"Zombies In Movies: Fast Or Slow?" Topic

Zombies should only be human fast for the first 3 hours, before rigamortis sets in and then they can barely move at all. Then in a matter of hours the bloating followed by rapid decomposing and then being picked at by birds, dogs and fly's laying maggots on them. In a matter of a few days the zombie problem fixes it's self.

And they can't replicate themselves as they eat brains, and if shooting them in the brain kills them. Well they just fix the problem of there being more of themselves in the first place.

Never really like most zombie movies.

I'm not a big Zombie fan, so slow ones would not have held my attention:

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I prefer slow zombies because of the feeling it evokes of hunter and prey. The zombie has no reason to hurry because it doesn't tire or panic or become distracted. The prey flees through the night and seems to escape only to fall and damage a leg and become unable to maintain any sort of speed. And then wounded they tire and falter and then despair sets in and they give in to the cold all encompassing welcome to death.

Fast Zombies are a cheat… there is no build up unless you're a hero… otherwise it's just a joke.

I guess I would feel the same terror if there were man-eating tortoises. :)

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I think back to the first time the hero in 28 Days sees the Zeds in the church leap up out of the pile of dead bodies and start racing up the stairs after him (and his brains). I dont think that scene would have been nearly as dramatic if the zeds had stood up and started slowly limping up the stairs.

My vote is for uber-fast zombos.

That being said, I HATED the cgi fast zombie/vampires in "I Legend" (aka, I Zombie).

With regards to 28 Days… if one fast moving zombie type is scary but one shambler is not… then how about if the entire pile had started twitching and groaning and then got up and started towards him?

Both is good keeps you on your toes

The Zombie Survival Guide has a nice take on the zombification of people, it that the they come down with a raging fever that kills most everything organic in the body and dries it out. This would avoid the body rotting as all the parasites and bactiria in the body would be dead.The brain morphs into somehting else but retaining the ability to hear and very limited vision. The zombies move slow but persistant.

The fast zombies are viraly infected living bodies true, but by all medical standards they are dead, the roaring high fever probably works to reduce rotting, as 28 days later they are incapacitated on the ground barely twitching.But still are the Undead as they are still animate with an urge for brains!

On the level of fear of the undead, the victims pursued by the slow zombies usually have no clue whats going on, are typically not armed to begin with and are surrouned in some local by masses of the zombies. We, the contributors here have enough info at hand to take aggresive command of the similar situation so would suffer less fear and more "lets get organized and take them out". So I figure more "eeeeewww" factor than fear. Plus, with modern communications, vs spread of what ever is making people into zombies, we would fort up and make sure the ammo's handy.

I had never seen these either:

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The variant with the outstretched arms looks like it could be used as a Rage variant (fast zombies)!

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Just because I'm the one who overthinks this stuff – The 'fast' zombies in 28 DAYS, RETURN O/T LIVING DEAD and REC/QUARANTINE are victims of a virus/plasmoid with features like that of rabies so really are not zombies. Now, that is scarier to me since it's incredibly likely to occur in the real world.

Didn't we already say in another thread that rabies tends to kill it's host? And in a slow and painful way at that.