asterr259 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 About a week ago (HA! but no seriously...), my cousin and I were watching scary movies online as opposed to the questionable things they were showing on Syfy. We ended up watching the Babadook, which is a great movie by the way, but my original suggestion was a Zombie movie. However she said she never liked zombies because they're boring. As a RE fan, I almost kicked her out of my house, but then I thought about it. Fear is subjective of course, but are Zombies really scary? (They are when their mouths open 4 ways, dig underground tunnels, and hold you down to slide unidentified creatures down your throat, but lets keep it basic...). There's movies like Resident Evil and shows like Walking Dead, but are those REALLY scary? I can watch them just fine, and I'm afraid of everything. After most scary movies, I turn on lights where ever I go (Probably should have kept that to myself...). I think people watch Walking Dead more for the drama and the survival aspect more than the zombies. But then again can't that be said for the Zombie genre in general? Even so, I think what scares people the most from the genre is the idea of how close or far we are from zombies being an actual thing; an outbreak or apocalypse . But I'm going all over the place, so I'll ask focused questions. Do you think Zombies are scary? If not, how can they be? Is modern media making a mockery out of what was a horrifying, disturbing idea, or still is and keeping it alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddamnit names are a pain Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 The concept of a zombie is so universally stupid that I find the concept utterly hilarious more than scary. Being killed yet "coming back to life" and always being portrayed as these decomposing corpses…THAT CAN STILL WALK AND THINK AND MOVE And then the ones that eat brains…how the f*** can zombies move when their brain has been eaten. Decaying muscles, lack of part/all of a brain used to tell the body to move, etc. I hate the concept of zombies. I like the scientific approach to zombies, somewhat; parasites/spores/etc taking over a body in a "zombie" like manner and spreading it. It's rather realistic, even. Learned about something in Biology recently, as well. Check it out, it felt similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el38z2pg7R8 but lol i was a zombie once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterr259 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Well zombies have come about in a multitude of ways; ghosts taking back over their bodies, unidentified disease, or just straight up magic-born Necromancy. But I hear you; depends on the movie or show. Some lean on what I like to call the "Limitless" theory (named after the movie) where until the event of decay, our brain's limiter is removed and zombies gain all kinds of strength and such in death. Sometimes they go into 0 zero detail, don't explain anything and go straight for " Well Mystery Disease X happened-" and cue movie... Ah I remember that, we were shown that in our class as well. Ophio-Unilatus-something-or-another... ophiocordyceps unilateralis The "zombies" from The Last of Us are based on the concept of this as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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