Weird Dead Thing

friendship with that one 60 year old coworker

coach gets the big burgerrrr FINALLY !!!!

secret down here

insert typical trope where they have retained a distant sense of their humanity and follow my OC Mish around.

their real names no longer apply to the person they’ve become since the flu, but Mish is no expert on names, so it was simple.

The Smoker is long and thin, he became Stick.

The Hunter is a feral little bastard that goes around on all fours like a rabid animal. Thus, he became Rabies.

I love these 4 with all my heart, I'm working on stuff TRUUUST me

There's also a secret hidden guy......... he's for later :)

I don’t know how up on film history you are but what’s widely considered the first zombie movie (albeit it never uses the word zombie), Night of the Living Dead, has the heroic lead Ben played by a Black actor, Duane Jones. It came out in 1968 and Ben wasn’t written to be Black, but George Romero just ended up casting him because Jones gave the best audition (and he is really incredible, this is a favorite film of mine and his performance is a big reason). Obviously though, because of the casting choice of Ben (in addition to the era in which the film was made) the lenses you can analyze it through increase (with the way the other characters treat him despite the fact that he’s the only one actively thinking and planning and being competent, and also the ending hits in a different way as examples). One of my favorite horror heroes honestly.

He also decided how the movie would end for his character.

Spoilers for the end of Night of the Living Dead: