The It's a typical lazy Sunday morning. You stumble out of the house feeling a little tired,

sluggish, but desperate for something to eat. As you slowly wander down to your local shop you look around and notice that the streets seem unusually empty for this time of day.

No pedestrians, no traffic. Everything is eerily quiet.

But then you notice something just out the corner of your eye, a man standing across the street, slowly shuffling

towards you. As he approaches you, you get a closer look at him. He seems pale, gaunt, almost diseased. His arms are stretched out in front of him.

He's moving at a slow, shuffling pace, one leg dragging behind the other.

And he's covered from head to toe in blood.

You turn round and quickly begin walking in the other direction but suddenly you see another figure also coming straight towards you and then another and then another

suddenly you find yourself surrounded in all

shuffling towards you covered in blood and hungry for flesh Much like the zombies themselves, zombie movies are everywhere.

They seem to breed and multiply at incredible rates

and right now it's almost impossible to avoid them.

New zombie movies pop up in cinemas or on streaming services constantly.

zombie TV shows are taking over the airwaves. Even mass events like zombie walks are hugely popular

around the world. But what is it that makes the zombies such a popular

monster? Critiques of zombie movies often accuse them of lacking complexity, depth or range. But is this really the case? Is there

more to zombie fiction than just blood, guts and viscera? Do they actually have what zombies desire the most?

Over the next few months we'll be looking at the evolution of this incredible and prolific sub-jomra from the early origins

of Caribbean voodoo folklore through to the birth of George Romero's American flesh-eating zombie.

They're coming to get you, Barbara.

We'll also take a look at the zombie sub-genres connections to body horror

as we examine the work at filmmaker David Cronenberg.

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