28 Weeks Later

[Tetsubo]

You're forgetting that there is pseudoscience in the beginning of the original Dawn of the Dead. Remember the media reports about the strange radiation from the Venus space probe? It's basically an aside, but a pointed one.

Not to mention that by Day of the Dead, you have remnant military scientists attempting to reprogram captured zombie test subjects.

I've always seen the former as the populace trying to come to grips with a very bizarre situation. They needed SOMETHING to blame...

And the later is just trying to make the best of a very bad situation...

In Romero's universe I see a -Shawn of the Dead- world evolving. The ghouls would not completely wipe-out humanity. There are too many living humans and far, far too many bullets... it would completely rewrite our cultures though. Every person becomes a potential ghoul. Doctors, nurses, EMTs would all carry pistols. Heck ALL concealed carry laws would be tossed out the window. Every living human that could afford it would be packing a firearm. Murders would also be much easier to conceal. Within a year or two after The Rising I see Zombie Death matches live on cable TV...

Take a look at the new film coing out -Fido-...

 

[Soel]

Romero and other classic horror directors have defined the world zombie or zombie movie as a creature that was or is dead coming back form the dead to eat flesh. This is the movie defintion of the word and not the actual definition, though depending on what cult or religion you talk to you will get different variations (including our ghoul analogy).

Regardless, the key to zombie in any definition is that at some point it is reanimated dead, not alive, and the creatures in 28 days/weeks later are clearly alive and are referenced as so.

Physically alive, as in beating hearts and blood pumping, but as one of my favorite parts of the first movie shows, they're quite dead. (referring to the part where the major shows the chained infected to Jim.)

I'm a huge zombie film fan, and I consider these to be zombie films, myself.

 

[DonTadow]

Physically alive, as in beating hearts and blood pumping, but as one of my favorite parts of the first movie shows, they're quite dead. (referring to the part where the major shows the chained infected to Jim.)

I'm a huge zombie film fan, and I consider these to be zombie films, myself.

That makes no sense. Zombies aren't physically alive, so how can they be zombies? They are more alive than people in vegetative states. Sure they may not be to ofar from it, but so long as they breathe air they can't be zombies.

 

[Rykion]

You're forgetting that there is pseudoscience in the beginning of the original Dawn of the Dead. Remember the media reports about the strange radiation from the Venus space probe? It's basically an aside, but a pointed one.

Not to mention that by Day of the Dead, you have remnant military scientists attempting to reprogram captured zombie test subjects.

The whole Venus space probe radiation was also mentioned in the original Night of the Living Dead. It mentioned that the radiation mutated the recently deceased so that their brains reactivated. I guess they are actually mutant zombies. Does that mean Romero should have advertised them as mutant zombie survival movies involving ghouls?

 

[Morrus]

That makes no sense. Zombies aren't physically alive, so how can they be zombies? They are more alive than people in vegetative states. Sure they may not be to ofar from it, but so long as they breathe air they can't be zombies.

They're zombie enough for me!

 

[jonathan swift]

They're zombie enough for me!

Seconded!