Fast zombies for slow minds

Me and the wife watchedWorld War Z last weekend. I love a good zombie movie. So naturally most of the details of this one have already slipped my mind. No, it wasn’t good. Worse, it made me think about the state of our culture, as reflected in zombie movies, of course.

In the old days, when George A. Romero was zombie king and only Lucio Fulci could play in his yard, zombies were slow and the horror was personal. Yes, the world was in a state of apocalyptic nightmare, but the focus was on indi...