I propose that that we look to the resurgence of the zombie film in order to view how “revolutionary consciousness” is worked out within contemporary movie culture. I will modify early theories of the Horror film (such as those of Robin Wood and Barry Keith Grant) with contemporary Marxist theory – including Fredric Jameson’s reading of class and allegory in films he dubs “political” along with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s writings on what they term “The Multitude” – to reconsider this increasingly popular form. Finally, I will attempt to re-situate the zombie film and its resurgence as a ‘political eruption’ of subgeneric material, and assert that this specific form (as with other subgenres, such as heist and the conspiracy films) only emerges within a very specific set of historical circumstances: circumstances which not only relate to, but that also embody the political climate from which they emerge.