523 : ACK! … Zombies!
Ok, ok, I probably need more practice at drawing zombies with flesh missing and what not. This was my first zombie, and even this took a couple different trys.
One of the things I’ve been wondering as of late, when did zombies and vampires and such become cutiez creatures.. They are suppose to be scary creatures, stars in HORROR movies. But out society seems to have glamorized this monsters. Movies star handsome vampires that girls to go Ga ga for… and Zombies are becoming features in games like Zombie Farm or Zombie Cafe helping people.
ZOMBIES are merciless FLESH and BRAIN eaters!
VAMPIRES are evil beings wanting to suck your blood and inslave you!
THEY SHOULD BE FEARED!
Mark my words, the GREAT ZOMBIE-VAMPIRE REVOLT OF 2016 will happen, and all you saps will let them in your homes and serve them tea before the Suck your BLOOD and eat your BRAINS!
The beginning.
Seriously, check out the very first vampire books, from even before dracula – a lesbian chasing after lonely girls!
Check out the movie dracula – for it’s time, a VERY sexual film!
I just had a discussion about this; in reality, scary movies about vampires are the _exception_ that everyone clings to when they glare at twilight.
Oh, sure, vampires COULD be scary – they often were – but only in the process of seducing young women.
Never was a big fan of zombie films myself but from what I remember they were difficult to get rid of.
As For vampires I believe a day will come when they are back to being scary again.
Like HELL I’ll be letting them into MY home! No, I’ll be ready with a shotgun, assorted sharp/blunt objects, and garlic when that day comes. Should probably make sure that at least one of the sharp/blunt objects is silver just in case werewolves decide to join the party.
I’m not sure when zombies became flesh or brain eaters. Originally, they were simply re-animated dead who were slaves of the zombie master. Not clear what the z.m. fed his slaves. But they were under his command, not wandering the streets and fields. (Current scientific thinking says that zombies were made using tetrodotoxin to make live persons appear dead, and then drugged with some hypnotic to enslave them when the toxin wore off.) Zombies are derived from stories and legends in the West Indies relating to vodun (voodoo).
The term for eaters of dead flesh is “ghouls.”
“Undead” is a term originally used for vampires, not zombies.
At the first performance of the stage play based on Bram Stoker’s _Dracula_, medical personnel were present AND kept busy by patrons fainting and even having heart attacks. This was in the 1920s. There were almost no movies then, and certainly no television to make monsters commonplace. The play was quite controversial, particularly for the scene where Van Helsing repels the Count by using the Host (Eucharist). I have played the part of V.H. twice in two different stage versions (in one, Lucy is dead and Mina is under Dracula’s influence; in the other, vice versa). No one faints anymore during the show.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when people stopped finding mass entertainment to be truly scary. I suppose when it became commonplace. Hitchock’s _Psycho_ was successful at frightening a lot of people in the early 1960s. But by the 1980s, monsters? it was just a screen happening. Maybe the endless real bloodshed on the evening news during the Viet Nam war?
Anyway, Brad/Bay’s unconscious mind remembers all the people from her (but not his) past and seems to be resurrecting them, eh? Maybe after they eat the amnesiac Brad/Bay, the memories will return?
BTW, “_you_ never know _who_ will drop by.” Because “will drop by” is a verb phrase that requires a subject in the nominative case (“who”), not the accusative or dative case (“whom”). It is the whole phrase that is the object of the verb “know” (which would take “whom” if the latter stood alone).
Anyway, dreams are symbolic and allegorical if you are a Freudian (or engage in oneiromancy). Nonsense if you follow my view.