Fast or Slow Zombies?

[BagginsKQ]

Bugs are smart, from an 'animal kingdom' perspective... Think hive mind... Bees, ants, termites. Those can be scary in their own way. They issue orders via pheramones, to others (but each one is capable of also sending out pheramone orders if they encounter things)...

Actually I think that's the way Romero kinda sees them. Alpha 'somewhat' smarter one that leads others, more mindless ones.



As for viruses and/or bacteria in real life they 'adapt'. If too virulent, they become weaker so as to not eliminate their prey (otherwise it die out, because it would run out of things to infect), and stronger if the prey becomes more resistant (it needs to be able to spread itself). That's not exactly 'mindless', although its not a good comparison to compare it 'smart or stupid' or a 'brain'.

Although kinda anticlimactic for a story, the Andromeda Strain explains this situation pretty good.

Of course this is zombie fiction, it rarey follows 'science', even if it tries to pull in a scientific explanation into the mix.

If it did, there would be certain amount of the population that would be immune. I suppose the Omega Man/I am Legend/Last Man on Earth and 28 Weeks Later takes that approach. The problem is those who are immune to the disease, are themselves still potential food for the 'zombies'/'vampires'/'mutants'... Which is why there are few survivors. Those one's won't rise in undeath, but just stay dead. They become a true minority. Then there is always the Typhoid Mary approach where someone is a carrier but shows no outward symptoms, and spreads the disease around unintentionally or intentionally (maybe airborne, or scratch, or bites someone like the women in 28 Weeks Later).

[Cherish]

Slow....I can have time to get away faster xD

[Robert Morgan]

Slow. The DAWN OF THE DEAD remake is an example of filmmakers confusing one type of horror movie monster (the infected berserkers from 28 DAYS LATER) with another (the rotting ghouls from Romero's films).

As the body decays, it becomes less and less efficient as time goes on. The shambling movements of "classic" zombies simply makes more sense to me.

[Violet Virago]

Although Left 4 Dead and Quarantine did a great job of making fast zombies, I'll always like the slow zombies of The Walking Dead because they make the focus not so much on the zombies but on survival in a post apocalyptic world.

[harrisonpink]

I prefer slow. Slow zombies are deceptive in their level of danger.

[harrisonpink]

Originally Posted by ColtPeacemaker00

actually it was "send more paramedics". unless they used the same line and changed it to "cops" later in the flick.

That line killed me. My friends and I re-wound the movie to that line over and over again.

Man, what memories. Rewinding. What a world that was.

[GREYxDUZxKRUSH]

Both Decomposing Victim-Slow/Fresh Victim-Fast