Fighting for Truth, Justice & Defense of the Coming Zombie Apocolyps!

By: FXGuy Mood: creative Date: 12/05/2456 12:01:55 Music: Two Tribes: Frankie Goes Hollyweird

Okay- I admit it- I'm a Zombie Survivalist.

There- I said it; they say admitting you have a problem is a sure sign of getting well- in a psychological point of view...

One of the zany off-shoots to be making a kind of cult-classic rise on the American pop scene seems to be this notion of Zombie Apocolyps survival.  Led in no small part from some very fun and inspired writing from Mel's son Max Brooks- pages are literally torn from the Romero tome and made into a survival guide designed to help people cope and survive this fictional 'zombie crisis'.

Zombie survival horror as a genre has been around since the late sixties when George Romero made Night of the Living Dead- an at-the-time unheard of Philidelphia film-maker's pet project involving some unknown/unseen energy bringing the recently deceased back to life and chowing down on the living.

One couldn't really classify the Romero first as a "run away hit" but it developed a fervent following and fan base soon enough to be followed by Dawn of the Dead [remade in the New Millenium- not any better but I'd dare say not any worse than the original] and then the troll inspired classic Day of the Dead...

It's not really the 'zombies' that make these raucus films so tenable- in many cases they're simply the window dressing for something more. 

That something more may be the concept of society at it's shambling rhetorical "death"- a type of primal point where your protection and 'normal' way of life becomes shattered beyond repair.  Governments cease to exist- people are prey for a group conscious leviathon that has no way of stopping lest you 'shoot 'em in the head'.  Truly one could call it a microcosmic overview of the relatively quick downfall of humanity- the only "slowness" to it is that you can see it coming at you bared teeth and oozing flesh and all.

That's where I fall into the trap of Zombie Survival- that aftermath...  What would it be like to be one of the survivors?  Strength would be measured in fortitude- not necessarily lifting capacity.  What would foraging, struggle and escape be to such people, whether as individuals or in small bands- not only hiding fromt eh dead but from bands of roving marauders who would take and kill simply to also survive.

Some say it wouldn't be much better than was had before the turn of the Renessance- some pish-posh the notion as simply too silly a premise given their disbelief in a cadaverous creature re-animated; and thus totally missing the premise outside of the "window dressing".

Rumor has it there are people who actually believe in this whole "Dawn of the Dead" thing- there may actually be a small band or two of people preparing for the Zombie Apocolyps.

In all honesty- more power to them; they remind me of an old George Carlin joke about "a man who's barricaded himself in his own house and is hurting no one including himself so no one is paying any attention to him..."  If it's actually groups of people playing a game revolving around this- much like the Goths try to play "Vampire"- okay- to each his/her own.  Just God please, don't let some soulless bastard with nothing to live for make an excuse to go all "Evil Dead" in a schoolyard and an entire subculture of silliness gets flushed down the PC toilet...

Again.

Until the Apocolyps- I continue to be
FXG