This is Part II of a series titled ‘A Decade of Zombies.’ Part I is here. Playwright David Ives once said that “it is all in the timing” referring to the concept of the punch line. It appears to be the similar case with the zombie apocalypse where the punch line is made more humorous when it occurs in moments of absurd timeliness. Take for instance Joe Ballarini’s Dance of the Dead (2008), where the apocalypse takes place on the night of the senior prom in a small town high school. The UK was also particularly successful in creating similar scenarios. On one hand we have Shaun of the Dead Read more »