As people who have seen many zombie movies we have the benefit of knowing that the dead rot very very slowly in these type of movies, but we really have to look at how the characters in the movie would/should think.
The people in the movie really have no frame of reference, so logically they should.
First,
1. Accept that the dead have come back to life and are feeding on the living.
2. The only way to put them down permanently is to destroy the brain.
3. The dead are attracted to sound and smell.
4. There is no scaring them off/negotiating with them.
Once you come to accept those 4 things (Which the characters in the movie seem to figure out eventually), then simple logic should kick in, get to an area that they can't, an upstairs that has only one way to get to would be logical, destroying the only access to the up stairs would also be logical.
We know that zombies last a very very long time (but there is no reason for the characters in the movie to believe this) a basic understanding of human anatomy tells us that once the heart stops pumping blood, no oxygen is getting to the muscles or tissue and so it begins to die and decompose, since meat decomposes rather quickly by all logic 2-3 days (especially during the summer months) the dead should rot to the point to where they wouldn't be able to stand/chase
(again we know in zombie movies it doesn't work that way but the characters in the movie don't) so simple logic should have told them to get upstairs and barricade yourself upstairs and remove the stairwell.
We can't use our accumulated knowledge of having watched many zombie movies to judge how movie characters should act, we have to base the characters actions on what info they have at hand and how they should act using that knowledge.
We know that going upstairs wouldn't work in the long run unless help arrives to kill the hoard of zombies, but since they don't know that the dead will not rot after a few days, the smart thing for them to have done was to go upstairs and remove the stairwell.
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