I grew up loving zombie movies. They were my favorite sub genre of horror film. If a movie had a zombie in it, I was watching it. And for a good, long while, I was set in my thoughts that a zombie apocalypse would do this world some good. We are overpopulated, and we are run by assholes. Anyone who thinks some thinning of the ranks of this world’s population is bad idea, go look at your Facebook feed for ten minutes and it will change your mind. Thing is, zombies have become very popular over the last decade (a trend I never saw coming), and with that influx of popularity, comes more discussion and the slow spreading reality of just how shitty a zombie apocalypse would actually be. Here are 5 things that cement the fact that a zombie apocalypse would suck ass and ruin the soul.
The Initial Shock
Think about that first person who ends up seeing the first zombie during the ‘outbreak.’ Can you even fathom the level of creeping terror you would feel inside you as you realized a living dead person was shambling their way towards you? The blank look in their eyes, the gray colored of their bloodless flesh, the smell of rot and decay. Nothing in our own lives have set us up for seeing something so horrifying in person, and that is something that would stay with someone forever.
I, for one, will live a much happier life knowing I will never have to look a zombie in its hollow eyes. Well, hopefully.
Learning How To Kill
We may play video games and see movies and think mowing down hoards of undead during the zombie apocalypse would be badass, but think about it. Have you ever taken a life? Do you know the long-term effects that may have on your soul? Plus, based on most zombie apocalypses we see on film and in TV and comics, the kills are not easy and clean. They are often intimate, with knives and swords to the skull.
Yes, this person may be “dead”, but have you thought about the toll lobbing off something’s head may take on you? Remember, they may be zombies, but in our eyes, they look human. How do you convince your brain you are killing a monster when it looks just like you?
This leads to the next part….
Killing Someone You Love
This is what made me want to write this list. I wrote a treatment for a short film called Mombie© awhile back, and the whole story centered around a boy locked in his kitchen with his Mom, who is slowly turning. The idea is that, we see in flashbacks, they agreed to kill one another if that happened. But we also see how tortured this boy is by this act, and his almost inability to do it © (I wont spoil the ending because it is gold) but you get the idea. Yes, I just put copyright before name AND after concept. This way when one of you makes this into a movie or book in the next year, I can just sue you and take all your shit for stealing my idea.
Anyway, have YOU thought about it? Like, REALLY thought about it? Would you be able to kill your lover? Would you be able to drive a screw driver through the temple of your little brother? These are things one would need to deal with during the zombie apocalypse, and they prove just how sucky it would actually be.
No Sex
Sorry, but from Walking Dead (show) to all the Romero zombie movies, it is a given that during zombie apocalypse, all sexuality is sucked free from society, pun intended. It is a sexless world where all that anyone is thinking about is surviving. Plus, when you think about sex under those circumstances, makes sense you would not want to have it. Everyone’s always sweating and running around and no one has time to shower.
In other words, the zombie apocalypse would ensure a lot of smelly, sexless crotches. Who wants to live in a world like THAT? Not I.
Accepting Your Fate in This New, Cruel World
Listen, the reality is, once a zombie apocalypse starts, they don’t ever end. Tell me one movie or book where the zombies get wiped out completely and humanity goes back to normal? It doesn’t happen. Once the world has gone full Marshall law, there is much darkness that goes along with that. It’s not just the zombies you would have to worry about. Under such circumstances humans turn into monsters pretty quickly, proverbially speaking. I would be as worried about the rapists and cannibals and roving street gangs who had no rules as I was worried about the zombies.
THAT would be the world you were living in. Never being able to sleep because there is no safety in it. Running out of food and water. Having to kill people you love so they don’t suffer or turn. A sexless, violent, lawless society where all hope is dashed for a bright future.
So, essentially right now, but with zombies.
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