Poll: Fast zombies.

[Jacobistheshiz]

It's just horror trying to step up. The movies have to keep people interested some how.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Running zombies was what brought the zombie franchise back from the dead (see what I did there?)

Both work fine in there own way. But need way more slow zombies to create even half the terror of a fast mother fucker.

An awful lot of people seem to confuse 28 days later with a zombie movie it wasn't a zombie movie at all.

Anyway fast zombies make less sense than regular one's.

Well, that really depends on what you call a zombie. Danny Boyle really has stretched the term to it's limits. He went out to create a zombie flick and came out with something that many people wouldn't call a zombie flick.

He does that with a lot of movie franchises though. Slum Dog Millionaire broke one of the main laws of Bollyhood films with the kiss.

 

[Syndef]

I've always noticed that the slow zombies are the "real" zombies (that is, dead people coming back to life), and fast zombies are the result of a virus or chem experiment gone bad (people are still themselves, but suffered extensive brain damage, changing their behavior completely).

The fast zombies are oftentimes able to be killed like normal people are, but slow zombies need specific ways to be killed. In the world of slow zombies, usually you have to die before you yourself become a zombie. In the world of fast zombies, you can get infected and become a zombie. It's a trade-off really. Do you like harder-to-kill but safer zombies? Or easier-to-kill but dangerous zombies?

 

[Twilight_guy]

I hate them because they ate ate my brains before I could shot them. um, bbbbrrrraaaiinnnzzz...
Actually, I think zombies are better as a shuffling mass that completely encircles and then closes in on you. Faster is scarier to see, but the collective coming in an endless flood from all sides is pretty climatic.

 

[Rednog]

I don't understand why you only give us 2 options of either hate or not. I don't "hate" fast zombies, but I just think that they don't make sense.

Zombies by definition are the living dead, meaning that their flesh and bones won't be what they used to be, which can include decomposition and rot. It would make more sense (if zombies were real) for them to be slow lurching bodies rather than psycho crazy marathon runners. It's easy for someone to say "oh but a virus could improve their movement!" - no. Because someone that has died and come back to life as a zombie would still have the same, if not worse, physical capabilities or handicaps that they had when they were alive.

Sadly by using logic you kill both fast and slow zombies with a single blow. By the same means of them not being able to run, a dead person's physical strength would drop dramatically and it would be like fighting a bunch of senior citizens. You shove them, they fall over break a few bones and wither there.

 

[Gearran]

I hate fast zombies, but only for the fact that they make me frantically struggle to reload my suddenly uncooperative firearm before they jump on me and eat my ass (in short, exactly what they're supposed to do). Joking aside, I rather like fast zombies, because they're really, really scary. Sure, the traditional slow shambling undead are pretty scary in their own right, but there's just something about a guy who by all rights should be dead in the ground charging at you at the speed of an Olympic sprinter that makes your blood turn to ice. Keep those firearms close, kiddies.

 

[Aradiel]

Slow zombies - either kill them early on which will be very easy (run away from them and while their catching up you catch your breath. Then run away again, while placing a clever trap)shoot them from very very far away or you will be over run. Seriously you act like your already over run. In the begging their going to be vary few

Fast zombies - your always overrun. Running is pointless. Find some place and wait for them to starve to death. The good news about most of these zombies is you can out last them. Once their dead you can come out to reclaim the world. Unless their undead runners and your just doomed. Re redheads or 2004 dotd

I am legend zombies - bullet to the brain unless you like hiding during the day. Depending on the source, they can only be killed by destroying the heart/brain, can run, can heal their wounds and can drain your blood.

game wise I am legend trumps all. Slow is more fun then fast in game. It gives you thinking time. If you want to be scared though, fast zombies. Hard to be scared when the thing takes fifteen minutes to get to you.

I've still got to disagree. In films the slow zombies have always scared me more, mainly because the tactic you suggest never ever works - you do get over-run eventually. In the short term you feel safe, that you can keep them away, but in the end everything you do is futile and it takes a long time for you to realise that.
Fast zombies - don't have time for the psychological fear, it's just plain instinct. They make me jump, but they aren't anywhere nearly as chilling as slow zombies are.

Still, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

PS: Wasn't "I Am Legend" vampires, not zombies?

 

[Christemo]

i like the slower ones better, but the fast ones was pretty good in L4D.

L4D remade with 4x the zombies (that was slow) would be far more challenging. if they wasnt immune to the infection, that is.

 

[historybuff]

Traditional zombies are fun!

Just like I don't like vampires that can be in the sunlight. I like for my zombies to shamble around and eat brains like the mindless, instinctive animals they have become.

 

[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.