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Dawn Of The Dead. The directoral debut for the now unstoppable Zack Snyder, Dawn Of The Dead has all of his widescreen, blockbuster sensibilities with none of his over-stylised, vapid slowmo. The movie does a fantastic job of messing with genre conventions. Colin seems a lonely soul as he treks through the capital, coming across as an innocent albeit hungry figure.

If anything the survivors are the meanies here, stopping Colin from reaching a destination unknown even to himself. One of the few truly innovative zombie movies of the last few years, Pontypool follows a shock jock in a local radio station whose early morning graveyard shift takes a turn for the literal. The Bangkok Zombie Crisis. Thai humour is very..

Cut from the same cloth. And so we come to the great great granddaddy of the genre. This was arguably the movie that pioneered the blank, soulless menace popularised by pretty much every zombie movie since. And most cinemagoers of the modern age ooooooh. On the long term, yeah.

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Drive one outside the wire a short way, then just stay there shooting anything that attacks you. It would be overkill to use tanks, really. The turrets still need the motors to run in order to turn. A canon or a mortar would be better for that purpose. Bring in the A-Team, and weld expanded steel across the glass of civilian vehicles. You still have problems associated with fueling, but you can always refuse to get out of the car. I think Switzerland, the U. And in the U. A lot of people in norway and sweden have guns i think.

For fun try zooming in and see what happens as the smaller local stores pop into view. I know quite a few Germans who hunt using guns they own personally. Granted this is a rural to the extent that anywhere in Germany is rural by U. Nevertheless gun ownership is nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is in the rural U. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

FactCheck says that quotation is bogus. Unless you live in California, where the gun laws are not even electronic pancake crystal elderly. Shaun of the Dead, despite being a comedy, seems to have thought this through better than most zombie movies. The zombie outbreak is only a real problem for a couple of days before being easily contained and kept under control once the authorities get their act together. They just kill anything, or eat but are unable to get any energy from it. Though I guess that shifts the danger from hoards of zombies to the risk of someone dying unsupervised, which then again turns it from a zombie story to a post-zombie-apocalypse story.

The idea of becoming zombie by dying in any way was a plot point of a non-canon arc from either Marvel or DC. Just enough to kill someone. This just seems absolutely ridiculous to me. If we must accept the premise that zombies have no desire than to feed, then they should just keep on eating once they have something fresh to feed off of. After 59 days since the outbreak all infected in Britain are dying from starvation, unable to move.

All the common tropes are there: I think that a lot of this has already been gone over a million times, especially in how it would spread so fast. In most zombie stories you simply have to die rather than just be bitten and this means that every funeral home, Morgue, hospital, Major crime scene and other places in a single city have all had murderous outbreaks.

Only criminals and police officers are allowed to carry weapons here a few years ago the UK government actually passed a law that banned all curved blades over 50 cm straight ones are okay though And even toy guns are not allowed to look like guns and the main source of news in the UK is funded by the government.

The fact that there is very little border control in Europe and massive immigration problems means it is very easy For infected people to spread around the new plague. This is what I imagine as the best way to handwave the collapse of civilization in settings like the Walking Dead. Essentially every dead body reanimates at the same time, those which have enough mass left move and bite at least one person probably more than one before someone kills it , many of those people go to the hospital while others just go home and run it under a cold tap. By the time any sort of military response gets scrambled which will likely take at least a few days probably half of any given city is infected and hordes are starting to gather from the suburbs.

If the military response is ill thought out likely given the short timeframe and the general confusion many offensives will likely be lost simply due to overwhelming numbers or poorly cleared areas. World War Z had the infection spreading out from China, though, as opposed to the worldwide phenomenon I assume the Walking Dead had. Being infected with a disease is a binary state. That kinda changes zombies from infection vector to enfeebled, ineffectual pack hunters. Pathogens can be tricksy. Bacteria can go dormant by WinRARing themselves into endospores to survive antibiotics and being boiled.

Kuru is a neurological disease that turns people into zombies, and has an incubation period measured in decades. Even if the highways are choked, people can still just walk away from the zombies. They can lock themselves indoors, or in their cars. It tends to make people try to directly flee from threats, not do whatever random thing they need to do to get eaten by a zombie. And the best part about this whole goofy idea is how point 1 and point 3 contradict each other so thoroughly. Except for snipers and the like, infantry is not trained to go for a headshot.

Heads on a moving target are really hard to hit at distance, even with modern weapons. Yes, a machine gun could shred a zombie into immobility, but then you have a hazard of still living zombie heads and torso that have to be cleaned up before the area is safe again. What I think everyone is forgetting is the numbers involved. Thats a massive number of bodies to take out, especially when you have to aim for the head. It would take a massive amount of ammunition, ammunition that may not be readily available in those quantities.

Yes, it will be a turkey shoot. Speaking of numbers, look up the numbers on how much ammunition is used up per actual kill made in modern firefights. A quick google search shows that the military purchases 1. The NYPD has 40, officers. They can take out the thousand or so zombies that will make up the initial outbreak without most of the officers even getting a chance to fire their weapons.

So assuming that 1. An infection event in New York City will be effective enough to produce millions of zombies debatable , and 2. If you avoid narrow spaces, escaping from zombies is basically trivial. Lines of barbed wire could do most of the work. Maybe dig some trenches.

Any mass of zombies can be set on fire, and no matter how magical your zombies are, a fire is pretty much always going to do the trick. Before you know it everyone outside is dead and leaving your new cell is a death sentence. And this is one of the two main reasons why I personally dislike zombie media so very much. Try Terror in the Flesh for size: I still found it tired and uninteresting because it really was basically The Walking Dead TV show minus the zombies.

I quite liked the cutting out the middle man though, but there was no avoiding the same fatigue from all zombie films. This post is greatly appreciated. Also, Enterprise-D does have toilets. Crew cabins also have such a door, visible in some episodes. Yeah, but look at ST: First season, they zipped down the front: You have explained both the limits of zombie apocalypse stories and why they look like they look.

Before mouse-overing it I thought the first picture was actually from some parody and those were a bunch of crazy shoppers wanting in on a big discounts day. It is fun, however. Actually explained in Dungeons and Dragons. Skeletons and indeed pretty much all undead creatures are animated by Negative Energy, which in turn is drawn from the Negative Energy Plane. In a world where actual, literal magic is a fact of everyday life, you can handwave just about anything.

Literally, as hand-waving is often crucial to spellcasting. Which, come to think of it, is probably where that term originated stage magicians? I like how Walking Dead lore handles the infection part. The zombies do not spread it at all. They just bite people who then die from a nasty but unrelated fever. Everyone is infected and and completely asymptomatic… until they die. We all know they go straight for the leather and sports equipment in case of apocalypse.

And then you said that and I was cool. Let them near you and you become one of them. Vampires are the counterparty — the rebels, the underdogs. Especially when zombies are involved, as Cracked has deconstructed zombies in several different ways. The books have a least thought through some of the obvious plot holes of course in some ways, she just moved the line of debate.

This change is usually caused by conventional death, or exposure to the activated virus bites, zombie blood, etc. There is also some fear that spontaneous conversion is possible. Is there a reason in story for the 40 kg limit or is it one of those no undead children despite all logic things? Apparently the virus needs sufficient mass for amplification, means that you also need to worry about large dogs zombifying, along with moose, bears, horses, etc.

Sounds like she took the idea far enough to be interesting at least. I asked because in far to many horror stories, not just of the zombie variety, children tend to have plot-armor and I find that irritating. I know this has been talked about before on this site in one of the Prey articles, but to me it is a sign that a author is not ready to scare me. I know that it is a complete and total taboo to some, but we are talking about horror here. Is not the reason one tells such tales to horrify, frighten and even disgust?

Actually yes, heck, eating real meat is somewhat out of fashion in the post-zombie world, at least for those born after the Rising. Thanks for clarifying, plot-armor on kids is such a immersion breaker for me that it completely ruins otherwise good stories for me. Someone at Bethesda is either unable to write children or hate them, no other explanation. But I think their immortality is a problem anyway. I might not have finished the game, but I still got yanked out of the moment every time a dragon attacked a town and what should have been a really tense moment turned into a farce when the children just jump up from getting burninated.

Now I get why. Avoiding the dreaded AO rating and I can understand that, but there must be a more elegant solution. Oblivion was just fine with no kids. Mark me as another recommendation of the Newsflesh series. Great use of the setting without settling in too much with the zombie tropes. Also, I loved the twists the plot took, it really made the whole thing compelling. Great, original back story for zombies rising…. My favorite points are those about weather. If you can wait out the zombocalypse for the winter, your zombie problem is essentially over. Shamus, have you watched Revolution at all?

Except that electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of physics. So when electricity goes away, at best our nervous systems stop working, and at worst the world disintegrates as every atom flies apart into particles. How does whatever force caused this manage to specifically target anything that produce electricity but nothing else?! In that case it was aliens who existed as a quasi-electromagnetic field which subsisted by eating generated electromagnetic fields. Brown appears to have been nostalgic for streets covered in horse manure.

Every county fair in the country has a collection of steam tractors with PTOs that can be relatively easily adapted to run contemporary harvesting and tilling equipment. Communications based on semaphore towers and telescopes would get SMS-level messages from Chicago to New York in an hour or two. There ought to be regular steamer and slow-boat sailing service across the oceans again, with about six weeks of round-trip time most of the year.

The truth about this show is that someone wanted to write an American Civil War era series but then someone higher up said it should be set in modern times. Then they came up with the electricity bullshit explanation to keep their setting. Thats kind of the world of metro,where modernly manufactured bullets are used as currency because of how scarce they have become,and how better made they are compared to hand filled ones.

You want to win vs zombies? And blackflies in summer eat living humans so dead ones are completely screwed. No, you see, in the canadian winter, the cold would cause the water in unprotected human cells to freeze, breaking the cell membranes.

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Actually, a few million Americans heading north and trying to survive a Canadian winter without knowledge of basic survival skills or enough warm clothes or blankets would be an extreme challenge in itself, likely resulting in massive death tolls. Hypothermia is one thing that would atop a zombie plague. To survive in winter you have to wear a lot of clothing. And to stop those zombified in winter clothes. A water hose would be the ultimate weapon.

It could even drop to zero if the last two manage to do enough damage to one another. Outbreaks would burn themselves out almost instantly: Well, that was easy. This is always the problem with trying to science something that has its roots in mythology and magic. Zombies are voodoo witch doctor territory, and are actually quite different to the modern pop culture zombie.

And why do they have the strength to wield weapons? Scienceing up the zombie plague is more in service to the modern day setting, because if you establish there created through magic you've just opened a big can of worms for your setting. The zombies are ubiquitous outside of well-guarded settlements, but inside the settlement, it seems quite safe. Zombies are environmental hazards, not really the villains.

Why do no one wear helmets, especially among the resistance? That is the biggest remaining question. Yeah, that is kind of weird. You could think that even a simple bicycle helmet might give you some time. Anyway, if there would be headcrab infestication that had killed most of the population here, I would totally head to nearby military area for those composite helmets… and for guns and ammo. Off topic here on: Which leads to another wierd thing in HL2: After all AK variants should be the most common gun type here. Even if they can bite through a helmet OR a skull, can they do both at the same time?

Sure,but keep in mind that these were people trying to fight for their lives,to survive an alien occupation,not just researchers with abundant resources at their disposal. Considering the climax of Episode 2, not to mention Dog and the prototype teleporter, I would argue that they have great access to tools and materials as well.

I assume head crabs are parasitic with living hosts, in that they absorb nutrients from their still-living hosts. So, their hosts will be burning nutrients both with their movement AND with the leeching by the headcrab. Eventually, all the hosts die, and the head crabs lose out on the best food supply and starve. Headcrabs are seen eating a variety of things, though. So there is that. People only engage Zombies in it because they choose to engage Zombies although it looks like there are resources problems in the future.

Headcrabs are a genetically engineered race,like most of the combine,and the actual combine the advisors are practically immune to them. So combine from half life are actually a successful umbrella corporation. Only if you care much. After all,they arent that interested in keeping the population sterility thing ,nor in conserving the occupation forces. They arent even interested in the planet itself,or theyd simply eradicate the humans. So either they wanted some rare mineral,which they obtained,or they were interested merely in erecting the citadels for expanding their portal network.

Either way,they are reckless because they dont care about those they enslave. If you look closely on any level by the sea, you can tell that the sea-level has dropped several meters. That is the only one I remember off the top of my head, but it is hinted that the Combines long term plan involve sucking the planet dry, literally and figuratively. Basically, they had a giant machine designed to breathe up all of our air.

The decline in sea level is because there is literally a giant portal draining the ocean. In Nova Prospekt, when Breen is chastising the Overwatch for failing to capture you, he basically says that his boss is breathing down his neck to prove that transhuman soldiers can be a viable permanent fixture in the Combine army. As far as Breen is concerned, the eventual destruction of Earth is a foregone conclusion, and the only reason humanity is still a thing is because he convinced the Combine that humans were worth reaping like the air and the water. Though, they do seem decent at dealing with zombies and crabs before things go tits up.

You only see Zombines after you get done ruining the whole city, so I could give the soldiers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were dead before getting crabbed. There has been a distinct lack of ordinary magic zombies lately. All in all, they represent a much more plausible scenario…. Also, about the smell thing: That stuff is subconcious anyway and need not neccesarily rely on the host having a good sense of ordinary smell to begin with.

So a magic zombie apocalypse is relatively rare. This pretty much shows the zombie apocalypse setting is pretty indistinct from normal apocalypse settings. That is, the dead raised by magic.

Even permits parts that are severed to keep moving, because of the magic. A lich is binding ghouls!

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The main issue is dealing with the heart flow of blood to muscles and digestive systems conversion of meat to energy. There are plenty of real-world animals that operate quite well on scent. If nothing else, assume that they key in on human scent, and that soaking yourself in zombie remnants covers that scent up. Remember that not all information conveyed in a story is necessarily true — If a survivor douses himself in zombie guts and it saves him, he might describe the zombies as detecting their own stench. But all he really knows is that a specific trick worked.

It provides limited protection to the arms and legs, for example.

It will also be prone to unexpected failure. A car mat is great and durable, but figuring out how to cover your entire body in car mats is non-trivial. Remember that one poor schmuck who always gets pulled apart by the zombie hordes? The Walking Dead actually has one of the better explanations here: The zombie plague is actually two diseases. The first has very few symptoms, and causes the victim to metamorphose into a zombie on death regardless of whether or not the person has been bitten. The second is a super-fever, delivered by zombie bites.

Eventually a mutant strain popped up that killed infected hosts quickly, catalyzing an outbreak. All of the survivors in the comics and TV series are infected. Dead Rising, for example, has the main character link up with a broader post-zombie civiliation after escaping from the overrun mall he spent the first game in. Walking Dead Comic has started the transition, but is managing it by simply starting before existing food sources have run out.

World War Z has militaries and civilization adapting tactics to deal with the zombie menace. Certainly, long-term zombie stories are different from short-term ones. Thanks for addressing this, it was bugging me that no one had yet. I for one have never expected a zombie story to sell me a disease I think could really happen. Much like superhero stories. I think the bare minimum for protection against bites should be maximum covering of skin and wearing resilient if not thick materials. Key point — since the parasite reproduces inside the digestive tract of cats, it infects rats and reverses the aversion to cats into an attraction, to ensure their host gets eaten and the parasite can breed.

Or take rabies, which migrates from the brain to the saliva as the host nears the point of death to maximise the chances of transmission to a new host. In fact the idea of Zombies being infected and controlled by a parasite explains a lot of their behaviour — say it requires living human flesh to reproduce, though it can be transmitted via other creatures. That explains the lack of reaction to fellow infected — not a suitable host. It also explains the mad chase after any living found — suitable reproductive hosts must become rapidly rarer so the evolutionary drives would dictate a quick and persistent response when you find one.

Max Brookes really puts some thought into the issue you mention above:.

In Zombie Survival Guide, the infection Virus I think heads to the brain, kills the host then spreads though the body via a black goo. It was this that World War Z, I think, really did well. The idea in the book is that the virus started in China. China has lots of land boarders allowing spread. But what about U. Well, in World War Z, the inital spread of the virus is though black market organ transplants.

Organs of infected people are bought in China, shipped to South Africa, then transplanted into rich people from across the globe. When the organs have a good blood supply, e. When it is fattier organs, I think the Liver is the example given, then the infection takes much longer and can make it back to the home country. This leads to the first major, publisied outbreak in South Africa but it is diganosed as an extream form of rabies. This is spread by drug companies selling rabies treatments and vacciens that make people think they are safe.

Now, this is adressed in the book. I am not going to go into detail as it is one of the better chapters of the book. In fact, I think I might give it a reread……. Anywho, if you want to read, in my opinion, a well thought out Zombie story starting with the inital outbreak, right though to the aftermath and rebuilding after the outbreak please, please give it a read. In my mind the book was scary due to the fact I honestly belived this was how the world would react to an outbreak.

Final points, the book is set world wide so you get to see how different contries react God save the Queen. It is set after the world rebuilds in a documentry style which works really well. They also tend to have body armor that can be sealed against NBC attacks.

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And have access to things incendiaries and high explosives. What kind of hack writer thinks military grade suits designed to keep out horrifically corrosive gas under combat conditions are going to be penetrated? Especially when being worn under body armor. I saw one yesterday that literally liquified into a paste when the medical examiner tried to section it to take samples.

Is there any way you can explain them so that they relate to hunting or gathering? On one hand, yes, zombies are played out and require excessive hand-waving in order to even exist. However, they can still be fun or interesting in a story. Still, I love the idea of a smaller scale post apocalypse story without the pretense of zombies.

Zombie apocalypses lend themselves to a few things — cheese, horror, social commentary — but not a sense of bleak defeat or nihilism. Certainly not in the way those films have. The Road in particular nails this. There are no animals to hunt. Everyone is starving and no one can be trusted.

Actually, The Road is an interesting comparison point to The Walking Dead, as both involve a father figure in a post apocalyptic universe dealing with raising a child after the end times have come. Speaking of post-apocalyptic universes where Liam Neeson is trying to raise his son to not be a terrible person, there is one in which Liam completely and utterly failed.

Children of Men a chore to watch? That, good sir, is a blasphemy. That, in addition to just generally being a great film. Fido did the post-zombie universe. I thought it was ok. I really want to talk about ep2 but also really want to wait for the relevant SW posts. That episode was both really good and really bad so lots to talk about. In ep2 the plot twist is really easy to see to the point where I considered then discounted it as a possibility.

Cannibalism is too illogical for a group of farmers with crops , a cow and spare muffins. Doubly so when the whole zombie thing started weeks ago. As for me, The Road and Children of Men were a chore to watch because they were very boring. And finally the ending clashes with the entire rest of the movie and makes no sense. This is a bit late to the party and all, but I decided to enlighten you guys about a book I read a while ago which was set in some sort of post-apocalyptic setting.

It is a book called Taronga, and it is set around Sydney Australia, and although there are no zombies in the book, there are a load of bandits and the like. Ben then gets caught by a group of bandits in Sydney who task him with breaking into Taronga Zoo, at night, and gets caught on the inside. He then has to battle with the Tigers to get them back into their cages at morning and try to escape from the group controlling the Zoo.

You know what solves a lot of the problems? If the zombies are magical in nature.

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