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The reason I say that something like this very thing could really happen is the source material from which it came from. Max Brooks, author of both World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide gathered inspiration from many different and credible sources, sources like the Centers For Disease Control, National Security Administration, Central Intelligence Agency, and even members of the United Nations committees on pandemic response. The feeling from both of the books as well as in interviews with Mr. Brooks has shown that what he found is we are all woefully less prepared for a pandemic of epic proportions then we think we are. Now I am not saying that we are going to need to fear the rising undead as they come for our tasty brains, but that the very REAL idea that is explored in both the book and movie is that this kind of emergency can go from a mild panic to a world wide epidemic. I think this movie was made for fans of the books and not for zombie lovers. It was made for people who loved the references to things like referring to the zombies as "G's" (short for ghouls) or "Zak". This film was made for people who love the suspense that comes with long quiet, and then a shock. This was a great exploration into what we might do to rise above all that may come, and a feeling of hope that we could survive anything even the raising of the dead.

There are some films that I will only go to see on the other side of town, that is, the theater that is in the part of town where most of the viewers are black. Why would I do that? Because I like to laugh out loud, and doing it in a white theater is like trying to fart in church. I went to the $3 matinée in the slums and watched with glee as major movie stars debased themselves without worrying about why or how. Looking at this movie for higher meaning is stupid, for plot connectedness is even more thick. This was a movie designed to match up to the way we watch most of our video watching anyway. 3 min interludes that we peek at, at our desks or home offices when we should be doing something else. I am completely floored by why SO many people were astounded by the way each segment was more outrageous than the last and how it pulled no punches just went for the throat. What were you expecting, a kind and gentle gross out movie? Come on! All of that aside I love the fact that the actors are what really sell it. The fact that many of them have been nominated for academy awards and international acclaim and were still willing to go and make a movie that was FUN was just really cool to me. So if you're looking to go and see a "whole" movie you wont, but if your willing to get up go out and see something that is totally raunchy, as totally raunchy as that youtube video you just finished then go right ahead. But remember, go to the cheap theater, they will laugh with you, and truly that's the point anyway.

I find it both refreshing and horrifying that a director has chosen as the subject of his horrific discussion with the audience to be the American family. Few directors really play with three elements that are plainly displayed here in detail and used so effectively. One, he uses pauses and silence to emphasize tension. Very little music at all was played and it was soft and gentle, almost non existent, the director wanted us to pay attention more on the action and less on the score. Two, the characters he has written are drab and lonely, and we see their plight like we might see any neighbor who argues in the night, or wears makeup to cover a bruise, but here we see into their home and we see how they deal with their loneliness and anger. What was at first hidden from us is now plainly in front of our faces, and what at first seems perfectly logical then turns into a bloodbath of terrible fantasies turned real. Three, that with each successive film the emotional quotient goes up, and we are left more exhausted by what we have seen then horrified. This kind of horror is in my opinion is the greatest exercise in the genre. Horror is just that, horror. To be horrified by something is simply to have a natural reaction of fear or disgust, and most horror films today never want to push the limit, never want to look at what really scares people in their daily lives. We have settled for the man in the mask for so long we have forgotten that there are far more frightening things that lurk behind the doors of the neighborhoods we live in, and behind the eyes of the people we know.