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6 Reasons People Love Zombie Flicks -
The curious appeal of the living dead.
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| 7-3-2012
| John Hawkins
Posted on 07/17/2012 6:22:49 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult; CatherineofAragon
Zombies seem to desiccate - but not decompose like a dead body. If they were an actual dead body they would suffer rigor mortise and the like.
For the muscles to move (unless magic is somehow involved - and usually it isn't) there has to be some metabolism involved - burning up fat stores, muscles, and potentially anything the zombie has eaten (brains!).
Rage “zombies” (28 days later)are 100% alive - and are more correctly called “the infected”.
The book “World War Z” deals with the zombie infection time limit - but it seemed to be several years of hard core zombie action, longer where they froze over the winter IIRC.
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posted on
07/17/2012 11:23:01 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: Sir Napsalot
Not sure people actually do love zombie movies and shows. But it was time for one. Genres survive in limbo until somebody rediscovers them and creates a modern version using up-to-date technology and looking fashionably contemporary, and this time it was the zombie flick's turn.
Post-apocalyptic stuff does have an appeal for the reasons given, and the "zombie apocalypse" is a quick way to deliver those apocalyptic satisfactions some viewers may like -- all that stuff and all those women just there for the taking, there are no rules, and anybody can be a hero.
But beyond that, (1) zombie shows have a great opportunities for special effects, especially make-up. (2) They make good use of crowd scenes, playing on the fear of hostile hordes charging at you. (3) Lots and lots of killing: you can do a lot of harm to creatures that are already dead. If you blew actual living people's heads off that often, viewers might get sick of it, but with the undead, anything goes. (4) There are plenty of opportunities for scary "I thought it was dead, but now it's suddenly coming back to life" moments -- the scariest part of horror films, at least until you've seen it happen too may times. And when you get tired of the action, (5) there's always that "Are the people around me turning into zombies" thing, where you can't trust anybody, to give you chills.
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posted on
07/17/2012 11:36:38 AM PDT
by
x
To: Sybeck1
Season 3 production pics? SWEET!
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posted on
07/17/2012 11:55:42 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
To: CatherineofAragon
In other words, would they eventually just disintegrate? I believe so.
I wish that were true, but I tend to believe otherwise. To me the key fact is that zombies feed. If they were nothing more than a walking bag of flesh, I agree they'd eventually rot away.
However something drives them to feed on human flesh. I believe that same driving instinct is one that could also lend to processes for preserving zombie skin and muscles.
A zombie that is unable to feed, in my opinion, would eventually rot away. So I guess they would eventually all die out as you suggest, but it probably wouldn't occur until most of us were gone.
To: Salgak
Lets be honest here: Zombies, and the Zombie Apocalypse, are the socially-acceptable symbols of the just-barely subconscious fear of getting over-run by the useless eaters of society. . . It's amazing how many people (especially libs) just don't get that point.
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posted on
07/17/2012 12:03:58 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: allmendream; mmichaels1970
Hmmm. Hadn’t thought of it like that. It makes sense, however.
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posted on
07/17/2012 12:43:58 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: allmendream
Getting ready to read it now. Movie comes out next year starring Brad Pitt;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/
Rule number one on writing zombie lore. Never paint yourself into a corner by giving away too many hard details.
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posted on
07/17/2012 12:44:46 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Always a good rule for storytelling involving some fantastical (sci fi or magic) element - don't get too involved in the nuts and bolts, and don't tie yourself down (paint yourself in a corner) by giving away hard details.
Unless there is a good shock value in so doing, and the ‘rules’ were based upon what the characters thought the rules were.
In “The Walking Dead” the ‘rule’ seemed to be that only those bitten by a zombie became a ‘walker’ when they died. Now it seems that anyone exposed (and it seems they all got exposed through their rather casual handling of beheaded walkers) who dies rises as a ‘walker’. YIKES!!!
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posted on
07/17/2012 1:18:51 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: Old Sarge
LOL! Thanks. I needed that tonight.
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:45:54 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Sir Napsalot
Being brain dead as they are, they don’t realize how dumb they are.
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posted on
07/17/2012 9:56:29 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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