And what about those zombies?

Question

What do you think about zombies?
Do zombie movies bring with them a social, peheaps even a spiritual critic of our society?
What do you think about them? Do you thing they just groan or do they talk stuff like "must eat brains!!" Are they fast moving or not?
More important, do you buy that theory that a virus could revive the most primitive part of the dead's persons brain and so he becomes a zombie? Or you take it they appear under some supernatuaral cause? Woul the taking over the earth by the living dead alter your "cosmovision" and the stuff you believe in? Would the horror make your faith tremble? Would the unexplainable situation make you question those things that science just can't explain and perheaps aknowledge that there is something else?

Do you like zombie movies? What do you think about them?

Will i really have to delete this question on accounts of the lack of humor from R&S regulars?

Great awnser herodotus. Please tell your atheist friends to stop being so dull and get a sense of humor, or some imagination...

Paz de Cristo

Madeline Bassett-Great awnser. I think you should write about zombies, they are very cool

Answer 1

I love zombie movies, especially those with the fast moving kind. Scary! I think it has something to do with living near Pittsburgh, home of George Romero, Tom Savini, and the actors in Night of the Living Dead. I've even visited the cemetery and farm house where this movie was filmed.

I've shopped at the Monroeville Mall, I bought my 7th grade school clothes from the JC Penney store where the actors in Dawn of the Dead replenish their supplies in order to take the mall. I've dressed as a zombie to stand on the streets of Pittsburgh during the Land of the Dead premiere, watching Romero, Savini, Quenton Tarantino and others walk the red carpet. I think I'm probably a zombie addict.

I don't believe this could actually happen, but my kids and I, who also love zombies, sit around and plan the "what if?" scenario. What would we do? How would we survive? A neighbor overheard us once and stated that we talk as if this will really happen. If it ever does, I want the slow kind, the fast movers just offer no hope of survival.

Answer 2

"Do you like zombie movies? What do you think about them?"
I'm not really all that into horror movies in general. Mainly because the characters tend to do stupid things that I couldn't imagine myself doing, such as "Hey, people are dying around us right and left... maybe we should split up!" Beyond that, I've always figured I was going to die someday anyway and even though I'm in no hurry to do so, what will be, will be. Therefore, the zombie movies that I do like tend to either be liberally mixed with humor or somehow transcend the genre by refusing to indulge in the usual cliches.

"Do zombie movies bring with them a social, peheaps even a spiritual critic of our society?"
Not any that I can think of offhand.

"Do you thing they just groan or do they talk stuff like 'must eat brains!!'"
Maybe they start out just being able to groan and than advance in communication skills depending on the amount of brains they've eaten.

"Are they fast moving or not?"
They seem to tend to move in a lurching movement and be unable to run, so relative humans, I don't think so.

"More important, do you buy that theory that a virus could revive the most primitive part of the dead's persons brain and so he becomes a zombie?"
Let's just say I'd have to see it to believe it.

"Woul the taking over the earth by the living dead alter your "cosmovision" and the stuff you believe in?"
I would just see them as another manifestation of a fallen world.

"Would the horror make your faith tremble?"
No, because I think that men can already do things just as terrible (Auschwitz, for example).

"Would the unexplainable situation make you question those things that science just can't explain and perheaps aknowledge that there is something else?"
I already believe in the supernatural, so this is a moot point.

Answer 3

I don't know about zombie movies in general, but I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later.
I was recentlyinformed that I had seen Night of the Living Dead at a drive in with my parents, but I was really little, played on the playground rather than watching the film and it made no impression on me.

Zombies are fictional creatures, so a person can really use their imagination about what he or she thinks they can be. I'm a writer, and if I wrote zombies I would try to make them original, to add some new dimension to the genre.

If there were real life zombies I would want them to be the slow moving variety so that I could outrun them.

Answer 4

We have begun to notice more and more zombies posting to Yahoo Answers everyday now. It is an alarming trend and one which the Yahoo administrative staff has been unable or unwilling to answer. For instance, there are the Creationist zombies who mumble that the world was created with dinosaur fossils intact on October 3, 4004 BC (a Thursday.)

There are frothing zombies who blame Freemasons for every possible misery in the world and say that all presidents of the US have been Freemasons, Illuminati, and secret lizard people known as Deros.

There are zombies who mumble that Iraq attacked the US on 9-11. Frighteningly, these zombies listen to radio signals and seem to drop paper bits (known as chad) that turn our youth into attack zombies. Intervention in this is ongoing.

The horror is not that the zombification is so complete but that the zombies are so well-armed. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book called "It Can't Happen Here." Of course the title was sarcastic.

Do not let the zombies eat your brains. Learn to think for yourself. TV, especially the Fox network is their means of infection.

You have been warned.

Answer 5

Dig'm, 100%. Shawn of The Dead was great. Try World War Z. As Social comentary, they are usual heavy handed and simplistic. It is the grisly end of the world by pure nightmare that draws me to them.

Answer 6

This begin with a semi-intelligent question of do you believe in zombies and ended with do we like zombie movies? sigh....no I don't believe in them I think there just in the movies

Answer 7

Zombies are slow moving and easy to kill, they don't scare me

Answer 8

I don't believe in zombies. I am not Christian.

Answer 9

Thats some scary s-h-i-t