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The Guardian // World // Europe

Generation Z: Sue Johnston is the greatest zombie to grace our screens in decades

Saturday 26th October 2024, 6:00AM

When an army van full of toxins crashes into a care home, all the boomers become biters – and it’s kids’ blood they’re after. The undead are back, baby!There was a sustained moment throughout the aughts where you couldn’t move for zombies. Perhaps it started with 2002’s 28 Days Later – little Cillian Murphy wandering dazed around a desolate Westminster! – but there were other takes on the shambling undead every couple of years: 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, 2008’s Dead Set, the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 2009, Left 4 Dead 2. Zombies quietened down a bit with the advent of 2010’s The Walking Dead – a franchise that, ironically, refuses to die and keeps shuffling forward while making a low rustling sound – and we got into other things instead: Westworld’s robots with souls, The Last of Us’s mushroom monsters, every goth thing Game of Thrones could throw at us. The point is: sometimes zombies are popular, sometimes zombies go away.<

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