Zombies have been part of our pop culture since the 1960's. In the early days of horror zombies were just people who were under the control of some supernatural horror to do its bidding. In 1968 George Romero recreated the zombie from a possessed human being to a mindless, flesh eating undead creature. Since then this genre has been found in movies, tv-shows, video games, novels and comic books; in the novel Monster Island by David Wellington he takes the reader into the mind of a zombie, but one that has control of its human conscious. I think we are so infatuated with zombies is that they are the perfect monster to dislike, they are a quick paycheck for those who are in the media. We also think of zombies as a means of human survival against a post- apocalyptic threat and knowing what you loved is suddenly ripped away from you. Try to imagine everything that you have ever known and loved was suddenly gone, your all alone and you are suddenly attacked by the creatures of the undead. People think that can survive this are as good as dead.
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