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Count_Drachma posted...

Zombies are intrinsically scary, since an outbreak can potentially end society in days. Granted, the kind that eventually starve are moderately less frightening because they can waited out, but their numbers are a huge deal, the difficulty in surviving because infrastructure collapses, etc, means they'd pose a larger danger than most other creatures.

In real life I'm not afraid of them, because the closest thing we have to zombies are things like rabies, and we're smart enough to deal with them. Even Raccoons haven't been wiped out by rabies, it's just a disease that happens but has its checks. In The Walking Dead I don't even think the US would let it get out of hand like that. I actually think it's funny how Rick wakes up after society fell, like the writers didn't even want to have to explain that part. Why is New York overrun with zombies? Uh, I guess the US military got caught up in bureaucracy or something. There are more guns than people in this country.

But in Return of the Living Dead, those things are bulletproof, have super strength, and high intelligence. Plus, they spawn from every single corpse that already exists, and it spreads instantly through the air. They're all constantly screaming in agony and want to eat your brains. That's scary.