A lot of people say that you only turn slowly if you're bitten on the hand, but, the girl which started the whole thing was bitten on the leg and she turned slowly.
The rules of the movie weren't consistent.
The hand seemed to be the location where people turned the slowest. The neck seemed to be the fastest. The girl bitten on the leg at the beginning may have literally been bitten seconds before entering the train. Also she tied up her leg tight, so it may have slowed down the process; whereas the young girl toward the end was also bit on the lower leg and turned slightly faster but not instantly. Maybe like WWZ if the infected area is amputated right away you won't turn.
shareThe girl bitten on the leg at the beginning may have literally been bitten seconds before entering the train.
Also she tied up her leg tight, so it may have slowed down the process; whereas the young girl toward the end was also bit on the lower leg and turned slightly faster but not instantly.
I don't understand why anything about the infection has to do with your enjoyment of the movie and if it makes it a bad movie or not. You can just say it effects different people in different ways cause of their dna or body type.
The reason it's not explained is because it doesn't matter. If you want the infection to happen exactly the same way with everyone, then everyone would have to be exactly the same in build and body types. But characters arent consistent in how they look(chubby dad, little girl, old lady, teenager), so the virus doesnt effect everyone the same way other than you wont be human in the next 5 minutes or so.
Stuff like that happened because of the plot convenience.
Yes, it does affect your enjoyment of the movie because it shows how well thought out the idea is. Does the writer think the audience is stupid or not.
Would you be OK with the idea of zombies suddenly starting to fly for no reason?
some ppl could be genetically more susceptible, along with numerous other factors. i mean we have plenty of different diseases in real life that have various incubation times depending on who is infected and also present with varying degrees of severity.
i think it's your premise, that a disease will always affect people exactly the same way every time, that is stupid.
i think it's your premise, that a disease will always affect people exactly the same way every time, that is stupid.
If that's what happened then there should've been more zombies present, people would say something, people on the train would notice it too.
From what I remember, zombies started attacking other people on the station only when the train started going.
I wonder why he didn't try amputating his hand and seeing if he could survive.
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Depends how quickly you die, if the infection alone kills you it will take longer than if you died from blood loss or the trauma. As soon as they die they turn
shareThen why was it so inconsistent?
shareIt's not inconsistent- some people may be more resistant to it, some less. I suppose being young and strong, it would take longer. But even if you are young but not in good health, the infection would spread faster as your body can't fight it. This is why the husband of the pregnant lady survived this long before turning while being able to hold off all the zombies despite being bitten- he had a strong body. A fragile twin in his place would probably turn faster.
This is not World War Z when it takes exactly 10 seconds to turn, that was bs... 7
In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.
It is inconsistent however iirc in a great majority of zombie flicks it's always that way. Simply because 2 reasons: 1) it's not a real virus so no one is trying to science it up to 99.9999999% accuracy and make it genuine as possible to a made up virus (maybe the 1st girl that got bit on the leg got a small graze while the last girl got all 26 teeth set in deep. And that's how this crazy thing works faster. Point is the mythos isn't real and it's not like there's set rules to it) and 2) movies are usually made with suspension of disbelief/leniencies/exaggerations/shortcuts/liberties here and there to make the movie more exciting and/or to simply make the script work the way they want it to. For the most part it's not super noticeable or bothersome to the general populace but i can understand how it can be distracting and annoying to some critical viewers especially for the more "grounded" movies. But this is a fantasy zombie horror flick so let's not nitpick and just enjoy the movie.
sharethe high school girl was just a side character so of course she turned quickly, compared to the main characters who are obviously going to have more screen time
shareCould just depend on the person themselves, perhaps some of the people in the film are just more resilient at keeping the virus at bay before the eventual change.
shareSpeaking as a virologist, though, it's actually not that strange at all. Viruses have different incubation times - obviously, none are as fast as a zombie-virus seems to be (what was it according to Max Brooks? Solanum or something?), but they differ in incubation time based on immune factors, environment, inoculating dose, etc. Ebola can go from roughly a day to 21 days - so I wouldn't be too bothered with the 10 seconds-10 minutes range seen here...
shareYou have no major arteries in your hand, but you do in your neck. So I assume you turn about as fast as it takes to infect your whole bloodstream.
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