Going purely off of memory, I genuinely think it was around COVID that the cultural popularity started to really die off, at least in the Anglosphere?
Oh sure, a lot of us can remember when COD: Black Ops, Left 4 Dead, Zombieland, Walking Dead and World War Z had our collective attention within that span of roughly 10 years.
Sure do, I ended up going to a zombie apocalypse survival training and spending a few hours with city kids leading to tie simple knots (for a rope ladder).
Yeah, and the huge push that the major studios did what it always does, create a huge fuck ton of soulless corporate versions of it. Which inevitably led to the decline and ruin of the genre.
Real hard to get decent versions now with out them using some gimmick because they want it to stand out like 28 days later, and then just absolutely wiffing it.
It’s happened twice now! The 90s were relatively zombie-free
I remember a time when movie about the destruction planet by an apocalyptic event was a thing
I always loved catastrophe movies. Deep Impact, Armageddon, Volcano, Dantes Peak…
Wish there were more that weren’t absolute trash
2012 is a terrible, but fun, movie to watch. I love all those dumb movies.
My spouse’s comfortable movie is Day After Tomorrow. Honestly I hated these movies when they were the thing but now I kind of miss the age where global apocalypse and zombie plagues were the thing that got my anxiety up.
Greenland was also terribly fun. Haven’t checked out the sequel and don’t know that I will but if someone puts on the first one I’ll know what I’m doing for the next two hours.
I remember a time when the end of the world was just a silly fantasy.
The concept hits a little close to home nowadays.
I used to spend a significant amount of time thinking about my plan for the zombie apocalypse
I view zombie survival plans as a reasonable catch-all for general survival plans.
Fast or slow zombie? I feel like those are different plans.
Slow, probably bunker down and plant a big garden.
Fast… idk kms or something. I have asthma
Not since the accident
It is still hugely popular.
There are heaps of Korean ones on Netflix.
Any favorites?
Train to Busan's ending was really off-putting...
when we saw how fake the acting behind the final bite was; like, you could see the protagonist basically ensuring his hand was bite-able and waiting for it. It was so corny that it totally took me out of the movie’s suspension of disbelief for plot armory.
And #Alive had such a similarly dumb moment...
when they knowingly and willingly descended to the parking lot. Like, really? They were able to survive all that? Come on lol. A good plot does not need armor.
I’m always up for new ones, though.
If you haven’t caught it, I thought All of Us Are Dead was really good.
High school drama, bullying, young loves, all mixed with a zombie outbreak.
Naw, None that I would recommend.
Train to Busan was the only one I finished and it got sillier and sillier the longer it went on. There was a series one that took place in a high School, it got stupider and stupider the longer it went on as well.
The only zombie apocalypse movies I recommend are:
- Night of the Living Dead.
- Dawn of the Dead (both of them)
- Night of the Comet
- Night Eats World
- World War Z (Shocking I know)
- I Am Legend
- 28 Days Later
- The Girl With All the Gifts
What about Shaun of the dead?
Not my thing.
Yeah, but I didn’t quite care of them. They were too repetitive. Always some virus or always some condition that eventually is discovered to be a virus of some kind.
Sometimes it was chemicals!
Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it “Walking Dead” fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.
For over a decade, the zombie film was the standard of apocalypse and terror in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Christofascist pedophiles.
No, when were they?
Like 2007 to 2013 was like the peak oversaturation. They just kept coming in that period.
Yeah, the lead up to it was a lot of fun with things like 28 days later, walking dead comic and the zombie survival guide. Then the genre exploded. At least we got the two left 4 dead games out of it.
The best part was the theme that the walking dead aren’t the zombies. Then it makes it seem all too real. We just don’t have zombies in reality.
It still seems like a viable solution.
yeah, it was stupid.
and people who were into it, were stupid. it was annoying af.
so was game of thrones, which started airing when zombie stuff exploded, and then took off once the zombie trend starting waning.
and i had many gfs into both of these things and it was so annoying to have to listen to them go on and on about how amazing both things were… only to be forgotten 9 months later.
Damn, did a zombie steal your gf? You seem bitter about this.
No, worse. i had to sit through like 100s of dates listening to every woman into the walking dead lecture me on how she is the only person who is into zombies and she would be the only survivor because everyone else doesn’t understand how to survive…
there is nothing more insufferable than a person who is into super popular stuff that thinks it is edgy and alt and different.
100’s of dates of this? With the same person or are you just staggeringly unlucky?
9 months later
Don’t tell me you dumped them each after putting a baby in then.
I remembered a scene from The Walking Dead where in the attic a man or an old man created a baby with a zombie, or rather, it was a woman that he tricked into inviting to his house for supplies, then knocked out and tied up, and I think you guess what he was doing to her there, eventually she became a zombie and had a zombie baby growing in her stomach.
