It is easy to recognise the zombies in ourselves in the cyber-age, where one can stay cut off from the outside world for long durations. This even before a nasty little virus came along and forced us all into our houses, giving many of us the excuse we wanted to never meet anyone. It is also easier than ever to grumble that technology has facilitated alienation and living-dead behaviour. But in fairness, versions of this have been happening for hundreds of years. Think of all the stories about insensate, vaguely human-like creatures—going back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and beyond—that were responses to new technological developments; born out of the fear that in moving away from the comforting, moral certainties of religion towards something more diffused and unpredictable, people would lose their humanity. Zombies are a direct bequest of that legacy. One of the most famous zombie films, George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead, begins with a cemetery scene where a young man (a non-zombie at this stage) is sardonic about traditional things such as putting a wreath on his father’s grave, and doesn’t even go to church. These “blasphemies” of a cold modern age prepare us for the arrival of the living dead. But a question hangs over the film: was that man already dead inside?