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-— None of the zombie craze stuff makes any sense to me unless it is an outlet for modern floating anxiety. -—
Its anyone’s guess. My feeling is that it represents a primal perception that something has gone terribly wrong with society.
E. Michael Jones wrote a book about the phenomenon of slasher movies, 10 or 20 years ago. He noticed that the killers’ typical victims were teens engaged in premarital sex. He theorized that the violence depicted on screen represented the reestablishment of a supressed need for justice.
I think something similar is going on here.
I think you may be right. If you’ll recall, most of the classic Universal horror films were produced in the 1930’s and on into the war years. If any era had real reasons to be afraid, that was it. The weird thing about all this crap is that the threats come from everywhere and there is no solution but constant killing, vigilance and despair. Compare that to Frankenstein, Wolfman or Dracula who were single monster threats and could be reliably put down with a happy ending- at least until the studio could jinn up a reason to shoot a sequel.