Ebola: Epidemic, Pandemic, Apocalypse?
By Max Musson: In a previous article I discussed the way I which fictional accounts of a ‘zombie apocalypse’ compare with the approach of our government towards the mounting catalogue of hostility shown by certain immigrant groups towards the indigenous people of Britain. In that article I identified the classic feature of a typical ‘zombie apocalypse’ movie: “The response of the authorities to the zombie threat is invariably slower than its rate of growth, giving the…
Zombie Apocalypse
By Max Musson: Most of us will at some time or another have watched a horror film that depicts some sort of ‘zombie apocalypse’, in which ‘zombies’, once dead humans who have been transformed by a plague or virus into crazy flesh-eating beings, rise from the dead and launch a frenzied cannibalistic attack upon the rest of humanity. Examples of this genre of horror fiction include George A. Romero’s 1968 film ‘Night of the Living…