Why are zombie moives so popular?

I think zombies are so popular because it's something that we will probably honestly never experience in our lifetimes. Like in Frankenstein, people want to know is it possible to bring a body back to life and zombies give us that hope, a terrifying hope but it still means that dead bodies could come back to life. I also think everyone knows how ridiculous that idea is. There is an immense amount of humor in books like The Zombie Survival Guide which explains how to survive a zombie apocalypse.In Shaun of the Dead they took a serious movie and gave it a dark humor and made a zombie attack very funny. The terror also involved is interesting, we don't want to believe hat it could happen but then there's still a chance that we never know about. Personally, I think it's hilarious. Zombies roaming the earth while a few people try to survive in a mall is just funny to me. I think if there ever were a real problem it would be taken care of immediately and there probably wouldn't be a huge problem since we have field guides on how to deal with the mess.