A series on monsters 2

Ok so October has arrived and been here for a while. With this month we will start seeing more horror movies airing on t.v. we will see witches hats and vampire fangs on the shelves in our stores and we will soon see all the little goblins and ghouls roaming our streets looking for sweet treats. SO I want to start looking at the logic of our favorite horror figures For example tonight I want to talk about zombies. Do they make any sense? Honestly I have seen a lot of takes on what a zombie is and what creates them or motivates them. I have read books and watched movies and listened to the stories. I am NOT going to get into the history of the zombie “legend” here, I may save that for another blog later. But I do want to see how viable they are. First almost all the stories/legends/myths focus on the apparent motivation. The motivation is the main point to the whole Zombie Genre… What makes the zombie scary? Is it fast? No not usually. Is it smart? Nope, not too much intelligence. Maybe it is because they are sneaky? No… they are pretty straightforward. The thing that makes them scariest is because they keep coming and coming. They don’t stop! And then, the crowning touch, the piece de resistance, They turn you into one of them! But is that what motivates them? They want to make more zombies? No their motivation seems to be simple hunger. We all can understand that. But what do they eat? Brains. Any brains? No, human brains. And that is all there is to it. Next aspect… How do zombies usually make new zombies? Their bite can turn a person from human to zombie. So how do we stop the zombie? Shoot it in the head. Destroy the brain. Well wait a minute here!!!! If the food the zombie wants is your brain where is it going to go for when it attacks you? They go for the head, the brains. But if the new buffet has no brains then how does it turn into one of the undead? It can’t. so logically zombies are impossible or at least so extremely inefficient that they are really not that scary. So as you go out there for your little thrills and scares do not worry about that pasty weirdo coming after you with the skin rotting off his body. It is probably just someone who really wants your tootsie roll stash. Then again maybe the stories have gotten it all wrong and they are coming out there… No no just kidding.