In the preppersphere, zombies are a metaphor for the masses of the unpreppared, weakened after a prolonged collapse, who slowly fan out into the countryside seeking food. Mic, Jeff, and Brian look a few landmark films and a popular TV series. Does how the characters deal with their zombies hold lessons for how preppers might deal with a possible horde of weakened, emaciated city people?

Movie Links:

White Zombie, 1932, starring Bela Lugosi. The first actual zombie movie.

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, Army study in 1945 on effects of starvation.

Plan 9 From Outer Space, 1957. Cheesy sci-fi in which aliens raise the dead as an army.

Night of the Living Dead, 1968, George Romero's cult classic that launched the modern zombie trope.

The Walking Dead, 2010-2022, Television series, with Romero-like zombies

Survival Theory II, 2023, Audio book by Jonathan Hollerman

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