Ad of the Day: DieHard Batteries Prove There's Life in Zombie Ads Yet

Y&R Midwest charges up the genre

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The scary strong ratings for AMC's The Walking Dead—we'll surely see killer numbers shortly for Sunday night's season-four premiere [UPDATE: Yep]—suggests there's very little zombie fatigue out there among TV viewers. Even zombie-themed commercials, parasitic though they may be, continue to replicate—zombie-like themselves. And luckily, some of them are actually entertaining.

This latest one, from Y&R Midwest and Tool of North America director Tom Routson, for DieHard car batteries, is a great little 70-second ride of comedy and dread.

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