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    Why The Zombie Craze Still Has Our Undying Affection

    Disney Channel's new high school zombie musical; The Walking Dead's ratings reign; the buzz for the new book Dread Nation: In pop culture, the undead persist after our brains.
    by Neda Ulaby Feb 17, 2018 3 minutes
    In Disney Channel's new original movie-musical <em>ZOMBIES</em>, a high school is integrated with zombie students, including the charismatic Zed (played by Milo Manheim).

    Here's a serious pop culture conundrum. Why are we still so obsessed with zombies?

    Maybe you've seen the movies World War Z and 28 Days Later and the TV series iZombie and Santa Clarita Diet. Or maybe you've read Zone One by Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead or Pride And Prejudice And Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. Haven't you had enough of zombies over the last decade?

    Evidently not. Just within the next two weeks,, shambling back for its midseason premiere — a new zombie movie starring Ellen Page () a Disney Channel musical about a teenage zombie heartthrob in love with a perky cheerleader.

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