The idea I've always had for a zombie story is actually the only one in which there is a cure for zombification. The thing is, zombies rot and fall apart with time, which means that if and when they get cured, they don't just regenerate, they come back as disfigured people with zero memories of the time they were zombies, as well as the added stigma of probably having killed and eaten somebody while zombified.
So the whole shtick is how do you reintegrate into society as a former zombie, scarred and treated like a monster, even though you're just supposed to be a normal dude again? I'm not mature, insightful or wise enough to do that premise justice, but I think it would be real neat in the hands of someone who's a better writer than I am.
Yeah, everything you are suggesting there ; BBC has you covered
I was thinking the same thing. There have actually been a few zombie films/shows that have a similar premise to what joaomarrom was suggesting, at least the part about a cure having been found and former zombies trying to reintegrate back into society. Along with In The Flesh, another one that comes to mind is The Cured which starred and was produced by Elliot Page.
Using my boomer brain I can kind of see this being viewed as an allegory for the treatment of vietnam vets in the US
The movie "the cure" is about there being a, well, cure for zombification. Except they do remember everything they did as a zombie. It's not bad
Scene: An Applebees filled with terrified workers. The North side of the building is being besieged by a mob of angry chuds banging on the windows demanding mediocre cheeseburgers. The South side of the building is being beseiged by zombies banging on the windows. It's hard to tell the difference between the two mobs
The picture that has haunted my dreams for years now.
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So kinda like the dead rising series, where zombie outbreaks are just a thing that happens, zombies are commercialized via the media and there is a "cure" that only stops the infections for like 24 hours and its super expensive?
A movie where the zombified boomer chud is the main character, and acts like a classic violent, mindless, bloodthirsty classic movie zombie, and the only change that people around him notice is that he's slightly less awful to be around than usual.
"Dad hasn't said something racist in like 3 whole days... Is something wrong?"
"Yeah I dunno, he didn't even grab his gun before answering the door today."
The novel "World War Z an oral history of the zombie wars" (very little to do with the E N T E R T A I N T M E N T F R A N C H I S E) featured a hogwash vaccine. The interview with the Big Pharma CEO is presented as he is shoveling shit for a power plant under armed guard.
Did I misremember? I could have sworn he was shoveling shit for some new farming grift he had and completely escaped any and all consequences for his actions
Yea unless I'm remembering wrong he was basically chilling in Antarctica having made mad bank from his fake Phalanx™ "vaccine"
The pharma exec had a bunker in Antarctica he was living in. The guy shoveling shit was the VP or chief of staff or something for the administration that let the zombies get out of hand.
Oh yea that's right, I had the two confused, it's been a couple years since I read that book
There's a nice deconstruction of WWZ ongoing on SV.
Lets Read: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
It takes the form of a in-universe read through of the text, challenging the Hard Men Saved The World narrative as a piece of propaganda to support the US Junta and their overseas allies, by a survivor in Bristol. It reinterprets many events to actually make some kind of sense - North Korea isn't a spoopy megabunker, but close enough that propaganda can spin it that way. Yonkers was a deliberate destruction of units and officers who were considered unlikely to support abandoning half the country to die and couping the government.
I've always liked the idea of a zombie movie where there's actually a cure and self proclaimed zombie-slayers go nuts
Holy shit, I just had a thought about this a couple days ago. I'm imagining a world where the zombie virus played out like COVID where it came out of China, but they got their shit together and only had like 50,000 deaths. Meanwhile in the United States, chuds are holding parties in their backyards out of spite where they all start biting each other because the government told them not to. By the start of June, Minneapolis looks the same as it did IRL, but for a totally different reason and by August the United States and Canada are completely destroyed
but we haven't learned any economic or sociopolitical lessons from covid
I think OPs point is that most zombie fiction seems to depict the governmental response as trying and failing to contain it instead of doing nothing
I wrote a short novel like this in the summer of 2020, although this was back when liberals were pretending to care about the pandemic. “Zombies invade a Maine tourist town but nobody notices.”
Zombies are played out. how about a dinosaur movie based upon economic and sociopolitical lessons learned since Covid-19.
So, just a regular zombie movie. Most of them are dumb assholes who don't take it seriously.
Have some angry white guy shoot up the doctors trying to cure the zombie virus. Oh wait that's just the last of us
On TERF Island, the NHS repeatedly refuses to increase compensation for overworked and underpaid nurses who are handling the brunt of the public health impact from all of these zombified gammons running amok like West Ham FC hooligans. Rather than do anything useful, the Tory-led Parliament passes a symbolic measure encouraging people to clap for nurses (in lieu of any actual pay raise or guaranteed time off).
Idk I've never actually played/watched it just heard people talk about it
It's funny but in....dawn of the dead I think (the one that takes place chiefly in a mall), it felt like they're taking a crack at liberals when they showed people talking about zombies being people and having rights (if I recall the scene correctly). Here in reality though, when covid struck, it was reactionaries fighting lockdowns, vaccines and the wearing of masks, and killing themselves and the older members of their family with this behavior.
You know one thing I'd love to see a movie do (but they'd have to be 'woke', aka paying attention)? I'd love for them to actively bring up and acknowledge that the US and the UK are both among the top ten countries on every 'top ten countries best prepared to handle a pandemic' list but actually fail to even try to handle the pandemic, meanwhile China's actually doing a phenomenal job and are getting crapped on for it.
You should watch Life After Beth, it kinda hits some of these points pretty well
