>10 million zombie movies and TV shows
>not a single one of them shows or even explains how the zombies defeated humanity
>in fact most of them use timeskips to go "these very dumb, weak and easy to kill monsters wiped out all of the world's police, militaries and militias offscreen because they just did, okay?"
28 days later tells you
doomsday literally explains it
frick i can go on
>28 days later tells you
How? I don't remember how it happened?
Ahh, I am confusing it with 28 hours later.
no it explains that it started in london and within seconds youre as good as dead and spreading the disease
and the monkeys escaped iirc
>28 days later tells you
All I remember is the movie saying "some Zombies swam to Europe, now the whole continent is infected". Though fast zombies at least are a bit more of a real danger than shambling zombies, they still can't beat a tank.
>some swam to europe
homie what
i recall them running out of the france tunnel but nothing else and that was in 28 weeks later
Maybe that was it, I saw it a long time ago and found it underwhelming and deliberately stupid.
yeah 28 weeks is fricking moronic and renner was in it
theres one cool scene with a helicopter nbut thats it
>they still can't beat a tank.
tanks run out of gas pretty quickly
The zombies didn't get to Europe until the credits of Weeks, where the helicopter with typhoid mary kids on it crashed and presumably started an infection when some people tried to help a bleeding kid. No swimming or channel-running zombies involved, because France would be fricking ready for that shit.
yeah i know i have no idea why they did that because the tunnel would have been filled with concrete or something
i think it was just teasing 28 months
Tanks would be poorly suited to fighting zombies. Driving around buttoned up with low visibility on crumbling post zombie roads would have a high risk of getting stuck somewhere, and then you're fricked. Tanks are also anything but self sufficient.
A bunch of dudes flying around zombieland in a helicopter, landing at old airfields and military bases to refuel and repair, would be kino.
If enough zombies surround a tank it will beech itself trying to get through them.
Also Tanks don't have unlimited fuel and ammo.
28 days later aren't actually zombies you know that right
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go be autistic somewhere else
Old Yeller is my favorite zombie movie.
shut the frick up
HURR WELL THEYRE NOT ZOMBIES BECAUSE THEY RUN AND DELIBERATELY INFECT YOU
its a fricking deadly virus that turns you non human, its a fricking zombie stop being a contrarian
fricking brainless moron
I still don't get why that kid in the store was able to talk. That's like the only time one of those things do talk.
It's a virus, moron.
Return of the Living Dead is the only scary zombie movie.
It is objectively the least scary zombie movie, and the only thing keeping it from being a family fun comedy is Linnea Quigley. And that other zombie.
>a movie where zombies aren't just dumb flesheaters but instead only eat brains because it temporarily numbs the eternal pain of death and the only way to MAYBE escape that pain is to annihilate your body through cremation
>objectively the least scary zombie movie
It's objectively the only zombie movie where they're a real threat and where even taking down the threat doesn't stop the fear of death.
Anon, it's kino, but it is literally a comedy
Doesn't matter if it's a comedy, the situation is still more scary than any other zombie movie, moron.
I mean, if you trick your brain into not paying attention to all the comedy, yeh I guess it would be spooky. Normal people don't watch movies that way though
>actually arguing in the favour of being a normie that doesn't pay attention to the "deeper" message of a movie
Please leave, moron. Even if you don't think of any puddle deep implications it's still a much scarier situation than most zombie movies because you can't fricking stop the things with an easy headshot, you have to dismember the c**ts and lock the pieces up to get any peace. What kind of a normie autist ignores that shit to go "ha ha dark comedy that means there's nothing scary right guys? It says so on IMDB, comedy!"
> the real message of the movie can only be observed by ignoring a large portion of it, and I'm definitely not moronic because I called you one
> the real message of the movie can only be observed by ignoring a large portion of it
If you can't "observe" a message that's directly stated by a character then you're more braindead than zombies.
>15 days to slow the spread
>2 and a half years later countries are still TERRIFIED, willingly destroying their economies and livelihoods over coof
Now you know
Exactly. Pretty sure governments and libs were along the lines of "killing zombies is racist" or something, so you couldn't legally kill them. And boom, now there's millions of them and gubmint is now like "oops sorry, now I gotta go somewhere safe, you know, because of national security or something... No refunds btw"
morons don’t even believe a virus that causes flu symptoms is real, you think they would believe a zombie virus? They would not believe it’s real until it’s literally biting them in the face
Yeah because it’s definitely that all those people think it doesn’t exist, and not just that they aren’t worried about it and don’t think it’s cause to close the entire world and force mandatory injections.
Yeah man this lab escaped manmade virus is nothing to worry about just have some chicken soup and rest up and if anything goes wrong don't blame me, the government!
getting awfully defensive there chud
Reddit moment
Its self explanatory. Once there's one there's quickly millions. I think a good scenario would be where the military still exists, but just through sheer numbers it's kindve stuck in a stalemate
>millions of slow moving unarmed and unarmored people with no air or fire support
It'd be easy
You mean hundreds of millions, potentially billions. Why bother? Just stay inside your base, eat food and live life.
There's no way zombies could manage to become millions
If they aren't contained early on mankind wouldn't survive.
cringe
Zombies wouldn't survive a single winter. A lack of self-preservation instinct means that they'd swiftly freeze over in open fields, the crystalization and thaw would destroy their tissues on a cellular level and most of the "millions" would be reduced to ground pollution as a primary source of threat.
Black they're already dead, why do you think "Freezing to death" would damage them further?
Because, for instance, shooting off a zombie's legs doesn't kill it but does in fact inhibit its ability to walk
So being frozen and thawing out would utterly frick a zombie's anatomy
"dead" is just a moronic way of saying "no longer sapient"
it's not magic moving the meat, it's a virus, and without intact, living cells to infect a virus has no host. freezing and summer heat aren't just some minor issue you can wave off by saying "already dead, Black," the constant cycle of heating, cooling and exposure to the elements wears skin and bone away as surely as it carves the face of a mountain.
Those untold millions of shambling corpses would be untold millions of gallons of liquifacted human mulch.
>it's not magic moving the meat
Except sometimes it is, or at least the "supernatural" (which may as well be magic as far as logic is concerned).
Like, no shit a head couldn't stay alive for months after decapitation, but in some zombie franchises it will anyway. Because magic.
more like "because suspension of disbelief"
but the reality is, a human turns mostly to goo after being dead a month, zombies have a short shelf life.
Now mummies, that's an idea I could chew on. Magic, undeath, exotic locations, much better than this overdone zombie shit.
>it's not magic moving the meat, it's a virus
calling something that's clearly magic a "virus" does not make it believable. The only believable virus zombie movie is 28 days later and the main character mostly survives because most of the infected are too busy starving to death to chase him.
Viruses are basically magic, they are neither dead or alive like zombies.
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india would like a word with you
You’re a fricking moron
>why bother using our massive supply of weapons, vehicles, and drones to clear up the zombies when we can just stay in our bases forever while countless flesh eating monsters wait right outside
The natural environment would take care of then quickly anywhere except the desert. Flies and rain in summer. Cold in the winter (this is why the wights in got are moronic - they should be frozen solid). They would all be rotten away and eaten by flies in a few weeks.
they have no fear, no real mind or emotions
let's say they appear suddenly and reach 30 million, within a week due to speed of infection and surprising the country and so on, in a country of 300 million.
Zombies kill or convert 60 million before they are eradicated. This takes 6 months.
Everything would be disrupted.
That country would be fricked.
The average gun owner has 3+ guns and >5000 rounds of ammo
The only realistic take on zombies has been night of the living dead where it'd just be rednecks shooting small outbreaks from the back of a truck
What's the average risk of gun jams and ineffective ammo in that pile?
>What's the average risk of gun jams
with how often the kind of people who go "I'm ready for da zombie apocalypse!" buy shit like deagles? Very high.
A jam so bad the gun is useless is fairly unusual.
moron take.
You just need the incubation phase to be something like a week or two to completely wipe out the population.
What are you going to do when you bring back your kid from school and there were multiple kids infected in the school? Are you abandonning him? What about your wife or husband who is a doctor at the hospital? Etc...
I think the important part is that people wouldn't instantly look like they've been rotting for a week, like they often do a second after turning in movies. As long as people think their little boy or husband just caught a weird flu that makes them aggressive you're going to have people not only being unable to kill other people, but willing to hide them from the military. And then the military/government themselves would be hesitant to deploy troops on domestic soil for such a thing. Who the frick would want to be the president who started genociding their own people after a day and then it turns out that everyone gets over the violent stage after three days, or a cure is invented in a week/month? That hesitance would give the plague enough time to spread in the major cities until the point where it's either a choice between firebombing London/Paris/New York or try evacuation and small-scale engagements, where the leaders would once again hesitate because of the collateral damage.
All this goes out the window when movies/shows insist on having zombies look like monsters with demonic eyes one attosecond after they "turn", and then having zombies that are just torsos crawling around from day one so that everyone knows for certain that these things are clearly not just sick living people.
In TWD people turn into zombies when they die, invariably. That's not something you can defeat.
Someone dies
Just shoot them in the head
Problem solved
It can't be defeated, but it can easily be solved.
>segregate populations, especially during night hours (mandatory curfews)
>mandatory vital sign monitors on all citizens, removal or tampering of these results in immediate exile / imprisonment
>should someone die, the room/area they are in is locked down and authorities are dispatched
From there it's just life as usual. Death becomes scarier, but fairly benign.
Look at the current pandemic and then tell me people will follow regulations to prevent disease spread again. In 2 months you get morons claiming its a hoax and all hell breaks loose.
>invisible virus that makes a few old geezers coof and croak
>the dead are walking and start eating people
its exactly the same!
There was a virus which wiped out most people, wasn't there? And then after that all those people turned into zombies.
>10 million zombie movies and TV shows
>not a single one of them elaborates on the israelites who engineered the virus and fled underground after
yeah...so realistic lmao
why don't zombies just die after not eating for a while?
their cells can't just get energy from fricking nowhere
It would have to be cosmic rays, it's also the only way something like a detached hand could remain animated. All necrotic tissues converts cosmic radiation slowly into high density chemical energy.
This was all covered during the first wave of nu-zombie media. The zombies are a metaphor. They won because the ZOG let them in to replace people
>zombies can't die!
>except when they do...
Bravo
World War Z does. At least in the book. Nevermind the clusterfrick of a movie.
Crazy how the author of that book is one of the few people who took viral and epidemiology seriously before coof and even more well known because of it. Even crazier is that it's Mel Brooks' kid.
only settings where its a legit infectious disease the already turns majority of the planet into zombies before anyone knows that the zombie virus is a thing
>not a single one of them shows or even explains how the zombies defeated humanity
>posts a screenshot of a movie where the military kicks their ass
Don't come your post-feminist, film school bollocks with me, Sunflower, if that's your real frigging name! All right? I work for a living, what do you do?
If the dead started coming back to life because of a zombie infection, I think the first reaction would be disbelief. You'd have the liberals in the cities passing it off as superstition, a moral panic about drugs or racism or whatever, and thinking it was some kind of social justice riot. You'd have the conservatives in the suburban and rural areas thinking it was a government hoax, some kind of israeli plot, just a bunch of Black folk rioting, and when it hit closer to home that it was something to do with the Tribulation of Revelations or something like that. With nobody understanding or taking it seriously at first it is not unreasonable to imagine that a virus that spreads geometrically combined with the shock and horror of biting zombies could spread so quickly that society can't deal with it.
>You'd have the liberals in the cities passing it off as superstition
were you asleep for the last three years?
World War Z (the book not the movie) did an okay job of explaining how the military wasn't prepared to deal with that kind of enemy, but it was still pretty stupid that they couldn't figure out that they could just run them over until the end
>World war z militaries fail because they assume using massive ordnance would somehow demoralize the zombies so they dont plan ahead with large stockpiles of ammo and run out and panic.
>entire western military industrial complex picks fight with russia, but runs out of artillery ordnance/ ammo in first month because they assume Russia would run away demoralized
Dunno tbh, WWZ was pretty much right on the money predicting how useless our military is.
>the entire premise of Fear the Walking Dead is to show the initial outbreak of the virus, the confusion, the panic, the chaos, and the downfall of society
>"lmao frick you, actually we're going to do none of that, and instead the characters will hide in a barbershop and everything happens offscreen overnight!"
It was an especially fricking terrible show to add salt to the wound. I expected little but even still I was let down.
those fricking dumb zombie movies don't even bother to explain how they move their muscles without electrical impulses and oxygenation lol truly a reddit movie for midwits hahaha fricking morons who watches this garbage
The only way to contain it would be to firebomb or nuke infected cities, which the government would never do until it’s too late and already spread out. Sure soldiers, aircraft and ground vehicles could kill loads of zombies but logistics will break down sooner rather than later and it’s only a matter of time until they run out of supplies.
The infection would never spread that quick. Once it got out that you get infected by direct blood, people would just stay in doors the government would lock down the country. Also with everyone having a phone on them we would have evidence of this quickly.
Zombies are also easy to kill.
>10 million zombie movies and TV shows
>Not a single one shows people use common sense to realise that if they wear full motorbike gear all the time then they are effectively immune to any threat the Zombies could ever pose
You wouldn't even need that. Tape some sturdy cardboard over your arms and legs and you're good to go.
Getting stomped and suffocated is still a thing. Really, the stranger thing is why do zombies bite rather than just smack you with their arms or run into you forever?
>6'8" 400lb gigahomie zombie grabs you and pulls you down
>even if you killed it, you've got 400lbs in dead weight on you
>and if you didn't kill it, that fricker ain't coming off you, and more are probably coming
And that's just with one zombie. Imagine ten of them climbing on you and pinning your limbs down. That's the problem with "bro just wear armour you'll be invincible" plans, they forget the sheer weight and strength they still possess, it's not just about surviving bites.
>fear the walking dead is supposed to be a prequel showing the outbreak
>has a fricking timeskip too
Man, frick you guys. Outbreak scenes are always the most kino but they hurry past that until zombies are a minor nuisance and can focus on "man is the real monster!" storylines.
Imagine a whole movie that's nothing but the intro to the Dawn of The Dead remake. Non-stop frantic fleeing while wondering what the frick is going on.
Black Summer did that.
i'm three episodes in and after the school episode i think i hate it. Only thing making me consider continuing is that there probably won't be another episode like that and the deaf guy and his annoying acting is dead
>outbreak scene of ambulances crashing as people run around like morons in War of the Worlds
>[ONE HOUR LATER]
>cities burn as the military collapses in to anarchy
Almost like an infection spreading mostly through bite is a dumbass vector for a supervirus to take? At least in I Am Legend they made it airborne, and it was a question of immunity rather than bite avoidance.
That's the real convention that needs to die in this formula: The Bite. It's too much limitation on the formula, and let's be honest, we've all seen every permutation of every story than can possibly be told by bite-based zombies.
We'll have the butthole who hides their bite, we'll have the lovable old person who turns and has to get axed by a loved one, we'll have the guy who tries to kill himself with his last round and finds the gun empty. It's so rote and tired.
Here's my pitch: The zombies can still talk and act like normal people when the uninfected aren't around, and are thus capable of surviving for extended periods of time. However, pheromones and idiosyncratic movements and noises the uninfected naturally produce creative feelings of massive frustration and anxiety in the infected, along with an irresistible instinct to find the source of the anxiety.
Basically you have Body Snatchers or Humanoids or whatever who look and act like people, then when they notice you're not one of them they lynch you in a frothing rage.
I am legend the novel is similar to that, although not to the level of fearing/hating the uninfected solely because the infection makes them.
>Here's my pitch: The zombies can still talk and act like normal people when the uninfected aren't around, and are thus capable of surviving for extended periods of time. However, pheromones and idiosyncratic movements and noises the uninfected naturally produce creative feelings of massive frustration and anxiety in the infected, along with an irresistible instinct to find the source of the anxiety.
That's a vampire
no, a vampire is a foppish twat who drinks blood and writes poetry. I'm talking RRRRRRRRRRROOOOOGER FOIIIIII HELLLIIIIIIIICK levels of frothing rage when they catch a whiff of an uninfected ass.
I don't like them, but that has more to do with shit cinematography and choreography than the idea itself. It's harder to frick up filming someone walking through the woods or searching a abandon grocery store.
>28 days later
>a zombie movie
Ishygddt
>he's a zombie purist
If the zombie apocalypse kicked off right now and 25% of the population instantly turned, what would you do?
Hard Mode: Everyone in your home turned if you live with others
Chill in my zombie-safe apartment until the military has mopped up all the braindead people walking free, then join the task forces going around mopping up the ones stuck in buildings.
I live alone
On a cul-de-sac with woods on three sides
On a lot surrounded by six foot pine fence with a heavy metal gate facing the road
With about two years worth of food in the pantry and a well with a backup manual pump
I've got a wood burning stove and enough solar panels to keep my laptop and chest freezer running
Sadly I've only got 2k rounds of ammo and half of that is .22LR, fricking inflation
>Hard Mode: Everyone in your home turned if you live with others
>grab hatchet i have in my room and bolt out my door and to my left into my scrawny manlet brother's room and butcher him
>at this point the 4ft 10yearold zoomer is sprinting at me from across the hall
>a strong kick sends him flying back into his room (it's happened before)
>either curb stomp him or use hatchet on him too
>only car is gone because mom is at work
>phone best buddy to see if he can get to me
the rest is RNG really 😛
Post bmi
Not fat if that's what you're asking
You're missing the point-- all eagerness for overexplanation in fiction varies from childish to autistic
People would panic, by the time government understood what was going on it would be too late. Society would collapse but ultimately humanity would win because zombies can't reproduce on their own.
It's not about the zombies defeating nations or destroying armies but the cultural, emotional, psychological and just plain old logistical upheaval of death no longer following the same rules. That's why society breaks down in the Romero movies. It's less about the zombies destroying everything than it is humanity simply giving up due to existential dread. pretty much every zombie movie and game that copied Romero missed out on this point.
movie set during zombie outbreak>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting aids>>>>
set during zombie aftermath where humans lost and running into cringe ass characters who won't shut up about "out here you have to survive and no one can be trusted" and it's mostly humans vs humans
Zombie apocalypse would start in some shithole country like India, and before the wet would be bothered to start helping fighting the plague, there would already be a billion shitskin zombies on earth
I'm pretty sure the intro to Dawn of the Dead makes it quite clear that zombies only defeated humanity because of how dissorganized and chaotic everyone got after the problem became too much to handle with grace. Besides, everyone who isn't a moron knows that zombies are only appealing when they're used as a metaphor, hence why Romero's films, Zombieland and the Resident Evil flicks are the only zombie films that actually matter.
What’s your survival plan bros?
For me, it’s hiding in my house until I run out of food and dying
Shitposting about it on here until power goes out then getting my heater to explode when the zombies come for me so my body can't rise again.
>Get motorbike gear for me and wife
>Get foods that don't require heat to cook.
>Go into the woods and find a fresh water stream.
There's a fairly shitty Netflix zombie show called Betaal. The "zombies" look comically bad at times, but I think it had a very cool concept, so much so I'm kind of sad it was in something so mediocre.
Basic concept is that in the 1700s, a legion of British soldiers in Colonial era India are cursed by a demon with immortality. And unfortunately for them, they're immediately sealed into a mountain by angry villagers.
They've been sealed in there for so long that they've just become pale & almost mindless ghouls. But their general is still in command of them.
So you've got legions of zombies being marched by an immortal commander, firing musket volleys and trying to set out to reclaim India from these "barbarian" races like in the good old days. Zombies with actual motives and ranged weapons were both neat.
All I can imagine is the typical bollywood fare of fifty thousand shirtless indian dudes just flexing pectorals at the english zombies until they go back into the mountain.
When the main Indian policeman guy finally kills the zombie General, he unironically says, "HERE'S YOUR HARD BREXIT, MOTHER FRICKER"
You can really feel the intense hatred they have for the English.
It's almost cringekino with how bad the costumes and writing is. But it's just bad unfortunately. The musket volley scenes are fantastic though.
you can feel the intense hatred the English have for the English, why would their former rape victims be any different?
Interestingly, the show ultimately ends with the twist that by destroying the demonic shrine, its evil has been fully released. The final scene is showing frigates filled with English zombies appearing off the coasts of India, and reports from all over the country of attacks
I'm not sure what they meant by that, by having the colonial English destroy them.
I would suggest watching the korean tv show "Kingdom" (hopefully getting a S3 soon), characters are important, no timeskips (but 1 at the end of S2), all the passages of the infection, medieval Korea, so is believable they would pose a threat, lots of power play and politics.
>no zombie movie showing how the zombies slowly run out of food and energy and starve to death since they're constantly burning energy shambling around
Zombies are just a metaphor for Black personcattle.
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Movie adaptation when?