I thought in Romero's films, anyone whose brain stays intact returns in zombie form? He was shot across the chest. What gives?
"I can't help but notice that there are skulls all over everything. Are we the baddies?"
Anyone who dies in Romero's movies comes back as a zombie as long as their brain is intact... Expect Dr. Logan of course.
While Romero's movies are loose sequels, they are set in the same universe with the same rules.
It is stated in the first film that recently dead, but necessarily bitten, reanimate. This makes sense since there is a bacteria or virus that has spread over earth from some origin.. whether you believe the Venus probe explanation or not doesn't matter, just know that there is some sort of disease out there. This disease reanimates already dead people. It makes sense since a living person doesn't just become a zombie without incident.. So the first zombie had to be something that was dead and obviously unbitten.
A zombie bite itself does not turn a person into a zombie. The infection of the bite kills the person then after death, the person reanimates.. since all dead people reanimate.
The first movie states that this is the case, and as stated by Romero and the general consensus of the movies is that all of the Dead movies are in the same universe and therefore follow the same rules.
I also believe that there are incidents in other Dead movies in which characters who are not bit come back to life, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
It is stated in the first film that recently dead, but necessarily bitten, reanimate. This makes sense since there is a bacteria or virus that has spread over earth from some origin.. whether you believe the Venus probe explanation or not doesn't matter, just know that there is some sort of disease out there. This disease reanimates already dead people. It makes sense since a living person doesn't just become a zombie without incident.. So the first zombie had to be something that was dead and obviously unbitten.
"It is stated in the first film that recently dead, but necessarily bitten, reanimate"
I meant "but NOT necessarily"
Can't seem to edit my post on my phone.
I always took Logan's failure to reanimate as a sign that the virus was winding down. In the original script a character dies and still has not come back several days later, giving the survivors hope. Maybe Romero meant to allude to that via Logan.
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I may be wrong, but I'm sure something along these lines was talked about in the audio commentary on my day of the dead DVD.
so that would back up this theory.
and just to chime in on the bite issue....
all dead bodies reanimate in Romero's zombie universe, unless the brain is destroyed.
a zombie bite just kills you, it doesn't directly turn you into a zombie.
the world has undergone some change where the dead no longer stay dead.
My cat can eat a whole watermelon!
I always took Logan's failure to reanimate as a sign that the virus was winding down. In the original script a character dies and still has not come back several days later, giving the survivors hope. Maybe Romero meant to allude to that via Logan.
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Isn't it simply possible that Logan was hit in the head and we didn't see it?
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Yeah Logan could’ve been hit in the head or he reanimated later.
It IS the Romero lore that the bodies of the dead get up and kill whether bitten or not, it’s the case in ALL of the films, the fact that people are arguing this baffles me.
It’s stated on the tv by the scientists in Dawn, the bodies of the recently deceased must be destroyed.