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flesh-eating ghoul movies make good date flicks. 12 Dawn of the Dead was remade with quality actors—Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames—and did very well at the box office. The king of the undead himself, George Romero, has returned to making new undead films like Land of the Dead (2005) and Diary of the Dead (2008). The video game Resident Evil 13 has been translated successfully into novels and big-budget, highly successful movies. Zombie-esque thrillers like 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later have been international hits, winning critical acclaim as well as audience praise. All three of his original films, Night, Dawn , and Day have been given bigger budget remakes. New zombie flicks are being hustled through development. Zombies have risen from the dead, and this time nothing seems to be knocking them down again.
    U NDERSTANDING THE Z OMBIE T HREAT
     
    So what makes a good zombie story?
    For the most part, the zombie stories in film and fiction follow a basic pattern:
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    Raw Footage—Why We Love Zombies
     
“Zombie movies are horrific on every level—they bring up the fear of the paranoid (having the ones you love turn up against you), they bring up our fears of carnivores (being eaten), and they bring up our fear of disease (becoming a zombie ourselves). There’s no other movie monster that works on so many levels of the mammalian psyche. We’re hardwired evolutionarily to be scared green of zombies.”—James Gunn, Screenwriter for the 2005 remake of Dawn of the Dead 14
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Something happens (radiation, plague, etc.) that causes the recently dead to rise.
     
     
The risen dead have little or no intelligence and operate on a kind of reduced sub-animal instinct. This instinct drives them to attack living humans.
     
     
The dead murder humans and consume their flesh.
     
     
In the face of this plague of zombies, civilization quickly crumbles.
     
     
A few remaining humans hole up in a (fill in the blank: deserted farmhouse, shopping mall, underground complex, etc.).
     
     
The humans bicker, and ultimately one or more of them is responsible for the dead breaking in and chomping on the last survivors.
     
     
Often at least one good-looking man and woman escape, but the future of the race as a whole (sex appeal notwithstanding) looks pretty grim.
     
     
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
     
     
    But is that how it would actually happen? Let’s revisit what we talked about in the Introduction:
 
If, for whatever reason, the dead did return to a semblance of life and begin attacking the living, would society immediately and irrevocably come apart at the seams?
     
     
Would all the infrastructure fail its citizenry?
     
     
Would medical science be unable to find a cure in time?
     
     
Would the police and military truly be overwhelmed?
     
     
    Personally, I don’t think so. And I like apocalyptic fiction.
    Having worked at various times in my career with law enforcement, the medical field, and in the sciences, I have a fair amount of faith that the technology, organization, process, and courage of the system would be up to the task.
    In World War Z , the author takes the middle view on the issue. He holds that the zombies would overwhelm mankind, largely due to the inefficiencies of the global political system and basic human greed and stupidity. However he further postulates that humanity, pushed to the edge of extinction, would find a way to work together and fight its way back from the brink to win the zombie war.
    Romero, the godfather of the subculture, takes a far dimmer view. In Night of the Living Dead the ghouls are ultimately (it seems) defeated, even though it’s at a dreadfully high cost in human terms; but in his 1978 sequel, Dawn of the Dead 15 , he predicts that the plague will continue to spread and more aspects of society will break down. By 1985’s Day of the Dead , Romero predicted a total societal collapse. However, when he picked up the series again in 2005 with