How do we make the zombie genre interesting?

How do we make the zombie genre interesting?

Add fucking aliens

Make them all black and the survivors all white/Japanese

Oh sorry you said interesting, not realistic.

One zombie keeps some semblance of sanity and makes a proper zombie army, with strategies and shit

Probably has been done but I don't know of it

Actually make them scary looking. They look too clean in the vast majority of shows and movies

A WWZ series with each chapter being allowed an entire episode.

>mfw that kino French catacomb fighting chapter as the finale for Season 3

land of the dead

plan nine from outer space

plan nine from outer space had a cool idea, don't deny it

dumb cunt.

while we're at it let's make a movie about a bunch of guys stuck in a house whilst zombies get in. hasn't been done before TO MY KNOWLEDGE

every season has a different cast
set all over the world so we can see how other countries and people were affected

Land of the Dead did it, and it was unbelievably retarded.

What I like about Romero zombies is that they retain some of their of memories from life. Like, the zombies want to get into the mall not because they think there's people in there but because they remember. It would be interesting if more zombie fiction did this. You would find whole cities populated by zombies imitating the behavior of living people, instead of just wandering around aimlessly.

well they did like 30 years ago

that movie is nuts

>the world has fallen
>zombies staying in their home watching white-noise TV all day long
>streets completely empty, no violence, no lust for brains and guts
>only gore will come from bored survivors invading zombie homes to kill them for fun
>handful of survivors enjoying the empty streets but quickly getting bored
>they slowly start getting addicted to the white-noise TV themselves because it's more comfortable than having to rebuild stuff
>we are the zombies

>HBO will never adapt Image's Cannibal

A shame, since Cannibal has some interesting qualities. It's about a virus which makes people crave human flesh but they treat it like a natural disaster.

Guy gets bitten, tries blood transfusion(?) to stave off infection, gets addicted to clean blood, slowly becomes vampire-like creature.

Nothing, everything's been done to death

>the zombies aren't the true monsters, it's humanity

Done

>zombies that can talk/run fast/sneak up on you somehow/have super strength

Done

>zombies are a result of a virus

Done

>zombies are a result of the supernatural

Done

>zombies are a result of a parasite

Done

>it's a zombie movie, but it's more of a comedy

Done

>the zombies aren't the interesting part, it's the batshit crazy survivors that are interesting

Done

>the military gets fucked over by the zombies

Done

>the military fucks over the zombies

Done

>the zombies are slow but there are a shitton of them

Done

>Add fucking aliens
Read I am A Hero

I would like see to the post zombie apocalypse and the reformation and rebuilding of society. I think there's a lot of potential for some good stories and politics.

Just change the time period, ez. I'm sure you autists can think of dozens of ultra specific time periods and locations that would really freshen up the zombie genre.

The Walking Dead is kind of doing that post-time skip, rather than just moving from place to place now, Rick and everyone is building up a community and networking with other settlements. We don't know about the rest of the US aside from there's a community in Ohio supposedly.

I think it'd be pretty interesting if the cause of the walkers was done by a necromancer of sorts. Would make TWD a thousand times more interesting.

What about Vikings fighting zombies or being abducted by Ayys, they have to escape their ship because they want to be taken to their zoo or some bollocks like that, they get back to Earth somehow. They've accidentally released a virus which causes people to turn into zombies, vikings feel responsible for it and decide to become zombie hunters or some shit like that.

This. I recently read a novel about nuclear war. Its set several centuries after the catastrophe, when society has somewhat rebuilt. It's still in feudal conditions because the destruction was so extensive, but they're on the road to recovery. A lot of zombie media can't think beyond the cliches of the genre, so even once they skip forward several years people are still living as if the zombies hit them just yesterday: always on the run, raiding for food, etc. etc.

Sounds cool. Too bad cowboys vs. aliens ruined this type of thing for the next 20 years.

A "Crossed" adaptation would be cool but I bet no one has the balls to make it.

Theres also a zombie movie about romance between zombie and a girl

Theres aslo a tv show about super heroine zombie girl.

What book are you talking about? That sounds like something I would be into.

I'd like to see a hundred years or so after the Zombie outbreak, where the government has basically denied the existence of zombies and the only people that ever believed they existed are considered crackpots.

I have a draft already but I'll spoilt it here.

Everyone is a zombie and one day a human virus gets loose. A group of zombies must fight against odds to remain as their zombie selves.

Crossed makes me queasy. Also there would be a lot of zombie sex

But they're about to get rekt by the zombies again. Still cool tho. Rick's gonna die.

It's called A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's really great.

>Rick
>Not Negan

Negan has nothing left to tell, they are killing off The Saviors soon and that cuts all ties with him. It's a classic Kirkman bait and switch.

Aliens invade the earth, abduct people. Human scientists infect the population with a dormant remote-triggered zombie virus to fuck the aliens from the inside

Zombie vs Aliens happen

They might be able to do Crossed +100. It's less gruesome.

Actually, here's my take:
Negan dies defending Alexandria, or even saving Rick in the process, completely validating Rick's whole idea of recovery and bringing civilization despite losing Alexandria. meaning: it worked, they just need to do it again. I think they'll win and the Saviors will strike but end up being killed OR the guys from Ohio swoop in and defend them.
I think the Ohio group is some remnant of the government. I really want them to have cool gear and shit.