Greatest Movie Zombie

Red

i like the slow seeming endless zombie hordes of Night of the living dead. In the book form i like Max brooks zombies. My worst fear would be Zombies like in Brian Keene's The Rising and City of The Dead.

emiac38

i liked the remake, (thats the directors cut, right?) it had more gore, and none of that bullshit where they had to edit it becuase they didnt want to somehow "offend" people by it, i mean come on, its a fuckin zombie movie, not peter pan

MyNameDidntFit

LOL! Island of Canada!! That made me laugh so hard XD

Can't say I've heard of that last one, what are the zombies like in it?

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Red

Possessed (for a lack of better word) dead bodies that are able to access all of the bodies memory and knowledge. So this means they can drive cars. Use weapons and such. Not to mention when you kill one the spirit comes back into another dead body with the knowledge of the last.

Reginald Assblaine

Original is the one directed by George A. Romero in 1978.
Remake directed by Zack Snyder in 2004.

sOdAGoD

your right they are zompires and bread of zombies and vampires

Dangar^

No.

They're just vampires.

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MyNameDidntFit

Sounds awesome, you said this was a book... Title and author please? I'll have to look into getting it

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Red

Rising and City of the dead by Brian Keene.

emiac38

the more brains a zombie eats, the smarter it gets?

MyNameDidntFit

Cheers Red.

And that reminds me, emiac, I haven't seen a movie about BRAIN CRAVING zombies or infected for a very, very long time... Where'd they go?

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The Randomer

I'd have to say 28 days later, i mean Romero's movies are great but 28 days later just has a certain amount of realism that the dead films lack.

MyNameDidntFit

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emiac38

the brain eating zombies were so stupid they forgot where they brain was, everyone died
THE END

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Underdog

That reminds of John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars, they weren't exactly zombies but they were possessed i think.

mattman155

Dawn of the dead remake hands down only movie i can watch over and over.

Eerongal

actually, I am legend (the book, obviously) was one of the biggest influences on night of the living dead, according to george romero. So those actually spawned what we know as zombies (as that was the film that coined the modern day zombie). It also had wonderful film adaptations of it in the form of last man on earth (with the astounding vincent price. I think he even called them zombies in this one, but i could be wrong, and note that this was pre night of the living dead, and they did act more like vampires than the now traditional zombie.), omega man (with film giant Charlton Heston), and the newer film (naturally with ol' willy smith).


Anyways, I have to go with the classics. The slow, shambling zeds are my favorite, without a doubt.

Aristillus

Hi There,

Just to be pedantic, let's define the term 'Zombie' as it is historically known. A zombie is a deceased person whose body is brought back to animation, not by the original life force or spirit (soul), but something 'other' acting as the animating agency. In order to qualify as a zombie, a body has to be brought out of being deceased (dead). I don't think it matters who or what the re-animating agency is, just as long as it is not the original life force, and that it takes control of the body's ambulation.

As for which movie I prefer, I would say that the 28 Days/Weeks Later franchise has got to be up there with the best. The virus infects rapidly, removing control of the higher-human functions, and seemingly using only the 'reptillian' part of the brain. Once infected...there does not seem to be a way back to re-interface with higher-functions, unless one carries the gene that presents different coloured irises of the eyes, which indicates an immunity to full zombification, but become a carrier of the virus.

Fictionally, this could present the virus with a means to pass itself on when all possible means for further infection are exhausted...a kind of hibernation until the carrier comes into contact with some other population centre. It would be the virus' achilles heel.

Best wishes

Eerongal

Really, that definition is a bit too broad, in my opinion, for the actual topic at hand.

Also, we can't really go to the historic definition of zombie, as before the creation of the modern zombie from night of the living dead (this is what is considered the defining movie for the modern day zombie) zombies were mute, and will-less. They were basically the perfect servant. Only did what you said, when you said, had no free thought, had no physical needs, etc. There were older movies that featured these sort of zombies, but there were a bit boring in and of themselves.

Also, by the definition of needing reanimation, wouldn't that theoretically disqualify most of the more modern zombie movies, as with things like viruses and such, death isn't a necessity, and people just become zombies?

Aristillus

Hi There,

Not at all, my dear fellow, I believe it provides a necessary context for the actual topic at hand, ie, 'best movie zombie', so it is quite within definition. When is a zombie not a zombie? That is the question to ask oneself, and we can only draw upon anthropological theories dealing with shamanism and voodoo practices, wherein the zombie is most featured historically, in order to supply oneself with any pertinent answer. If anything, the definition I supply is not actually too broad, but too specific.

If we wish to broaden the context, we could posit that a zombie is a person bereft of all higher-human functioning, ie, lacking any interface or processing with self-sentience and reasoning faculties...such a person is stripped right back to pure animalistic (reptillian) functions...nothing resembling human characteristics at all, except for perhaps a modicum of human habits and memory?

The modern-day zombie is of course depicted as being more actively dynamic, but no less lacking of a purpose unto itself. In the films 28 Days/Weeks Later, it is not the infected person holding the purpose, but the virus which uses the infected as a means to spread itself around and to maintain longevity. Many viruses in the real world use the host's own ambulation as a means to spread around. This is not to suggest that the virus itself has a purposeful conscious, but that its own gene programming produces the effects within a host to produce as wide a spread of itself through infection...for instance, the common cold and flu, cause sneezing in a infected host which ejects the virus in a wide spread.

Best wishes