Why are zombie movies always set 1980s onwards?

[jaytmuk (DayZ) 621]

Wouldnt it be cool to see a zombie apocalypse set in maybe medievil times :P

What would be your fave timezone to set a zombie apocalypse in?

Edited November 11, 2012 by jaytmuk

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

1066.

Or maybe it was?

[jaytmuk (DayZ) 621]

Well there has been movies with undead coming alive from pyramids, Mummies are kinda zombies i guess lol

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

how about in pre neolithic times, just clubs and stone hand axes for weapons

[Erizid 56]

I think ancient history zombies would never work. A 5000 man strong Roman Legion or 20,000 man pikeman formation would crush any zombie horde. They are actually BETTER equipped for a zombie apocalypse than most cities.

Also think about population. There are seven billion people on the planet right now. A fast-spreading zombie plague would mean humanity is quickly and severely outnumbered. In Roman Times, there were only around seventy to eighty million people spread across the globe.

[crockett (DayZ) 41]

Exit Humanity was released in 2011.. It's a lower budget film, but was made rather well. It's a zombie movie from the 1800's time setting is almost immediately after the American Civil War.

Trailer

IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781812/

It's on Netflix streaming btw, that's where I watched it.

Edited November 11, 2012 by crockett

[Parasprite 35]

The masses aren't interested in the idea of zombies so much as people shooting zombies.

[Goggalor 191]

most cities are walled and can't sustain themselves without outside help.

They could sustain themselves. Siege warfare was all about the ability of cities to sustain themselves for years on end while the enemy bombarded the city for months or even years. They were made for holding out hordes. What would be interesting would be if the infection got inside the walls.

[anthonydddd1 10]

Lol great idea

[dekartz 315]

There was already an infection that spread around the world in medieval time. It was called syphi- I mean the plague.

[leeds2007 22]

during the blackdeath/plauge. that would of been interesting

[BwobBwub 660]

During 1979, Pre 1980's :P