Zombie Movies, Why Are They Still Appealing to This Very Day?

In just about any horror movie, it seems that the use of zombies have been and still is appealing in most aspects of this genre. The one thing that had gotten me interested about zombies was that old computer game by Infogrames called "Alone In The Dark." In the past, I was a bit freaked out by zombies after watching "Return of the Living Dead" and "Return of the Living Dead 2." I tended to avoid watching zombies movies and what not.

But Alone In The Dark was the father of all survival horror games. For anybody that's old enough to remember, Alone In The Dark was one of the earliest 3D survival horror games in the world today. You controlled one of two people and walked around this old mansion solving the mystery of this person's suicide. Once you got to the attic of the mansion, the real adventure began where you had to fight all sorts of beasts and monsters. The most common monster in that game was the zombie. There were plenty of zombies to fight off in the game.

"Alone In The Dark 2" came out a year later. This had piqued my interest more on zombies. It looked to get me more interested. This game appealed more on firearms combat as the zombies wielded Thompsons and shotguns.

However, I saw "Night of the Living Dead." I didn't even know how to kill a zombie. Then my uncle said you're supposed to hit them in the head. The two things that very much appealed to me about zombies were how they came in a mass yet at the same time they could be easy to kill by severe damage to the head. Basically you can shoot zombies in the head, jab something into their skulls, or swing a heavy blunt object to the decomposed skull and damage the brain in the process.

But I learned that there are more to zombies than meets the eye. Zombies are former humans and animals. Yes, there are zombie animals. Zombie movies tend to revolve around this one truth: survival. When there are a few survivors, things look all fine and dandy because you have weapons and supplies. When supplies and ammunition become depleted, people start sweating it out. Zombie movies are a good way to examine human nature.