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Zombie Gait

"How many times have I told you? Dead things don't move fast. You're a corpse for Christ's sake! If you run that fast your ankles are going to snap off."

— Jason Creed, Diary Of The Dead.

Zombies usually shuffle around with both arms out in front of them, groaning "Braaaaaains" or something similar.*

Aside from the groaning, this is not unique to zombies. Mummies usually do this as well, and even Frankenstein's monster has been seen to lurch in this variety of the Unflinching Walk.

Although often portrayed this way in fiction (in fact, it was a fictitious sleepwalkerwho made this trope), sleepwalkers do not walk like this. They walk with their eyes open. If they did not, they would wake up with a nasty headache, or in the hall after they smack their heads on the nearest sharp corner. There have been accounts of sleepwalkers having held conversations, and sleepwalkers who do chores, get dressed, eat, have sex (an actual diagnosed condition, called 'sexsomnia', often mistaken for rape) and people have even been known to drive their cars while sleepwalking.

It has been speculated that holding out one's arms pointing forward while doing the Zombie Gait derives from the mysticism connected with hypnotism in the past and the fact that to get a person's arm to rise as if without their moving it themselves is one of the easiest suggestions to perform.

This is probably somewhat counter-productive, as moving slowly and announcing your presence is a brilliant way to scare off potential prey. (Although, if a Zombie virus needs a bite or scratch to infect, the best way to transmit that virus is to attract a mob of zombies from all directions. This does not apply to non-virus zombies or omnirevenant zombies however.)

Then again, may be justified as the undead's damaged muscles might make basic locomotion a chore. George Romero in a 2008 interview

indicates his reasoning for why zombies are slow and cannot run. On top of that, since zombies can shrug off most things that would incapacitate a normal person and there's so damn many of them that even slow ones can be quite a threat to our plucky heroes (unless, of course, they have Bottomless Magazines).

Nevertheless, these zombies can often jump at protagonists from Behind The Black in a Deadly Lunge. See also and compare Marionette Motion, where a human body (shaped object) moves as if it were a puppet on a string.

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Zombies
Reviewer: Dan

You’re getting a special treat with this review. This is a review of not just one type of zombie, but a review of many of the more popular zombies out there. Well, maybe not all of them, maybe just the one’s I’ve encountered in movies and in video games. The ratings that I will give to each type of zombie will be based on the feasibility of their origin and mechanics. But before I discuss any zombies, I should mention that a zombie is a person that has died, their dead body rises again to try to consume the flesh of the living, and that if a person gets bit by a zombie, they eventually die and become one themselves.

The George Romero Zombie

George Romero is probably the one true inspiration of every form of entertainment that involved some type of zombie. He was basically the one that invented the rules I stated above with his first zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead. His first two zombie movies, Night of the Living Dead and the Original Dawn of the Dead, were fairly consistent with each other on the mechanics of the zombies. They were slow, stiff, yet relentless machines. These movies also introduced probably the most well known fact of zombie lure; destroy the brain, destroy the zombie. However, Romero decided for some reason to start giving his zombies the ability to think and reason in Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead. I actually find this annoying because I think Romero was trying too hard to get people to relate to zombies more, like they just have some sort of disease or something (well, some zombies do). But this isn’t the thing that annoys me the most about the Romero zombie.

How the first zombies came to be in George Romero’s movies is honestly stupid. A deep space probe launched into space returns to Earth with some sort of strange alien radiation on it that, by the way, makes zombies. It sounds like he is just taking the easy way out by using that as an explanation. I honestly like how the remake of Night of the Living Dead does it. There’s no fooling around in it. It goes from no zombies to zombies in a flash, no warning, no explanation. The famous biblical explanation of the zombies’ existence in these movies is much better; “When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.” Leave it at that, it’s creepy, and it doesn’t rely on pinpointing an exact cause. While the mechanics of the zombie is actually what this review is based on, the origins are just plain dumb. The George Romero zombie gets 7 out of 10.

The Shaun of the Dead Zombie

I like this movie. I think it is funny. As the front of the DVD case says, “It’s a Romantic Comedy…With Zombies.” The Shaun of the Dead zombie, however, is exactly like the Romero zombie in both mechanics and origin. Well, not exactly alike, they’re more humorous and don’t have all of the basic zombie instincts. To preserve the fact that the movie is a comedy, I can see making the zombies not as bloodthirsty as others. They’re even somehow dumber than other zombies as shown in the scene where the main characters act like zombies to “shuffle and stagger” past them. By the end of the movie, zombies find “new lives” as shopping cart attendants to video game players. While it is a fun movie, it isn’t the authority on zombies. I give the Shaun of the Dead zombie 5 out of 10.

The Max Brooks Zombie

I recently finished reading the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z and I have to say that Max Brooks really knows his zombies. The mechanics of the Brooks zombie is much the same as the “dumb” earlier forms of the Romero zombie. Completely lacking all intelligence and reasoning, these zombies will forever be driven by the need to consume living flesh. That is actually a slight difference between the Brooks zombie and the Romero zombie. A Brooks zombie will consume all living creatures, not just humans. The other difference between a Brooks zombie and a Romero zombie is that the Brooks zombie has no hope of ever regaining their intelligence.

The origin of the Brooks zombie also differs (for the better) from the Romero zombie. In his books, Brooks explains that zombies are the result of a human being infected by the Solanum virus. This virus lives in and attacks the frontal lobe of the brain, fist causing death, then causing zombies. However, the books do not explain the origins of this virus very well, such as where it is found in nature. The book also conveniently points out this fact, thus dodging the question. But overall, the Max Brooks zombie is believable enough for me to remember where my crowbar is at all times, so they get 8.5 out of 10.

Scathe Zombies

..."Aren’t very scary and can be killed by a Shock" is the end of that sentence.2 out of 10.

The Resident Evil Zombie

When I refer to the Resident Evil zombie, I’m referring to all of those dead things walking about in all of the games leading up to and including RE: Code Veronica and both of the movies that have come out so far. I have to be honest; The Resident Evil games are probably m y favorite video games of all time, so you may need to take this review with a grain of salt. But still, I will try to remain impartial. The RE zombie is much like all the others. They’re slow, instinct-driven, bloodthirsty, and can be killed with a headshot. However, they can also be disposed of by enough damage to their bodies. In the cut scenes of the game and in the movies, this is not the case. But because it is a video game with notoriously bad controls and aiming, it would be impossible to score consistent headshots with a pistol. So, as a design feature rather than a feature of the actual zombie, they can die if you shoot them in the chest enough.

I think the main reason I love the Resident Evil games so much is the Umbrella Corporation. They are the fictional biomedical company that developed the T-Virus, which is the reason why a person becomes a zombie, well, the reason why 999,999 people out of a million become a zombie when used improperly. According to the games, the T(yrant)-Virus is the genetic combination of the Ebola virus and a fictional virus known as the Progenetor Virus. The T-Virus actually brings dead cells back to life, which is why it can make zombies. It also can genetically alter a living creature and turn it into a B.O.W. (Bio Organic Weapon) or, as the movies revealed, can be used for medical treatments of paralysis. But as a method of zombification, its better explained than the virus infecting the Brooks zombie and a lot better explanation than the Romero zombie. Overall, the Resident Evil zombie gets 8 out of 10.

The Dawn of the Dead Remake Zombie

I won’t have to write much on these zombies. They’re much like Romero zombies, but they differ in two respects. First, these zombies can sprint, which I think the idea is stupid and a rip-off of the Crimson Heads from the remake of Resident Evil 1. However, the other difference is more positive. Well, I should say it gets them to neutral, because there is absolutely no explanation in the movie as to how they came to be. Because they are a less believable form of zombie from the regular Romero zombies, I give the Dawn of the Dead Remake Zombie 4 out of 10.

28 Days/Weeks Later People

That’s correct. I said people, not zombie. That’s because the people infected with Rage never died. Yes, they are zombie-like in their nature, but they are not zombies. 0 out of 10 because they are not zombies.

Final Verdict

So there you have it. All of my knowledge on the topic of zombies. This review can be added upon when I come across more methods of zombification, but at the moment, this is where it stands. If you would like me to review more types of zombies, let me know and I’ll look into it. Oh, did I mention that the 28 Days/Weeks Later people are not zombies?

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