What is all the fuss over zombies about?
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lol i think you were addressing this Q to jimbo and monitorhead\nonly they know the answer to this =)
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haha, yeah, i have zombie dreams too and they're scary.\n\nso, i'm not a psychologist, or a dream analyst or anything, but i've spent more time than it's worth thinking about why it is that zombies are so scary. and i've come up with several important elements that zombies can represent.\n\nfirstly, they're dead. they're corrupted, rusty and rotten and maggoty, and they move towards you and try to take you in.  this is viscerally very upsetting. we spend our lives in complete denial about death and decay, and so having to face it in such an up-front and non-negotiable way is very frightening. around autumn i always get the heeby jeebies about zombies... i think it's all the dead leaves and bare trees.\n\nsecondly, there's how they mob you. mobs are terrifying, even ones made up of living people, and the confrontation of their powerful and violent collectivity with your powerlessness and individuality gives feelings of overwhelming hopelessness and loneliness and despair. \n\nThirdly, there's how they attack you. zombies are slow moving, but they always seem to get you, don't they. they always come out of the shadows, or from behind you, or from your blind spot. the reason that this is so terrifying in your dreams is that we, as visual animals, KNOW subconsciously that our weakness is that what we can see ISN'T always what's out there. So if your brain is concocting a zombie nightmare, the zombies will always get you from the shadows, or from behind you... because that's the kind of attack that we are most vulnerable to.\n\nthere is additionally, the sense of betrayal which is implicit in zombies. people we love and know and trust will "change sides" and will betray us and attack  and bite and kill us, without even acknowledging even briefly the world you once shared with them, or even recognizing you! the death of relationships, and refusal to recognize that it even existed is a VERY powerful fear. Think about how betrayed lovers speak. they ask questions like "did you EVER love me? didn't our time together mean ANYTHING?" when you're attacked by the zombies of people you know, you ask the same thing. scary. \n\nFinally, there's an oppressive tension in a world full of zombies. there's no home, nowhere safe, nowhere to rest and dream peacefully. No other monster movies really capture this tension as well as zombie movies do... \n\nso yeah, spreading corruption, fear of an overwhelming and oppressive mob, attacking us in ways in which terrify us the most, and the death of love, and the atmosphere of tension. zombies can be scary for a lot of reasons. also, biting is kind of scary. \n\nif you're having lots and lots of zombie dreams, it could mean a bunch of different things. you might be worried or anxious about something in real life which shares a common element with the zombie dream. or it could be something else. I got a lot of zombie dreams when i was on this one antibiotic once, and i also discovered that i have zombie dreams when i sleep near a heater and my mattress is too hot. so it might be chemical or environment causing nightmares, and the nightmares might just be zombie nightmares because they scare the crap out of you and that's what nightmares do.\n\nso before you go psychoanalyzing yourself, look around and see if there's an external element causing your nightmares. good luck.\n\n(oh hey, as i was writing this i realized... don't you think that zombies would smell really bad? you could probably tell when one was sneaking up behind you by the smell... so don't get scared. if you can't smell them, it's just a dream! hahaha!)
832315
Zombies tend to sleep through a movie. Go with giant lizards, serial killers or terrorists.
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The zombies I know are all way too smart to go.  They'd rather be dead than go to Iraq.  Uh, right.  Okay, slight flaw in my logic.
240867
Because there are some juvinile delinquints on here that have a fetish for zombies so they ask those stupid questions. Hey its a free 2 pts and all you have to do is answer something stupid back.
218807
The apocalypse is a story designed to scare people into the pews.. It's a fanciful nightmarish rant about "end times" created to make people fear "the rapture".. I don't think anyone educated would take anything in it seriously.. Don't let an ORGANIZED SPEARHEAD OF PROPAGANDA "sell you a bill of goods..
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POPULAR?!?!?  nazi's came and destroyed Poland and others.... popular....  you might want to read some real history books and not some novels that glamourize the depravity of the nazi's.
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I often wonder about this.  Now, If you look at one of the originals, night of the living dead...there are nude zombies...but it's from the backside so you can't tell male/female (or at least I cant-I'm a zombie expert not a butt expert...lol).  I think it really comes down to what is cheap and on hand to destroy in the filming process.  Now...if you look at night of the living dead...the whole concept is that radiation from a space exploration vehicle that blows up causes the unburied recently dead to 'awaken'.  That means a lot of the zombies where waking in their suits in mortuaries?  Just a thought :)
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Its not an urban legend. But the fact that you can turn someone into a zombie. I have seen at least 4 so called zombies in Haiti
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The Walking Dead...a compelling storyline...great artwork...no censorship...\n\nGreat title...\n\nAlso the first few story arcs are available in collected TPB forms for an easy and cheap way to go back and read it from issue number 1.
360712
People who ask silly questions aren't really interested in this, in how it works and why-- they're just bored people vegging out in front of the computer instead of the TV.  If they're doing this and still bored then it's not something to do for fun or to learn things but a way to kill time-- dead!  They turn into zombies in front of the computers and ask no important questions (to them or anyone else) and give few or no good questions to others' answers, then complain of boredom.  That's because they aren't really thinking or becoming involved in what they're doing, they're just vegging, like I said-- or more like becoming zombified.  By the way, my favorite stupid question was when someone just asked, "Hello......?"
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Well, there was a scene in the "Dawn of the Dead" remake where a zombie without legs goes hand over hand on a pipe above the heroes.  He really booked!  If he had legs, he would have been seen by the heroes!
927141
Computer Graphics? Blood? Zombie remedy? I wouldn't have a clue otherwise. Sorry if my answer displeases you. :)
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its based off a game that I used to play,\n\nthe games start off great but they have serious flaws. like tons of filler. so Im skeptical of movies based off of games. especially bad games. \n\nnow if it was a resident evil movie I would be all for it. the game rocks too.
893553
I've not been able to find out anything about it, sounds interesting though?
459808
Probably ghosts, since the idea of ghosts is pretty much universal throughout all cultures. While there are some mythological creatures that have a lot in common with our idea of zombies and vampires, these ideas aren't quite as universal and offer differ between cultures too much to truly say that something is, say, a "Chinese vampire" or "Aztec zombie." But ghosts are pretty simple, since the main concept is simply that of a dead human spirit and the particulars may vary widely even within this culture. Like I said, you can find that pretty much anywhere.
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If you cannot make it into a secure, indoor area, always keep moving, preferably during the day.  Depending on the level of decay, most zombies are very slow and awkward.  If possible, if you have a larger, slower acquaintance whom you resent, talk him or her into going with you.  Should things get desperate, this person might slow down a zombie horde while you make a speedier escape.