If this is real life, what would be the scientific reason for why zombies (originally humans) are restricted to only eating human flesh, and why vampires only feed on human blood, when there's plenty of other animals they can feed on?
2006-09-14 07:35:36 · 35 answers · asked by Sarmad S 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Would it be a scary movie if they were vegans and just hung around in parks and listening to Indigo Girls, bitching about republicans, playing hacky sack and planning to save the trees???
2006-09-14 07:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Zombies that feed on live human flesh. It's a genre.
2. Vampires sucking blood from live humans. Another genre.
3. It wouldn't fly, but may be more interesting, if vampires & zombies feasted off of something strange, like metal pipes.
4. Whole new twist for scientists to explain. I would also eliminate the UFO involvement as being the reason.
5. Then the story would develop into buildings eventually collapsing, old cars disappearing over night, fire hydrants missing with water geysing into the air, etc.
2006-09-14 08:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by mitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just a way of increasing the shock value. Most humans across the world eat animals, from guinea pigs in south america to dogs in china and thereabouts. However, cannibalism is a no no in most societies and is treated with disgust. Therefore portraying the undead eating live humans, film makers pander to two areas of revulsion and fear in people, i.e. the undead walking and cannibalism. It doesn't seem so shocking now because over the years there have been so many zombie movies the public have been hardened to it. If zombies existed in reality, there is no reason they would not eat animals also.
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2006-09-17 06:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a ZOMBIE MOVIE!
Would you watch a movie where the zombies run around eating the Neighbors dog? Or how about zombies chasing squirrels up some trees?
Animals are way to fast for zombies anyway. They have instincts that tell them to run away, and they listen to them. Humans on the other hand are very dumb in horror movies...When some zombies are coming at the humans they want to get a closer look at them to make sure they're dead, or to try and talk them out of feasting on their flesh. Humans will stand there and try to kill what's already dead. That makes them a nice easy prey for zombies. Animals are far to intelligent for zombies to catch.
And vampires feed on blood because it has life in it. They do not feed on dead blood, and they do feed on animals if they have to, but the blood tastes bad, and their hunger comes back quicker. So they prefer human blood.
2006-09-14 07:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by Cerebrus 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm no zombie expert, but if I'm remembering correctly eating human flesh is supposed to renew life in the "undead". It is the same reason that vampires must drink human blood to exist.
I read somewhere that cannibals feel a surge of energy and intelligence when another human is consumed, and that this creates an addiction to eating human flesh... not sure if that's true or not either. Kind of creepy though. I think the book I read this in ended with the people going mad from this freaky diet.
2006-09-14 07:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by boggin828 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Although human flesh is preferable to other meat, zombies are known to kill and devour any living creature. I refer you to 'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks. A must read in this ever changing world of ours. In the book it is reported that 'zombies' are actually people infected with the virus Solanum. When captured, zombies were experimented upon in order to learn more. They were presented with two cubes of meat, one human one cat. Every time the human meat was chosen by the zombie without hesitation but there is no explanation as to why...
Vampires feed on humans in order to sire them as far as I know, but Ann Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' goes into it a bit more.
2006-09-14 07:58:02 · answer #6 · answered by Blue robbin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because human flesh taste so good, try some with a little garlic and a glass of deep red blood.
2006-09-16 23:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by mick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To become a Zombie is it not necessary to be bitten by another human Zombie? That's always been my understanding of it. It would explain why they eat only human flesh... they, like Vampires need living tissues (*or blood) to ensure they regenerate.
2006-09-14 07:43:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Romero's 'dead' trilogy (the archetypal zombie movies) the reason for zombies feasting is as follows.
when the dead are re-animated into zombies, they're brains are so decayed that the resort back to a kind of neanderthal state of primitiveness. Therefore their instincts are to eat living matter as it's fresh meat. I don't think zombies exclusively eat people though.
It al depends on what story, viewpoint etc. you take.
2006-09-14 07:48:49 · answer #9 · answered by tominator1uk 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because if all they had to do was lock the zombies up in a butchers whilst they run off to safety it wouldn't make for a very entertaining 90 minutes.
2006-09-14 09:27:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would be the fun of zombies at McDonald's?
Hold it! You just gave me a story idea...
But seriously, us zombies don't actually have digestive processes, being dead, it's the Life Element itself that we ingest. And if you don't want to turn into a zombie steer or headless chicken, it's people who have just died you've got to eat.
2006-09-14 07:50:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋