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What happened to the good old fashioned zombie?
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These are not zombies, they are something else. I guess the good old fashioned zombie is dead. HaHaHa
I suppose that you can only beat the drum of an old idea before you need to tweak it to realize that it was a better instrument before you screwed around with it.I personally prefer the older zombie ideal to the newer, but find the newer ones entertaining... to a point anyway.
But when that chick disappears in Monster Nation....I said "oh, come on!"
I agree about the disappearing zombie, Acknud. I liked the idea of the guy who let himself die on the repirator in "Monster Island" though. That was kind of an interesting new idea.
My sister and I have being trying to classify the movie Quarantine as a zombie film or not. I said it was at first because it's about people in an apartment building going mad attacking people. The infected don't move particularly fast but because the setting of the story is an apartment building there isn't much of anywhere to go...any thoughts? by the way, I'm purposely not posting the reason why the infected get infected for those who have not seen this movie yet, which is very scary and pretty good. But for anyone who may have seen this movie, the source of infection is a reason for me to start doubting this movie as a "zombie" movie and more as an "infected" movie.
In my novel, zombies start out fast, but soon end up slow due to decay and wear and tear. Since they don't feel pain, the dead are very good at battering themselves into shambling zombies. I'm a huge fan of George Romero, so I have a great love for the slow, relentless dead.I'm not really keen on the new breed of "zombies" and their various talents. I'm not sure they should even be called zombies. I'll admit that I get turned off if I find out the zombies in a book are doing something other than shambling around and eating.
But, again, this is just me. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.
--Rhiannon Frater
Don't get me wrong I love the classic Romero zombie but isn't it more fun to see people running like hell with a mob of speedy zombies right on their ass. So, what i'm trying to say is that I don't mind the fast zombie, but I wouldn't go as far as to call a super strong,intelligent and/or dissapering creature that just happens to enjoy human flesh a zombie.
I like fast and slow zombies depending on my mood... what I don't like is smart zombies or super human zombies. They need to be mindless, hungry, and a threat to the living
I think the whole super-human zombie crap is bullshit. I had to laugh when the fat lady in DotD(2004) rocketed off the bed to attack people. Her muscles and coordination should not be superior to her living self. The main advantage zombies should have is their relentlessness, infecting others, and resistance to most mortal wounds. Rhiannon, I like your bringing up the issue of wear and tear. Zombies don't heal those minor injuries to bone, joints and ligaments that the living do, so over time they should become less and less capable of speedy movement. Max Brooks kind of touched on that in WWZ as well.
Erfman wrote: "I think the whole super-human zombie crap is bullshit. I had to laugh when the fat lady in DotD(2004) rocketed off the bed to attack people. Her muscles and coordination should not be superior to..."In my novel, As The World Dies: The First Days, the survivors witness a zombie ripping another one apart trying to get to them. It just made sense to me that zombies would damage themselves and each other in their quest for flesh.
Like I said, my zombies start out fast, but slow down over time.
The superhuman, intelligent zombies don't sit well with me at all.
Now we have Keene making them demon driven and guided and Wellington impressing them with thought processes and even one zombie that can "disappear". What the hell is up with that?