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


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

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Good thing then that they never used the word "zombie"! Get your head out of...

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You do realize zombies are fiction so there are no rules except the limitations of the writers imagination

If a man has not discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr.

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As has been pointed out, they never use the word zombie in this film. So the fact that yes, writers and directors can make up new rules for zombies with each new movie (whether you personally like it or not) is irrelevant. The infected in this movie are referred to as just that - the infected. NOT zombies. Your entire complaint is unfounded.

"They shouldn't have used the word zombie."

They didn't. Problem solved.





And the movie isn't responsible for how other people describe it so if some people refer to it as a zombie movie, that's on them and has nothing to do with the film itself.

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When they begin to make zombies scientifically possible (rather than the insane idea that a dead body can be reanimated) it becomes more than just a horror comic book flick, but something which makes good horror films so frightening: Something Which Could Happen To You.

When more like this come out, there will be a wider audience than just zombie fans. This one breaks the ice; I hope more talented writers and brave producers continue the trend.

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This is what bothered me about World War Z and 28 Days later. Since when does someone die, come back as a Zombie and inherit super human powers like running and jumping. How can a Zombie run at super fast speed? There are certain traits that we understand a Zombie would have. If they want to change this, then develop something else. Call it a virus but don't make your own rules. What's next, a Dracula movie where he eats flesh or brains instead of drinking blood. Sure why not?

This is the issue I have where all these movies jump on the Zombie bandwagon then change it to whatever they feel.

Didn't Dawn and Day of the Dead show that even though dead, a zombie still has some form of memory. This is why they all went to the mall. Also the experiment in Day had some memories. Was not completely erased after it turned.

As for Maggie. I fell asleep watching this. I found it very boring.

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28 days later would like a word with you.

Why, thank you, Thing!

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People who've replied to your post had legitimate points but were unbelievably rude and obnoxious about it...trolls. They didn't have to be.

All these people needed to do was to say, sure, most zombie movies are based on the dead becoming reanimated. But it doesn't always have to be that way. In the purest sense of the zombie tradition since 1968's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, yes, the traditional zombie is a reanimated dead person with its human personality and memories forever gone, that being left only the reptile brain with its pure instinct for survival and feeding. But over the past fifteen years, the movie studios have introduced the 'living' zombie, essentially where a human being goes rabid-like. I think the first movie of this type was Steven Cronenberg's 1977, RABID. In that pioneering movie, a mutated strain of rabies becomes highly infectious, human-to-human, causing a massive city-wide epidemic in a major city of Canada, probably Toronto.

In other words, the zombie-movie genre had a split off, the split-off being the living zombie, as exemplified the best in, 28 DAYS and 28 WEEKS LATER and the RESIDENT EVIL franchise. Since then, a plethora of, direct-to-dvd, living zombie movies have hit the store shelves in places like WALMART, TARGET, and FYE'S.

I don't know if this is a movie fad or long-lasting. The 'living' zombie sub-genre has proven very convenient for zombie movie screenwriters. It's easier to do the living zombie angle than the slowly, rotting, walking zombie and more interesting with faster, more animated zombies.

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first off kingstelious , congrats for being such a good troll you jackass. You conned 9 pages of fools to thinking this was a legitamate opionion.

second you imbicile, you apparently only watched what you wanted because the other main family with the father and 4 year old girl were dead, zombified, walking in the woods. all your bitching now makes no sense does it?

by kingstelious » Sun May 10 2015 11:39:19
IMDb member since January 2014
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.

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