“Hate me all you want, or call me paranoid and misinformed, but there is one common theme that is pervasive in American pop culture today: violence,” Dr. Manny Alvarez wrote in a column on the Fox News website. “Even more specifically, zombie violence. The idea of a zombie-infested world inspires fantasies of monsters possessed by an uncontrollable rage to kill, and viewers get a thrill imagining what it would be like to participate in this new world order.”