I think the numbers are a stretch but there's no ignoring the surge of popularity zombies have gotten in recent years. Hopefully they'll overtake sparkly vampires and emo werewolves entirely someday.

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Beeblebrox: Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: I am over zombies. That is all.

I was over them 20 years ago.

zombies = boring.

it all depends. Some zombies are boring, some aren't just started watching Walking Dead the other day....not bored yet.

Beeblebrox: So what is the hook of that show? What makes it stand out from the hundreds or thousands of zombie movies?

A lot of the hype for that show comes from the comic. The comic is a very well-written series where the zombies are merely a plot device, not the main antagonists. In the comic, the humans are the "walking dead" & the zombies are just another obstacle along with diminishing resources, lack of shelter, general anarchy, and some seriously sick f*cks out there in the world. The AMC series got a lot of cred by bringing on not only Kirkland, who wrote the comic, but Frank Darabont, everyone's favorite Stephen King adapter.

The series itself has veered wildly from the comic but still has some really good, tense moments. Also, it's written with complete gender blindness. Zombies are unheard-of in the world of TWD, evidently not even voodoo zombies, so it's interesting to watch how people react to the situation. The transition from zombies as big-bad to just day-to-day survival has been slow but you can see it's begun. This season we've got 1 missing girl, a guy dying of blood poisoning after getting a cut on his arm, and a boy shot by a hunter whose bullet went clean through a deer & hit the kid. Some close calls w/zombies but all wounds so far have been due to humans or benign objects.