May 21, 2011, the end of the world. Upon thinking about just how the world is supposed to end today, my mind has immediately turned to the one topic that seems to the fascination of the masses, a zombie apocalypse. Now I don't know if this obsession with zombies is due to the success of movies like I Am Legend, Zombieland, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead and so forth; however, what I do know is that zombies are everywhereI don't know how this zombie-love happened, or even when it happened. It was as if I woke up and zombies had be come more popular than Lindsey Lohan. (you know because people stopped caring about her when she... well, no people still care about her, but they shouldn't)
Now, I've done some research on the subject, and what I found interesting is that zombies themselves have evolved. What ever happened to the slow moving "braaaaaaaaiiiiiiinns" zombies that I always knew? Who gave them the power to run!? The scary thing about zombies was always the sheer numbers of them. You start injecting them with some virus that make them turn into some sort of super-zombie and holy cat turds that's scary! Ok, so I can understand that today's super-zombies are considerably more awesome than old "braaaiiins" zombies, but come on. There are scarier things out there. Perhaps our new found zombie love is due to the fact that zombies have indeed gotten more terrifying, other creatures of horror have just gotten more... sparkly. (I bet Dracula really is pissed) Let's be honest, to people who actually liked these classic horror characters, having vampires taken from them was devastating. It's as if Stephanie Myer took a part of these people, dressed it up like a fairy, and forced it to play with Fabio in the romance section of the library for all eternity. Let's face it, vampires will never be the same, so to have a classic horror icon get stronger and faster is quite the contrast from making him wear a too too and prance around pretending that he still is scary.
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