"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books"
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Kevin Bacon’s zombie obsession lands less like a confession and more like a tiny cultural tell: even the guy who’s been “Kevin Bacon” for decades still wants to disappear into the safest, strangest fantasy on the shelf. Zombies are horror’s most democratic monster. No master villain, no elaborate mythology, just the crowd coming for you. When a famous actor admits he likes watching zombie movies and reading zombie books, the subtext is almost charmingly anti-glamour: he’s choosing stories where status, charisma, and even identity get wiped clean.
The phrasing matters. “Obsessed” is oversized, playful, the kind of exaggeration you use to signal fandom without sounding precious. He lists two mediums - movies and books - which quietly frames this as a sustained habit, not a one-off guilty pleasure. It’s a celebrity performing normalcy in a way that’s credible because zombies are a mainstream niche: intense enough to sound distinctive, familiar enough to feel communal. You can say it at a talk show desk and people nod.
Contextually, Bacon’s coming up in an era when zombie culture became a mass language for anxiety: pandemics, social breakdown, faceless online mobs, the fear that your neighbors might turn. For an actor, it’s also a genre that spotlights the body - movement, decay, choreography, the physical stakes of being human. Bacon’s line reads like a wink at that: after a career of being watched, he’s drawn to stories about watching the world unravel, from a safe seat, with the lights off.
The phrasing matters. “Obsessed” is oversized, playful, the kind of exaggeration you use to signal fandom without sounding precious. He lists two mediums - movies and books - which quietly frames this as a sustained habit, not a one-off guilty pleasure. It’s a celebrity performing normalcy in a way that’s credible because zombies are a mainstream niche: intense enough to sound distinctive, familiar enough to feel communal. You can say it at a talk show desk and people nod.
Contextually, Bacon’s coming up in an era when zombie culture became a mass language for anxiety: pandemics, social breakdown, faceless online mobs, the fear that your neighbors might turn. For an actor, it’s also a genre that spotlights the body - movement, decay, choreography, the physical stakes of being human. Bacon’s line reads like a wink at that: after a career of being watched, he’s drawn to stories about watching the world unravel, from a safe seat, with the lights off.
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