Future zombie apocalypse stories need to include people who deny it as a hoax, blame it on foreign countries, claim it's just a mild flu, just continue partying as if there's no risk at all, claim it's caused by 5G technology, claim it's a conspiracy by the elite to accomplish whatever, and political parties split on the topic.

It can't get much worse than everybody dead except for a dozen people in a basement, can it?

How so?

World War Z

Walking Dead

Shawn of the Dead *

28 Days Later

The Last of Us

What's worse than the above?

* (ok maybe not this one)

Also if there was a real zombie virus none of the movies so far have captured the sheer absolute terror of hard to defend transmission vectors like mosquitos, which would be likely to get the virus. Brings a whole new level of issues to not getting bit.

As science fiction is speculative, I do not fault any of those listed media however I feel none of them truly captured the sociopolitical insanity that would occur, the sheer level of ignorance and incompetence which causes anything that could go wrong, to go wrong.

We are headed towards: Hunger Games, Children of Men, Demolition Man, Judge Dredd, Escape from NY/LA