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post #1 of 15
3/11/04 at 6:31pm
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I'm writing an english paper, and I have to create my own classification system, and I wanted to do it on different types of zombies. So far, I can think up of these types. Can you think of any other types?
Romero zombies
Voodoo zombies
Zombies that aren't really zombies (28 Days Later)
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post #2 of 15
3/11/04 at 6:37pm

FULCI LIVES!

Fulci Zombies.....all tan and clayey....
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post #3 of 15
3/11/04 at 6:38pm
in 28 Days Later they were infected


not undead
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post #4 of 15
3/11/04 at 8:11pm
So, this is a classification of zombies appearing in horror movies only? or other forms of media?

If you include 28 Days later "zombies", you can also put other types of zombies like that in the classification; The Crazies for example.
Also I have not seen it myself but in "Red Nightmare", a short from the 60s apparently features Communist "zombies" in the protanganists neighborhood. I guess you could them ego-less Hive mind type zombies.

This type fits one of the definitions of zombie according to American Heritage dictionary: One who looks or behaves like a zombie.
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post #5 of 15
3/11/04 at 8:18pm
Other than the band or the one with alcohol, I think that you pretty much got it covered.
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post #6 of 15
3/11/04 at 8:58pm
Or you could do one on the four classifications of zombies in House of the Dead!

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post #7 of 15
3/11/04 at 9:09pm
Mythological zombies (voodoo, folklore)
Sci-Fi zombies (Romero)
Feax/re-imagined zombies (28 Days Later)
Zombie Olympic Gymnasts (House of the Dead)
Zooby dooby zombie boody (people who like Adam Sandler movies)
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post #8 of 15
3/12/04 at 8:29am
All jokes aside, how about this:

Voodoo zombies (I Walked with a Zombie)
Traditional-Media (Romero)
Italian/Foreign (Fulci, etc.)
Magical (Black Magic With Bhudda)
Chemical (Return of the Living Dead, Toxic Zombies)
Science Gone Wrong ( Let Sleeping Corpses Lie)

And, with an ammendment that they are not undead, but exibit one minded zombie-like behavior:

Infection (28 Days Later, The Crazies, Warning Sign)
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post #9 of 15
3/12/04 at 8:33am
I am fairly sure that the original zombies were just regular people in a trance, nothing undead about them. When you call someone a zombie it's usually because they are in a trance most of the time. So in that aspect, something like 28 Days later harkens back to the original zombies, rather than Romero's reimagining of the zombie.
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post #10 of 15
3/12/04 at 12:06pm
naaaawwwwwww......I may be hungover, but I recall in NotLD that the newscaster was saying that the dead were rising.


People in that are in a trance of some sort are usually refered as being in a "zombie-like state"

take The Serpent and the Rainbow

the chemical did not make the dead rise but just made it seem as if the "infected" person were dead


and the day I see Mr. Pullman as a zombie is the day I'll burn my DVD library

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post #11 of 15
3/12/04 at 1:15pm
I'm doing something similar for the research for my Media Production project.

Details here

Anyway, this is what I've written so far, it's not quite finished yet.

The cinematic zombie is a fickle beast. Up until 1969, they were of the relatively harmless Haitian voodoo variety, merely existing to do their master’s bidding. However, when George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead appeared in cinemas, public perceptions of these creatures would change forever. From this point on, the word “zombie” would connote the rotting, undead cadavers of Romero’s vision, a vision that would itself spin off various subspecies of zombies in the spawns of imitations that would splash across our screens in the following decades.

•THE SHUFFLER
The most common species of zombie. These creatures are slow, dumb and easily outwitted. However, if you should find yourself surrounded by these things, you’re a light snack.

•THE RUNNER
A lesser-seen breed of undead that is as agile and feisty as the living. They’ll duck, weave, sprint and scrap to get their prey.

•THE TALKATIVE
First seen in Dan O’ Bannon’s Return of the Living Dead (1985), this zombie will tell you what it wants, in this case, “BRAINS!” It will also tell you why they want said organ and also taunt and tease you until you surrender yours to them.

•THE IMMORTAL
Most zombies can be dispatched with a simple gunshot to the head, destroying the brain or severing it from the rest of the body. But in some cases, once they have come back from the dead, they’re here to stay. You can try and cut them up but the bits will come at you. The only way to kill these things (again) is to incinerate them until there’s nothing less. On the opposite side of the coin, some zombies can be killed in conventional ways, like multiple gunshots, a well-placed machete or a bone saw through the chest cavity.



These rules are not set in stone. New species can pop up in new movies or be a combination of many breeds. For example, the creatures in the Re-Animator franchise are, for the majority, Talkative Shufflers. In George Romero’s series, they are Shuffling Mortals.
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post #12 of 15
3/12/04 at 2:01pm
I would have to say that the undead in Re-Animator are more hyper than anything
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post #13 of 15
3/12/04 at 2:03pm
Yeah, but they don't break out into a sprint.

That's another species to add to the list.

This is fun.
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post #14 of 15
3/12/04 at 6:45pm
are you doing just movies?

cause dont forget books like "the rising" where the zombies are dead bodies inhabited by demons

......or something to that effect
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post #15 of 15
3/13/04 at 5:32pm
I'd break it down as:

The risen dead-Fresh outta the grave

The infected dead-Bitten, turned by zombie. Could also apply to the Zoms of 28 Days Later

The scientifically dead-brought back to life through science, a la Reanimator or ROTLD

The posessed dead-Classic voodoo magicks

The "What-Kind-Of-Lame-Shit-Is-This?" Dead-Zombies that can do Matrix moves under the direction of a really shitty German hack director.

Seriously, can we get Uwe Boll deported or something?
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