For the secondary, teritary and so on zombies. But how many even TRY and explain the primary vector for zombism? I mean sure Romero has the When Hell is Full line, but beyond that?
If you listen to the radio during NotLD (although it's more noticeable in the novelization), it's noted that the dead rising started when an irradiated satellite came back to earth. (King picks this up in his short story "Home Delivery" and runs with it, a pleasant little chunk of short fiction that, like the Romero movies, also has the dead rising regardless of their bitten or unbitten status.)
The entire Living Dead series appears to revolve around the drug Trioxin as both a cause and brutally effective vector (cremating a zombie? Don't breathe the smoke).
I believe at least one of the Zombi movies involved a nerve agent dumped in a water supply; Shock Waves (Nazi zombies!) involved the longterm effects of a super-soldier serum. And After Death involved a voodoo curse as the result of killing a priest; I'm sure there're more that actually give a supernatural cause.
Oh yeah, and also of possible interest, yendi is doing a horror movie a day review on his journal. Yesterdays was Return of the Living Dead. Which is why I should have remembered that trioxin bit, since he mentions it...
Killer space worms were what was *defending* Wormwood, and they ate the astronauts sent up to take a look, this is true. But Wormwood is actually putting something unspecified and presumably invisible/intangible (given that no-one noticed it, I think radiation) down through the hole in the ozone layer--IIRC, the line from the story is "it was sending something down from there, and it was not flowers by wire".
(Unrelated except for author: Dammit, I can't find my copy of Firestarter...)
Thanks for the heads-up on the movie review; I will go take a look.
The Romero Dead zombie movies have a lot of biting because zombies try to eat you and zombie bites have you sicken and die really quickly and either you or people around you know what is going to happen, which is dramatically convenient as hell. But they don't require biting, dammit.
Can't remember if the 1990 version of NotLD required it or not. The Dawn of the Dead remake did require biting, this is true.
The Living Dead movies definitely did not require biting.
(I'm pretty sure Cemetary Man didn't involve biting. Neither, god help me as I write this, did Plan 9 from Outer Space. Resident Evil movie zombies (I cannot believe I'm typing this) didn't start with biting, and didn't require biting, though IIRC if you were bitten in the first one, you'd change without an antidote. I can't remember if anyone did that. I also can't remember the second one, which is probably a mercy. However, I am unsure if these constitute zombie movies; they all feel a little off to me.)
With Shaun of the Dead, it wasn't clear; the two people who did come back had been bitten, but they wouldn't've died in the first place if they hadn't been bitten, so... *shrug*
I can't get reliable information on the Italian Zombi movies, but Zombi 2 seems to've required biting, and Zombi 3 I can't tell from the descriptions.
28 Days Later didn't *technically* require biting, though for all practical intents and purposes I will give you that one, though I really would prefer to not count it as a zombie movie. (Bloody annoying art-school remake of the trilogy... Pah.)
(There are at least another 90 zombie movies I haven't seen. I am hesitant to watch all of them, and refuse to use Wikipedia summaries as a reliable source.)
I agree most modern zombie movies *use* biting; it's a great device. But I submit that the ones most people are guaranteed to know about and pay attention to don't *require* biting, and understand completely if you want to avoid the living room while I check out the others.
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Date: 2007-01-09 11:18 pm (UTC)*bangs head through keyboard*
Unburied dead. The unburied dead. That's all it takes, dammit! Watch the classics!
*ahem*
Yes. Well. Sorry.
Sore point.
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Date: 2007-01-09 11:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-10 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-10 04:35 am (UTC)If you listen to the radio during NotLD (although it's more noticeable in the novelization), it's noted that the dead rising started when an irradiated satellite came back to earth. (King picks this up in his short story "Home Delivery" and runs with it, a pleasant little chunk of short fiction that, like the Romero movies, also has the dead rising regardless of their bitten or unbitten status.)
The entire Living Dead series appears to revolve around the drug Trioxin as both a cause and brutally effective vector (cremating a zombie? Don't breathe the smoke).
I believe at least one of the Zombi movies involved a nerve agent dumped in a water supply; Shock Waves (Nazi zombies!) involved the longterm effects of a super-soldier serum. And After Death involved a voodoo curse as the result of killing a priest; I'm sure there're more that actually give a supernatural cause.
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Date: 2007-01-10 08:40 am (UTC)In all other regards I bow before your superior Zombie Fu...
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Date: 2007-01-10 08:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-12 02:45 pm (UTC)(Unrelated except for author: Dammit, I can't find my copy of Firestarter...)
Thanks for the heads-up on the movie review; I will go take a look.
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Date: 2007-01-10 04:23 am (UTC)Can't remember if the 1990 version of NotLD required it or not. The Dawn of the Dead remake did require biting, this is true.
The Living Dead movies definitely did not require biting.
(I'm pretty sure Cemetary Man didn't involve biting. Neither, god help me as I write this, did Plan 9 from Outer Space. Resident Evil movie zombies (I cannot believe I'm typing this) didn't start with biting, and didn't require biting, though IIRC if you were bitten in the first one, you'd change without an antidote. I can't remember if anyone did that. I also can't remember the second one, which is probably a mercy. However, I am unsure if these constitute zombie movies; they all feel a little off to me.)
With Shaun of the Dead, it wasn't clear; the two people who did come back had been bitten, but they wouldn't've died in the first place if they hadn't been bitten, so... *shrug*
I can't get reliable information on the Italian Zombi movies, but Zombi 2 seems to've required biting, and Zombi 3 I can't tell from the descriptions.
28 Days Later didn't *technically* require biting, though for all practical intents and purposes I will give you that one, though I really would prefer to not count it as a zombie movie. (Bloody annoying art-school remake of the trilogy... Pah.)
(There are at least another 90 zombie movies I haven't seen. I am hesitant to watch all of them, and refuse to use Wikipedia summaries as a reliable source.)
I agree most modern zombie movies *use* biting; it's a great device. But I submit that the ones most people are guaranteed to know about and pay attention to don't *require* biting, and understand completely if you want to avoid the living room while I check out the others.