Best Buy has a commercial where a bubbly young student is making a 'scary zombie movie' with her chums using The Computer She Bought At Best Buy... I thought such grotesque, violent movies were supposed to be made by brooding, bitter 'outcasts'- not bubbly Betty/Veronica types...

I thought the Zombie's preoccupation with shopping malls, hospitals, suburbia, and undead men in uniform etc was supposed to be a commentary on the blandness of mainstream 'consumer' culture...Now like everything else it has been hijacked by that same consumer culture.

Has the walking cannibal corpse finally gone the way of the Vampire? (look up Guillermo Del Toro's insights on modern 'de-fanged' Vampires) Has the Romero-style Zombie become so mainstream that they can't possibly be scary anymore? What's next, zombie cartoons and romantic teen-zombie novels?

(and yet I still play 'Plants vs Zombies')