After the Apocalypse

After the Apocalypse, when zombies are a nightmare of the past or a hope for the future. 

Zombie themed stories often take place according to a timeline, like most stories. For the Zombie Gift Guide, we have divided them up for our media related products depending on if they start when zombies are just a fad, when zombies are a problem, and where zombies are a normal, every day occurrence (or inconvenience) using these categories

  • Before the Outbreak – These types of stories give us the sense of everything being mostly okay until it’s not. Fear the Walking Dead is a great example of this category.
  • During the Outbreak – These stories take place in the middle of things, like The Walking Dead. Rick wakes up at the peak of the zombie pandemic, or whatever is really turning people into zombies.
  • After the Apocalypse – Most zombie outbreaks ARE the end of the world, but rarely do they actually end the world as we know it. Fido and Warm Bodies are good examples of this category.

This category applies to use of zombies in media specifically, as zombie products are as timeless as the seemingly immortal rotting corpses they’re designed after.

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28 Days Later (2002)

28 Days Later:
 Where Fast and Viral Zombies Began

Movie (series) / Outbreak & Aftermath / Fast Zombies

It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (the often-overlooked screenwriter who’s gone on to write amazing movies like Never Let Me Go and Ex Machina and most recently Devs. But yeah: Prior to 2002, all zombies were slow. Relentless, evil, able to sneak up on you without making a sound, but slow. And though the idea of a virus behind the zombification had been tossed around before, it was 28 Days Later, and the creation of Rage, along with the super-swift conversion of the populace that basically changed the whole genre going forward. It was also the first time that most of us ever heard of Cillian Murphy or Christopher Eccleston, and… well, look at what they’ve done since. Awesome.

Anyone who calls themselves a zombie fan pretty much has to have seen 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Months Later, as well as cursed God for not giving us 28 Years Later, or at least not yet. But it’s also one of the Essentials that should be on the shelf, digital or analog, for any fan. And we’ve given you a link to the Amazon page that offers this classic in all its multiple variations – blue ray, original, packaged with the sequel, on and on.

Let’s not get all gummed up in the argument that these aren’t real zombies because they’re not dead people, just infected people. Hey: they’re raging humans bent on stalking, chasing, tracking down and ultimately eating other humans. That’s good enough for us, and for about 7 billion other people, so deal with it. So if you’re looking to revisit one of the best zombie movies ever made, this is the one to choose first. Or if you’re trying to convince the newbie, the uninitiated, or the just-plain stubborn that there really is some great movie-making in the genre… here you go.


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