Everyone knows that pop culture is suffering from a serious plague of vampire-itis. Seems like I can't turn on my computer each morning without being greeted by news of a fresh outbreak on the big screen or boob tube or Xbox or book shelf. While all this bloodsucking madness is going on, though, the vampire's fellow flesh-nosher, the zombie, is making a comeback on the entertainment scene.
This Friday sees comedy/action/horror flick "Zombieland" hit theaters, and star Emma Stone is thinking zombies are well positioned to overtake vampires in the pop culture future.
"The thing about zombies is they're conceivable," the 20-year-old actress told MTV News. "I don't really know vampires, in a real world, if those kind of people can really exist, because they don't breathe anything. Zombies could really happen."
In "Zombieland" it happens because of a rotten burger at a truck stop, which unleashes a brain-swelling, bile-spewing disease that quickly overruns America and has survivors battling oozing, moaning zombies intent on a never-ending binge of human flesh. Funny thing is, the whole story is played for laughs — a zombie comedy in the vein of "Shaun of the Dead." Emma and co-star Abigail Breslin play con artists trying to survive in this wasteland until they come upon Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg and start thinking perhaps there's safety in numbers.
And maybe that's good advice, if a zombie pestilence somehow strikes this green earth. According to Emma, that's a much more distinct possibility that Robert Pattinson suddenly baring a pair of fangs and looking around for some warm blood to guzzle.
"It could be a plague or an outbreak and it's conceivable that people could turn into crazy flesh-eating monsters at any given moment," the actress predicted. "So it's almost a little scarier and vampires are a little more fantastical and fun to think about but not really think could actually happen and zombies could."
Do you agree with Emma's take on zombies vs. vampires?
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