The movie transpires in the city of Everett, Wisconsin, where a mysterious epidemic is running rampant through the population. No one knows who the first victims are, or how the virus started, but anyone bitten by an infected individual dies, and then is born again as a mindless ghoul. We never learn much about the origins of the virus. We see glimpses of TV news broadcasts providing coverage of the spreading epidemic, but eventually all …showed first 75 words of 1012 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1012 total…also within. Is this post 9/11 fear of the country being over-run? Are the zombies the manifestation of chemical weapons, religious fundamentalist, terrorist attacks, and mob mentality? * Is the film a comment on the brutality of reality television? O dozen contestants struck inside a building that they cannot leave whilst we watch their every move. Out side the viewing audience is obsessed with gaining entry into the house, but also the blood of the next evictee