The Walking Dead on AMC

Around this time last year I wrote a post about vampire movies
and how they scared me because they eroticized evil, and that
zombies are a much better reality to look at. Now it seems
that we are finally in the zombie moment I had hoped for and
I feel like maybe one needs to be careful what they wish for.

Zombies are the other, and as such they are easier to kill than
vampires.In order to not become a zombie you must kill the other.
Granted being a walking cadaver is definitely a bad thing, but
maybe the cadaver doesn't feel that way and maybe the cadaver is
happy with its zombie life. This probably isn't true actually.It
seems like the Zombie forgets who it is and only want to make
other people like itself.Zombies are very metaphysical... what if
anything goes on in their minds.

The Walking Dead has the typical zombie movie premise. A man falls
into a coma( he's a policeman, he gets shot) and on waking up he
finds the world changed, littered by dead bodies and overrun with
zombies (there is the especially compelling half a corpse zombie
woman holding onto a bicycle) Finally the
policeman makes it to a house where a father and son are living
out a hidden existence, with nightly appearances of their ghostly
mother/wife who has turned into a zombie. After leaving the mother
and father the policeman moves through the country, finds a horse,
rides it into the city.The premiere of the series ends with the
horse consumed by zombies (after the policeman assures the horse
that everything will be fine). There is another group of people
living somewhere in the country . The policeman goes into a tank,
and contacts life on the ham radio as the zombies howl outside.

The reason I guess I prefer zombie movies to vampire movies is because they
don't glamorize or sexualize death, but on some thought maybe glamorizing
death( or undeath) makes it more of a relatable human issue. To kill a
vampire is difficult because it might become your lover. To kill a zombie
is easier, as it is already obviously dead.This isn't a profound thought really
but somehow I think whether we watch zombie movies versus vampire movies says
a lot about the character of society in general. I guess it says we are more
blase about seeing the bad guys and also that there are more of them.

The series is based on a popular comic strip and the premise is pseudo scientific.
The people have contracted something known as Walker's disease, which eats away
their flesh and makes them want to eat flesh as well. As the series progresses
you begin to see the derivation from the comic book.