I had a nightmare last night that was scarier than a lot of zombie content out there.
Zombies weren't brainless walking dead animal-like meat puppets, they were intelligent people with enhanced strength. They do want to actually eat normal people, though.
Over time, the "zombie survival apocalypse" went on, and suddenly it ended, because the zombies were fully integrated into normal society, because they had the power and numbers to do so. At one point I started running outside to get to another location, and a zombie started chasing me, but it passed me up, because it was just an undead woman jogging. Then another zombie started jogging right next to me and started a friendly conversation. So I started running in another direction, and that one followed me subtly. So I jumped into a nearby boat and quickly paddled across, and the zombie just quickly ran underwater and popped out on the other side.
Anyway, at that point I woke up at 4 am and was actually extremely anxious. Zombies could retain all intelligence, become stronger and tougher than living people, need to kill and eat people, and then infect the entire US government, making living people second-class citizens, maintaining some kind of "equality" facade but in reality always keeping the boot on living people as cattle, and never prosecuting murders done to living people.
Basically Return of the Living Dead, despite being a cheesy movie, has zombies that are 20 times scarier than The Walking Dead zombies, who are just a bunch of angry cows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_Wrt6pNSw