mikel.withers November 4th 2014, 3:36 pm
Wait...horror? I thought this was a feel-good story....
Guy is plagued with fear, but finds friendship and purpose after undergoing a frightening experience.
I (vaguely) remember the first time I watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers and thinking...'So the people retain their thoughts and personality, they fundamentally change, they are reborn, they put aside their conflicts and work together... is this Christianity?' I was pretty young, but I remember thinking it had to be some kind of hidden story like that.
Zombie movies, likewise, tend to make me empathize with the zombies... look, people get infected with a "mind virus" which makes them dead (to this world) but in a way, more alive than ever. Any past disagreements they had with each other, before zombie-fication, are no longer important...even trying to kill one another is shrugged off. Plus, the zombies will do anything to try to bring the others, the non-zombies into the fold... even to the point of self-sacrifice. Now, it may look like an attack, it certainly will be unpleasant, losing the comfortable 'normalcy' of the un-changed life, but peace, lasting peace lies on the other side.