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Only after you die, can you become a Zombie. You don't turn while alive

posted 10 years ago by kingstelious
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They shouldn't have used the word Zombie. the idea that the people become zombies over time and slowly go from human to zombie is just stupid. They only way to become a zombie is to die first, once you die that is it, everything that you were is gone. With some possible instinctual habits still laying dormant, but your personality, memories and thought are gone, dead. THEN you rise again, you are now a zombie, you are no more than an animal going off instinct hungry for flesh, mindlessly wandering.

I find this movie an insult to all Zombie movies. The way her eyes slowly turned white and her skin decayed was just stupid. Decay would only occur after you're dead.

Should have called it something like the Cordyceps Brain Infection from Last of Us, movie would have made more sense then

[–] Mad_John_Finn 10 years ago

Firstly, they don't use Zombie in the film.

Second, the term Zombie has had many meanings in many cultures before George Romero's films.

And third, they did have a name for it other than zombie. They called it a virus.

[–] freddie-jenkins 10 years ago

I can appreciate your fixation on knowing the ins and outs of being or becoming a ZOMBIE...but as a expert you should know ZOMBIES like vampires can take on many different characteristics..There is no set of rules...the ZOMBIE movies all differ....

the list of zombie feature films from 28 Days Later to World War Z and my favorite Zombeavers (kidding) all differ...

[–] reddragon211981 10 years ago

for example I-zombie its a different kind of zombie right :) i do agree about the movie maggie been pure crap but thats just my opinion :)

[–] freddie-jenkins 10 years ago

Yes, I-Zombie is different and i have no plans to ever watch it...Maggie was slow and lifeless (no pun intended)

[–] tlupejkis 10 years ago

I think just a little more suspension of disbelief can be had, after all, we are watching a zombie movie.

[–] sandifay62 10 years ago

Another person that acts as if they know all things zombie but doesn't know that zombies have many forms. They can be reanimated form the dead by viruses. chemicals, rituals, alien influence, other creatures, electricity, etc. zombie can be living or dead. In the 50's a lot of zombies were simply people with controlled minds and in some they were brought back to normal after the villain was killed. They fell into the automaton category; people moving and acting the same way with no original thought being controlled by something or someone else.

There were also zombies that turned instantly as well as slowly like in this and many other movies. Some movies just want to show the slow process of a body dying as the affliction takes over. Some showed people dying, turning into zombies and being cured and brought back to life.

Any type of monster is whatever the writer wants it to be. They write a story and people see whether they like it or not. The OP didn't like it, but that doesn't mean that the writers and directors were wrong for doing things there way.

It's just nowadays people take disappointment in the same way a whiny kid does rather than understand that people can have a different point of view and want to explore it.

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[–] Monkfish2001 10 years ago

"the idea that the people become zombies over time and slowly go from human to zombie is just stupid."

Ha ha..so the idea that people die and then become zombies is not stupid???

The zombie concept has evolved countless of times and zombies exited in movies long before they became flesh eating killers.. so just get over it.

[–] bart-229 10 years ago

You do realize there are no such things as zombies, right? So I think we can give creative latitude to writers and filmmakers to alter the common mythology. Try allowing artists to ask "What if?" for a change. Or, just drop the word "zombie" and think of them as falling prey to some other kind of illness you find more plausible. The word is not the point of the movie.

[–] sforrester-3 10 years ago

This thread actually made me laugh. Due to the fact that zombies are not real it's quite hard to implement hard and fast rules. What you have described is a certain type of zombie made up for a certain type of work of fiction. If there are ever any actual zombie outbreaks then I'm sure they will have representatives to ensure they are portrayed accurately but, until then, I think anything goes.

Do you like Phil Collins?

[–] dariondanjou 10 years ago

in world war z the "zombies" never die, they just get angry lines in their eyes and go berserk, within 12 seconds.
28 days later, same thing. blood drops into their eye and seconds later they flip the *beep* out, period. no death first.
both those movies did pretty well, meaning... people, many of them, went to go see these films and dare i say loved them.

[–] MrBelette 10 years ago

Zombies featured widely in Haitian rural folklore, as dead persons physically revived by the act of necromancy of a bokor sorcerer (the bokor is a witch-like figure to be distinguished from the houngan priests and mambo priestesses of the formal Vodou religion). Zombies remain under the control of the bokor as their personal slaves, since they have no will of their own.