Nope...


Not zombies. Comparing any modern zombie to the ancient Haitian voodoo just doesn't make sense. Zombie has been completely redefined ever since Romero brought us Night of the Living Dead. Redefined as reanimated corpses whose sole motive is to hunt you down and eat you. Any modern zombie movie ever made has had this as the basis of the antagonists. There might be a couple obscure flicks out there that deviate from this path a bit, but otherwise it holds true.

To argue that these are zombies simply because the old voodoo shaman weren't corpses either is weak and lazy, and totally in line with most internet goons of today who like to argue for the sheer sake of it. They are people. They are very much alive. They have contracted a serious virus not unlike what we encounter today with things like HIV, Polio or Smallpox. These infected do not hunt you to eat you. They want to beat you to death as is shown throughout the film. They do bite sometimes early on, but its not because they want to devour your flesh, its a means to inflict pain, kill and spread. They would not starve to death if they were what we acknowledge today as zombies.

Call them what the movie intended, and does call them throughout... The infected.

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Ok... how can you say this "Zombie has been completely redefined" and then state what a zombie is or isn't. This is a zombie movie, the new era. Arguing it at this point is just silly since this "style" zombie has been made several times since this.



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To argue that these are zombies simply because the old voodoo shaman weren't corpses either is weak and lazy, and totally in line with most internet goons of today who like to argue for the sheer sake of it.

Well, this sentence is entertainingly unself-aware. I honestly never knew people had such strong feelings about what constitutes a fictional monster before.

I'm no zombie historian, but I would assume that since zombies aren't real, and are science fiction at best, that people would be free to interpret them how they'd like. Whether that leads them to being more on the science end of the spectrum or the fiction end, I really don't see why that would change the fact that it's obviously meant to be born from zombie origin. The Infected in 28 Days Later popularized zombies that were more rooted in science than fiction is all. Obviously something that's dead can never be reanimated to the extent shown in traditional zombie pop culture. In order to reinvent a more believable zombie, you would need to keep it living. I don't see anything wrong with the living zombie sub-genre gaining popularity in things like the 28DL movies and the Last of Us, (which pulls its living zombies directly from science with Ophiocordyceps infected ants commonly described as having zombie-like behavior). I don't understand the need to cram zombies into such a narrow box. Zombie can easily describe a broad range of valid characteristics.





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Very well said PaintingTheRoses!

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