I grew up with Chinese jumping vampires (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Shi) (which behave way more like zombies than vampires), so I've always been able to "get" fear of zombies to a certain extent - for me, it's the ol' "everyone else has gone insane/changed, leaving me behind (or making me a target)." So the zombie apocalypse in 28 Days Later was intriguing to me for appealing to those themes of, well, abandonment and isolation. But I don't necessarily see it going any farther, no. As monsters they just aren't very interesting, you're right.

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