zombies

  • 13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Back 4 Blood

    13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Back 4 Blood

    At first glance, Back 4 Blood might seem like a paint-by-numbers co-op shooter whose lineage traces back to Left 4 Dead. You might think you know the drill: point, shoot, pick up weapon, point, shoot again. Make it to the end of the level. Try not to die. But there’s a deceptive layer of complexity…


  • How the 1918 Flu Inspired Your Zombie Costume

    How the 1918 Flu Inspired Your Zombie Costume

    Behind that putrefying flesh, there’s a lot of hidden depth to the zombie. As humanities scholar Jeffery Cohen puts it in his book Monster Theory: Reading Culture, “monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.” In 1918, with the Spanish Flu ravaging the U.S., we turned our fears into zombies.