America and Zombies, whats up with that?

-Trailer for the "Rezzurection" download content for Call of Duty Black Ops.

Blogger and classmate David Beirne wrote about the recently released video game "Dead Island", which in turn inspired me to write a little about zombies myself: why are they so popular?

I guess it's just another form of horror. Horror flicks have always been popular in America, and zombies are just one of the many monsters haunting those films.

Zombies have definitely not been in just film, though. Resident Evil has been a staple video game series that has been around since I was a child, and has evolved on it's own with the times. Nowadays, we got a bunch of zombie games, all with different play styles (some fast, some slow, usually having some big boss zombies thrown into the mix).

Zombies are even one of my favorite creatures in the card game "Magic: The Gathering", a trading card game based around defeating your opponent with sorcery.

I think it is fair to say that zombies may be America's most popular creature of horror at the moment. In the past it might have been aliens or vampires (definitely not vampires right now..) but for now zombies it is. What will be our next favorite creature of the night? I'm not too sure. As it is, I will accept and enjoy our zombies, in all of their shapes and sizes (I'm sure they have many great smells as well).