Note, although the film adaptation was not as terrible as most critics claimed, the less said about Cell (2016), the better. Meanwhile, complete strangers band together to deal with a suddenly dangerous world. Rather it’s more comparable to Romero’s film The Crazies or 28 Days Later where civilized society is turned upside down when formerly normal people become raving murderous lunatics.
But that isn’t necessarily the case, it follows the spirit of those zombie films but there aren’t any zombies in Cell. On the surface, one might want to compare this to a flesh-eating zombie movie and the book’s dedication to George Romero (and Richard Matheson who wrote the classic post-apocalyptic thriller I Am Legend) adds to that comparison. In the book’s case this virus is not biological but technological with devastating results.
Oddly enough the novel has some new relevance in today’s world in showing how society has abruptly been turned upside down by a “virus”. At the same time was a tribute to the horror sub-genre of lone survivors coping in a world overrun by maniacs, monsters and other terrors. Stephen King’s Cell was written in the post-9/11 world and published in 2006.
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