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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

[–] benman46 9 years ago

Did they use the word zombie?

[–] wolfgirv-1 9 years ago

Don't any of you people realise that zombies are a fictional creation by screenwriters and that in this real world they don't exist. To be arguing about what they can and cannot do is futile, and embarrassingly mindless.

[–] divisjoseph 9 years ago

If somebody was allowed to make a movie where vampires sparkle in sunlight then this is definitely not crossing any lines.

Its not the traditional zombie I'll give you that, but they are a matter of fiction after all.

[–] rudegubmintworker 8 years ago

You do realize a zombie isn't real....right?

Don't try to cram me into a mold and everything will be alright.

[–] hordeashrealms 8 years ago

Pretty much every single Zombie movie disagrees with you.. numbnuts. Living Dead - bitten you slowly turn (Old fat lady in wheel barrow). Walking Dead - bitten you slowly turn (that's why they cut off preacher's leg). In fact, I can't think of a single movie that you don't slowly turn if bitten or infected some other way with active strain. Unless you count video games..then Left 4 Dead people are immune. I am Legend..he's immune but that's not zombies.

You must be thinking of something else. Beside any of the previous points.. zombies ARENT REAL. THEY'RE A MADE UP STORY-TELLING CONSTRUCT.

[–] lm362 8 years ago

The word was used because, while alive, she would start hungering for human flesh as she changed due to the disease. Before becoming a zombie in the complete sense, the disease would make her slowly act like one more and more until and after she died. And have you not read in the news and other sources about drugs that can make someone act like a zombie even though they are alive. So a zombie can mean many things, even in movies.

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[–] crmfghtr 8 years ago

One of the very first, if not THE first zombie films was White Zombie in 1932, loooong before Night of The Living Dead, The Walking Dead etc. The zombies in this film were indeed living people turned to zombies by a drug. They looked and walked like the living dead but they were not. So one could just as easily say hey, these arent following the zombies of the movies first laid down by Bela Lugosi and the White Zombie classic film. So all the rest are hacks, including the Walking Dead that people seem to find as some sort of bible to zombies.

[–] JazukaiX 8 years ago

Just because you have autism and can't accept that zombies have been depicted differently in nearly every movie doesn't mean the rest of us care.

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[–] lm362 (341) 5 years ago

Actually, in almost every other movie, it was either stated or implied that the person, whether transforming fast or slow had died. Also, you might not care about the comment this person made but it is not your right to say that no one else cares. That is being very rude and hateful.

[–] lm362 (341) 5 years ago

That is because you are looking at zombies as only of supernatural origin as they are in folklore and myth. Maybe this movie isn't doing it that way. Look up the word in several places for differing definitions. Some people have had real life medical conditions or have been given drugs that so drastically slow down vital signs or reflexes so that they have been called either zombies or zombie-like. Also, this movie never showed Maggie having died, so it could have portrayed these zombies as still alive(heartbeat), but with very slow or almost unnoticeable vital signs.

[–] lm362 (341) 4 years ago

Zombies are fantasy with the exception of those who are, by influence of some drugs, are called zombies or zombie-like. Writers can do whatever they want with the fictional kind although it makes no sense for anything truly dead(No heartbeat or circulatory function) to be able to act as a living person.