Poll of the Day > Zombies are actually scary

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I had a nightmare last night that was scarier than a lot of zombie content out there.

Zombies weren't brainless walking dead animal-like meat puppets, they were intelligent people with enhanced strength. They do want to actually eat normal people, though.

Over time, the "zombie survival apocalypse" went on, and suddenly it ended, because the zombies were fully integrated into normal society, because they had the power and numbers to do so. At one point I started running outside to get to another location, and a zombie started chasing me, but it passed me up, because it was just an undead woman jogging. Then another zombie started jogging right next to me and started a friendly conversation. So I started running in another direction, and that one followed me subtly. So I jumped into a nearby boat and quickly paddled across, and the zombie just quickly ran underwater and popped out on the other side.

Anyway, at that point I woke up at 4 am and was actually extremely anxious. Zombies could retain all intelligence, become stronger and tougher than living people, need to kill and eat people, and then infect the entire US government, making living people second-class citizens, maintaining some kind of "equality" facade but in reality always keeping the boot on living people as cattle, and never prosecuting murders done to living people.

Basically Return of the Living Dead, despite being a cheesy movie, has zombies that are 20 times scarier than The Walking Dead zombies, who are just a bunch of angry cows.

you discovered racism

Lokarin posted...

you discovered racism

Yeah if I took that story and made it a movie I'd worry Nazis would take it and call it pro-Nazi propaganda. But Nazis would be the zombies.

It could also be a take on being an oppressed demographic, being a farmed species, maybe opening up people to what it would be like to exist like that, but it could also just be used by racist idiots regurgitating that same old terrible idea.

Also Jews are just the perfect scapegoat because the rich can take everything they do and pin it on them. I feel like people have been doing this for centuries.

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.

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.

The classic Living Dead stuff is insane because it resurrects all dead things. There were kinda taxidermied animals in one, which were split in half, that got res'd.

But in the case of a real-world impact, I'm not sure the US government (or any government) would be able to work fast enough to stop the spread, given how quickly it happens. The nations seeing it happen to the US might be in better shape, particularly if they don't have land borders and can close down travel.

Sounds better than that shitty Romeo juliet zombie movie, where average zombie could think and say some words.

Also reminds me of daybreakers where vampires won and took over the world but for some reason didn't think of the dwindling food supply. But then again capitalism WOULD do that

Warm Bodies had like one or two humorous moments

have you seen They Live, sort of reminds me of that

this is just the plot of the disney channel original movie z-o-m-b-i-e-s