Essay on What Started the Zombie Craze and What Kept Them...

12th Composition --11 ° 16 December, 2009 What started the zombie craze and what kept them â€Å"alive†? AHHHHhhhhhh........! Imagine being awakened by a soft, distance scream. Wide awake, the world returns to being silent except for a racing heartbeat. Suddenly, a soft resonating moan starts to fill the empty air of the bedroom. Looking out the window, the world is an eerie grey with nothing moving but the occasional garbage blowing in the wind. Suddenly the horizon begins to change as a crowd of people begin to emerge. Watching nervously, the figures get closer and turn into something much more menacing. They are all disease-invested, flesh-rotted, brain-hungry zombies! Where did these undead monsters come from? How do they survive? What†¦show more content†¦Night of the Living Dead gave the world its first zombie and since then the zombie has not stopped thirsting for human brains. Today, the new movie Zombieland has just been released into theaters so the zombie is still going strongly through culture. Ni ght of the Living Dead was a serious horror look at zombies but society has turned a once terrifying genre into some humor. Spoofs like ‘Shawn of the Dead’ and ‘Zombieland’ â€Å"has fun messing around with the rules of the post-apocalyptic zombie movie genre† (Machosky). However the reason the undead have survived so long is because they have broadened their publicity range. Not only does the world see zombies in movies, but mankind must â€Å"watch out for Nazi zombies rising from the grave in videos games like ‘Dead Snow’ and ‘Call of Duty: World at War’† (Greene). Zombies have been expanded into music as well with the Kingston Trio’s release of the song â€Å"Zombie Jamboree†. Even books have been used to spread the disease, such as â€Å"at Borders zombie literature runs the gambit from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Zombie Haiku† (Greene). In addition, David Lubar has just recently expan ded the zombie craze to elementary school children with his newest novel, My Rotten Life (Lauer-Williams). This is a children’s book about a middle school student who is also a zombie. Zombies, once a scary menace only for the brave at heart, have become a friendlier topic for everyone. However, for some people, zombies are still a very