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I think I am screwed. I have only prepared for the upcoming shuffling zombie apocalypse. If they start to mutate into variations then I am not sure I can adapt!
Fleeing to a shopping mall is a popular choice. Oh..wait, that didn't turn out too good, did it?
run to the top floor of your house and destroy the staircases...
I think I'll spend the afternoon practicing to see how fast I can nail boards crookedly across my windows. (I'm sure the hammering won't attract any more zombies....)
haha...the funny thing is I just had almost the exact zombie conversation with my sister a couple days ago
I'm already planning on installing solar panels into the top of the house so that we can still have power when the zombies come...
Jonathan wrote: "Is she now one of the walking dead?"no, but if zombies attack and she hasn't returned my copy of The Zombie Survival Guide, I'll make sure she will be :)
lol ok...what about the horrible POS "Horrorfest" movie Mulberry Street? "Rat-zombie-people"? Do they qualify too? ;-)I mean honestly, where do you draw the line of zombie/not-zombie? Especially if you're going to include the Rage-infected from 28 Days/Weeks Later and those from Quarantine?
I honestly think even the "super-zombies" in the RE3 movie were pushing the "zombie" envelope quite a bit.
Course, that's just my 2¢, and I've never gnawed a human leg, so what do I know, right? Right. >:-D
Some folks dislike the variations that some writer and/or filmmakers have imposed on the zombie model (making them talk, making them fast, etc.). Other folks like these changes.
At the core of the argument is a group of folks who think that zombies should only be of the George Romero, slow & shuffling variety.
But consider these points:
1) Romero didn't invent zombies. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, according to Romero, was largely inspired by the 1954 novel I AM LEGEND.
2) The zombies that existed in film prior to NOTLD are of a different kind. They're zombies in the truest sense in that they are undead (but not flesh-eating) servants of a Voodoo priest or priestess.
3) Shortly after the release of NOTLD variations began popping up all over the place, notably Italy, Germany and England. Few of these zombies fit the Romero mold. Many of these movies features zombies created by demonic forces, toxic spills, etc.
4)Fast and talking zombies aren't new. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 91985 had both.
5) The fast infected humans who act like zombies (as in 28 DAYS LATER and QUARANTINE) are retakes on another George Romero film, THE CRAZIES (1973).
Zombies are a major (and enduring) film monster. They've become their own genre and paradigm. But unlike many of the other monsters, zombies offer the filmmakers, comic creators and writers a chance to explore new dimensions, new causes, new abilities and vulnerabilities, and new ways of creating frights.
As much as I like the slow Romero zoms, I also like many of the other kinds. THe variety keeps the genre from becoming stale.
What do you guys think?