Few images are as vivid, as far as the aesthetics of the corpse are concerned, than the mediatic and global overexposure of the living dead. From video games to comics and the new horror films marked by the trauma of 9/11, zombies have invaded our literature and have caught the attention of academic critics who have ignored them up until now. Following the model set forth by G. Romero, this neo-zombie invasion further explores the themes of his saga : the city in ruins and social anomy ; pandemics and cannibalism ; the triumph of the iconography of the galvanized corpse ; excessive amounts of gory details bordering on the humorous ; a paranoid vision of the ideological State apparatuses ; the religious sub-text of a Judgment Day without any redemption whatsoever ; finally, the bad-taste politics that make zombies the emblem of counter-cultural anti-aesthetics.