Why are there so many movies about Zombies?

Answer 1

yes, but I like 28 weeks later, cool movie

Answer 2

Because there really is nothing else to make in the film business, no more origional ideas to create, because someone has already created it. The only way to make a new movie is to improve upon a old one. Besides not all zombie movies are bad, but some are pritty cheap and low budget, those are the movies that shouldent be made at all. But you are right there are too many zombie movies, and never an answer to why the hell are there zombies to begin with, raidoactive monkey, bio hazard material, astroid impact??? They should make a movie about zombies who eat too much fast food instead of people, why do zombies eat brains anyways?

Answer 3

Because there is an established audience for movies about zombies. Theoretically, horror films do best in times when most people are feeling anxiety and tension. The original 'Night of the Living Dead' film, for example, was released at the height of the Viet Nam war and was certainly meant to have some metaphorical connection to that everyday horror. Even "White Zombie," which features an entirely different kind of zombie makes a connection to the inevitability of America entering World War II, and Universal Studios had its greatest success with its horror series during the height of the depression and during the darkest days of W.W. II. I'm not saying there is an immediate connection between zombie movies and war, but horror films do much better at the box office (and in DVD rentals) when times are perceived as being bad.

Films run in cycles. When zombie movies fail to make the kind of profits expected, they will become few and far between, but some other horror archetype will likely take their place. There's always some market for horror films, but sometimes the audience is much larger than at other times

Answer 4

God, I was just discussing this with my friend.
There's SO many movies, and even new ones that come out, that deal with either zombies or the end of the world or a massive amount of the population being wiped out, etc.
It's kind of annoying.

Answer 5

You know, i dont know!!

Actually i thought about it, i think there's so many zombie and vampire movies because they just can't die easily and it's pretty simple to make a plot with them, maybe not a good one.. haha

Answer 6

Just because zombies are cool.

Answer 7

Many people enjoy seeing the dead walk, take Resident Evil for example or Dawn of The Dead.

Answer 8

Because that's what all of us are slowly turning into as a society, so the film makers feel we'll be able to relate.

Answer 9

Don't know. But I think these movies don't have any funny!

Answer 10

Cheap to make, audiences to watch. Profit profit profit.