Zombies

[podling]

I was speaking to dreadpiratetait the other day, and the topic of zombies came up (naturally). It seems that there's been a shift of zombie behavior over the last thirty years or so. I mean, think back. In the early zombie movies, zombies were slow moving, flesh-eating, and tenacious. Part of what made them really scary was the fact that they were relentless. Even if you remove part of their bodies, they just keep on coming. In contrast, the majority of zombies these days are fast moving. Still relentless, still flesh-eating, but no longer slow (with the exception of Shaun of the Dead but then that was a comedy). Zombies now move at a frighteningly fast pace. And I was wondering if it was a cultural thing. The zombies of the MTV generation need to be faster maybe?

I don't know, but I know that there has been a shift in zombie lifestyle. Discuss.

Comments

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Reply to 3: In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies hadn't just died--they were crawling out of the graves as I recall.

Plus, if we go back to the roots of zombies, the puffer fish toxin, and real zombies (there are people who have been given the toxin and remained in service of the person who gave it to them, they do move slowly. I would too, if I'd been poisoned, thought dead, and "brought back" to life.

[chap.livejournal.com]

In the movie though you see them crawl from there grave, they do say "recently deceased". How they define that, I don't know.

As far as the other thing you mention, I have no knowledge on.

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Ah. It's been ages since I've seen it.

The other thing is about zombies in voodoo and how they were/are created. As near as anyone can figure out.