Reasons we love zombies

Love them or fear them, zombies are one of those fictional characters that are very famous especially in movies. They will eat your flesh or even suck your eye balls out. No doubt even most people fear them, we kinda like them.

But why we like them anyway? what's with zombies?

I have here some reasons why we love zombies.

1. Freud: Ever squashed a fly or a bug? what do we feel. We like it right? it is like a contentment. Like me when a mosquito bites me, and then I squashed it with my hands it makes me feel good, and it feels like revenge. Like in zombies, humans has a natural aggressive drive and killing them expresses that feeling.

Death both scares and fascinates us, as we involved, if you weren’t curious about why other creatures died you probably didn’t survive yourself. Curiosity about death is probably built into us.

2. Expressing social roles: Everyday we restrain ourselves from expressing our true emotions. And killing zombies, expresses our way to break out those roles for a short while.

3. Belief: If we know it is the bad guy, they deserve to die, and there is no guilt on killing them

4. We love to be scared: Zombies and creatures alike, scares us, especially when we were young. Zombies represents fear, and when we overcome zombies it is like we overcome fear.

5. Terror Management: zombies are reminders of our own mortality which we don’t want to be reminded of, so we kill them in a symbolic way of overcoming death.

"People are fascinated by phenomena such as esp, psychokinesis, communicating with the dead, ghosts, vampires, and zombies in part because [they] allow for the possibility of some essence or aspect of us surviving beyond death. One could speculate that these forms of the supernatural are growing in popularity, along with their positive counterparts, superheroes, because of lessened faith in traditional religious conceptions of the supernatural…

Zombies also deny the finality of death – here are these beings who are functioning after they have died. It’s not a pretty afterlife, but if this is possible, better forms may also be out there.…because zombies are “already dead” we can be guilt free and gleefully watch them killed in every way possible no matter how grisly, vicariously aggressing against this substitute source of our fears with complete abandon.” - Jeff Greenberg, researcher on Terror Management Theory