Dawn of the Living Dead

My Musings – The concept of a zombie (reanimated dead body – the undead) apocalypse (an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale) was perhaps first popularized by the 1968 movie, Night of the Living Dead.  A novel concept at the time, it has since proliferated into an entire movie and television genre “in which civilization collapses due to a large number of zombies overwhelming social, law-enforcement, and military structures. Typically, only a few individuals or small bands of survivors are left of the living. Basic services such as piped water supplies and electrical power shut down, mainstream mass media cease broadcasting, and the national government of affected countries collapses or goes into hiding. The survivors usually begin scavenging for food, weapons and other supplies in a world reduced to a mostly pre-industrial hostile wilderness  (Wikipedia).”

The genre typically deals with the end of civilization…