Time marches on, new stories enter the world of entertainment, but one fact remains: People love zombies. The latest entry in the genre is HBO's “The Last of Us,” an adaptation of the popular video ...

Joel and Ellie run from mushroom zombies in Episode 2 of ‘The Last of Us.’ Image:HBO . If the idea of a zombifying fungus sounds vaguely familiar, then you might have been getting stoned and ...

As "The Walking Dead" and its progeny demonstrated time and again, people -- left to their own devices in a lawless society -- become the true monsters during a zombie apocalypse, a point made ...

But most people would agree that it's way past its heyday. ... and far more of a sinister threat than conventional zombies ever were. The Last of Us Season 2 premieres April 13 on HBO and Max.

Now that The Last of Us season one is over, Digital Trends talked to a microbiologist to find out if the fungi outbreak in the hit HBO show can actually happen.

"The Last of Us" team doesn't want to hear you use the term zombie to describe people who become infected on HBO's hit series. HBO, Liane Hentscher/HBO 2023-02-12T12:15:00Z ...

Stage 1: Runners. The first type of infection is the most human-like of the stages and occurs anywhere from 24-48 hours after infection. These are the infected we see in the premiere episode ...

The first stage of the Last of Us‘ zombie-creating infection is what survivors call “Runners.”These people will begin bleeding from their eyes, nose, and mouth, and run quite fast due to the ...

The gruesome beasts in HBO’s TV series “The Last of Us” don’t look like your average neighborhood zombies. They are not undead nor infected with a virus.

Here's a guide to the types of zombies — aka infected — in the Last of Us: runners, stalkers, clickers, bloaters, and Rat Kings.

Bella Ramsey in episode 8 of "The Last of Us." Liane Hentscher/HBO Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about the eighth episode of “The Last of Us,” which premiered on March 5.