Zombie Mania

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

I used to love the Zombie horror subgenre. Actually, I still do, I am just very tired of it these days. Everywhere I look I see more and more zombie movies, books, TV shows. It is getting annoying. I have loved Zombies for years and now I am just another face in the crowd. If you were wondering, yes, I am one of those "I liked them before they were popular" types of people.

Right now, horror as a genre is over exposed. People these days are in love with zombies, vampires and werewolves and yes, I am putting the zombie fanatics in the same boat as the Twilight people. By over exposing these creatures they become something of a joke, when they should be feared.

Short answer: I have a love/hate relationship with Zombies right now.

 

[Deathkingo]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

I am getting tired of people doing zombies WRONG. I mean, slow, shoot them in the head, not intelligent. How do they screw this up?

Next thing you know, people will start messing up vampir...no, no wait...

 

[smearyllama]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Same here. Though I really like the concept, I do wish there wasn't such a weird craze about them.

 

[MrGalactus]

I've never seen a zombie movie or played a zombie game I didn't like.

 

[Stryc9]

Like...do you really wanna know where I live? It's maybe half and half. But it's probably not even...a lot of those "crappy romance books" aren't vampires, but they are something "gothic". I made my peace with those a long time ago. The zombie thing is more recent, and it seems a lot more sudden as well. Not to mention that most of the concepts look way stupider than most of the gothic romances.

It helps that a lot of those gothic romances are kept in the teen section, not the sci-fi/fantasy section. My problem is, they're sticking all the zombie books in the sci-fi/fantasy section, when they're really neither. But we don't have a "horror" section at my local B&N, so I guess they had to stick them somewhere.

Not like right down to your street address no. But I'm guessing that location matters quite a bit as to which books our respective bookstores get. Living in Washington State where that Twilight crap is set I would think we would tend to get more of that vampire based shit than somewhere else.

As far as the books I'm referring to being Gothic romance and having nothing to do with vampires, just out of curiosity a while back I scanned the backs of a few of them and I'll be damned if most of them didn't say something along the lines of "What she didn't know was that Character X was a vampire". The sad part is that our bookstore doesn't tend to keep that garbage confined to one part of the store, it's spread almost everywhere except the nonfiction sections.

My personal favorite for comedic value was seeing one of these books that was about a chick falling in love with a guy who was a werewolf during the Zombie Apocalypse.

 

[JashobeamZ]

i definitely don't see a saturation, but if you know where to look in any book store you fill find a shit load of something. i mean you can walk into a chapters and complain about any genre or sub genre if you walk down the right aisle.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

This series looks interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it when it starts airing, see if its worth watching.

I don't have quite the zombie mania that I use to but I still like zombie stories though. Read through the Zombie Survival Guide, own World War Z, have a the book The Living Dead which is a collection of zombie short stories. In fact I'm just about to get The Sacrifice for L4D2.

 

[Littlee300]

I think I'm the exact opposite of you. I'm finding the zombie trend excruciatingly tiresome, and I'm getting sick of walking into my bookstore and seeing the shelves bursting with new zombie books.

Lets all switch to mummies!
edit: no 'mommies'? joke!

 

[WolfThomas]

I'm hesitant over "The Walking Dead", for one tiny little irrational thing, that Rick Grimes is depicted with a big silver revolver, instead of a standard issue police beretta or whatever. It's just Rick Grimes is badass and a great character, but largely he grew to be the huge badass he is over the course of the apocalypse. At the start of the infection he was just an ordinary small town cop who'd only fired his gun in the line of duty once. I want to see him become the person he is at issue 77, not start out as some Clint Eastwood wannabe cowboy cop.

This is true for most of the characters, they become badass rather than start out as one (aside from Michonne but she was surviving alone for months and a very good fencer prior to apocalypse).