The intensity of apocalyptic fear intersperses with the desire to become an arbiter, a vigilante. The audience invests in when, and if, balance can be restored. Zombies say no to entropy, confusing survivors who delay the headshot (they’re still… family!). Where does this trend get its animus? Killing what is already dead is acceptable, a duty even. Ravenously – usually uncritically – generation-x mimics the unblinking materialism George Romero was critiquing in Dawn of The Dead. There’s something sinisterly ironic about the consumption of zombie flicks.
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