I'm interested in the zombie metaphor, it seems like it's tailor made to fit our anxieties of being surrounded by so many people in modern cities, while at the same time knowing fewer and fewer of our neighbors. 21st Century Schizoid Man. It's a plot device to plop the viewer into the scenario where the masses are crazy, dehumanized, alien...
I wonder if we could correlate the popularity of the zombie with "mixing pot" cultures, do they have the same appeal in homogenious societies? We also might be collectively imagining some kind of resource crunch, or fears of another airborne pandemic like the Spanish Flu.
thanks for the movie Sub Umbra.
+1 about fast zombies, very problematic.
"Game over man, game over!"
"We're dog meat, maaaan!"
"I don't know if you've been keeping score, but we just got our @ss!s kicked"
"Let's just bug out and call it even man! What are we even talking about this for?"
-Pvt. Hudson, "Aliens"