Plus, there’s evidence that they might not have permanently lost their minds. However, King takes an unconventional twist when the zombies start evolving degrees of telepathic group intelligence. All that is left is uncontrolled reptile-brained aggression. In Cell, phones wipe out victims’ mental programming much like a destructive computer virus that disables a hard drive. It renders those who hear it suddenly insane and destructively violent. Some nameless, faceless, political, or social terrorists somehow broadcast a message to every cell phone on Earth. He teams the mobile phone (already fairly ubiquitous back then, and even more so today) with a more typically fear-inducing aspect of modern life. King fingers the humble cellular phone as the means of bringing down civilization. Romero points to a new form of radiation (brought to Earth by a runaway satellite). Matheson presents us with a mysterious plague (and a lone researcher searching for a cure). King dedicates Cell to Richard ( I Am Legend ) Matheson and George ( Night of the Living Dead ) Romero.
The different approach offers a more science-fictional justification for the hordes of shambling, aggressively hungry onetime humans. Supernatural factors are the most widely cited, involving voodoo rituals, sometimes invoking other magical and religious systems.
Novels that offer explanations for their zombie apocalypses tend to fall into two broad categories. Others try to provide at least some context. Some authors choose to duck the whole question of what brought on the gory mess. The current flood of zombie novels was just gathering steam when Cell by Stephen King was unleashed upon us all.Īnd yet, finding a genuinely original trigger mechanism for yet another outbreak of flesh-eating mayhem was already one of the significant challenges facing anyone who dared venture into this long-popular horror sub-genre.
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