Zombies

[Priest of Evil]

We all love those rotting un-dead, moaners.

Anyone seen any good zombie stuff, literary, film or otherwise?

I finnished up reading World War Z recently, it was an oral history of the zombie war. Oddly enough it was written by Mel Brooks (its good to be the king) son, Max Brooks. J. Michael Straczynski (babylon 5) is writing the script to fit it around one central character. It sounds promising.

 

[Goreripper]

Well Romero was the king as we all know; mind you, the remake of Dawn was superior to Land of the Dead by orders of magnitude. The "Book of the Dead" was a collection of short stories by various authors all set in Romero-style universes and had some damn good reads in it. If you're interested in more written stuff, Permuted Press is a boutique publisher than specialises in zombie-centric dark fantasy: www.permutedpress.com

 

[Shannow]

Watched "The Quick and the unDead" on the weekend.

I liked the concept, but the execution was lacking.

 

[phlogiston]

That black zombie dude had brains!

Maybe he was just hanging onto them for a snack later on?

 

[phlogiston]

Hey, what would you eat if you were a vegetarian zombie?

 

[Goreripper]

Romero basically invented how zombie films should be then broke his own laws. That black zombie dude had brains! He learnt! He could think! WHAT??????!!

BUt that was alluded to in Day of the Dead, when the ex-Marine zombie began to learn. Romero was suggesting that eventually the zombies would begin to develop an intelligence.

Also, why wouldn't they run? The series was always specific in that it was the corpses of the recently dead that were re-animating, so there was really no reason why they wouldn't be able to run if they could do everything else. I never got that.

 

[Winmar]

Haha Lance is still worked up about those running zombies!

I like Shaun of the Dead.

 

[Spiff]

Yeah, nothing wrong with zombies being able to run. If you can accept that there would be zombies at all, then surely it's not too much of a stretch that they like to go for a jog on occasion.

 

[phlogiston]

Hey, what would you eat if you were a vegetarian zombie?

GRAAAAINS

 

[Shannow]

Oh Dear...that was a wee bit funny

 

[Bucko]

Do Zombies go to the Gym ..... and if so do they shower afterwards , this is the question I want answered my friends

 

[phlogiston]

And they can't run simply because they're dead. All their limbs are dead. There's no blood flowing anywhere. After a while rigor mortis will also set in. They stumble around stiff as fuck because they're dead.

So if they're dead they can walk, but not run. Got it.

Also, rigor mortis also goes away after a bit when the tissue starts breaking down. Can they run then?

 

[Goreripper]

And they can't run simply because they're dead. All their limbs are dead. There's no blood flowing anywhere. After a while rigor mortis will also set in. They stumble around stiff as fuck because they're dead.

Zombies shouldn't be able to run a marathon.

But if that's the case, they wouldn't be able to move at all. Like Spiff said, if you can accept that zombies can exist at all, then you should be able to accept they can move faster than a shuffle. Like in NoTLD, the rednecks and cops were just picking them off with no trouble at all. Even in the original Dawn, escaping them wasn't really that difficult until they got together in big numbers. In the original series, the zombies weren't the biggest threat. It was the breakdown of society that the crisis caused and the way the living people who were left reacted to it. In the remake, that aspect was underplayed to make the zombies more dangerous. They had to be more effective, so they were fast moving.

 

[Priest of Evil]

Watched "The Quick and the unDead" on the weekend.

I liked the concept, but the execution was lacking.

I watched that about 2 weeks ago, after This is England and alot of beers. The costumes and the idea was good and even the zombies were ok but the acting was so wooden! There was zero emotional interest created in any character at all. Yeah, they ballsed up Quick & the Un-Dead pretty good.

 

[Priest of Evil]

LOTD was different, this dude was learning faster than most animals would.

Zombies shouldn't be able to run a marathon.

I used to feel that way but after watching it I enjoyed the updated story (its kinda like a cover song you really dont to hear someone play the whole thing exactly the same way as the original artist) but it did made the line between 28 Days and Dawn a little thin, thus rendering it commercially appealing to popculture enthusiasts.

I actually quite like Land of the Dead too, I got tickets to the preview and I remember people crapping on about Romero this and that after but c'mon people, have you forgotten who long it took him to convince someone to give him the cash to make this movie! Im just glad he got a crack at it and refuse to bitch about it for that reason.

I will agree it was a little cheesy/hollywood style but it had some cool shit in it too. I need to see it again because the memory is sketchy on the details now.

Thanks for that link, Gorey.

 

[Southy]

so if rigor does set in, then the flesh rot, eventually being a zombie is gonna kill you, probably in a week or 2 in an aussie summer

 

[phlogiston]

This thread is bizarre, even for our standards.

 

[Goreripper]

so if rigor does set in, then the flesh rot, eventually being a zombie is gonna kill you, probably in a week or 2 in an aussie summer

I'm surprised no one ever figured that out.

This thread is bizarre, even for our standards.

Yeah, this is like the sort of threads we used to have when Spawn was around. Arguments about fantasy things as if they were real.

 

[Spiff]

Like the reasons for invading Iraq!

 

[Shannow]

I'm surprised that zombies haven't been used as an excuse for going in and shooting everything that moves...yet.