Favorite Zombie Movie

A couple things I've thought about when thinking about the biological form of zombie.

If the zombie plague was spread through fluid transfer, would it be able to move through water supplies/rivers?

Could someone swiftly douse a zombie-inflicted wound with antiseptic to prevent infection?

If other organisms were to be infected, would they be able to infect you? What if small organisms in the water were infected, like bacteria. Could they infect you as well?

Are zombies cannibals, or just carnivores?

I wish I could meet a zombie one day...sort of.

As for the point raised about the cumbersome-ness of bulky melee objects, well, for the most part, I wouldn't have much trouble. For starters, I'm about 6'4. I work out regularily, with Whey Protein supplements, and Creatine for that extra boost. Perhaps you people should do the same...haha. Just make sure to drink lots of water when consuming Creatine, otherwise you can have some problems with kidneys/liver. (A bit less than 3 glasses a day, for every scoop you have). Make sure to excersize yourself regularily too, or the protiens won't be broken down in the proper way, and will just be stored as fat. I just don't want to go suggesting things without giving the proper information...but yes. We can't ignore that our body is our primary weapon against them, and it should be well maintained.

Naykid Ape made one of the best suggestions so for. Protein will keep you energized, strong, and quick thinking. And in supplements, certain acids are provided which greatly reduces muscle and cardiovascular fatigue. Be sure to grab the high-carb formulas for more energy. We can forget the Atkins diet for now.

Although, a bulky target is an easy target. Strength has its pluses and minuses.

I think my personal favourite zombie disposal method would have to be via vehicle (check that backseat first!). Having a nice 4x4 (with a reincforced front bumper, if possible) would be doing your area a large favour. A hit from a vehicle like this might not kill the undead, but it would cripple and mangle their body structure enough to decrease their mobility in large quantities. If you are able, bar outside your windshield to prevent zombies crashing into your face, which may cause injury, or possible infection.

Someone mentioned the need of a Kevlar vest in case of a RE scenario. Yeah..we would pretty much be limited to death in those situations. Things like Nemesis and lickers are more than any human could handle..I'm not going to ponder too much about those things.

 

1. If the zombie plague was spread through fluid transfer, would it be able to move through water supplies/rivers?

this is a very good question and i fear the answer would be yes. bassivly you'd have to assume that infection would be spread through either the blood or the saliva or a zombie, both of which are already liquid. it would just be a matter of how many infected cells one can consume/come into contact with before becomming infected. if all it took was one infected cell to infect you then it would be impossible to dilute any blood or saliva that gets into the water to a point where it wouldnt affect you. one zombie corpse lying in a river upstream could take out an entire amry outpost if they deppend on that water for drinking. how ever if it took multiple cells to get you infected within a certian time frame then it depends on how thickly concentrated the infection is in the water

2. Could someone swiftly douse a zombie-inflicted wound with antiseptic to prevent infection?

i think not, or at least i wouldnt risk it. if your bit, chances are it's already in your blood and very quickly working it's way through you, i'd say your best chance of survival is amputation. antispetic only really douses the outside and the surface area of the wound, it doesnt work internally, and thats where the virus will be located. its sorta like your dog...if it was attacked by a rabbid squirell you could dose the bite imediately in rubbing alcohol, but that will only prevent it from getting an infection from the open wound, it would still contract rabbies. (unless it had it's rabbies shot, but we don't have a zombie shot so it doenst really apply)


3. If other organisms were to be infected, would they be able to infect you? What if small organisms in the water were infected, like bacteria. Could they infect you as well?

i don't see why not, i mean in reality other human cells and zombie cells are foreign organisms...if they're infected with the same virus i don't see why it wouldnt affect you.

4. Are zombies cannibals, or just carnivores?

28 days later were cannibals...zombies are carnivores. (although in reality if their only instinct is to feed, humans really are omnivorous, so if you let a bunch of zombies in a grocery store, hopefully they'll stuff themselves with tomatoes and celery till they explode)

5. I wish I could meet a zombie one day...sort of.

lol, yea me too....sort of. actually i wish all this shit actually did happen....sort of. it would really suck and be cool at the same time


6. I think my personal favourite zombie disposal method would have to be via vehicle (check that backseat first!). Having a nice 4x4 (with a reincforced front bumper, if possible) would be doing your area a large favour. A hit from a vehicle like this might not kill the undead, but it would cripple and mangle their body structure enough to decrease their mobility in large quantities. If you are able, bar outside your windshield to prevent zombies crashing into your face, which may cause injury, or possible infection.

another suggested read for everyone "death drives a semi" by...Edo Van Belkom (i think)
it's a series of dark short stories and theres 2 related to zombies and a post apocolyptic zombie scenario...one of which is two guys ridding around in their semi mack truck smoking zombies and collecting a bounty for each one. so i would have to agree with you on the vehicle, so long as you had a supply of gas. a concrete mixer truck would do some serious damage if it had a fortified grill.

 

FINALLY Eric joins the conversation. Geeze, I was wondering how long it'd take you to come online. Oh, and speaking of zombie movies, if anyone wants to see the ACTUAL trailer, not just the stupid teaser for RE, it's on www.apple.com , just goto quicktime, and then goto trailers. I watched it, I dunno, it looks alright I guess...

 

The movie looks cool, in an action movie sense. But when trying to classify it as a zombie-movie, it scores poorly. I just hope they don't dwell on the super-enemies like the lickers, Nemesis, and etc, and spend more time on the shamblers.

 

Anyone seen this yet......its supposed to be really good I dunno yet though,guess I will hit you kids up when I do.By the way if you love zombie movies this web site is really good www.allthingszombie.com check it out

Kisses

 

Guys I gotta say... This cut and your fucked scenerio is a very new idea. Heres how I break it down. Zombie "virus" we shall say is liquid contact transmitable, ie Saliva, nail grime (yeah right... as fuckin if... dead nail cells causing infections? pft) or even blood. However, the virus is so weak that our white blood cells easilly combat it and prevent turning. In order to become the UNDEAD you have to DIE. This whole turning nonsence is some new hollywood inovation to increase tension (usually sexual) between 2 characters, ie the girl begins to turn so the guy fights for a cure -makes jerk off motion.- Thats not real zombism. Thats lame dollar chasing! Anyway. So heres how it works. When you die, your white blood cells soon follow. This leaves your live but dieing flesh cells open to viral infection from the zombies. Once transmited it takes effect and goes to work rewiring (SO TO SPEAK NOT LITERAL) everything. Then you become a disgusting rotting corpse bent on eating flesh. I think zombies are sick carnivores and only desire live flesh and not the rotting dead, or theyd eat each other... think about it...

Fuck a tiny vehicle. Go for style. The original humvee. complete with military gun ports... =D

 

Night Of The Living Dead.

 

I thought Return of the Living Dead was good. That was like a funny punk era version of Night of the living Dead. It had a good punky soundtrack. bands like TSOL.

 

Dawn of the Dead, original of course.

 

nightwanderer has a terrifying sig pic. The original Dawn of the Dead kicked ass. I wanna rent it again, and again. And again.

 

20 bucks ta who can name tha movie.

 

Attack of the Buhdda Faced Porclin People

 

I was gonna say lawnmower man for some reason, but yours is better.

 

For nostalgia purposes I rented day of the dead again and saw the thing with Bud the zombie and how he was 'learning' and stuff (Have no idea why I didn't remember. I was probablly totally spaced and thinking of different extermination methods). If you remeber correctly though, Bud was not learning anything, he was simply rembering major parts of his past life. For example, everyone uses phones. You do it so much that if you hear a phone ring, you automaticlly know what it is. This is embeded into our brains through severe conditioning. A soldier is taught over and over and over how to use their firearm and then they actually use them over and over and over, so this was also imbeded into his brain. However Bud did LEARN, actually learn that if he behaved he got human brought to him. He also gained affection for the crazed doctor (what was all that mother bussiness anyway?!) and when he died he entered a fit of rage. I would theorize from the evidence that zombies have the "intellegence" of a domesticated dog.

 

This makes me seem like a complete idiot, but I haven't had the chance to rent day of the dead....I just can't find it. But now I REALLY wanna watch it.

 

I just like to study the enemy

 

I don't blame you, the day will come when our brainless nemesi come to take our women (and for some of you, men.)

 

anyone seen stacey: attack of the schoolgirl zombies?

its a very bizzare japanese movie, with many referances to other zombie movies. the movie isnt great, it is pretty gory, but it has some very funny parts

 

DarkLunacy, I finally saw Day of the dead. I really liked it, I think I might like some of it better than Dawn, although that mall idea was my biggest fantasy, locked up tight in a huge huge place with lots of things to just take (Hopefully there's a music store there). But yeah, Bud the zombie was kinda learning. He DID gain affection for the crazy doctor, so in that way he was intellegent, but he was still a damn dirty zombie. Oh man, I loooved the zombie that was killed by the shovel, and then the upper half of it's head was looking around on the ground. Hahaha, that kicked ass.

I'd give the movie a 9/10 (no lesbians or robots -1 )

 

That's what was so brilliant about "Dawn of the Dead". They take stuff they dont really have use for. Watches though time means nothing now, and money which is useless now, and it's so well done with commentaries about society and how we're tailored to hover around stores and consume everything in sight. Plus, you have no idea what's going on outside the mall, but you know it's really bad and the world is basically over. The mall becomes a character.