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Why do zombies always wanna kill people?


What makes them violent or psychotic in every zombie film?

I guess this one has a halfway plausible excuse with the evil burial mound. But most of the time there is no good reason.

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The dead humans in 1 & 2 and the book are dead corpses possessed by a Wendigo (a Native American cannibalistic, psychic, insane and homicidal trickster spirit demon of folklore which in the book it said that it soured the ground and cursed it) and they come back as demons who return to torment the living and know secrets of living people. The animals are also dead corpses possessed by other demons/spirits that inhabited the ground.

Basically like Deadites.

"Let off some steam bennet"-Commando.

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Because they're dead and envious of the living? And yeah they just have this uncontrollable desire to consume and destroy. They have lost all humanity.

-Di

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.........if you want to save 15% or more on car insurance , you switch to GEICO; it's what you do. If you're a zombie, you want to kill people; it's what you do.........

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Mostly just habit.

~~~"Who do you think you're dealing with? Guess again."~~~

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Because people do not voluntarily give up their brains!

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It varies from culture to culture when it came to the undead. In Romania, the strigoi were the undead beings that killed people. In North America, there's the Wendigo, the malevolent dead thing who induces cannibal appetites. And of course in China you have the jianshi.

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Because it hurts to be dead and eating brains makes the pain go away.

Officer, I've had a doozy of a day...

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