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Zombies are everywhere in pop culture these days: in movies, in books, on television. I've always loved zombie tales. Many of the core elements – people becoming Something Else, survivors trying to adapt to a world that has radically changed – are inhere

The zombie love goes on. The genre continues to be the flavour of the month on big screen and small, but how long will it be before audiences grow tired of shuffling corpses? Luckily, the "zom-rom-com" hasn't yet been mined to death – Shaun of The Dead...

The tween-minded zombie romance "Warm Bodies" pulls a comic-romantic twist on a genre better known for its entrails. It is narrated by the undead fellow known as R, played by Nicholas Hoult, soon to be slaying giants in "Jack the Giant Slayer."

Editors at the old sci-fi anthology magazines used to say that the least-surprising surprise-ending story that would come in, by the wheelbarrow load, was the one starring the two wounded souls wandering post-apocalypse.

The meaning of January and February, at least as it relates to new film releases, is "Who cares?" And nothing sends that message more effectively than yet another story of the undead. Well past the genre's innovation point of no return, the...