I think I’ve sufficiently covered why I don’t like U.S. pop culture zombies.
1. They’re the same thing as vampires.
2. They’re the same thing as vampires.
3. Reanimated corpse that is going to bite you and turn you into something just like it? They’re the same thing as vampires.
4. They live off of the bodyparts of the living. Same thing as vampires.
5. They usually have much worse PR than vampires.
6. But now they’re totally stealing vampires’ glory!
Get this bullshit: Did zombies roam medieval Ireland? No they did not. Do you know why they did not? Because as true as it was that vampires didn’t exist until the 1500s, I’m willing to bet there were approximately zero Africans in Ireland in the 8th century. No Africans? No fucking zombies. And U.S. pop culture zombies? Pretty much came into existence with Night of the Living Dead or hell, maybe Frankenstein. But no earlier.
Because before Dracula, the scary undead things that stumbled around trying to eat you were fucking vampires. And before that, they were called other things. But not zombies.
Those men in Ireland? Some kind of revenants sure. Precursors to the vampires which would become the precursors to our vampires and zombies.
But certainly not zombies themselves.
Edited to add: I am looking at these Amish mug shots to calm myself down.