In most popular zombie movies, the chaos normally happens in the modern day or in a future post-apocalyptic world. Think of World War Z, where a virus spreads, causing a zombie outbreak in the present, or Night of the Living Dead, where the undead cause havoc in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s. Popular zombie TV shows like All of Us are Dead and The Walking Dead also dwell on the current era and the future rather than the past.

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