly or sluggish appearance or behavior. Romero have taken the genre to new levels of availability. Zombie movie culture amuses via comedies like Zombieland, scares via movies like Resident Evil, and evokes feelings of despair via movies like I Am Legend. No, we are not physically surrounded by half-rotted corpses yearning for our sweet braaaaaaains but, zombies in popular culture are suddenly ubiquitous, from television shows such as AMC’s The Walking Dead and the National Geographic Channel’s The Truth Behind Zombies to movies like World War Z and Warm Bodies, along-side countless zombie books, video games, and pub crawls.
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