Zombies are everywhere, starting with the marauding bands harassing cheap cosplay the heroes of NBC's Grimm (returning Friday, 9 p.m. ET/PT) and the long deceased breaking through cemetery ground on Syfy movie Zombie Night (Saturday, 9 p.m. ET/PT). Finish up with the rasping walkers of the genre's king, The Walking Dead (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m. ET/PT).
Think of it as a Weekend at Bernie's – if the deceased Bernie came back to life and started chomping on people's legs.
The creepy influence – fitting for Halloween – continues in coming days, too, as a zombie-themed wedding is featured on Syfy's reality body-painting series, Naked Vegas (Oct. 29, 10 p.m. ET/PT), and the reanimated are at the core of Sundance Channel's French import, The Returned (Oct. 31, 9 p.m. ET/PT).
And it's possible that FX's American Horror Story: Coven (Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET/PT) could dabble in the undead this season, too, since it's already immersed in voodoo, where the concept has its roots.
There's long been a fascination with zombies in pop culture. Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero credits George Romero's 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead, and celluloid successors such as 1978's Dawn of the Dead and its special-effects makeup, for sparking interest among viewers and budding filmmakers.
"George came up with the idea of reanimated corpses eating other people, and (having) to anime cosplay shop shoot them in the head," he says.
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