Night of the Living Dead
It's funny the film that immediately inaugurated the modern conception of zombies and with it the fantasy of zombie survivalism makes the prospect of surviving against the zombie horde look so unappealing. Like, such is standard for zombie survival movies, you're never under any illusion it's gonna be pretty or easy defending the homestead or bunker or wherever you're holed up, but <PERSON> places a lot of emphasis on the gnawing paranoia. The pacing all round the borders reinforcing and doubly reinforcing potential points of entry, sitting down believing you've done enough and then getting up to go at it again because you can't ever let yourself think it's enough. The struggle to get any two people on the same page about basic strategic angles, much less wrangle an entire house full of people experiencing sickness and breakdowns and threats to their ego into agreeing on anything sensible. 965
The clammy second guessing what keeps you in one place too long and renders slow, thoughtful options inert within minutes. The chance those who do have their feet under them will only regard you as another ghoul to wipe out when their organized patrols sweep through your infested area.
On average, your ordinary person will react to distressing new challenges with retreat and paralysis and ploys to defend whatever status they clung to in the beforetimes, even if the beforetimes were a mere two hours ago. There is frighteningly little chance controlled mobilizations and mass media reporting can deal with threats outside their comfort zone, not when early days already finds them massaging prejudices and clawing after reasons why rather than the concrete hows of effective crisis management. One out've context problem, one night dominated by a threat we can't readily address with pre-designated tools, and the terminus of civilization's already on the roll. No amount of prepping and planning will save your skin or your soul while the basic facts of human inadequacy remain in play.
I mean I'd never accuse those who indulge zombie survival LARPing of having especially strong media literacy skills, but it's still a bit funny THIS movie of all pictures kicked off their favorite "what if it were legal for me to shoot people indiscriminately" fantasies. 999