6/7/2023 0 Comments Can feral zombies be grabbee![]() Tracing the origins of monster tales from their morbid beginnings, I bring the conversation towards our contemporary, collective need to make our monsters sexy. Since most people won’t talk about them with me, I chose to talk at them instead. ![]() But these new, sexy zombies grabbed my attention. ![]() Originally, I wanted to look at vampires, the “old faithful” of the monster world. ![]() When I was asked to give a TEDx Talk, I knew I would have to talk about my monster studies specialty in some way. But there has been an undeniable trend in recent zombie media to distance the zombie from its abject horror roots into something more. Exactly when did we start wanting sexy zombies? It seems to go against most of our undead inclinations when most of us crave carnage and those quintessential zombie tropes we all know and love (yes, let’s change that radio station right as the news report starts).
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