It’s Friday and I want to know, what is your favorite monster?
Me? I love zombies. Fast zombies, slow zombies, cunning zombies and stupid-as-bricks zombies. I love them all.
I enjoy zombie movies but really, for me the best stories are the ones where an author can take his of her time detailing the human psyche under the kind of stress a zombie infestation creates.
George Romero’s zombies were the first to make me sit up and take notice but Robert Kirkman has the length to develop his characters and their stories in The Walking Dead series that Romero’s movies lack.
When I think of zombies, my mind flashes on images of Rick Grimes, Michonne and the twisted “Governor” before any of the scenes from the Dead Trilogy — which wasn’t the case a few years ago.
So, while I enjoyed the fast zombie-like 28 Days Later, the Siqqusim zombies from Brian Keene’s The Rising made a far more memorable impression.
Of course, there are things you can do with zombies in books that you can’t do on the big screen, like:
- The plant zombies from Scott Nicholson’s The Harvest
- The still-living human “drones” from Simon Clark’s Stranger and Stephen King’s Cell
- The romantic life of zombies in Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament
- The fashionista life of zombies in Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry
- The emotional and psychological life of a zombie as in Bryan Smith’s Deathbringer
- An end-of-the-war oral history as in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Even zombies as a terrorist weapon in Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan Maberry
- The hauntingly bizarre zombies of Gary A. Braunbeck’s “We Now Pause for Station Identification”
Just to name a few.
So, what’s your favorite monster and why?
Please tell us in the comments below.
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My favorite monster is the Cloverfield monster. I would love more movies like that. I’m sick to death of vampires, especially “romantic” ones (I refuse to even read Twilight), but I still enjoy “The Lost Boys.” I’d also have to give a big vote to Peter Boyle as the monster in “Young Frankenstein.”
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