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Lifer
- Feb 25, 2004
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Zombies in this film differ from the originals.
Zombies are much faster than in the original films, and stronger. The original zombies were always very slow and their only strength was their swarms.
In the original films, anyone who died became a zombie unless they died from a head wound. In the new film only those who are infected through a bite become zombies.
The bites worked much the same...it wasn't really clear in the original films whether the bite was just lethal or caused actual 'zombification'. Since by definition anyone who died became a zombie, the bite didn't necessarily have to cause them to become zombies...only to kill them. I find the new films take on it more plausible and points more directly to some kind of toxin or virus being responsible for the zombies.
Regardless, a bite is lethel in all the films...the length of time it takes to kill the 'bitee' varies with no clear reason why. In the original DotD one of the main characters was bit at least 5 times including a neck bite, all bad deep bites and he lasted for several days before dying. Another character in the same film was bitten maybe a few times and died and rose as a zombie within 5 minutes. Those are only two examples, and their are similar examples in the new film. One would have to assume that certain people simply had a higher resistance to the bites than others...although no one ever survived a bite in any of the films without some sort of intervention.
The bites carry a poison or infection of some type though, this much is clear. In 'Day of the Dead' one of the soldiers is bitten on the wrist...in order to save his life they amputate his arm and cataroize the wound. This implies a virus or poison certainly. (again, there bites in the original can only be confirmed lethel, not infectious with a 'zombifying agent')
The zombies are dead not living, they have no need for food in order to survive however they have a drive to eat only warm human flesh. They do not eat eachother.
Brain damage is the only easiest to stop them, humans shot through the head will not become zombies. Although the new DotD introduced 'twitching' half death for zombies which makes sense...not all people die from serious brain damage, at least not immediately. That would likely hold true for zombies as well. Fire and explosives are also effective.
28DL, while a great film, wasn't really about zombies. It was about a disgusting rabies like virus. The infected were still alive, whereas zombies are by definition undead.
Zombies are much faster than in the original films, and stronger. The original zombies were always very slow and their only strength was their swarms.
In the original films, anyone who died became a zombie unless they died from a head wound. In the new film only those who are infected through a bite become zombies.
The bites worked much the same...it wasn't really clear in the original films whether the bite was just lethal or caused actual 'zombification'. Since by definition anyone who died became a zombie, the bite didn't necessarily have to cause them to become zombies...only to kill them. I find the new films take on it more plausible and points more directly to some kind of toxin or virus being responsible for the zombies.
Regardless, a bite is lethel in all the films...the length of time it takes to kill the 'bitee' varies with no clear reason why. In the original DotD one of the main characters was bit at least 5 times including a neck bite, all bad deep bites and he lasted for several days before dying. Another character in the same film was bitten maybe a few times and died and rose as a zombie within 5 minutes. Those are only two examples, and their are similar examples in the new film. One would have to assume that certain people simply had a higher resistance to the bites than others...although no one ever survived a bite in any of the films without some sort of intervention.
The bites carry a poison or infection of some type though, this much is clear. In 'Day of the Dead' one of the soldiers is bitten on the wrist...in order to save his life they amputate his arm and cataroize the wound. This implies a virus or poison certainly. (again, there bites in the original can only be confirmed lethel, not infectious with a 'zombifying agent')
The zombies are dead not living, they have no need for food in order to survive however they have a drive to eat only warm human flesh. They do not eat eachother.
Brain damage is the only easiest to stop them, humans shot through the head will not become zombies. Although the new DotD introduced 'twitching' half death for zombies which makes sense...not all people die from serious brain damage, at least not immediately. That would likely hold true for zombies as well. Fire and explosives are also effective.
28DL, while a great film, wasn't really about zombies. It was about a disgusting rabies like virus. The infected were still alive, whereas zombies are by definition undead.
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