Now I know if I ever see a zombie I can just push it the hell over and walk by.

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Everyone wondered WTF when NecroPope wrote:
I felt that movie completely and totally degraded zombies across america. I feel that anyone who watches that movie, must immediately afterward watch Resident Evil, so that they may once again fear the undead hordes.

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Resident Evil wasn't very scary, either.

And while it's pretty degrading to the undead themselves, it made all kinds of subsequent zombie goodness possible.

Resident evil was ok, but heck, all they did was swarm the people under, they weren't all that dangerous by themselves. If they make a sequal, they need to include more Hunters/Lickers, the Tyrant/Nemesis, and possibly William Berkin and his many forms.

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Azrael Heavenblade probably says this to all the girls:
Heh, Night of the Living Dead was amusing, but nowhere near as funny as Army of Darkness. Ash is like the predecessor of Duke Nukem, and about 10x as original. They really need to make a movie with undead at least as powerful as the dog zombies in the last few episodes of Hellsing, or the ones in the Wolfenstein games.

Resident evil was ok, but heck, all they did was swarm the people under, they weren't all that dangerous by themselves. If they make a sequal, they need to include more Hunters/Lickers, the Tyrant/Nemesis, and possibly William Berkin and his many forms.

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That's what disappointed me about it. It's great to know where Nemesis came from, but it's not the same as gettting to see one of the Tyrant creatures in action.

Though it's not scary either, Dawn of the Dead (possibly Day of the Dead, can't remember) was much better. Mainly because of Bub the semi-intelligent zombie. Bub almost made up for the fact that the ending did not follow zombie movie tradition, much to my dismay.

And let's face it folks, they're dead, you've gotta be more dangerous than them unless you're a complete geek wimp.

1. Inevitability. They don't come one by one...the almost always come as a horde; there are more people dead in the world than there are people alive, and here..well...they're bearing down on the unsuspecting mortals. They don't die like normal people. The only way to completely stop them is to wholly dismember their bodies. Bullets don't work (save in Resident Evil style movies), martial arts don't work (aside from possibly mangling bone), and if you stop to hack and slash them, more will gang up and overbear you. More to the point, however, zombies represent the inevitability of death. Everyone is going to die. There will be no escape for any of you. It will come for all; you are prey without hope. Werewolves are the horror of a feral monster, vampires are the horror of eternal, seductive evil. Zombies are the inevitability of death...

2. Zombies also represent the horror of violation and decay. When you're buried (assuming you don't go for cremation) we all like to think our graves are sacred, but that's just a convenient illusion. When you die, worms will crawl in and out of your corpse. Your body will rigor, then start to smell as it breaks down. It will bloat as it rots, skin hanging limply, internal organs and humors oozing through lesions and holes in the skin. And they come with all the inevitability of death...and you are very much alive as they start to sink those dark, rotting teeth into your warm, living flesh. They're smearing their befouled selves on you as they weigh you down and overcome you...as they start to cannibalistically consume you while you scream helplessly.

Resident Evil didn't even add the fear of infection to the mix; it's traditional that the Dead Will Rise...meaning that even the zombies' victims will eventually rise up and join the undead horde.

And yet it's easy to laugh them off. They're slow, after all. Not always quick on their feet. It's even comforting (for fantasy fans) to believe that someone makes them and sends them out to do mortal bidding in a gruesome sort of way. The truth, however, is that the true horror zombies aren't made. No necromancer raises them from the grave. Usually it's something no one has time to understand that raises them. Usually they're not something capable of being bound to convenient D&D threat ratings.

Everyone always says "Oh I'd hit them with flames" or "I'd blow them up" or "I'd shoot them". Science is a security blanket...it makes you feel better. It gives you tools, but not always the solutions. And when you run out of ammo? when you run out of explosives? When they have you surrounded and are closing in, cutting off your escape?

Close your eyes...can you hear that faint scratching? Coming closer...you can feel their presence...musty smell of old earth concealing the faint rankness of rot...

Give respect where respect is due. Zombies are the tools of a master horror writer. Anyone can make a werewolf or a vampire or a space alien look good.

[ 03-14-2003: Message edited by: Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael ]

It was fun flaming the hell out of them with Riandar that time, though

Muahahahaha! Just to annoy you...displacer beast!

hey I may have flopped with that displacer beast, but you guys ran from a great big man-eating undead booger!

I creamed the hell out of your Minotaur

And the paladin single handedly destroyed your city

[ 03-14-2003: Message edited by: Lyinar Ka`Bael ]

Although you really got me with the Morgue.

I really think it would be neat to make a remake of Dawn of the Dead, just make sure it doesnt drag out as long as it drag out as long as the original did. Even with a weapon shop, the survivers were overmatched by the raiders and zombies