O.O Why do zombies in the dawn of the dead crave brains?

Question

Why brains, of all things?

Palyla... This is not the type of answer I want. The second answer was witty, though! ;D

Cool, A. Mercer... Hey dude, I don't think I would eat brains if I was hungry! lol ;P

lol, protein... Why not go eat a grasshopper instead. XP

Haha... I thought of that one. They want brains so they know how to walk like normal people... XD

Good point. Sorry I got that wrong, it was Return of the Living Dead.

Answer 1

They want the gland at the base of the brain stem which in ancient times was supposedly the the source of eternal life. Being that the zombies are essentially dead and only hanging on to life by a tread they thirst for this gland and the steroid it produces.....

Answer 2

Tasty, tasty brains.

I read somewhere once that someone wrote a book about movie zombies that had details of how to survive a zombie outbreak and do's and don'ts of dealing with zombies. Somewhere in that book was an explanation of zombism and the brain thing. The book said that a special virus caused zombies. It attacks the central neverous system and causes it to mutate, especially the brain. The rest of the body dies but is still animated due to special enzymes produced by the mutated brain and nervous system. The brain can survive without oxygen now but it still needs nutrients. The only way to get these nutrients is to eat the brains of the non-infected. The digestive system does not work anymore but the brains are chomped up and swallowed anyway and the nerve endings absorb the nutrients.

That is the way that I remember reading it. I don't think that this is covered in any of the movies but it was an interesting idea.

Answer 3

Like someone else said, th zombies in Dawn of the Dead didnt crave brains. That was Return of the Living Dead. And the idea that they crave brains i believe was that fact that if your destroy the brain of a zombie they die for good. So, by adding the need to feed on brains heightens the brain being the overall most important thing in zombie genre.

Answer 4

To be honest, 28 Days/Weeks Later are no longer precisely zombie action pictures -- the hosts are nevertheless alive. nevertheless like them, even with the undeniable fact that. i think of, very comparable to me, he likes the two yet could opt for to verify zombies that pass in accordance to how the human physique actual decomposes. If the zombie mythology does not contain any working respiration device the zombie would desire to journey rigor mortis, so they'd desire to be hindered and finally stopped between 3 and 72 hours after dying, and then rigor mortis has ceased, and their circulation will in basic terms be inhibited via their decomposition. greater modern-day zombies can pass quicker than older, weaker ones.

Answer 5

Sombody already answerd the obvious zombie movie mistake. The dawn zombies crave flesh in general. return of the living dead zombies eat brains as a pain killer. plus its funny. Mmmm, Braaaiiinsss, drool,drool,drool..

Answer 6

The zombies in DAWN OF THE DEAD don't crave brains, they crave flesh. The zombies in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD crave brains.

Answer 7

It is a freudian/psychological thing...the person who thought of this plot has no brain, so the zombies are craving them since there creator lacks this particular nourishment...LOL!

Answer 8

Because it was in the script

Answer 9

Because they're hungry!

Answer 10

protein