Tuesday, February 15, 2011
AHH! REAL ZOMBIES
Yeah, the title is just a moment. Does anyone remember "Ahh! Real Monsters!"? That show was the bomb.com/net. Anyway, I'm sitting here watching my boyfriend play Call of Duty: Black Ops, and his new obsession is to play zombies. Apparently Black Ops is set in post WWII times and the nazis were experimenting with weapons and accidentally created a gas or whatever that turned them all into zombies. So the players are Russians trying to kill all the Nazi zombies. It's decently entertaining (do NOT tell him I said that or I will NEVER get him to stop playing and pay attention to me). But as a bit of a zombie fanatic who is reallyyyyy anticipating the fall return of "The Walking Dead" I have to ask, why zombies? Who first came up with the concept of a "walker"? And why are they so damn entertaining?
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My little brother made me play that with him over Christmas break and I kept freaking out because zombies would come up behind me and I wouldn't see them and die. No fun. But still fun because it's zombies.
AHH! Real Monsters was pretty good. Not something I watched that much as a kid but I always caught some of it because it came on right before Doug, I think. :)
And yessss Walking Dead heck yeah. SO EXCITED.
Decided to look up answers to your zombie Q's, and found some interesting theories about the origins of zombies. Apparently they are mentioned in plenty of religious texts and such, but our concept of the modern 'zombie' as a once-living corpse, reanimated, originates from Voodoo practices. Witch doctors would put spells on corpses, which would then walk about and do the doctor's bidding. There are a couple books mentioned in the wikipedia zombie article... Wade Davis' The Serpent and the Rainbow and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie seem fascinating. Davis is a Harvard scientist who in these books attempts to explain how zombies are made in Haitian Voudo (Voodoo) practices. The Serpent and the Rainbow is also a movie. Maybe we should watch it in class.
I've always heard "The Night of the Living Dead" was the start of the modern day zombie, though the word is never used in the movie.
I hate to admit it, but I've not really seen a "real" zombie movie. The closest I've been is "Evil Dead". I've seen a couple of comedy zombie movies I supppose, if those count.
I actually enjoy the zombies on Call of Duty. My boyfriend and I stayed up playing it all night when it came out on the WWII game and we creeped ourselves out. You don't realize how many of the strategies seen in movies you start using until you think about it.
I'll have to try put this zombie mode. I've been playing Black Ops online for a while but due to the fact that I am entirely too good at the game (small joke but I am pretty dirty) I've become bored lately.
I loved ahhh real monsters as a kid. It was a fantastic show almost on par with Rocco's Modern Life.
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