My first zombie movie was “Night of the Living Dead,” viewed at a midnight screening at the old Harvard Square Cinema, attended by a small coterie of late-night freaks and stoners. With its relentless dread and entrail-chomping ghouls, it was a film beyond the pale of normal, daytime moviegoers.
Flash forward three decades and zombie series “The Walking Dead” is one of America’s most popular TV shows, with a record-breaking 12.4 million viewers tuning into the Season 3 finale, while “World War Z” is a Hollywood summer blockbuster. Zombies are everywhere you look: The iOS app store has best-selling game “Plants vs. Zombies,” the bookstores have moved plenty of Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” the news gives us reports of actual face-eating attacks, and the streets occasionally fill with “zombie walks,” flash-mob style parades where participants shuffle about in full undead makeup. (Walkers were even spotted in Yoyogi Park back in May.)
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