This film about apocalyptic plague
Is crap. There’s no rampaging undead horde
Of zombies. Sure, there is a sense of vague
Unease, but mostly everyone seems bored
And lonely. It’s mundane, nobody’s dying.
Sometimes somebody starts to cough, that’s it.
Except there’s then this mise en scene implying
That yes. They are. In thousands. And it’s shit.
Remember how good horror used to be?
A bloodbath, or a jump-scare or a ghost?
Not unremitting, bleak mundanity:
I think that’s why it’s scaring me the most.
The sense that this is simply how things are’s
More frightening than zombie hordes, by far.
Tom Juniper Poetry 