I was watching a review of the new 28 Years Later movie, and I found something which I see more and more as a fan of horror, and the more I thought about it, the more it annoyed the bleeding shit out of me, because it's such a basic bitch opinion masquerading as somehow deep or revelatory, and it's always voiced by the most tedious, smug fucking people.
"It's really interesting, y'know, because, like, it's not like a typical, cliched zombie movie, because, like, the zombies are only a very minor, background element of the story, the real story is the human drama. The real threat isn't the zombies, it's the other living survivors."
...I'm sorry. Did you just get here, son?
That's LITERALLY every other zombie movie ever that you've just described.
The idea that the living would be a greater threat than the dead in a zombie apocalypse has been a thing in that genre arguably since fucking Night of the Living Dead. Every big zombie movie you can name, the real villain is always another living survivor or group of survivors - mainly because braindead walking corpses motivated only to feed don't typically make for particularly interesting or diabolical antagonists. The idea that the real threat isn't the zombies, but the other survivors might well be a bigger cliche than what you're decrying as the 'typical cliched zombie movie' at this point.
'The zombies are only a very minor, background element', well, no fucking shit, Sherlock. If the movie was just two hours of mouldering undead shambling around aimlessly grunting and moaning at eachother, while the human survivors do nothing and just huddle in one place, hiding and whimpering in fear, I doubt very much it would make for compelling, exciting viewing. I have a feeling that might be boring for an audience after a while.