Surfing around on Comcast I noticed that Showtime had the 2008 movie "Day of the Dead" at about 2 AM so I set the DVR to record it. This is standard zombie fare with Mena Suvari playing the sexiest Army corporal you've ever seen along with co-starts Nick Cannon and Ving Rhames. It's about a small Colorado town that gets overtaken by a virus that turns people into zombies.
What always has bugged me about these movies is why are the zombies so ravenous? And why if they're so mindless and ravenous would they not eat each other? I think it was "28 Days After" where they researched what actual zombie behavior might be like if some virus were able to create it. Looking around on the Internet I find various theories abound. I'm thinking that the movies "Quarantine" (with Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter) and "Rec" (the original Spanish film which is more gruesome) maybe got it more right. Those films are about the mindless violence of rabies victims. I think at worse zombies would be a pain in the ass but easily avoidable but that doesn't make for good movies. Tip for Zooey Deschanel fans, she appear with her sister Emily on this weeks episode of Bones.
