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my father is a huge movie lover and we used to often sit down talking about films, what makes a story well written, and what genre is the most ambitious to make. Unfortunately, he doesn't like horrors at all, but, when it comes to zombies, he always had an interesting yet simple way of reassuming what is that makes them so effective and scary and, basically, an exception among fictional monsters. He says "what's scarier than an animal? A human who behaves like an animal"

I’ve been telling my fiancée the reason I enjoy the zombie genre so much is because it is a great setting for character studies. The plots are nearly the same (as you put it, “seek shelter, engage enemy”), so, imo, the zombie stories that focus more on the characters, how they come together, and how they address their situations is much more entertaining than simply watching a group of near super soldiers gunning down mobs of the undead (or infected). That’s why stories like 28 Days Later, Train to Busan, and The Ravenous hold particular spots in my love for the genre.

Your question at 7:10 about why zombies tend to be so prevalent in contrast to the list of other monsters you listed is really simple honestly: they're not copy righted.

Most of us find ourselves truly detached from reality and we also immerse ourselves into video games . Because we found one thing that outside world lacks....a purpose.

just last year in the middle of the pandemic, alone, having lost my job, behind on rent, no money and running dry basic stuff like food, I would fantasize about zombie outbreaks. Wishing that society could just fall to something like this because it would mean I could at least go into some store and steal food and it wouldn't matter, nothing would matter anymore. No shitty jobs, no rent, no worries of little money, no sleepless nights thinking on how I'll never achieve anything. if it all went to hell I would only have to worry about survival and none of the meaningless constructs imposed by a society. one year later I'm back to who I was before the pandemic, unfulfilled, alone, trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing and why; i hate it.

The best zombie story has to be World War Z, the book obviously, it is one of the few story's where humanity win, it talks about how no matter how bad humanity gets that we can work together and overcome as a species our problems Edit: Oh you do cover it, nice!

I've always felt zombies were just a literary tool to make a bad guy that's the amazing trifecta of A) Always moral to kill B) Always understood by the audience and C) Can pose a threat OR be easily dispatched depending on context. As a writer, I always loved them for this reason alone.

You can literally make anything interesting from a philosophical standpoint. That’s a true talent my friend.

How to summarize the oversaturation of zombie media in one sentence: "Hey Joe, you wanna play a zombie game?"

There's a point I disagree with that I find important for the meaning of zombie stories; zombies aren't dead, they're _undead_. At least for me, it's about when the parts of us we can't let go of (let die) take over and suppress our ability to reason and empathize, turning us into mindless monsters of utter inhumanity. That too is something that seems at times like a contagion. Like how the Jungian Shadow possesses someone and tend to trigger possessions in others (imagine how comment fields sooner or later tend to degrade into a triggerfest). I think this is an important point because it takes us back to how to not be a zombie yourself: deal with your inner monsters, and let go of the parts of you that are, and need to stay, dead.

Zombies came from Haiti, and from enslavd people living there. It started after the fear of "What if they also take our soul?". After learning this zombies have become the fear of losing yourself for me. Sadly I feel like this is never shown in any media tho

I recommend reading the book "Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis" to anyone who is interested in the symbolic significance of the Zombie, and why it has become so pervasive in western pop-culture.

About that argument that zombies can't truly be great character I can recomend the first season of In the Flesh. It's an interesting take on cured zombies that were reintroduced into the society after ending of a zombie apocalypse.

The interesting thing I like in zombie stories is what it does to society. Zombie apocalypse will inevitably crumble social constructs so while zombies are a threat to Humanity, the thing we should fear the most is Humanity itself. Zombies are predictable, they only want to eat you. Humans are not, their objectives varies and their willingness is unparalleled.

Perhaps it's a weariness with our society, feeling and acting like mindless automatons, doing largely the same things every day, bound by rules-- both social and economic-- that keep us in the same existence loop... over and over and over again. Wanting to be free. Wanting to blow shit up. Wanting release from all things we feel obligated to do and getting on with things we want to do. There's more reasons than I can come up with in a YT comment. Personally, I don't care much about the zombie genre and I'm here wondering why others do.

I think you skirted around the edges of the most important aspect of the genre: How human beings relate socially to the modern world. I think the zombie formula taps into two fundamental issues with living in a global industrial media-soaked society. First, we are constantly surrounded by more people than we have the capacity to have empathy for. The majority of human history and evolution took place in hunter/gatherer tribes and small villages, where you were intimately familiar with most other human beings you came in contact with. The majority of humanity lives in cities now. We are constantly exposed to people we know nothing about, and we don't necessarily recognize them as human in the same way we recognize our friends, families, co-workers, etc. Second, the nature of our survival struggles have changed. This you came much closer to nailing. Pre-industrial, our struggles were material scarcity and direct violence (dangerous animals, marauders). Post-industrial revolution, we aren't subjected to material or violent struggle so much. Rather, we are, but we engage with those struggles ideologically. Our society subjects people to scarcity and violence all the time, but who gets subjected to those things is largely the result of ideological struggles. As the new ideological axis of conflict has progressed, it's compounded on itself in multiple ways. It's grown in complexity, with ideologies becoming more fractured by details. And the combination of mass media with post-cold war consumerism pressuring everyone into more social atomization has caused ideology to be the manner in which most of us process and interact with the rest of the world outside of our small social circles. What this amounts to is a vague feeling we all carry of the modern world being a hostile place, even though that hostility rarely confronts us in a personal way. This translates into a generalized anxiety about those outside of our social group, who we process as soulless until proven otherwise. As opposed to ourselves and the people in our lives that we directly know, who feel vibrantly soulful by comparison. The infectious nature of zombies, as you noticed, relates to our anxiety about those we care about becoming like the rest of the world. To lose someone to the zombie plague is to see someone fall to sympathetic for ideals that we fail to understand and feel threatening to us. Or to watch them fade from familiarity and assimilate into a different social group, becoming one of the crowd. And boiling underneath it all is this overwhelming sense of being outnumbered by these soulless others. This sense of being part of the band of colorful characters in a world infested with innumerable hordes of soulless beings who want to consume you for reasons you don't understand. I think everyone feels like they're in a zombie apocalypse already, but that feeling is deeply buried and vague. The reason zombie stories resonate so strongly is it brings those feelings to the surface, and provides a sort of language for what's otherwise just a vague subconscious existential paranoia. And the reason the violent apocalypse aspect of these story settings is so appealing is because of the juxtaposition of conflicts that we're wired to innately understand - material scarcity and violence - clashing directly with the conflicts we struggle with in reality - vague subconscious existential paranoia. And the zombie genre lends itself so well to social commentary - ANY social commentary, because every social issue relates to these fundamental elements of how human beings socially relate to the modern world. The mysterious, infectious nature of ideological struggle, and the overwhelming of our social capacities forcing us to process the world in terms of characters or zombies. And the best zombie stories are the ones that highlight how its our capacity to have empathy and to compromise and organize effectively within this sociological landscape that needs to evolve in order for the modern world to succeed. The rise of zombies represents how the world has changed. The apocalypse represents our failure to adapt to that change. It's the world we will have if our better natures don't prevail, and we know this.

Hey Tom, take a look at In The Flesh!! A series about people that were resurrected as zombies without explanation. After some years they're cured from the zombieish part of it, becoming just humans again but now have some physical and psychological sequelae.

Despite my original fandom of Night Of The Living Dead, I'm not a watcher of zombie stories anymore. But reflections on why they can still have their place in our entertainment are always fascinating. Thank you for including them on your channel. 🧟

There is also, from another culture, the manga "Attack on Titan", where the titans are essentially giant zombies, created from humans. I think, in this particular story, that they are the physical manifestation of the "monster within each of us", wich is soulless, eternally hungry, and attacks everyone (but only humans) indiscriminately. In the manga, only one race of humans (the eldians) can transform into titans, and this fact is used as an excuse by other humans to scapegoat and oppress them.

My favorite version of this is the walking dead comic. The tv show did a good job but lost its track trying to keep the attention of the viewers with constant cliffhangers, drastic character changes and death fake outs. The comic shows how the world can turn the nicest people into the most hardened killers, but at the same time with the need to rely on community.

Zombie movies for me speak of a time most people of the modern era have never experienced. Where your only thought are to survive for one more day. And in our own world where we have so many different worries this is somewhat romantic that anyone of us could be the hero of this simplified world.

What I really like about zombies is that they break all laws of thermodynamics, especially by spending more energy than they produce. lol.

I am SO happy you decided to use the "Total War" quote from WWZ. That is, for me, the essence of what makes zombies so terrifying.

I've always seen it as a fascination with death and immortality; Zombies embody deaths seemingly disconnected, indiscriminate and ravenous nature a perfect mirror of our disconnection with death itself... Also consumerism metaphor and a slap to the face to our idea of social interaction; showing us the difference between actually socializing and surviving vs passing each other by in a relatively safe city and boasting about how social we are.

I read once that in the past, man was afraid of the forests. The deep, dark, unknown. That howl that you werent sure was behind that nearest tree or miles away. In modern society, the narrative flipped. We conquered those spooky woods. In doing so though, the city became the spooky area and the faceless masses became the threat. The zombies.

That line about the stories becoming too depressing...oof. That's when I quit watching the walking dead. How, when and why Glen was murdered was too much for me.

Like Stories of Old... I am so incredibly grateful to have stumbled on your channel a few years ago. You have been the one voice that I can always come to and feel human again and not alone. You have always touched my heart with your soothing voice and deep attention to detail. A true understanding of the human nature and a breathtaking way of unfolding a story and the understanding of it all. Thank you Thank you Thank you

I’ve been thinking about this concept for two whole years. Thank you for making a video that verbalized precisely how I’ve felt and never been able to explain

Thank you my friend for your commitment and vision. I thoroughly enjoy your storytelling.

I'm currently working on a zombie screenplay and the timing of this video couldn't have been any better. Thank you @Like Stories Of Old

Beautiful, insightful and important work as always LSOO! Your work is a gift to the world.

Like Stories of Old always has a way to make me tear up! Beautiful video!

I think it's wonderful how, regardless of the topic adressed, I always finish watching your videos with tears in my eyes. Thank you, your work and research are amazing :)

Amazing video! I'm a huge zombie fan, always have been since I was young, and you just put all my subconscious thoughts on "why do I love zombie stories?" Into one video and really brought the words to explain what makes such stories so meaningful!

Another wonderful video on one of my favorite genres, thank you

I absolutely love the points you made about human cynicism and the most “compassionate thing you could do being a headshot”. I absolutely hate this cynical dynamic and wanna see more creative things done with it. Humanity breaking down and turning on each other is something I just can’t take for granted anymore

Good Channel & Videos. I like the insightful, thoughtful,and thorough coverage of relevant aspects of the topics covered. Good job.

Your videos are wonderful brother, Please don't ever stop making them. :)

This video inspired a thematic breakthrough for me on a book I’m working on, extrapolating from your description of the overrunning of cynical individualism present in some of these zombie stories (even though my book has nothing to do with zombies). Thank you for that. Stay well out there, and God bless you friends. :)

Very accurate and thorough analysis in my humble opinion. Great video.

Lovely essay as always :)

wow your video is great , has a point, and gives deeper meaning to zombie stories. First view in this channel and I'm staying for more

Cried imagining how it would devastate you to shoot or kill your loved one, it would strip out the purpose and meaning to live. How blessed we are to love our kin, our partners and not to take ourselves for granted. A beautiful purpose to live for and cherish.

TWD season 1 game captures your idea very well, sure there was evil humans in the story but Lee and Clementines bond shows hope in humanity during the worst of times.

By the way, George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" is not the origin. Romero said in several interviews that he was inspired by the 1966 Vincent Price movie "Last Man on Earth" where the "undead" were a kind of vampire. Side note: "Last Man on Earth" was the first of three movies based on the Richard Matheson novel "I Am Legend", the other two being the Charlton Heston movie "The Omega Man" and Wil Smith's "I Am Legend".

Had my attention the whole time, nice one man.

I love your video essays.

Earned a subscribed from me. If all of your videos are this well researched and executed, I can’t believe the luck I have just had to stumble across your channel!

Best birthday gift ever! Awesome analysis!

This video put all my thoughts and feelings about the zombie fantasy together in such a concrete and imaginative way that I could never have done myself. Thank You.

Hey man, can you talk about *immortality* in stories next?? I've always wanted to know what immortals think about humanity. Like, if there's an immortal that have lived for millennia said he/she had lost faith in humanity, what would be your response? How do you argue with someone that literally has WAY MORE experience that you could ever have about such a subject? Could make a great video.

I became a member of Curiosity Stream/Nebula specifically for your content. I wish you had the means to release your work daily!! (Or even weekly). Life changing writing. Thank you. 🙏

In high school I wrote my first screenplay which I threw away on a zombie apocalypse, it was pretty much The Last Of Us, The Road, I Am Legend(in terms of apocalypse sense) and 28 Days Later. I liked Zack Snyder’s take on zombies in his remake of Dawn Of The Dead the best and it’s messages towards consumer society as you have mentioned in the video. Great upload as always. Looking forward to more content.

Glad I found your channel. Liked, subscribed, commenting for the algorithm. Thanks.

i don't know you but I LOVE YOU!

wow, very thankful for your latest video essay (and no, your title/thumbnail is not misleading, etc - sigh) again! i, too, have pondered this "realm" of thought.. i'm very glad you share my own comparatively similar observations over the decades in real-time visual consumption.. World War Z, I Am Legend (Extended Version notation), the beginnings of TWD, Warm Bodies, The Last Of Us - among several other unmentioned rarities in the "genre" like "28 Days Later"- i, too, see an uptick in upsurge and divergence in this genre.. thank you very much for your continual video essays! i patiently look forward to the next..

I'm surprised you didn't use the footage of 28 days later when you talk about betrayal. When Don abandonned his wife from fear. Amazing video. I recently discover you channel and it's a pleasure to watch them and reflect with others

Fantastic video. Definitely going to start watching this channel on Nebula. Thank you for the thought-provoking piece.

This year I read The Walking Dead graphic novel series. The author has a forward in the first volume where he says that he was more interested in how people would behave when the world crumbles. And the zombies were more or less an entertaining plot device.

Excellent vid!

Great video, as always. I think one of the reasons why zombies are so popular is because they are so versatile, so the zombies in each movie can have a completely different meaning. 28 Days Later is a great example of this. Rather than being mindless drones reflecting consumerism, the victims are infected by pure rage. One of the most powerful scenes for me is where Frank realizes he is infected and lashes out at his daughter to try to keep her away, then quickly escalates to the point that he is trying to kill the very person he wanted to protect. It was heartbreaking because Frank was a good man and not being himself, but it reminded me of how this happens so much in the world already. Like when you hear about somebody dying because of an instance of road rage, domestic violence, or rioting, and somebody tries to defend the perpetrator by saying, "I know him, he's a good person, this isn't like him at all. He just lost his temper."

As always, great content. "In The Flesh" would've been a great addition to this idea.

29:24 - paraphrased "hope... simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness." - the Architect

i feel like the general audience loves zombie movies, because it doesn't matter who you were, its who you are...and the sense of change...so its escapism/wanting to start your life over again

Night Eats The World and #Alive have been some of my favorite zombie films in the past 12-16 months BECAUSE they're not the bland "guns and violence solves everything" survival fantasies that have infected (pun intended) US culture ... they're both about surviving the end of the world and still staying human. The first one's from France and is on Amazon Prime (?) and I believe the second one was Korean and on Netflix (?)

A topic I'd love to explore!

Outstanding video essay.

Has anyone seen the Korean Netflix show Kingdom? Definitely my favourite new zombie story I've watched in a while, i love how they've gone about the zombies' inception. I guess koreans really know how to do zombies. It might be interesting to compare how different cultures present zombies.

Man, I would love to see you make an essay video about Mad Men.

The Walking Dead is my favorite TV show, in large part because it has done an amazing job of exploring grief over the seasons. All different kinds of grief, the stages of grief, the things it makes you do, the way it changes you. The number of times that show has made me cry is impressive for a zombie thriller. They do a great job of creating 3-dimensional characters that feel real. I've always thought of the zombie element as a plot device to tell some truly beautiful, heartbreaking, and even occasionally uplifting stories! But I also love an occasional scare/gory moment so it hits everything for me.

"to quote myself" made me kek, great video as always

to me one of my favorite takes on the zombie genre has been the anime/manga school live. is the story of 4 girls that took shelter in their school with one having metal issues that causes her to deny the reality she lives in and the other 3 finding ways to keep her out of trouble. the series combines the lightheartedness of cute girls doing cute things with gritty and dark which gives the series an optimistic and hopeful feeling.

I think the best thing about a well-done zombie story is that they can become used as a catalyst for an excellent character study. For me, it's not the scariness of the zombies and the horror of trying to survive in that world, but the chance to explore how the primary characters will adjust, change, and grow in that apocalyptic world. while I agree with everything you've pointed out, I like considering the way that every survivor would be dealing with some level of PTSD. Like EVERYONE will have to deal with the tragedy in some form or fashion. No one will be immune to the horror and appalling conditions. I'm currently exploring some of the concepts of the genre with my current TTRPG group. We actually had our twentieth session earlier tonight, as a matter of fact.

Refreshing to hear about the survival fantasy. I have always had the theory that the reason I miss being deployed so much is that it was easier, all there was, was survival.

Just got to the book part of the video. Excellent!

Okay, this should be an interesting video, because I think zombies are the *stupidest* monsters, ever. An unintelligent thing that behaves with absolute predictability, and makes no attempt at self-preservation, is (at best) a temporary annoyance, quickly resolved. Even "fast zombies" pose little in the way of additional danger. This whole genre, in general, is just dumb -- notwithstanding the occasional outlier story that's actually decent. If he can find something meaningful, beyond the obvious allusions to consumer culture, then I'll be impressed. I think the cynical lack of compassion is one of the key attractions of zombie stories. Some people find quite attractive a dead-simple, "Us vs Them" story of violent tribalism. In our complex social realities, some people just don't have the patience (or the willingness) to put in the work necessary to find a way to get along with others -- especially, others who perceive the world quite differently. They're already tribal, and the world they live in is already minimal, because their limited ability to create meaningful relationships circumscribes the "success" (however that's defined) they can attain. They don't want to *have* to tolerate. They don't want to *have* to figure out how to get along. They don't want to *have* to figure out ways to live together, peacefully. They don't want to *have* to live according to the rules and constraints of modern civil society. To them, a zombie simply personifies every other human being they don't want to have to get to know. And they get to blow the brains out of "those people." It's simple life, in a simple world, in which they think they get to be big fish, because the pond is so much smaller. That simplicity, combined with the tremendous violence that "solves" the conflict, provides a visceral, atavistic, cathartic experience for people frustrated at the difficulties they face, in real life. That said, many of us value the great gifts to humanity, and enjoy some modicum of personal success, enabled by modern civilization -- as annoyingly complex as that may be. For many of us, I think, zombie movies hold very little in the way of any sort of attraction -- but that, of course, means we're the ones many fans of the genre want to see zombified. That way, they can blow our brains out. But that's also what made the book, "World War Z" so good. The interviews showed humanity at our best -- our most resilient, our most hopeful -- at our great willingness to work, together. Some of the stories, such as the one told by the woman who got trapped, with her family, at a campground in Canada with not enough food, were pretty horrible. But most stories in the book were much more satisfying.

I truly like this videos. Deep meaninful and give back hope in humanity.

i love your analysis (all you vides). While your zombie analysis is complete, you have to emphasize that “we are the zombies”, nothing more, nothing less. It has always been about how we react morally, regardless if we have hunger for humans or not. Some good movies are ‘Shawn of the Dead’- comedic, “Dawn of Dead’ Synder -commercialism, but also ‘WWZ’ , “Open Grave”, and “28 days…. [Series]” about confining to decisions about our biology. - Honestly, one of the great zombie movie is; “The Battery”, where it shows 2 viewpoints of morality of the unaffected (and very little of zombies). And for the survival, apocalyptic scenario, you don’t need that, just take our world as it is, all it shows is the emptiness failure of us, what we’ve done, and opening our eyes.

a license to commit violence and be on the run for adventure

My favorite zombie property isn't a film, but a series. Kingdom is a beautifuly creative series. Another point is that I was watching another video essay that was talking about copyright law. Zombies were never copyrighted, so a wide range of creators have the opportunity of remaking them.

Brilliant just brilliant 👍

Zombies as mythological monsters don’t scare me. Zombies as metaphors for violent mob based social movements do - like nothing ever else ever has. I used to rely on George Carlin’s commentary on zombies that they _“…are so damn undependable.”_ Now I have this. Thank you from the bunker.

This perfectly sums up one of the biggest issues I've had with Zombie media. If humans were as distrustful, violent and selfish as they're portrayed in the genre, we'd never have had kingdoms, countries or any other great things we've built or achieved. Black Summer is terrible for this

Oh my god, i was a huge fan of WWZ Max Brooks book and that powerfull tesis of his message was the best way i could have thought to resume it my god

Junger's "Tribe" is also a must read for this analysis. People seek meaning, and the chaos of conflict crystalizes that meaning into clarity of thought. I think you addressed that well.

Stories that take a degree of separation from the actual zombies always hit harder with me. The Zafehouse Diaries games are essentially management games with a focus on group morale and personal flaws that you have to work around to get as many people out of the area safely. But the books World War Z and Allison Hewett is Trapped which focus on the things said by the people surviving (or who have already survived) the storm rather than trying to use the end times as a vehicle for excitement are my top picks.

I feel like a zombie movie respecting the dead that makes use of a human understanding of society and the dramatic, tragic, and comedic understanding. Using close combat weapons usually just a few at a time and very broken down or physically fit and robustly fast. A movie that seeks to deliver a deeper understanding and love among the living here and now to truly be alive!

Well done

thanks so much for using my piece "allude"!!

Great video! One question I would raise is, in this vain of the zombie being the antithesis of humanity and all we consider integral to humanity, how would something like the Planet of the Apes fit in? Much of our society is focused on linear progression forwards. While zombies are a good antonym to our current state of being, I think something like the apes provides another very interesting perspective in that they are not the opposite of us, instead they personify the idea that, in the branching web of possibilities that led to our evolution, we may have not been the 'right' choice. Not only does it not give an external enemy, like a zombie, to fight against, but it also explores a sense of existential doubt. I would love to hear your thoughts on that!

I’ve already declared my love for the zombie apocalypse years ago any zombie content I automatically support it no matter how crappy lol

I love your essays :) But at 28:40 you missed the PERFECT opportunity for a funny reference to "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" XD

love this essay!! wish i could see the part about the violence and gore tho !

Very excited to click and watch this video. I knew you would bring some great insight. I'll admit it took some serious determination to wait until the end to leave my comment 😂 I found myself frequently pausing to disagree with you 😆 as early as the 2 minute mark. I was concerned with the direction you were going in, but in the end you got it! I'm not a big fan of horror movies, but I'm a huge fan of zombie Media, because unlike "movie monsters" they bring so much more to the table. The one thing I will still disagree with is that the question of purpose is very much on the table, in 28 days later every character you encounter is dealing with the question of purpose: "What exactly are we surviving for?" Selena confronts Jim, "should we just fuck!?", Frank confronts Selena, "we have to go...go Fucking WHERE!?" The Capt confronts Jim: "I promised them women, women mean a future, without them what does a group of men do, except wait to die themselves."

You mentioning Minecraft and an interest in zombie games. This was me a couple of years ago, after playing Minecraft for a long time I was looking for something new and came across a group of guys, youtube channel Achievement Hunter, playing 7 days to die. The game was recommended to me by coworker a few years before, at the time I brushed it off since I was still having fun with Minecraft. After watching the Achievement Hunters paly I knew I had to check it out, and it scare the pants off me the first time. Since then I mostly played with friends, strength in numbers and it's more fun surviving in a group rather than alone. Here's me going on, what I wanted to ask is, if you've heard of the game. It does play into the power fantasy you mention, it does however come with it's own difficulties. If you haven't, my suggestion is to look it up.

Fairly good points. It's part of the reason why in terms of zombie media I prefer the Resident Evil games. The games (well the ones with zombies in them) are more isolated incidents rather than a full blown apocalypse, even with for example the Racoon City stuff in 2 and 3 and others, it's still one place that's affected by the zombies and other zombies while the rest of the world decide what to do. I find zombie stories with more isolated scenarios kinda brings back the fear of zombies of things getting worse while in the apocalyptic storeis, the worst is already happened and zombies are just an everyday thing.

I think zombie stories can cater to most people’s love for film. There’s at least one zombie film, or show, or book, or game, that everyone likes it seems. There’s the optimism in stories like World War Z, both mediums. There’s redemption, like in Train to Busan. There’s comedy, Shaun of The Dead. Depression, The Last of Us 2. My favourite zombie story is probably The Last of Us. I prefer the sequel honestly as well. It’s overwhelming fact of hopelessness and heavy feelings of grief just strike me like not much else does. And sometimes I absolutely love a depressing story because it just gets me so invested. The zombies aren’t what’s so important here but rather what they’ve done to the world and what they’ve made the characters into. And these characters that have been made by this cruel world then go on to transform and change each other. It’s just beautiful.

Maggie is my favorite zombie movie-great emotional story about grief.

Much love