Yeah, and the huge push that the major studios did what it always does, create a huge fuck ton of soulless corporate versions of it. Which inevitably led to the decline and ruin of the genre.

Real hard to get decent versions now with out them using some gimmick because they want it to stand out like 28 days later, and then just absolutely wiffing it.

I remember a time when movie about the destruction planet by an apocalyptic event was a thing

I used to spend a significant amount of time thinking about my plan for the zombie apocalypse

It is still hugely popular.

There are heaps of Korean ones on Netflix.

Not since the accident

Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it "Walking Dead" fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.

Going purely off of memory, I genuinely think it was around COVID that the cultural popularity started to really die off, at least in the Anglosphere?

For over a decade, the zombie film was the standard of apocalypse and terror in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Christofascist pedophiles.

No, when were they?

The best part was the theme that the walking dead aren't the zombies. Then it makes it seem all too real. We just don't have zombies in reality.

Oh sure, a lot of us can remember when COD: Black Ops, Left 4 Dead, Zombieland, Walking Dead and World War Z had our collective attention within that span of roughly 10 years.

It still seems like a viable solution.