Genuine analysis in humor? Genius!
Cracked.com certainly loves its lists. Every time it shows up on Digg or any other source, it seems to be for another list. Usually, they’re incredibly funny. This particular list, however, has some humor, but also has some pretty sharp insight into the nature of horror fiction. Eliza Skinner examines the real world fears behind 8 famous movie monsters. Among the insights?
At first glance, modern zombie movies seem to be about a fear of disease – most of them feature the “infected” type of zombies, not the “crawled out of a grave to dance with Michael Jackson” type. But the really threatening thing about zombies isn’t their crazy diseased eyeballs, it’s their sheer numbers.