MicroHorror

“You know those old zombie movies? Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, that kind of stuff? Most of them were actually allegories about consumerism and bourgeois sensibilities. The zombies were supposed to represent the mindless greed of Middle America.”

“Seriously? I thought they were just supposed to be B-movie crap for a cheap thrill.”

“Well, some of them were. Plenty of people started making crappy zombie flicks when they saw that they could make a quick buck off of them. Most of those were just about violence, gore, and spraying gallons of blood everywhere. The ones that people remembered ten years later all had some sort of deeper message though. It’s ironic, really.”

“How do you mean?”

“Well, everyone always pointed to the ‘deeper meaning’ when it came to zombie films and claimed that it was the messages about consumerism, classism and greed that really defined the walking undead. When it came right down to it, though, real-world zombies turned out to be completely about violence, gore, and spraying gallons of blood everywhere.”