I know this subject is often skirted around, but its a sign of the biblical apocalypse and its dominated human culture since its beginning. The fascination with it stems mainly from our desire to reconnect with those we loss and our inability to let them go. We often then allow our imagination run wild with fear of those we don't want to return from the dead and create imagery of them being flesh eating and rabid.

During WW2, the Nazi SS and SS Paranormal explored the concept of bringing dead soldiers back to create an unstoppable super army of the undead. It's unknown if they ever had any success as the Allied forces and Russia divided much of their recovered nazi intelligence reports and they are forever sealed away.

In the 1400's in eastern europe there are a lot of stories about the undead ravaging on the living, and in the case of dracula consuming the blood of the living. I believe there is always a small amount of truth to any myth.

In modern days there have been accounts of a town in the US mid west being exposed to a chemical that caused the dead to come to life, in which both the town and most of it records wiped out by the military. It's possible they were experimenting with what the Nazi's had been researching, in order to stay ahead of the Russians. Either way it inspired George Romero into creating the living dead movie series, in which he claims to have a friend who was in the military in 1950's who told him about the town where the dead walked. And this Director continued his genre of movies ever since.

Most recently we accredit that if the dead will walk again it will be viral, which would make people act as if they have rabies and lose all reason and any sibilance to who they were before they got sick. This concept is explored in 28 days later series and in resident evil series.

We as human being have progressed so far with our science and technology and still have much further to go that perhaps one day will make the dead walk again, the big question is whether or not they will want to eat us or reminisce over days gone by.

lets hope for reminisce, or they get a shovel to the head. Did you see the move Sean of the dead, funny as all get out.

I love zombie flicks, My faves are Sean of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the living dead both 90's and 60's versions, Resident Evil movies and the current tv show "Walking Dead". Not a fan of the 28 days later, or 28 weeks later, day of the dead.