KURT SCHLICHTER: Here’s What’s Behind Our Obsession With Zombies: In a time when Americans are figuratively at each other’s throats, our monsters are our fellow citizens. “What is out of control, or what seems like it is out of control, is our society itself. A pervasive unease in America is deepening. It is a sense that our society has become unstable, that the normalcy we took for granted is gone and perhaps not coming back. There is a sense that at the other end of the tunnel we have walked down is chaos. We are at the point where millions look at Donald Trump as the solution to our problems, not a symptom. It’s that bad.”

Fundamentally transformed. But what does it say that the basic values of zombie flicks are conservative?