"A typical trope in zombie movies is that a group of survivors take refuge in a mall. Thereupon, they have access to all the luxuries and valuables that they would not have otherwise have had when civil order still existed.
They can gorge themselves on what was left behind in the food court, they can dress themselves up in all the designer clothing that they could have never been able to afford otherwise. All the luxury goods produced by post-industrial capitalism are readily at their fingertips.
Distracted by the good things before them, they temporarily forget the shambling hordes in countless numbers outside the confines of the their refuge.
But as the walking corpses become more aware of the survivors presence, they eventually gather in greater numbers and threaten to break down the thin plate of glass that separates them from the living few, drunk off of their own excess and hedonism.
Towards the end of the film, the undead horde break through the doors and overwhelm the survivors, ripping them apart limb from limb.
It is then that the dead are now in possession of the good things of life, but being dead, they are both unaware and have no use for such luxuries.
An important lesson can be learned from such films.
Also, if you think about it, the zombie is the perfect symbol of materialism: mindless, shambling, with the ever present desire to consume."
-The Occidental Sentinel
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