Zombies aren't smart and they aren't superpowered and they aren't hard to kill or keep away The main important thing about zombies in a zombie movie is just that they never run out They're always around and they require you to always be careful and serious and consistent
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And the humans always die in the end because they can't do that It's too much to ask Somehow, even with all our technology and planning and intelligence, we fuck it up
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28 Days Later marks an important inflection point in zombie movie history in the classic Romero movies, the problem isn't the zombies: the problem is always *other people* while 28DL maintains that perspective it also hinted at the next wave of "existential" zombie movies
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that is, we move away from the use of zombies to critique society, and towards zombies as an existential, incomprehensible threat towards the experience of terror and helplessness in the face of something we can neither understand nor control
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Simon Pegg has an essay about this too.
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