Thursday, September 5, 2013

War Can Lead to More Zombies

Zombie stories aren't going away, and our research suggests that more are coming. This chart shows the number of zombie movies that came out in the West each year since 1910. There are definite spikes during certain periods, which always seem to happen eerily close to historical events involving war or social upheaval.

Five years ago, we noticed that zombie movies seemed correlated with war. Everything from 28 Days Later to World War Z makes explicit reference to wartime. But is there really a connection between the popularity of zombie movies and social unrest? We decided to do some research and find out.

The result was the graph above (click here for a larger size), which does suggest that for some reason people crave zombie movies during times of war. And that means we may be in for a new round of zombie tales in coming years.



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