Zombies and Men
I've always loved zombies. I've not seen too many movies, but I've seen the more recent ones, read the Max Brooks book, and always looked for more stuff. Unexpectedly, my stepmom brought home volumes 1 and 2 of "The Walking Dead," written by Robert Kirkman. It was quite a fun read, kinda like watching a great George Romero movie that doesn't stop after 2 hours, so it gets into the really gritty issues of humanity during crisis. The afterword was by Simon Pegg, who you may not know by his name but I'm sure you know (he was Shaun in Shaun of the Dead). He writes:
Very insightful. Also, this is just something out of my own curiosity, but which type of zombies do you prefer, the traditional slow or the Dawn of the Dead fast zombies? I used to prefer fast, but now I'm not so sure.
Metaphorically, this classic creature embodies a number of our greatest fears. Most obviously, it is our own death, personified. The physical manifestation of that thing we fear the most...Oddly, these rotten bastards also give us hope. The undead may be tenacious, single minded and as relentless as lava, but they are also stupid and slow; ineffectual and inept. You don't have to be Van Helsing, or even Peter Venkman to throw down with a zombie. Anyone with a pulse can step up. As long as you keep your head, defeating a zombie is not an insurmountable task...It is perhaps this combination of hope in the face of terror, that makes the zombie so attractive to us. The idea that we could, ourselves, beat death.
Very insightful. Also, this is just something out of my own curiosity, but which type of zombies do you prefer, the traditional slow or the Dawn of the Dead fast zombies? I used to prefer fast, but now I'm not so sure.
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To me Zombies are more than death personified. They are an unrelenting mob. They don't need sleep. They don't need food. They don't lose moral. You can not stop Zombies by assassinating their leader. You can not stop Zombies by running into their capital, stomping on their parliament, and running out. Zombies betray our trust by turning our loved ones against us. Zombies can not be reasoned with. Zombies can not be satiated. Zombie begets more Zombie and this chain can not be stopped. Zombies eat us. I do not want to be eaten.
"My right rotten friend makes a good point, Thing Speaker"
Wait a minute there was this one thing on iTunes called "Zombie Prom" which is basically a musical about a 60's high-school where this guy and girl fall in love
(And of course that makes them start to sing)
(P.S. A LOT)
And well she breaks up with him and he commits suicide at a nuclear plant
(Which is strangle just behind there school)
So he comes back as a Zombie and try’s to get her to go to the prom with him
(by singing)
OK well this is just a stupid FREE movie on iTunes. And if you do get it be prepared to be scared for life.
In the Marvel Zombies story arc, the superheroes that turn into zombies retain all their intellect and memories, they just have an insatiable urge to eat human flesh.
Romero zombies:
DotD zombies:
RotLD-style zombies:
HaHa I sould do some reacerch:D
I'm too lazy to care.
EDIT: I just found this and this.
And I totally agree with DI about Return of the Living Dead (RotLD) Zombies; if an outbreak of them occurs, you are fucked. Also, that movie had some of the nicest breasts you'll ever see on an undead chick (NSFW).
I put up those hyperlinks to assist with those forum members who seem to be less-well-versed on Zombology than the rest of the forum. Please note that NSFW stands for "Not Safe For Work", and you should also mentally extend this potential unsafitude to school and more prudish family members. The particular thing I linked to is a pair of STONKING GREAT TITS.
RotLD is short for Return of the Living Dead, a zombie horror/comedy movie made in the 1980s. They're the ones I was talking about in my previous post, and they also originated the brain-eating trope that zombies have become associated with (before Return of the Living Dead, zombies just ate people without expressing a preference for their brains.)
DotD is short of Dawn of the Dead, which was the sequel to Night of the Living Dead and involved more typical Romero zombies. However, a few years ago Dawn of the Dead was remade (without any association with Night of the Living Dead) and the zombies in the new version were unusual in the fact that they were able to run quite quickly rather than shambling around in typical zombie-style. Another change was that, in the remake, you only become a zombie if you're bitten by one, rather than everyone who dies becoming one as in the Romero original.
P.S. I just found out i won the silent bid for a Samurai sword for 30$. so im gona go pick it up at 8:00(5:30 now) I hope it dosent end up like brandons
(his are all now Serrated from messing around with them, lol)
Where do you find a truck of frozen brains?
McDonalds.
GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!
It could be the TOB Zombie:rolleyes:
They're all awesome! So let's stop discussing the intricacies of various different zombies and just bask in the wonder that is undead humans devouring the living!
Would Vampiers count for that???? o wait nvm they dont unless you count blood drinking the same as devouring.
I guess the question is can you devour a liquid.
or can you have Zombie Vampiers, or Vampire Zombies
I know a guy...
The real question here... is can you have Vampire Pirates? Yeah! You could call them Vampirates!!! That sounds totally awesome!
Why not add something else? How about Werevampirates? Werevikampirates? There's no ceiling on this!!