Viral Video: Zombie Act a Hit, ‘Experiment’ Gets a Million Views in 2 Days [VIDEO]
Zombies are really making their way into this generation's pop culture. A YouTube video called, "Zombie Experiment NYC" has gone viral with a million views in only two days.
Clip uploader putzombiesback poses a simple question to describe the video: Could zombies live among us? In the next sentence, the curious YouTube user explained the experiment, saying, "We transformed a few New Yorkers to find out."
The 106-minute video shows zombies bringing a daylight Halloween party to unsuspecting New Yorkers.
A little boy screams, a group of young ladies run for safety, and a dog barks as hard as it could to drive away the enemy. Most of the reactions drawn from the NY streets are all proof positive of the make-up and costume skills of the creative people behind the acting zombies (who are, by the way, not bad actors).
Others just raise their brows, take photos, or smile in amusement. (Ah, the things that people with a lot of time could do!)
Zombie cops, traffic zombies and shopping zombies - it seems there is a zombie for each social class. Does the film suggest anyone can be a zombie? Not really. Towards the end, the clip says, "Put them [zombies] back on TV."
Ah, so the film is making a discreet commentary, but not on Plants vs. Zombies (the hit mobile game), but on human-zombies on the streets and popular zombie series, particularly the "Walking Dead," which is followed by millions of viewers across the world.
Why "put them back on TV?" Because in the past months, news of people gnawing at other people's faces and other body parts are all over media channels, as if reality has copied fiction. This zombie-style attack is associated to people taking scopolamine, a drug that can bring out a user's dark side when taken outside acceptable dose.
In an episode in the ABC series "Castle," zombies did walk New York streets late at night, all in the name of fun - until someone gets murdered by someone who abused scopolamine.
Could the elaborate 'experiment' making a stop-the-zombie-act plea to scopolamine abusers?