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The Most Lethal Pandemics in Horror Movie History

movies.ign.com — Crazy how life imitates art sometimes. In the first days of the swine flu outbreak, when the first victims passed away and governments and doctors alike asked us not to panic, didn't you also get a strange sense of déjà vu? Didn't newspaper headlines and TV bulletins seem to repeat scenes from dozens of horror films?

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  • appleseed1234, on 07/13/2009, -1/+16*waiting for 28 Months Later*
  • Falldog, on 07/13/2009, -2/+16The worst pandemic in recent history was the spread of Twitter.
  • VikingBeatbox, on 07/13/2009, -0/+9Everyday I wish for a zombie epidemic.
  • Powerfan5000, on 07/13/2009, -0/+8Fail for including Doomsday and Cabin Fever but Win for 12 Monkeys.
  • B1665r, on 07/13/2009, -0/+8I am waiting for World War Z... If 12 Monkeys is is the Terminator 2 of pandemic movies, then that will be the LOTR of zombie movies. J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay.
  • inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+7Oh, I thought that said Paramedics.

    as in...

    "SEND MORE PARAMEDICS."
  • doctechnical, on 07/13/2009, -0/+5No "Andromeda Strain"? That's the granddaddy of'em all!

    601
  • damnshoes, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4then 28 years?
  • damnshoes, on 07/13/2009, -0/+3even if it happens, you won't be prepared....nobody is.
  • B1665r, on 07/13/2009, -0/+3Well except that Danny Boyle has actually optioned 28 Months...
  • aegis17, on 07/13/2009, -0/+3What, is it like the Spanish Inquisition? Their chief weapon is surprise, after all.
  • Lucas123, on 07/13/2009, -1/+4Newspapers and magazines know what sells, just as movie producers know what brings 'em in at the box offices.
  • CkMaverick, on 07/13/2009, -0/+228 Decades is where it is at...
  • sharkydog, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2And fear.... surprise and fear... fear and surprise...
  • Caergrim, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2"Braaaaaaaaaaains."
  • banderwocky, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Great list.
  • skunkman62, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2i like turtles
  • drmangrum, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Anyone else bust out laughing when the ass demons made their debut in Cabin Fever? That ***** cracked me up.
  • fety, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1...and chocolate rain
  • anxdiety, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1The best pandemic ever in a horror move was in Cronenberg's Shivers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073705/

    Who wouldn't want to be infected by a parasite that causes you to ***** your brains out.
  • ohthedaysofyore, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1No, I didn't see "MASSIVE ZOMBIE OUTBREAK" in any headlines so it didn't really repeat much from horror films...
  • timfitz99, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1"The Crazies" should be on there.
  • Unreal411, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_f ...
  • B1665r, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Dugg for a movie where everyone wore a butt plug
  • Caergrim, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1"Chocolate rain...some stay dry while others feel the pain."

    I feel the pain. =(

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