{"id":1369,"date":"2021-10-10T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2021-12-26T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T23:51:46","slug":"lets-talk-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most horror lovers, I love zombies.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the original zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, by George Romero, in our school auditorium when I was in middle school. <a href=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1374\" src=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie3.png\" alt=\"lurching zombies, gotta love them\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie3.png 250w, https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie3-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>My classmates and I thought it was real and we where terrified. Some of my classmates cried. Our parents were miffed at the school for showing us such a gory movie.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us who watched it had nightmares for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was filmed not to far from my home town in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>And long before The Walking Dead captured my attention, and sated my craving for zombie gore, I watched older zombie staples, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Werewolf in London &#8211; with dead Jack the zombie friend<\/li>\n<li>28 Days Later<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil<\/li>\n<li>Shaun of the Dead<\/li>\n<li>I Am Legend<\/li>\n<li>Zombieland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My tastes for zombie films ignore most of the campy stuff and poorly produced flicks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1373 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie4.png\" alt=\"writing a zombie script?\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie4.png 250w, https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/zombie4-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>After The Walking Dead, I enjoyed, World War Z and Warm Bodies. Then after season 6, I stopped watching TWD.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. I cold-turkeyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Done.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up a ghoulish craving for iZombie, and later, Black Summer.<\/p>\n<p>But now, zombie tales don&#8217;t thrill me anymore. Been there, seen that. Eh, no more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve switched to creature features that highlighted anything BUT zombie. I&#8217;m waiting for something new. At least that&#8217;s what I tell myself. I want something unique featuring zombies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, I write one of my own?\u00a0Now there&#8217;s a thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most horror lovers, I love zombies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[482,485,489,477,490,478,488,476,480,387,487,486,479,483,481,484],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rants-on-writing","tag-28-days-later-movie","tag-american-werewolf-in-london-movie","tag-black-summer-tv-show","tag-consider-writing-your-won-zombie-movie","tag-creature-feature-movies","tag-i-am-legend-movie","tag-izombie-tv-show","tag-kathy-patterson-screen-writer","tag-resident-evil-movies","tag-scriptchic-kathy-patterson-screenwriter","tag-shaun-of-the-dead-movie","tag-the-night-of-the-living-dead-by-george-romero","tag-the-walking-dead-tv-show","tag-warm-bodies-movie","tag-world-war-z-movie","tag-zombieland-movies","has-thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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