Rambuchan
The Funky President
Try this quiz out and see how you would cope:
http://mingle2.com/zombie-quiz
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Also, what is the appeal of the zombie movie genre?
I'd like to offer a suggestion. What we commonly consider to be the zombie movie today was largely defined, though not solely, by Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". This came out in 1968. Coincidentally, something else happened in 1968. Walter Cronkite said in a CBS editorial that the Vietnam War was unwinnable. In this statement, from 'the most trusted man in America', we saw what large swathes of the American public had been saying, but it was made official. The message was that America was fallible, defeatable, and morally off-course. The idealistic, grand vision of the nation that guided and defended 'the free world', morally, economically, militarily, was being torn apart. It was an ideological apocalypse of sorts.
As we know too well, Vietnam was a hugely unpopular and divisive war. The political scene bore something of an analogous resemblance to the morally devoid, horrifically divided, apocalyptic vision of Romero's 1968 movie. Fellow citizens were pitted against each other in such an horrific apocalyptic scenario.
But the appeal of the terror in such zombie movies was not just rooted in an internal discord. Apocalyptic scenarios such as Romero's also appealed strongly to the spectre of a nuclear holocaust, of course. Preparing to hole up whilst the rest of the world went zombie crazy wasn't a far cry from what governments were telling us we would have to do in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
Related to this external terror threat we can look at other horror based genres too. Monster based horror movies, just like sci-fi movies, were hugely popular all through the Cold War. Those monsters brought out and heightened the fear of The Communist (and sci-fi movies spoke to a fear of a hi-tech enemy). Zombie movies did much the same, but more than that, as suggested above. And if this all seems like too much of a stretch, consider the near dropping off of zombie and horror movie releases in the 1990s, when the Cold War 'had been won'. Ever wonder why they are enjoying something of a renaissance today?
http://mingle2.com/zombie-quiz
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Also, what is the appeal of the zombie movie genre?
I'd like to offer a suggestion. What we commonly consider to be the zombie movie today was largely defined, though not solely, by Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". This came out in 1968. Coincidentally, something else happened in 1968. Walter Cronkite said in a CBS editorial that the Vietnam War was unwinnable. In this statement, from 'the most trusted man in America', we saw what large swathes of the American public had been saying, but it was made official. The message was that America was fallible, defeatable, and morally off-course. The idealistic, grand vision of the nation that guided and defended 'the free world', morally, economically, militarily, was being torn apart. It was an ideological apocalypse of sorts.
As we know too well, Vietnam was a hugely unpopular and divisive war. The political scene bore something of an analogous resemblance to the morally devoid, horrifically divided, apocalyptic vision of Romero's 1968 movie. Fellow citizens were pitted against each other in such an horrific apocalyptic scenario.
But the appeal of the terror in such zombie movies was not just rooted in an internal discord. Apocalyptic scenarios such as Romero's also appealed strongly to the spectre of a nuclear holocaust, of course. Preparing to hole up whilst the rest of the world went zombie crazy wasn't a far cry from what governments were telling us we would have to do in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
Related to this external terror threat we can look at other horror based genres too. Monster based horror movies, just like sci-fi movies, were hugely popular all through the Cold War. Those monsters brought out and heightened the fear of The Communist (and sci-fi movies spoke to a fear of a hi-tech enemy). Zombie movies did much the same, but more than that, as suggested above. And if this all seems like too much of a stretch, consider the near dropping off of zombie and horror movie releases in the 1990s, when the Cold War 'had been won'. Ever wonder why they are enjoying something of a renaissance today?
Y'all may mock me for having lots of guns and ammo in the basement, but guess who you come crying to when the zombies show up? 
