Know Your Zombies!
When it comes to zombies most people picture the stereotype of rotten corpses, slow walkers, who constantly slur the words “BRAINS!” and only eat that one thing which they desperately crave. However I am here to tell you those zombies come in the form of a multiple different styles. Throughout the history of this disturbing creature, film makers, video game developers and what have you, have given us multiple versions of the zombie. You may not notice however as same styles are used reputedly by film makers, but there are multiple different versions created by those film makers who maybe wanted to give them a fresh new look or for the basic principle it makes them more terrifying. Either way there many different styles and I’m here to run you through the different ones in this segment called Know Your Zombies! So let’s dive straight into the first case…
The Zombies from Return of the Living Dead
If there is one zombie that quite possibly reigns supreme, it will most likely be the ones in this movie or the ones from Peter Jacksons Brain Dead, but will get to those ones later. Return of the Living Dead is a film directed by Dan O’Bannon with the story written by Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo and Russell Streiner, Russo also worked on The Night of the Living Dead with George Romero, a film considered to be the first proper zombie movie. The plot follows workers at the Uneeda medical supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, Frank one of the workers their tries to impress a new employee by showing him a military experiment that went wrong that was accidentally send to the warehouse several years ago, Frank the accidentally releases toxic gas from the tank a swell the corpse, which sets of a chain reaction of events that leads to all the corpses in a nearby cemetery come to life, leading to a few survivors to take refuge in a crematorium, with the graveyard just out it’s front door. The zombie’s they face appear very typical at first, just wanting to eat brains and of course repeating that chant, but as the film goes on you see how smart they really are! For start they can actually talk and muster up sentences, fro example after the zombies have mutilated a team of paramedics one zombie gets on to the radio and asks for more to arrive. These zombies are also incredibly quick and agile with some moving like normal people, just watch the scene in the film when the other team of paramedics show up and they get swarmed by zombies, running and jumping all over them, it’s crazy. But the thing that makes them so threatening is that they are unstoppable and CANNOT be killed! So what you have here is an army of unstoppable creatures, who want what’s in your head and will stop at nothing to gain it! Add to that that they are virtually indestructible and quick buggers, then you have the recipe for one of the ultimate form of zombie ever created. I won’t tell you how the movie ends but I highly recommend you check it out, even if it’s just to see how it does end, because it is pretty ridiculous and over the top but still great fun J Hope you enjoyed this and stay tuned for more.
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