When did zombies become so big?

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  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    My office is so divided ... myself and my boss are team Vampire and other are team Zombie. LOL

    Team Zombie. I started hating vampires when they started to sparkle.

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    Or just throw me in with the saints.

    OMG - like I needed another reason to :heart: Norman Reedus.

    I haven't been able to get into The Walking Dead though... but I've loved zombies since high school. I was one for Halloween too!

    STOP whatever you are doing and go watch Boondock Saints...
  • ChristineMarie89
    ChristineMarie89 Posts: 1,079 Member
    zombies have been around for a long time lol
    resident evil lol
    grade school: goosebumps
    lol
  • lukeout007
    lukeout007 Posts: 1,237 Member
    My office is so divided ... myself and my boss are team Vampire and other are team Zombie. LOL

    Team Zombie. I started hating vampires when they started to sparkle.

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    Or just throw me in with the saints.

    That picture is amazing.
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    My office is so divided ... myself and my boss are team Vampire and other are team Zombie. LOL

    Team Zombie. I started hating vampires when they started to sparkle.

    Or just throw me in with the saints.

    OMG - like I needed another reason to :heart: Norman Reedus.

    I haven't been able to get into The Walking Dead though... but I've loved zombies since high school. I was one for Halloween too!

    STOP whatever you are doing and go watch Boondock Saints...

    Oh how I wish I could - I love that movie! But I'm at work and they frown on watching movies while on the payroll.
  • zanAspera
    zanAspera Posts: 29 Member
    I do work on being ready for the impending zombie apocalypse as a lifestyle thing. But I'm more into the werewolf side of things when it comes to fandom. Yeah, Vampires don't sparkle... Blood sucking pixies and fairies sparkle.

    MLP:FIM has not addressed the issue of rabies. Presumably the unicorns have an adequate health plan. Mostly based on assistance from zebras that speak in rhyme..
  • Mr_Cape219
    Mr_Cape219 Posts: 1,345 Member
    First of all, I'm a horror movie FANATIC! If anyone else on here is one, add me and let's talk movies. I'm talking like italian horror, japanese horror, old, new, cult, cheesy, gory stuff...yeah.

    Regarding zombies, I think that as a society, we tend to get caught up with ideas and run with them. It happened with Vampires. It happened with werewolves. It happened with mummies. I think the appeal of zombies is that when it comes to horror movie characters, these can actually be a reality. Given the different types of viruses and bacterias in the world, it 's not hard to imagine something mutating beyond treatment and creating a zombie-like version of humanity. That's not counting any man-made viral warfare that could be created and get out of control. If some modern-day plague were to go bezerk, we could possibly end up with a zombie-like creature. Just look at rabbies.

    Funny that you mention that zombies could be realistic. I dont know how true this is, but I heard from a friend who has been a semi-reliable source of information, that there is this plant that actually causes some movement in deceased individuals. And that there is a village that uses this plant to move their dead from gravesites that become loosed by the rain and mudslides. Now, I have NO clue how legit this information is, and googling it never worked for me. So I just nod my head to his science major yada yada B.S. and see what he tells me.

    On another note, freakn love scary movies, and NOTLD is a classic that everyone should watch. I watch it every October.
  • Psychoanalytic
    Psychoanalytic Posts: 261
    My office is so divided ... myself and my boss are team Vampire and other are team Zombie. LOL

    Team Zombie. I started hating vampires when they started to sparkle.

    Or just throw me in with the saints.

    OMG - like I needed another reason to :heart: Norman Reedus.

    I haven't been able to get into The Walking Dead though... but I've loved zombies since high school. I was one for Halloween too!

    STOP whatever you are doing and go watch Boondock Saints...

    Oh how I wish I could - I love that movie! But I'm at work and they frown on watching movies while on the payroll.


    I could do a line-by-line reenactment of either the first or second...or both... if you'd like LOL.
  • Mr_Cape219
    Mr_Cape219 Posts: 1,345 Member
    My office is so divided ... myself and my boss are team Vampire and other are team Zombie. LOL

    Team Zombie. I started hating vampires when they started to sparkle.

    Or just throw me in with the saints.

    OMG - like I needed another reason to :heart: Norman Reedus.

    I haven't been able to get into The Walking Dead though... but I've loved zombies since high school. I was one for Halloween too!

    STOP whatever you are doing and go watch Boondock Saints...

    Oh how I wish I could - I love that movie! But I'm at work and they frown on watching movies while on the payroll.


    I could do a line-by-line reenactment of either the first or second...or both... if you'd like LOL.

    Start at the beginning; and when you get to the end, stop.
  • darkknightfan
    darkknightfan Posts: 396 Member
    When the Solanum Virus was discovered
  • trybefan
    trybefan Posts: 488 Member
    I hate this zombie trend...I hate the fact that some people can't seem to make a joke that doesn't involve the "zombie apocalypse"...Just like I can't stand even hearing the name "Chuck Norris" anymore.

    Thank you so much! Couldnt have said it better myself!
  • fluffyfeathers
    fluffyfeathers Posts: 47 Member
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    I just burst out laughing.... Read it with his voice in my head.
  • fluffyfeathers
    fluffyfeathers Posts: 47 Member
    they became big when DARYL DIXON SAYS THEY ARE
  • Fieldsy
    Fieldsy Posts: 1,105 Member
    I loved zombies before they were hip


    dammit.
  • yepitsjen
    yepitsjen Posts: 79 Member
    Try "World War Z" if you're interested in books about the Zombie Apocalypse. It's amazing. Also, The Walking Dead was a super rad comic before it was a TV show. It's really good.

    "World War z" came out in 2006.

    Yup! WWZ is awesome. They are making a movie out of it, and I hope they don't royally screw it up like they did with the Walking Dead TV show. WD comic is 100x better than the show.

    I'm scared of WWZ movie. I am a huge horror movie fan, including all Asian and European horror, but I CANNOT stand movies made from books. It pisses me off every time. "The Shining" is the only exception- because it's Stanley Kubrick :)
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    My guess is it started when the parody "Pride Prejudice & Zombies" became popular and more 'zombified' classic were put out. Enter in TV shows and voila. Long story short a bunch of teenagers and college students went "omg zombies r awesome lololololol" and threw up on the internet about it and now everyone's cashing in on it now that Twilight's finally dying with the last of its movies.

    I didn't mind it even though I didn't care for the books and I don't watch a lot of television, but when every hipster/nerdy/geek site and store started pulling zombie this and zombie that out their *kitten* it was basically beating the proverbial dead horse only now we were expecting it to get up and want brains.
  • i_am_losing_it
    i_am_losing_it Posts: 310 Member
    I thought they always have been. I watched the original night of the living dead when I was very young and loved it, there were several other lesser known zombie movies then too. I always watch every zombie movie that comes out, play the zombie video games and read the zombie books too. World War Z is awesome by the way!
  • Flixie00
    Flixie00 Posts: 1,195 Member
    For me it started with Land of the Dead, I am a Simon Baker fan :blushing:
  • Mr_Cape219
    Mr_Cape219 Posts: 1,345 Member
    My guess is it started when the parody "Pride Prejudice & Zombies" became popular and more 'zombified' classic were put out. Enter in TV shows and voila. Long story short a bunch of teenagers and college students went "omg zombies r awesome lololololol" and threw up on the internet about it and now everyone's cashing in on it now that Twilight's finally dying with the last of its movies.

    I didn't mind it even though I didn't care for the books and I don't watch a lot of television, but when every hipster/nerdy/geek site and store started pulling zombie this and zombie that out their *kitten* it was basically beating the proverbial dead horse only now we were expecting it to get up and want brains.

    I am going to draw that and post it to my profile. A proverbial dead horse wanting brains. Thank you for that image :D
  • darkknightfan
    darkknightfan Posts: 396 Member
    you guys should check out "were alive" ( www.zombiepodcast.com). its a podcast drama depicting parts of california during a zombie appocolypse... Very well done and into its third season
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    I think the current zombie trend happened with the remake of Dawn of the Dead.

    I've always been into zombie movies though. But I've always been into most horror movies.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    My guess is it started when the parody "Pride Prejudice & Zombies" became popular and more 'zombified' classic were put out. Enter in TV shows and voila. Long story short a bunch of teenagers and college students went "omg zombies r awesome lololololol" and threw up on the internet about it and now everyone's cashing in on it now that Twilight's finally dying with the last of its movies.

    I didn't mind it even though I didn't care for the books and I don't watch a lot of television, but when every hipster/nerdy/geek site and store started pulling zombie this and zombie that out their *kitten* it was basically beating the proverbial dead horse only now we were expecting it to get up and want brains.
    I hated that book.
  • darkknightfan
    darkknightfan Posts: 396 Member
    My guess is it started when the parody "Pride Prejudice & Zombies" became popular and more 'zombified' classic were put out. Enter in TV shows and voila. Long story short a bunch of teenagers and college students went "omg zombies r awesome lololololol" and threw up on the internet about it and now everyone's cashing in on it now that Twilight's finally dying with the last of its movies.

    I didn't mind it even though I didn't care for the books and I don't watch a lot of television, but when every hipster/nerdy/geek site and store started pulling zombie this and zombie that out their *kitten* it was basically beating the proverbial dead horse only now we were expecting it to get up and want brains.
    I hated that book.

    Seconded .. Tried to listen to the audiobook and kept falling asleep .. Then Marvel had to get on the "meat" wagon with the hero zombies ... some things are better off left alive
  • TheYearofMe
    TheYearofMe Posts: 21
    First of all, I'm a horror movie FANATIC! If anyone else on here is one, add me and let's talk movies. I'm talking like italian horror, japanese horror, old, new, cult, cheesy, gory stuff...yeah.

    Regarding zombies, I think that as a society, we tend to get caught up with ideas and run with them. It happened with Vampires. It happened with werewolves. It happened with mummies. I think the appeal of zombies is that when it comes to horror movie characters, these can actually be a reality. Given the different types of viruses and bacterias in the world, it 's not hard to imagine something mutating beyond treatment and creating a zombie-like version of humanity. That's not counting any man-made viral warfare that could be created and get out of control. If some modern-day plague were to go bezerk, we could possibly end up with a zombie-like creature. Just look at rabbies.

    Funny that you mention that zombies could be realistic. I dont know how true this is, but I heard from a friend who has been a semi-reliable source of information, that there is this plant that actually causes some movement in deceased individuals. And that there is a village that uses this plant to move their dead from gravesites that become loosed by the rain and mudslides. Now, I have NO clue how legit this information is, and googling it never worked for me. So I just nod my head to his science major yada yada B.S. and see what he tells me.

    On another note, freakn love scary movies, and NOTLD is a classic that everyone should watch. I watch it every October.

    Interesting...I would (kinda) believe something like that. Actually, one of my favorite "zombie" movies is The Serpent and the Rainbow. It has to do with Haitian voodoo and zombies. In this movie, the people don't actually die, but have the appearance of death, so people think they're zombies (the dead coming to life)...anyhow, they get to that state by eating this plant concoction. Good movie.

    ...and Night of the Living Dead (60's version)..CLASSIC
  • JSnover
    JSnover Posts: 51
    i didnt bother to read but all i got to say is

    THE WALKING DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    seriously has to the 3rd season already i cant take this thing called waiting any longer!
  • Anthonydaman
    Anthonydaman Posts: 854 Member
    They are the new vampire
  • DannyMussels
    DannyMussels Posts: 1,842 Member
    Zombie Ronald 3yrs ago.

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  • TheYearofMe
    TheYearofMe Posts: 21
    you know, as much as I love zombies, I have never watched The Walking Dead....but then again, I don't really watch tv. I'm more of a film aficionado
  • TheYearofMe
    TheYearofMe Posts: 21
    Zombie Ronald 3yrs ago.

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    E-P-I-C
  • sandrinamsilva
    sandrinamsilva Posts: 651 Member
    I dunno but they chase me when I'm running on the treadmill. I barely make it sometimes.
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