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How would you define "zombie"?

post #1 of 7
7/21/03 at 5:23am
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I first started thinking about that after 28 DAYS LATER. Is that a zombie film? Opinions differ but the filmmaker definiely thought so. Of course the infected in that film are not dead, and therefore are not living dead. Zombie = Living dead??? It seems to have become defined like that in the films of the last 25 years or so but originally, in the Voodoo-religion it is not a reanimated corpse but a drugged-into-submission human who mindlessly does whatever you ask him to do. So that would be the origin of the word.

So what do YOU think?
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post #2 of 7
7/21/03 at 7:18am
Angelus is right.

28 Days Later's "foes" are both Infected and Zombies, depending on how you perceive them.

I like to perceive them as both, as most of today's zombies have been infected anyway either by zombie teeth chewing, grazing, bloodying, etc or by some gas or other substance.

Of course, I don't really care about the original voodoo definition of the word. If we always had to create new words for slight variations, dictionnaries would become impossible to carry.

In my opinion, it's the difference between a ghoul and a zombie which is somewhat a bit harder to solve... ghouls eat dead flesh, but why do they attack the living? They look a bit like zombies when doing so.

Anyway...
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post #3 of 7
7/21/03 at 3:52pm
For me, a zombie is a life form that was once dead and came back for one purpose only : to track down and eat flesh of the living.

An interesting question could be : why are the undead so slow ? Is running a too complex objective for the brain ?
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post #4 of 7
7/22/03 at 6:20am
For me, any walking corpse with a craving for flesh.. Whether it be sentient or not, slow or faster than your average person.

And, those zombies capable of running have always struck me as pretty damn scary. Not really sure -why-..
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post #5 of 7
7/24/03 at 1:56am
in the movies,a zombie is a reanimated corpse that has an intense hunger for human flesh,preferrably human brains and by doing so also create more like themselves,reanimated corpses that hunger for human flesh.
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post #6 of 7
7/24/03 at 2:04am
I think Romero and Fulci know better than the director of 28 Days Later. Of course he thinks they are zombies and wants them to be zombies so he can make money. What sells better "a zombie flick" or "a flick with people infected with a manufactired, uncurable disease which makes them really angry and just plain pissed off at the world". "Horror" zombies have already been defined by the masters of the genre. To me that's all I care about. Romero and Fulci are the Webster of horror filmmaking in this respect and whatshisname blatantly disregarded that.

Yes. I take my zombie movies very seriously. wink
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post #7 of 7
7/24/03 at 2:28am
let's debate whether the monsters in 28 Days Later are actually zombies or not some more, because I don't think that's been discussed enough.

Zombies are corpses that eat people.
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