Some zombie movies may give clues as to what a real zombie apocalypse would be like. Mogk explains that while popular zombie stories like “Walking Dead“ have corpses reanimating, it’s much more likely that a real world scenario would deal with what he calls a living zombie. This is a relentlessly aggressive human driven by a biological infection. (Zombie purists may disagree.)
Mogk said, “If you look at like ‘28 Days Later‘ from 2002, these creatures are technically still human. They don’t die and come back to life. ‘Zombieland’ incidentally was a living zombie movie, which a lot of people don’t even bring up. I would say from a practical point of view, if a raving maniac is trying to claw down my front door to get inside to attack me or eat me or turn me into one of them, I’m not really interested in having a philosophical conversation about: ‘Is that really a zombie?’”