And researchers dick around with viruses on the regular, so itвЂ™s not super farfetched to imagine one bad day wreaking havoc on the general public.

Have you been keeping up with all the advances in medical research lately? Me neither, but scientists discover new shit about the human brain all the time cancerвЂ™s not going to cure itself, after all. ItвЂ™s the realism factor that gets to me here. (Not evil scientists, either these guys were trying to use their research on neurochemicals to benefit mankind, not reduce us to growling, bloodthirsty Steve Austins.) So yeah, in this case the zombie apocalypse was totally preventable. In 28 Days Later, however, there is no ambiguity about the origin of the infected: theyвЂ™re caused by the rage virus, and the rage virus was created by Cambridge University scientists. Plenty of horror flicks take advantage of this fact by offering only the most cursory of backstories to their otherworldly antagonists. The fear of the unknown is a powerful thing. After all, a recurring theme in many post-apocalyptic sagas is the whole вЂњhuman nature is the real threatвЂќ thing, and anyone familiar with The Road or Children of Men knows what IвЂ™m talking about.Д«ut thereвЂ™s something to be said about zombies from 28 Days Later (i.e., вЂњthe infectedвЂќ), who exist just outside the Brooks-Romero canon.В TheyвЂ™veВ just always scared the shit out of me, and IвЂ™ll never be assuaged of this opinion. Some viewers were up in arms after TWD episodes that were sparse on the walkers, but I found those parts of the narrative refreshing the conflicts between zombie survivors are always more interesting than the zombies themselves. To me, the best zombie sagas exist with zombies as a backdrop. I, for one, am cool with it sticking around for a while longer. I guess thatвЂ™s natural with all the other zombie crap thatвЂ™s become part of American pop culture (still not sure how I feel about zombie X-Men), though some internet denizens claim the genre is starting to overstay its welcome. The Walking Dead wrapped up its second season just a few weeks ago, and IвЂ™ve had zombies on the brain ever since.

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