Taken from i09 and reported on Freakonomics: The chart shows several spikes in zombie-movie production that, according to Newitz, “always seem to happen eerily close to historical events involving war or social upheaval.”
…If she’s right, and there is a zombie-strife correlation, why would gruesome movies about the undead be popular after a war?
Eric Melin, on his movie blog Scene Stealers, suggests that zombies are popular because they serve as social mirrors, helping society come to terms with itself and its actions.
Overcoming Bias’s Eliezer Yudkowsky seems to support the “zombies are us” theory in his own zombie-movie script, where zombie researchers discover that they, in fact, are the zombies, and exclaim:
We’re the ones with the virus. … My God, it’s true.
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