Are zombies the new vampires?

Hopefully not, Twilight did the impossible and made vampires uncool.

No, to give zombies any kind of emotion that little girls would like makes them no longer zombies.

forget zombies and vampires, seemingly the next big thing coming according to the big publishers is Angels

Are you serious? A f*cking thread saying that zombies are the new vampires? After 1 zombie show has aired? And 1 really bad show too, imo, I hated the Walking Dead - the pilot episode showed so much promise, I loved it and couldn't wait for the new episode to come out....and we were left with a load of crap for the next 5 episodes. It seems as though they have more ideas then they do time.

The "finale" was woeful. Introducing new characters when older characters haven't been mentioned since the first or 2nd episode, and still no mention of them. I'm not watching Lost anymore, just tell me what is going on!

Don't get me wrong, fair play to the person who finally had the guts to try and make a TV show about zombies after so long, but it just seemed like they weren't given anywhere near enough time for a whole series in just 6 episodes...

But, come to think of it, with zombies you shouldn't need more then that! "Oh my family was eaten" "Mine too!" "Lets go survive somewhere with f*ck all ammo or guns" Its always the same.

Vampire's unfortunately, have been dumbed-down and filled with gay emotion by the film-makers of America, but I remember a time when I genuinely feared the thought of the existence of Vampires, and that is why I honestly enjoyed anything on TV or in the cinema that involved them. Vampires can have great stories, and so much can be done with it from different approaches (Buffy to True Blood, as two separate examples), but it has become a subject that has now been "children-ized" (for want of a better word that I cannot think of!). Gone are the 18's-rated gore-fests involving Zombie's and Vampires. Now children want to see everything and anything to do with Vampires since Twilight, it leaves nothing truly fear-inducing for the rest of us older folk.

Zombie movies and TV shows... what can you do with a Zombie story that has not been done to death already? It is a brain-dead human, who needs to eat the flesh of other humans to survive. What can be added to this that has not been done already by "Resident Evil" and other video games/stories alike? There's never a cure and there never will be a new and "Original" show/film on the subject.

IMO both Vampires and Zombies are dead to me, since Twilight (vampires) and now Walking Dead (Zombies). I look forward to the day that something unique and original (while sticking to the correct back stories of how vampires and zombies become what they are) is released that will make me sit up and notice. I honestly don't think that day will ever come.

Richard Dower wrote: »

wow...mega rant.

I just couldn't stop typing... Sorry!

arent vampires techincally zombies anyway? reanimated corpses and all that jazz..

AMC made Zombies work because they had a big budget and are a cable channel so can get away with more than Network stations can. The same way True Blood works. A bigger budget means better writers and better special effects. HBO and AMC also appeal their shows to the older, mature audience.

The likes of NBC, CW and ABC target most of their shows (especially the vampire ones) to the younger, tween audience. They also cant get away with as much as cable channels. That is why their shows suck.