Is Interest in the Zombie Genre wrong?

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My husband and I love zombies. Actually most scary movies have a good vs. evil vibe. Also the zombie genre plays on that the evil is within us rather than the evil without (the aliens, mutated animals, ect.). They are also just fun and I like to think about what you would do in that situation. You ask yourself also, “What makes us human, if we were in a state where we lost our sentience, would we still be human?” There are many facets that I like about zombie movies, comics, books, ect.
 
Yeah, I like that about zombie stories too. They make you have some really good questions on morals.

As for the group name…Catholic Zombie Fans?
 
Orangebookbag said:
Theologically, no.
Intellectually, yes. Zombie Genre always seemed trite and juvenile to me. What’s the appeal?
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Same as Halloween, minus the candy.
slotty said:
You have obviously not watched Shaun of the dead. If you can’t see the appeal in humorous situations then 🤷
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ROFL. Great movie.
DavidtheGnome said:
I have struggled with this same question myself so I am interested to see what others have to say.

I think the attraction for me in zombie fiction is the idea of a radically simplified life for the suppliers- no more sweating the small stuff.
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Excellent point=Zombie fiction. It’s fiction like any other fiction.
kbwall said:
I don’t see it as any more wrong than any other form of entertainment. Also, modern zombie fiction often doesn’t even mention voodoo or the ocult in any fashion. These days, it’s usually caused by a virus or parasite.

The appeal comes in several forms. For one thing, zombies are diverse and can be used for any main genre. It can be horror with the zombies narrowing in on a small collection, it can be action where it’s one guy guns blazing (or several people working together to overcome it), and the drama of shooting the characters shooting their own people who have been turned into zombies.

For another thing, zombies are easy targets, and make for easy writing. Zombies have no motive; they need no motive other than to feed. Zombies are also universally hated, you don’t need to create motives for your villain (unless your villain is the madman who unleashed the virus on the world). Fiction goes in cycles, there is always a popular doomsday bringer. First it was aliens, then nuclear radiation induced mutants, and now virus induced zombies. It is culturally interesting that we have made viruses into a sort of boogie man.

They also make for easy fantasy. Zombies are slow and stupid, therefore it is easy for a person to imagine themselves surviving in a given zombie apocalyptic scenario. It also allows one an imaginary apocalyptic playground, as it’s one of the few ways to have an apocalypse setting, and still leave the wilderness and stuff more or less intact (a war of apocalyptic scale would leave the world in ashes, and a conventional disease would kill too easily, zombies are the only disease you can see and easily avoid, but still believably succumb to if you’re not careful). The only way it’d be sinful though is if you’re super violent and like to imagine yourself in the fantasy because it’d give you an excuse to imagine killing people with no moral reprecussions.

These reasons sound silly, but really, similar rules can be applied to any genre. When you get down to it, pretty much all entertainment is a pointless waste of time; the key is finding a pointless waste of time that you enjoy.
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I dunno…in Zombieland and in The Walking Dead they occasionally have bursts of speed. 😉
spockrates said:
🙂

What should we call this group?
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Catholics for the redemption of Zombies.
 
robotsarecool said:
My husband and I love zombies. Actually most scary movies have a good vs. evil vibe. Also the zombie genre plays on that the evil is within us rather than the evil without (the aliens, mutated animals, ect.). They are also just fun and I like to think about what you would do in that situation. You ask yourself also, “What makes us human, if we were in a state where we lost our sentience, would we still be human?” There are many facets that I like about zombie movies, comics, books, ect.
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👍
 
Agatha813 said:
Yeah, I like that about zombie stories too. They make you have some really good questions on morals.

As for the group name…Catholic Zombie Fans?
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CZF. OK. Not sure how to start a group. Didn’t see any links on the groups page.

🤷
 
Newbie2 said:
Same as Halloween, minus the candy.

ROFL. Great movie.

Excellent point=Zombie fiction. It’s fiction like any other fiction.

I dunno…in Zombieland and in The Walking Dead they occasionally have bursts of speed. 😉
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The creator of Walking Dead said the speed a zombie has is in proportion to the amount of time it has been undead. Newer zombies generally move faster than older ones.

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Catholics for the redemption of Zombies.
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CRZ. Sounds OK to me!

Let me know when you figure out how to start a group.

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Interesting; I’ve never actually been able to catch Walking dead (no pun intended); didn’t know the fresh ones were the fastest, lol.
 
Orangebookbag said:
Theologically, no.
Intellectually, yes. Zombie Genre always seemed trite and juvenile to me. What’s the appeal?
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They are the only villains that can be shot without the videogame/movie/tv show/ book being considered politically incorrect. :rolleyes:
 
As with any media, I think so long as it doesn’t offend your Catholic sensibilities then it should be fine. Zombie fiction, movies and TV shows are often no more vulgar or immoral than any others in the same general genre. Often times there is even a moral struggle within the story, sometimes a Christian one.
 
I’ve been waiting for the term “Zompocalypse” to catch on. 😃
 
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