This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Red Shoe: Is Return of the Living Dead unauthorized? Romero and Russo shared credit for Night, and, legalities aside (Being public domain, these oughtn't to be an issue anyway), they would both seem to have roughly equal claims to the franchise. It's a bit unusual that a franchise would fork like that, but as I recall, Romero and Russo reached an amicable settlement on the matter, with Russo getting the rights to continue the Living Dead franchise while Romero got the rights to continue the of the Dead franchise.
Now, on the other hand, there's a huge pile of actually unauthorized sequels. As I recall, the Italian film industry took two unrelated zombie movies and lumped them together with Night to form a trilogy.
Looney Toons: Okay, people, please don't correct the "Zombie Jamboree" lyrics? I know the original Kingston Trio version is "I don't give a damn 'cause I done that already", but Rockapella sings it differently. And I think the Rockapella version suits this page better.
Are the Heaven's Smiles from killer7 close enough to zombies, or would they be better mentioned in another article?
Op Megs: Hmm, does World War Z count as a subversion of the fact that zombies as rendered by The Virus shouldn't be an apocalyptic threat? The book actually had a chapter detailing exactly why modern military tactics not only didn't work, but in fact made the situation of fighting zombies worse due to psychological and morale factors.
Kizor: Yes, it does - though the previous book covers that already. The chapter detailing the tactics that did gave me the warm fuzzy feeling of someone carefully and rigorously thinking through a ridiculous matter.
KrytenKoro: The page claims that in Resident Evil, the dead are not actually reanimated - they are, at least for most of the Human zombies - the reanimation factor really isn't covered for the other mutants, though.
Indigo: I corrected the Resident Evil stuff — because they are reanimated dead. Also, WWZ is still an apocalyptic threat. The book mentions multiple times how close the human race came to extinction. Plus, if the vigilance is ever diminished even slightly, the whole thing could start again.
Radioactive Zombie - Actually, the Umbrella book says the virus simply melts away parts of the brain in a living victim, but this may be Canon Discontinuity. I haven't read the game files regarding the study of the T-Virus.
Man Without A Body: I think we need a new picture. This isn't predominantly an anime trope, and an anime picture isn't very representative of this trope in general.
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Citizen: *cough* Wrong medium, but point taken.
sawblade: Should we add in a subsection about fantasy zombies?
- Pawn Of The Committee: Only if pertaining to a Fantasy Zombie Apocalypse, it’s about scale.
visitor: I'd like to thank this page for saving me seven quid, by spoiling the end of Quarantine before it's even out here.
- ...That wasn't the end. It was going by trailers, and it's told completely from the camera viewpoint.
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Indigo: Removed the American Werewolf bit because it's a ghost the buddy comes back as, not a zombie.
Tannhaeuser: I'll watch the movie again and double-check, but I don't think either "ghost" or "zombie" is ever specified — it's either just "Jack", or "the Undead" where the others show up. On the zombie side, they do seem to consist of decaying corpses, but on the ghost side, it is notable that they don't make any actual physical contact (though Jack does pick up a toy Mickey Mouse), and no one but David can see them.
OleZkool: I'm probably spitting into the wind here, but does anybody else feel that so-called "Fast Zombies" a la 28 Days aren't actually zombies but better described as Berserkers?
Majin Gojira: Doesn't this and other Zombie articles cover that distinction? to laymen, they're Zombies. To people who care to much (IE: Fans), they make differenciations, but cannot really be unified in their definition of terms. Heck, not all fast Zombies share similar traits other than speed. Some are virus-ridden humans, others are true undead (with viral aspects), etc. It's futile to insist that they're somehow "Not Zombies" when common usage classifies them as such. However, a distinction should be noted between the varieties whenever one can fit it in.
dethtoll: Has anyone ever noticed that zombie media (particularly games) likes to use piano in the background music? A good early example would be the original Dawn of the Dead, but it crops up in later titles like Resident Evil (2nd game especially) and Left 4 Dead uses it in multiple places, including the title track and some of the campaigns.
"The other strain of zombie horror advocates hardcore individualism and libertarianism, again with the zombies as the "unthinking masses", but with an added emphasis on the heroic "well-prepared" survivalist, with Karmic Death to anyone who dares show compassion for others or cares about anything other than their own personal survival. " - I belive that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
objectivism] is much better term as neither libertarianism nor individualism implies the lack of compassion - in fact many libertarians underlines that private charity is much more natural/just and effective then state Uzytkownik
Any chance of cutting this down a bit? I know we're mostly nerds here who love a zombie apocalypse as much as the next person, but isn't the introduction a bit long? Especially compared to other articles?
