How did zombies get so popular? They're so stupid and lame when you think about it

How did zombies get so popular? They're so stupid and lame when you think about it

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how did vampires, ghosts, and frankenstein, and witches and devils and orcs and elves get so fucking popular? They're so stupid and lame when you think about it.

>anyone that says lame makes me think of lumpy space princess

I think a lot of it had to do with where we were as a society at the time. Zombies never mean just "dead rising from the grave", they have a social/political connotation as well, they're a metaphor.

damn you're right this really made me think wtf i hate zombies now

You'd think they'd just quarantine and kill the first few people to turn into flesh eating monsters but somehow it always turns into a global outbreak.

Second post, best post.

This is a big generalization, but the horror genre is all about coming face to face with death/mortality.

Zombies are literally the dead coming for you.

It resonates, it catches on. And once it gets popular once, it snowballs because no one wants to be original, especially in the past decade where the budget isn't there for creativity.

People like Zombies because zombies bring back to society and with that they also bring freedom.

Smurfs

It's basically an excuse to kill people on screen without having to feel guilty about it.

This pretty much, people don't watch zombie movies or shows for horror, they watch it to live out cathartic murder fantasies
There's an inherent appeal from people who are nobodies and losers in normal society to think 'if there were a zombie apocalypse, my skills would make me the top dog, I'd make the rules'

Because:
>muh social commentary
>muh ebin kills
>muh freedom

Speaking of metaphors.

Whoa, deep

Mostly copier salesmen, I suspect.

I've been expecting a wave of muh deep allegory zombie movies with the migrant crisis and stuff, surprised it hasn't happened yet

Because people love post-apocalyptic settings, zombies just add another element of violence to it as well as a convenient overarching plot device("gotta find le cure"). Traditional Evil Dead style zombies aren't popular, it's all "zombie apocalypse" shit.

Because racists and the alt right are too stupid to make movies

I like the shooting something without being shot back aspect of it.

>tfw no zombie gf
;_;

is this the only conversation you're allowed to have on Sup Forums anymore?

They feed into humanity's base lust for violence but you can't really show humans getting graphically slaughtered without angering a few retards. No one gives a fuck if a zombie gets horribly mutilated because it's a mindless drone in a meat puppet.

Yes

Makeup aesthetic, allegorical value, popularity of the emo/scene sub culture. These are what brought on the zombie craze. It's funny that you're only talking about it now though because it's really long past its peak now. Zombieland, beginning of Walking Dead, Left 4 Dead, World War Z (the book) were released during the peak of the trend. We're already nearing the bottom. Vampires are over as well, aliens are reaching a new peak, they're the trend right now I predict to take the same trajectory as zombies.

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In all zombie stories mankind struggles to stop them when literally all you would need to do is get a backhoe and dig a moat. Moat fills up, toss in some gasoline and a match. Easy peasy.

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then don't watch them then, douche.

that like 5 year period where everyone was obsessed with zombies was so fucking retarded
those fucking movies and shows and shit all fueled this fucking gay obsession and ruined it forever

cosmic horror when

gimme 200 million bucks and i'll make a proper lovecraftian kino

>aliens are reaching a new peak
I'm not so sure, there's usually a catalyst that revitalizes a genre, like how Scream revitalized the Slasher genre, there hasn't really been an alien film that's renewed interest. We seem to be in the age of paranormal.

>zombie movie/series/whatever
>starts off weeks/months after outbreak
The initial panic and the beginning of the breakdown of society is my favorite part of the zombie apocalypse genre and yet it is skipped by 99% of zombie fiction.

It's expensive to shoot.