Film School Rejects is running an entertaining article, debating the better between two undesirable events. It’s a pretty entertaining read with the two debaters going head to head in what can only described as a grudge match.

It’s self-evident that life after a nuclear holocaust is preferable to a life under a zombie outbreak.

As the Mad Max trilogy shows us, the most likely threat to my survival is either gonna be bikers or Tina Turner. Bikers would be easy to dispatch, especially since the preferred method of travel in a post-nuke world is a supercharged V8 interceptor. The laws of physics dictate that in a battle between a crotch-rocket and a ’70s-era muscle car, the muscle car will win. Every. Fucking. Time.

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Living through nuclear catastrophe would mainly just be luck. You’d have to hope you’re in the right place at the right time to get through it. Being one of the lone humans surviving a zombie takeover would mean that you are a supreme human. When everyone else was dying (or becoming zombies themselves) by the hands and spit of the living dead, you were out there takin’ chainsaws and baseball bats and anything that makes a sizable boom and clubbing those slow-walking-drool-faced fucks until their brains became wallpaper patterns. You could take on a whole new identity. You could become a badass like Woody Harrelson in Zombieland or like when Cillian Murphy goes all Die Hard at the end of 28 Days Later. You can have your Tina Turner, sally boy; I’ll go decapitate the likes of Zombie Michael Bay or Zombie Oprah (in fact, it shall be my mission).

Personally, I’d go with the zombie apocalypse. Fighting the dead would get old pretty fast, but I wouldn’t have to worry about radiation sickness or radiated food. I wouldn’t have to worry about fallout drift or the idea of a nuclear winter. In short, I think I could survive with zombies. I’d find a nice out of the way location, arm up on ammo, and return to an agrarian lifestyle. Hunting and gathering might be bad, but dying a slow painful death from radiation poisoning is much worse.

Shouting Match: Nuclear Holocaust vs. Zombie Invasion (filmschoolrejects.com <- new window)