BlondeZombie

I don’t like how commercial zombies have become. Except I do like it because it a.) makes me feel like I’m not the lone freak and b.) makes it easy for me to find zombie knickknacks.

But I don’t like it because I’m Romero’s Number One Fan. And I don’t mean that like how a 12 year old girl thinks she is Taylor Swift’s Number One Fan. Everything Romero does, I fully support. Rough editing in The Crazies? I’m okay with that. The super-dark cinematography in Day of the Dead that makes it almost impossible to see into the cave? I can handle that. I literally see nothing wrong with his films. (Or Silence of the Lambs because he has a cameo in it.)

And Romero says zombies represent the downfall of American Soceity due to commercialism. Zombies are the wistful, mechanical, greedy embodiment of the masses - they take and take and take until there is nothing left. I guess it’s one of Hollywood’s great ironies - like how Johnny Depp ran off to France because he didn’t want the fame that came with acting only to wind up being People’s Sexiest Man Alive … again.

Romero made his movies - created zombies the way they are seen now - to stand up to the greedy commercialism that he saw ruining America. And now those zombies are everywhere - t-shirts, toys, accessories, cartoons, comics, video games.

And not all of this is bad! But some of it, as if there was really a pun intended, is so truly mindless.

What does this even mean?

I believe that the zombies of people who died during drug overdoses are less capable than the zombies of people who died in other ways. There is no research to back this up - this is just what I believe.