WHAT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE IN A NEW ZOMBIE MOVIE?
I'm of the belief that for a Zombie movie to be truly great it has to somehow add to the genre. For instance: Night of the Living Dead first introduced the idea that you must destroy the brain/head to kill a Zombie. What would you most like to see in a new Zombie movie?
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Zed on -
This might sound boring to some, but I'd actually love to see a mock-documentary made by a survivor held up in a barricaded store, studying the zombies outside, and then the documentary-part of them movie fades into a thriller-action-horror movie as zombies start to break the barricades, and the survivor's tensions rise as he realizes that death approaches quickly...
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Permalink Reply by La Muerte Fin on -
Erin its automaton transfusion if you still can't remember the title (I own it but personnall regret it for the most part.) As I said earlier I still want what ideas I posted but a lot of the ones on here since my post have had some real kick and I agree with most of you. As far as running zombies not bieng zombies I don't neccesarily agree but won't go into detail.
More movie ideas- The survivors growing a pair and fighting back. I want to see a movie where a band of survivors carves out an outpost and fights back after helping rescue enough to have sufficient numbers. This could bring in customized/bootleg weapons armor etc and imo really throw a new twist on the genre in general.
Not that I don't love your traditional try and survive etc movies.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Zed on
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That's a great idea, actually. I mean, there are a FEW scenes in movies like that, my favorite being in the beginning of 28 days later, two well-armed soldiers using explosives and molotovs to take out nearby zombies.
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Permalink Reply by La Muerte Fin on
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Yah it would just be nice to see the following events after surviving you know? Like Land of the Dead minus the "We don't negotiate with terrorists" political jokes? One where you have a mad maxish set up and the people are finally fighting back? Definitly allows for new gore ^.^
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Permalink Reply by JB on -
The problem with running zombies is that we'd all be F*cked. There is no escape from a running zombie. They become pure adrenaline and you wouldn't be able to out run them.
You may get away from one, with enough luck, but anymore than that and you're dead. Movies that have nothing but running zombies, i.e. Automaton Transfusion, don't portray things properly. The Scene where the guys leave the bar for the truck was a terribly good example of pushing reality aside for the film. In reality, they'd all be dead, or at least bitten.
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Permalink Reply by Billiam Reldez on -
haha i always thought that the barricading were the best part of the movie! i totally agree! im tired of the way zombie movies are done nowadays. If you look at older zombie movies that what most of them are about. but now its just explosions and gore(which are awesome, but dont always make a good movie).
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Permalink Reply by JJ on -
Maybe I'm too old school for the running-zombie fans but at least Tom Savini agrees with me :)
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Permalink Reply by Zedhead on -
The sprinting zombie thing doesn't work for me on a lot of different levels, it loses alot of the general horror, and becomes more like many other horror novels. No, the real horror comes from that shambling gait, that low moan, and the persistence.
Anyway, as far as something new, David Wellington introduced something in his Monster Trilogy that I thought was kind of cool. The idea was that part of the reason Zombies have no intelligence is the brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation. If somebody was on a respirator and a dialysis machine at the time of death and reanimation, however, they would retain their intelligence, but still feel the overwhelming hunger and need to feast on human flesh. (He also took it further, with them developing magical abilities, and the ability to control the undead. I wouldn't take it that far). I wouldn't mind seeing something like that. Maybe some guy was in a an accident, and has been on life support, but is considered to be brain dead. During the beginning of the z-poc, he get's infected, dies, and reanimates with all of his intelligence and memories, but he's in a world gone mad. He feels the overwhelming hunger, and tries to fight it. He's alone with nothing but unintelligent zombies, seeing the horror that has fallen the world, he finds survivors, but they keep trying to blow his brains out, and finaslly he gives in to the hunger. Maybe he tries to hook up some survivors to life support machinery and infect them so he won't be alone?
I dunno, just an idea.
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Permalink Reply by JB on
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I've actually been toying around with the Idea of how to keep the brain alive even after the life has been sucked out of the living. I have started theorizing that the body dies, but the brain doesn't. In order for this to happen the cells need to be capable of recieving a signal to perform the function that the brain is asking it to do. What if the virus was that means of keeping the cell alive, but dead? What if the virus replaced the nucleus of the cells, creating a living virus cell, capable of replicating, and recieving the electrical signals from the brain.
One of the important notes you mentioned was the brain needing oxygen. Even if the person Using hemodialysis could keep the blood flowing in the body, but if the body dies, the lungs don't breath. Now if you're using a respirator you keep the lungs breathing. This solves the problem on both aspects, except the fact that once they leave that bed, their blood stops pumping and their lungs stop breathing. The brain should be dead withing minutes. what is needed is something along the lines of what I wrote at the top of this post.
I like where this is going, and I think we need to keep pressing this idea.
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Permalink Reply by Irish Boy on -
Good idea, its very possible as some famous brains are being preserved now. I think running zombies are scary...its way more challenging. More ferocious. those slow moving zombies should just be a step in zombie evolution, like birth. The running zombies create a more severe threat...no restrictions...just insanity...
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