Halloween. The night of the dead. And what’s more convincing to be among the dead than to join a zombie parade?
One thing that I miss about Halloween is the costume party. We can pretend to be any character that we want, while lowkey revealing our inner personality that we hide from public eyes under the mask of said character’s traits. Or going all out and dressed as a zombie.
Speaking of zombies, if I got caught in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, I would be that character at the start of the movie that died first, either because of lack of stamina, or lack of brain power.
But one day, I discovered Zombie Shuffle. It’s the perfect event if you want to be among zombies without the fear of being mauled by one (but if that’s your preference, then too bad).
I first discovered about the event in 2012, when I was still living in Melbourne. If you watched the earlier scenes of Train to Busan, the situation is quite identical, without the added cannibalism, of course. It was like one day you decided to go to the city, and then suddenly it’s the zombie apocalypse.
At first, it might look like a nightmare, but when I started to pay more attention to the effort that people put to make themselves undead, I grew fascinated by them. Their level of costume design and makeup is out of this world.
And if you think this happened at night, you’re wrong. It was in the middle of the day because zombies don’t care about sunlight (unlike their distant undead cousin). This made me able to look at their costumes in even more detail.
Now, it’s 2020. With the situation that we have now, it’s very difficult to recreate a zombie apocalypse scene since all the zombies are social distancing (gathering in large groups is not recommended). I think at this point, we have become zombies in our own ways. I stayed in my house for too long, I can even feel my brain rotting. I might need to look for a new one.
I mean how many of you leave your room aside from looking for food or bathroom business? Showering might have become a secondary need these days. It’s funny how a zombie-like state is equivalent to a lack of mobility, even though zombies in movies and games are pretty agile. One example is in #Alive, the new Korean movie on Netflix. Not only do they have stronger will to “live”, but also more sensitive hearing ability. Meanwhile, the only ability I developed since becoming a zombie is the capacity of engulfing more food.
How about you? Have you become a zombie yet?
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