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Get Ready for Horror to Make an Appearance in Your Living Room

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Get Ready for Horror to Make an Appearance in Your Living Room

By: Neil Druker

Some nights are just perfect for staying in and chilling out on the couch, with drinks and snacks in hand, and watching television all evening. Unfortunately, those are the evenings that you'll find yourself endlessly scanning the channels trying to find that perfect something to watch that isn't a mindless cartoon, a relentless reality drama, or about food/bride wars. What you need is a program that sends a chill down your spine.

Cinema doesn't quite cut it when it comes to the horror archetypes of faceless serial killers, ghosts or zombies. Some of us just want to be a little more terrified than can be achieved in a two hour runtime. But 2011 has been a new and extremely scary year when it comes to horror on TV.

Networks across the confines of cable have done their very best to bring the most gruesome and breath-stopping suspense they can to the small screen. With how uptight censorship is in America, you'd be surprised at what they get away with. These days you're less likely to find a love scene than you would a mangled corpse dragging its way towards your couch.

Speaking of corpses, AMC's The Walking Dead has given America's zombie culture a weekly dose of terror since its premier on Halloween of 2010. If you're looking for nasty, repulsive terror, look no further. This comic-series-turned-television-phenomenon has taken the idea of a zombie apocalypse and brought it to your town. Throw your amateur zombie survival plan out the window, because after you watch The Walking Dead, you'll realize just how inescapable and enthralling this epic tale of survival is.

Based off comic book superstars Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore, and Robert Kirkman series of the same title, The Walking Dead keeps viewers coming back for more gore. The series follows a group of survivors leaving Atlanta, GA. With two cops, a crossbow wielding redneck, and an arsenal of guns and ammo, one would think it would be easy pickings. But as the survivors discover exactly how widespread this epidemic is, you can't help but wonder, how will they get out of this! The guns help, but not as much as you'd hope.

The zombies in The Walking Dead are known as ‘walkers' and have the usual zombie traits. A zombie can only be destroyed by damaging its brain or cutting off its head. This puts the survivors in the unenviable position of having to be close to a zombie in order to kill it, which is even more challenging when you consider that people bitten by zombies turn into zombies themselves. It may be easier for a group to kill one zombie, but having to deal with a whole horde of these monsters is a different matter.

The special effects are awe-inspiring, disturbing and horrific all at once. You really feel that you are looking at real-life corpses that are moving and groaning; they seem so real you can virtually smell them. In one episode, the group encounters a walker emerging from a well. As its body is retrieved, it rips in half, with the walker's decomposing organs and body parts falling into the well. The still-writhing walker is finally finished off by having its head knocked in with a bat - kersplat!

As well as the repulsive, but strangely satisfying, portrayal of the zombies, the storyline of The Walking Dead is also gripping. While you'd think there would be enough drama in just simply trying to escape the zombie horde, the characters that comprise the band of survivors also have their own personal problems to work out. They have to deal with issues such as racism, wife-beating, missing children, adultery, and protect themselves from each other and other people, as well as from the walkers.

If you're tired of watching the same repeats of Law & Order: SVU or yet another show about cupcakes, give yourself a thrill. With the perfect balance of scary and suspense this show will keep you on the couch hiding behind your girlfriend. The Walking Dead's third season starts this February with promises of more gore, more drama, and more dead vs. alive brutality. But if you're too chicken, I'm sure another Kardashian will be engaged soon enough.

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