all around you....

Movies, Video games, Books, comic books, TV Shows, holiday parties, and college campus events all have zombies in common.  You can find signs of our fascination with the undead almost everywhere. Zombies are obviously here to stay so the question is why?  What makes zombies so fascinating to us mere mortals?  Some of the sources i have read say it’s the versatility of the zombie as an opponent that attracts us to them.  Others sources believe it’s just a fad or a cyclical phenomenon.  A new article I found at The Huffington Post  believes that our obsession with the undead is more psychological coming from base human desires and needs.  Yet another source I found over at IGN believes it comes from a more simple need to create an excuse for extreme bloodshed and violence. 

I think it may be more of a combination of all of the earlier ideas.  The fact that the undead are versatile enough to appeal to so many different sides and aspects of human psychology is fascinating.  What about the undead and zombies specifically make them so fascinating?  Another question I haven’t been able to find much information is if Voodoo zombies maybe have something to do with it?  The only thing about voodoo zombies basically comes from Wikipedia which I can’t necessarily trust.  I wonder if that is where the psychology aspect comes from.  I mean real life cases where people supposedly die and then come to life and are used as slave labor (Creepy!!!!)