Even though they love to tease the Zombie Rights Movement it’s invaluable to keep tabs on the work of the folks over at BuyZombie so they can in turn keep us up to date on things like this:

Review: Dead Genesis

In a sweaty panic, a man frantically grabs a gun from the closet and nervously makes his way into the next room. He sees his wife ravenously devouring their little boy, blood and guts painting the gruesome scene. The boy is twitching, eyes glazed over, taking in sharp breaths; it’s hard to believe he’s still alive. With tears in his eyes, the man shoots his wife — not once, but three times, with the last headshot finally doing her in (the final bullet also shattering the picture frame behind her). The boy — no longer being eaten alive, but now clearly a member of the undead — sits up, his intestines spilling onto the floor, and the man, unbelievably, must shoot again..

Yes, it’s a new indie Zombie Apocalypse movie called ‘Dead Genesis’ that apparently features one of the goriest and most obviously offensive Apocalypse scenes in recent memory. At some point I think these things will obviously descend into self-parody; how far can they go to milk the sympathetic horror out of the audience? ‘Shaun of the Dead’ had mother-slaying, ’28 Weeks Later’ had adorable urchins dodging their Rage ‘Zombie’ Dad, and now ‘Dead Genesis’ features a patriarch murdering his whole family for being Undead.

I think at the point where some Survivor shoots up an orphanage full of Zombie kids it should become obvious who the REAL villain is, even to the general public. At least I hope it will.

Still, the trend toward greater and greater intra-familial violence based on Vitality Status clearly means something. Is this a response to progress in Zombie integration? Fearmongering directed at parents of small children? Just tasteless heart-string plucking?

We’ll keep on the lookout and hopefully, through education and outreach, we can nip whatever it is in the bud.

Tags: Movies, Social Justice

This entry was posted by John Sears on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 at 6:39 pm and is filed under Zombie Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.