Poll: Fast zombies.

[leviathanmisha]

I first saw fast zombies in DOTD '04, and that completely revived my zombie interest. Old, slow, shambly zombies have become somewhat of a stale joke, just stay in the open and keep your distance, and you can laugh it off as you pick them out from miles away.
Fast zombies however, and I mean ZOMBIES, the reanimated dead through a virus or whatever, but ZOMBIES, are shit scary, and the idea works.
Particularly in the case of a newly made zombie (before the body has a chance to decompose), the undead have no brain capacity and feel no pain, just an urge to feed. In basic primal instinct they would run, and because of feeling no pain, would never tire, or at least not notice. To me it just seems to be the most complete idea, and the most pant-pissingly scariest. So both in game and in film I prefer this as it just creates a genuinely terrifying experience.

Although, agreeing with the above, if the zombie apocalypse comes, I hope I'm terribly, horribly wrong. Please just give me slow fuckers and a cricket bat

Can I get a cookie for noticing the Shawn of the Dead reference?

But I have to agree...fast zombies are kickass in video games and movies, unless we're talking about a Simon Pegg movie. But IRL Zombies better be slow, and I better have a dammed katana and a pair of desert eagles...I'll go Dante on there asses.

 

[Xanadeas]

Yes, yes I do hate me some fast zombies. WHY WON'T YOU SHAMBLE AWKWARDLY TOWARD ME LIKE THE REST OF YOUR FRIENDS?! D< I can't aim at fast zombies in games like Resident Evil. Stupid awkward controls...

 

[lockeslylcrit]

I don't mind fast zombies as long as it's logical. A few minutes after death? Sure. A few days? No. Remember that rigor mortis is a very powerful biological component in death.

 

[Chicago Ted]

Most Zombies are safe from Seattle Brian!!!

I'm sorry but who the hell are you?!

People, we have just witnissed the start of the Bizarro World...

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

I don't.
In some games yes. They are a pain in the ass, but that's what makes it fun. I enjoy it. It's hard for a game to be challenging if the zombies movie slow.
And in a movie? Hell it makes it a damn good movie.

 

[kantalupa]

i dont like fast zombies because they shouldnt be able to run, since their brain barely functions they shouldnt even know how to run. infected are a different story, since they arent techinically zombies they are allowed to run

 

[Energylegzz]

Fast zombies dont make sense but Infected who are really similar to zombies makes perfect sense A fast Zombie witch was dead for who knows how long would be ridiculous because they must have already been stricken with rigimourtus (I have no idea how to spell that) running very fast would just be Madness (or sparta) but an infected person running very fast would make allot more sense then something that was dead for weeks or months.

 

[inflamessoilwork]

Makes for more fun in L4D

 

[crabdog62482]

First and foremost, fast zombies did not start in the 28 series. They started in Return of the Living Dead.

Actually, the infected zombies in David Cronenberg's Rabid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid] moved pretty fast, and that film was made in 1977, 8 years before Return of the Living Dead.

Well if we're going to go that far back in time, might as well toss The Crazies out there. 1973 with a remake slated for 2010. It's directed by George Romero himself and is actually 28 Days, rather than a true zombie movie.

 

[Jamash]

First and foremost, fast zombies did not start in the 28 series. They started in Return of the Living Dead.

Actually, the infected zombies in David Cronenberg's Rabid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid] moved pretty fast, and that film was made in 1977, 8 years before Return of the Living Dead.

Well if we're going to go that far back in time, might as well toss The Crazies out there. 1973 with a remake slated for 2010. It's directed by George Romero himself and is actually 28 Days, rather than a true zombie movie.

What do you mean "going that far back in time"? The 1970's were hardly a different epoch.

I've seen The Crazies, and I don't think the people in that are zombies, they're psychotically deranged yet retain most of their mental faculties.

A great ambiguity of the Romero's work in that film, is that it's somewhat unclear as to whether some of the people taking up arms against the army are actually 'Crazies', or whether they're just normal citizens reacting to the imposed martial law by a faceless government organisation, in the spirit of the Second Amendment.

If the military marched into some random town and started pushing people around with no explanation, who's to say people wouldn't take arms up against them, that's exactly the kind of situation the Second Amendment was created for.

 

[cthulhu5]

I am going to go with the 4th Edition Dnd S]stance on undead: skeletons=fast, zombies=slow.

 

[Robert632]

either one is scary. fast zombies lake the menicing trait's, as they ussually die in a hit, but are more intelligent(as they know how to run.). the slower zombies are ussually dumber, but more terrifyingly grotesque.