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My Real and Personal Zombie Fears

Zombies will always be popular to some degree, because they are the generic monster that can be made to suit whatever society is currently angsty about. Whether it is fears of radiation or the erosion of the American Dream (Night of the Living Dead), or bioengineered plagues (28 Days Later, Quarantine, loneliness (I Am Legend) or becoming a cubicle zombie (the Borg), zombies can be made to fit your fear. So I took a brutally honest self-inventory of my own fears, and then considered how they might be made into a zombie movie.