can zombies run or do they shuffle?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Nason (20sidedmaster) on July 9, 2008 at 1:20pm

Well with the letters that were sent out lost zombies sent a copy of 48 days later and told us that the zombies have the same traits as the ones in that movie and they could run in that so I guess they can run.

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Permalink Reply by Jeannot Challet on July 9, 2008 at 1:34pm

I agree, they most definitely can run, but would decay over time slowing them. Also the fact that they would not have sustenance would slow them as well. Remember them lying in the gutter in 28 days later?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Nason (20sidedmaster) on July 9, 2008 at 2:14pm

If they were just bitten and died they probly wouldn't slow for a long time because one bite is all it takes to be infected, but that is not enough for you to start to decay.

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Permalink Reply by Visogoth on July 9, 2008 at 4:55pm

I agree with your conclusion and add that there may be a possibility for zombies exerting themselves beyond normal human limits during the initial stages of infection. Infection may trigger some sort of hormone cascade that's like a super adrenaline rush. If the skeletal muscles dont regenerate as they do in humans, then a burst of activity such as this would effectively cripple a zombie shortly after. This might explain for unexplainable accounts of zombies "flying" or crawling up walls.

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Permalink Reply by Visogoth on July 9, 2008 at 2:59pm

I maintain a position of alternative plausabilities when regarding the nature of zombies, specifically their metabolism and pathology of infection. The standard definition of undead may take a backseat to cold hard reality, but the truth is little reliable first hand scientific information is available, and what there is still remains to be confirmed. Varying accounts are reported all the time. The infection itself is possibly even mutating.

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Permalink Reply by David Barker on July 11, 2008 at 8:38am

You can also check here for other thoughts: http://www.lostzombies.com/forum/topic/show?id=2035037%3ATopic%3A47871

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Permalink Reply by Sonic Ninj4 on July 11, 2008 at 3:33pm

Well, zombies do slow down with decomposition. (Like already stated)
But the slow zombies will be scarier due to the more slowly appearing, and the psychological breakdown of the incessent moans.
The moaning has been told to be the ultimate zombie weapon against trapped humans.

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Permalink Reply by Famine on July 11, 2008 at 4:15pm

i say when they first turn the run but after a while when they start to rot they shuffle

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Permalink Reply by Matt Campbell on July 15, 2008 at 9:08am

I vote for the runner. In the new dawn of the dead, the performance of the zombies was great. Like the girls husband who ran out the front door and then spotted the neighbor and just took off. That is scary. Shuffling zombies are scary to, nut not like the runners.

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