Zombies

Zombies have been a part of culture for a very long time. In recent years though we have seen a lot more references to them in modern literature and cinema. The author of this article references the World Trade Center bombing as part of the reason that they have become so popular again. I personally blame the fact that the year 2012 is coming and we are supposedly going to see the end of the world upon us. In all the zombie films or books I have read a disease has broken loose and caused an "Apocalypse" of sorts. It is even quite entertaining how there are many books that have been published on how to survive the zombie attacks when they happen. Some of the movies that have been released regarding zombies are of course horror films (i.e. Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead) but there is that occasional one that pokes fun at the seriousness of the end of human kind (i.e. Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland). Maybe zombie culture has been mainstream much longer than the last 10 years and we just never noticed how much it is in cinema and literature and because of the internet and cable things are just more noticeable then they ever were in the past. It seems that zombie lore has been a part of history longer than we realize and will be a part for a very long time to come.