Have you noticed in recent
years how certain monsters in the world of fiction have faired better than
others, it is a very odd thing indeed, I mean these days it is almost a
positive to be a vampire. It is a long time since vampires were generally
grumpy middle aged men biting dodgy women in the middle of the night who then
spend the rest of their days looking a bit off colour and laying about all day
in boxes of mud in the cellars of old castles. No these days there are even vegetarian
vampires who only nibble the odd vole from time to time when they need a bit of
get up and go. And they are no longer
grumpy middle aged folk but teenagers and the like, clearly the world of
teenage vampires is something that would leave Vincent Van Gogh (sorry Vincent
Price) turning in his grave demanding a medium rare stake.
Even the likes of
Werewolves seem to have their decent understanding side and avoid howling in
libraries now, I mean in the old days they would have chewed the leg off the
librarian and left them propped up against a copy of Treasure Island just for a
laugh.
However (I like the word
However it crops up a lot in this blog) there is one group who has always drawn
the short straw so to speak and never come out well in books or films or even
video games. And that is Zombies . . . O yes indeed no one wants to be a
Zombie, they are always seen as slow and stupid, not nibble gymnastic
scientists who just happen to like to eat a fresh bit of Brain direct from its
tin. It is all just a bit unfair and something should be done. . . . Zombies
are nice, a bit nice . . . . should be
something small child are taught in School so that they do not succumb to the
obvious propaganda of the modern manipulative vampire
OK I could write more but
I have been helping in the hospice shop, well I say helping I wander about
looking confused and attempting to keep a few shelves topped up as part of my
good deed bit. It is important that we all do something how ever small to make
the world a better place, because then the world will be better. . . . OK it
probably will not be better as there seem to be more folk making it worse than
folk making it better. So there that’s
it I am knackered and off to chill for a bit before I crash out.
Actually Mr Z, there was a brilliant series on last year called In The Flesh, where dead people came back to life. They called them Partially Deceased Sufferers and tried to integrate them into normal society. Then there was the film Warm Bodies, where they were left to roam the streets cos they weren't that evil. So the rotting, deceased face of the zombie franchise, is changing.
ReplyDeleteWell that's good. So that Zombie on the bus lied to me. I thought he looked a bit dodgy.
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