Zombie Action Figures
The world hasn’t been the same since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. While the world has known zombie folklore or its equivalent for ages and ages past, this movie has propelled zombies into the top of your average persons fear list. The slow moving, groaning and meat eating undead have become a staple icon of the horror industry. While zombies are yet to displace count Dracula as the most filmed horror object they are fast approaching. The past decade has brought out a lot of zombie movies that has made a deep impact in mainstream media. Zombie movies, books and graphic novels have seen a dramatic increase in both number and popularity this decade alone. From the hit video games such as Resident Evil franchise, House of the Dead series and even the hottest first person shooter – Left for Dead and Left for dead 2 zombies continue to carve a deeper niche into our daily lives. Recent blockbuster movies such as the Resident Evil and 28 Days Later series propelled zombies even more to popularity.
While vampires still dominate the top of the undead list thanks to the twilight series and the movie underworld, zombies beat vampires in sheer fear factor. While your average female might swoon in the thought of a vampire falling in love with her, the thought of zombies would undoubtedly send her into a running frenzy. High sales of books by Max Brooks about surviving the zombie apocalypse or graphic novels such as Walking Dead underscore the interest your average person has on the topic of zombies.
Enter the Zombie action figure your own physical and tangible piece of the current zombie frenzy. Zombie action figures come in the best quality plastic and good color art bringing out the worst out of people’s irrational fear of the undead. If they are so gruesome and scary why would you want one? The answer is simple, to show that you are not afraid. Either that or you’re just a fan. Another good reason is that you’d want antagonists for your vast collection of other action figures. As we can see nothing beats the action arising from fighting back the tide of restless undead. Zombie action figures capture this unique time that zombies have taken the for front of mainstream horror, be it you generic slow moving undead to more devious Lickers from resident evil or the deadly crying Witch from left for dead.
US $3.95
