Didn't they have a bat in the car? Spoilers

Yeah they had the bow and arrows still. It's in the frame for most of the car stuff. I kept thinking "why don't they at least try to jab them all to death with the arrows through the window slits". The bat idea is even better though.

My one nitpick with the film.

Hard to watch your back. Standing up through the rain roof they gotta worry about zombies coming from at least 270 degrees, probably an occasional one comes up the hard way so you can't just forget about the other 90 degrees either.

I like the arrow idea, but we never saw if how easy it was to kill them with arrows. Maybe the zombie skulls are too thick/rubbery to impale on an arrow by hand.

yeah, there are some holes in the plot. As for myself, I would have torn that ignition lock apart before going outside.

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You guys are fun. Nearly all of these things are addressed in the actual sequence and some were cut out. The gun scene out the rain roof pretty much rules out the chance of using the bat. They argue over trying to Hotwire the car and say they've tried to do it a dozen times. In the context of the script, they mean they've tried in the past (when they came across abandoned vehicles). The sequence spans a few days time, so we'd imagine they try a lot of things to be honest. The original script absolutely had them stabbing zombies with arrows through fencing that covered the windows. The fencing was scrapped when we saw Stake Land right before shooting and it had exactly that, then the arrows were scrapped from anything because they were impossible to stab with without opening the windows further... Not to mention he didn't exactly have nice, strong arrows. It was like a kid's set he would've found in some house. We probably could have made a whole movie in that car to be honest. Scenes where they beg The Orchard on the radio were cut, etc. The best was a scene in the script where Ben pisses out the fencing in the windows, all over the zombies' faces without them even flinching. Sadly that went with the fencing. Honestly though I'm glad the fencing went, adding armor to a car is done a lot in zombie movies. Plus our zombies were supposed to be so weak and dumb that it barely mattered. Basically their bite is what made them dangerous and nothing more

Also, fun fact (not for us)... That Volvo's engine blew the exact moment we parked it on the street to film that sequence. We freaked the hell out before realizing that all scenes that were left to film with it were in that spot. But we did have to beg a guy to let us push it into his yard overnight. The director planned on keeping it after the shoot as his car broke down, but to this day, 2 years later he still does not have a car and has to take the bus to work. We paid $600 for the Volvo and sold it for $400 for scrap, which then went into the budget again to finish shooting.

Exactly my thoughts.

I kept thinking about all that stuff and it made sense to me in the context of this film. At this point we are so used to see zombie movies where every averahe guy turns into a combat machine with bats, axes, machine guns and what not that now we assume any character in a zombie movie "knows" what to do in these situations. Even if they went out and tried all the stuff above mentioned, they could had easily die trying. It's obvious they don't want to take said risks, i was even thinking they could have created a molotov cocktail with the bottle they had, but again, easier said than done with your adrenaline pumping so hard.