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Post by Timid Wily Lava Child on Apr 21, 2006 0:53:24 GMT -5
Since I'm the resident naysayer about quality in horror cinema, I feel somewhat responsible to point out opposing views (sort of - maybe they're just the opposite, in which case this must be a little obnoxious of me). Two short lists, one from the L.A. Times, and one from the Chicago Sun-Times. The first is by Jim Emerson, who maintains Roger Ebert's site, and so gets to put a weblog there. I generally avoid it, as I find him smug and irritating, but this caught my eye: 4 undervalued scary movies on DVD rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041014/EDITOR/41014002/1023Now what prompted him to refer back to his list, made some time ago, was this next one, written by the director of today's new release, Silent Hill: The Seven Best Modern Horror Films www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-spinoffs-sevens-gans18apr18,1,1662937.htmlstory?coll=la-entnews-quicktakes&ctrack=1&cset=true (why is only part of that yellow? You may have to cut and paste to make the link work)Lists always make good chat fodder. Talk amongst yourselves!
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Post by bitten on Apr 21, 2006 20:53:46 GMT -5
*serious* question, not meant in jest has anyone ever wondered, what the zombies would do if "eventually" they never wound down, and had eaten all the brains? Because I have thought about that-- I think once the human/animal race is extinct, with their "drawn to the mall" mentality? that they would continue forward until they find a wall or similar object, and just keep walking into it. Eventually, like Frankenstein, they would fall apart and disentegrate, but I think before their complete second "death", that they would : repeatedly continue moving forward and re-hitting the wall, every time they hit it and bounce, or are thrown off . just a thought from the previously "didn't watch horror movies now I do. . ." corner of the peanut gallery Thanks
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Post by Timid Wily Lava Child on Apr 22, 2006 1:50:36 GMT -5
has anyone ever wondered, what the zombies would do if "eventually" they never wound down, and had eaten all the brains? I once wrote a 1/3 decent screenplay based on what would happen if vamiprism took its natural course - where their numbers outgrew those of their food. It can be good writing fodder to press things past their standardly presented points. But I didn't do it with zombies.
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Post by obliv326 on Apr 22, 2006 4:58:13 GMT -5
interesting question. i dont think zombies, as a rule, will keep running into something that is in their way, so they prob wouldnt just keep hitting a wall until they fell apart. if they hit a wall, they would prob stop going that way and go forward toward some other stimulus...it is generally accepted that they respond to sounds and movement and what have you. since they dont necessariky know that all the brins are wrong, they will move toward noises hoping they might find more brains, or flesh, if you are using classi romero zombies, who dont necessarily prefer any specific body part.
also, as noted in day pf the dead, they take no nourishment from their "food", as it were, so all zombies, in that scenario, keep going until their bodies fall apart, or they are killed by some other source.
if you prefer another breed of zombie, say, the 28 days later zobies, then they actually do need to eat, and are in fact not the "living dead" at all, but just a mutated for of human, and as such, they will eventually starve and die, or die from hydration, assuming they are too filled with rage to do anything but kill. indeed, this was happening at the end of the film.
so, depending on the breed of zombie, you will have either a short, catastroiphic disaster, or a longer lasting total change in the face of the earth
hope that helps shed some light on your question.
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