Because no nerd or even normal person now hasn't heard of zombies, or seen enough zombie media to not know about them or how to deal with them so lets see this more as a celebration to all things undead and zombie like [Or infected if you want to be mega assholes about it]
Zombies have been big for years now and I think it's mostly due to the sheer explosion of things like The Walking Dead, Left 4 Dead and having zombie add ons to popular games such as COD and RED DEAD REDEMPTION - UNDEAD NIGHTMARE.
People who like zombies have always been into them I think, like before it was cool to wear or carry your 'This is my zombie killing ____' around with you proudly to show your all hip and with the kids. Liking zombies has become so mainstream now that you can get a zombie movie about everything where as back in the day [I'm not that fucking old I know] it used to be Zombies were the lame B movie type gorefest but now they are often the nasty things that lurk while having to endure with human struggle and all that crap.
Some of us just like shooting zombies and don't care for the person's inner struggle. Thank god for stuff like L4D, House Of The Dead and other such pewpew bangbang games. Saying that I'm not a total meathead I do enjoy the whole 'It's humans who are the worst' but sometimes I want someone to get eaten by a zombie not watch a whole ep of The Walking Dead just to see a cameo by a zombie doing nothing but minding it's own business.
I think my issue with how big zombies have gotten is no one bothers to make a good zombie movie any more. I am tired of seeing _____ VS zombies, clown zombies, zombie strippers, zombie sheep or any other 'hurhur' spin on zombies.
That's why I am bigging up the good zombie things.
The Walking Dead Game by Telltale
This game is one of the best games I have ever played and this is coming from an FPS meathead who likes to explode stuff. The plot is heavy, hard hitting, soft, sweet and tragic and the fact you can pick things and your story goes with what you did? it's amazing but also makes you realise how bad of a person you are.
I've never been so drawn into a game before and really feel things. I cried like a bitch when I saw the ending. Tears of manliness flowed like waterfalls.
Some countries even use it to teach etihics in school.
Norwegian teacher Tobias Staaby is getting a fair bit of good press today for playing Telltale's The Walking Dead with his students at Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School in Bergen, Norway.
Staaby incorporates the game into his religious studies curriculum to help spur discussion about morality and ethical choices.
"The Walking Dead presents some dilemmas [the students] would not have thought of otherwise," Staaby told a reporter from Norwegian media outlet NRK. "That makes their answers to a greater extent their own."
You can watch the full report from NRK in the video above, though it's probably wise to enable subtitles if you don't speak Norwegian.
Though The Walking Dead is likely the grisliest game ever used in a classroom, is hardly the first -- sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program and Minecraft have been used as teaching tools for years
In The Flesh
Due to the fact I never watch TV this one slipped me by for awhile until a work mate pointed it out so I started to watch and.. it's good.
In The Flesh is a BBC three part drama in which the dead came back to life and all hell broke lose.. after the events of the zombie take over alot of zombies were rounded up and 'cured' thanks to injections which give their brains the thing that being dead took away and now they walk amongst us but with all memories of their past lives in tact.
These people are called PDS 'Partally Dead Syndrome' and they try and fit back into our world. Our story is about a boy who had killed himself and there are alot of unresolved issues in the family due to how he died.
Where he lives sadly is a very god loving, low tolerance northern community that hate 'rotters' and who lead the HVF [Human Volunteer Force] which includes our main guys sister. It shows the northern lot in a very 'nice' light but as someone from the south.. oh well.
Anyway it's about zombies who came back, got cured and have to deal with 'living' their lives again and dealing with the guilt of what they have done and also dealing with the true livings feelings towards them.
A new, fresh look on the overly done to ahem.. death zombie story.
Three parts which doesn't feel rushed as you see him coming home, the struggles he gets from a conflicted family, a community who hate him and also meeting people along the way. It's powerful and compelling and a damn good watch.
I can't say a bad thing about it other then the fuck ugly guy called 'Dean'...
Plot: 5/5
Acting: 4/5
Gore: 4/5
Scares: 1/5
Overall enjoyment: 5/5
These two stick in my mind as some freaking amazing recent zombie things. I suggest them to anyone.
Enjoy your merry month of zombie and expect a zombie related post everyday!
Much love
Jigsaw
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