george romero "DIARY OF THE DEAD"

Pauk

PearlJamaholic wrote:

ill try to find the quote or article or whatever it was but he said something like that they didnt understand zombies at all. that the horror was that one zombie is nothing its slow, its stupid and just nothing to really worry about. but a swarm of zombies something. they took what made zombies scary, the numbers and made it meaningless.

and what ive liked about romero's version is the zombies arent really the villians in a sense. they just want to eat and just be. and the humans at first are happy to be and just live but eventually the get all greedy and start to make games out of killing zombies. the zombies kill to survive, like animals. the humans killed cause it was fun.

in the re-make you didnt really have this. the zombies were evil and scary and the humans were the good guys, except for the standard bad-guy, zombie fodder.

The zombies may have been seen as fairly 'neutral' characters in Dawn and Day, but they were definitely the bad guys in Night of the Living Dead.

I don't see the problem with changing the zombies, gives it a little twist. They're different kinds of zombies, not some insult of the zombie name. Romero doesn't hold the monopoly on what makes a zombie! Romero made a good zombie flick with Night of the Dead, but Dawn, Day and Land tried way too hard to have some subversive deeper meaning.

Personally I think that people who have just died should be able to run because rigamortis hasn't set in. The ones who have been dead a while with rigamortis or have decaying muscles and whatnot should be slow! Why hasn't a film ever thought of having 2 speed zombies like that?!

NY PJ1

fowls wrote:

The zombies may have been seen as fairly 'neutral' characters in Dawn and Day, but they were definitely the bad guys in Night of the Living Dead.

I don't see the problem with changing the zombies, gives it a little twist. They're different kinds of zombies, not some insult of the zombie name. Romero doesn't hold the monopoly on what makes a zombie! Romero made a good zombie flick with Night of the Dead, but Dawn, Day and Land tried way too hard to have some subversive deeper meaning.

Personally I think that people who have just died should be able to run because rigamortis hasn't set in. The ones who have been dead a while with rigamortis or have decaying muscles and whatnot should be slow! Why hasn't a film ever thought of having 2 speed zombies like that?!

ORIGINAL dawn of the dead is a classic if u like this genre
this and ORIGINAL night of the living dead are the 2 best ever

the mall idea? brillant
not to mention romero's subtle humor


p.s. i like them slow because i always felt i had a chance lol

the marathon suckas.... not a prayer too many to quick

Cree Nations

I am a closet zombie fan and big fan of george...however...tis a bit of a conundrum because zombies terrify me to the dirt of my soul.

Vedderlution_Baby

Cree Nations wrote:

I am a closet zombie fan and big fan of george...however...tis a bit of a conundrum because zombies terrify me to the dirt of my soul.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html

Cree Nations

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html

"Here's five ways it could happen, according to science.".
I stopped there cause I knew I would think about it.
One of the creepiest song openings was for the recent Day of the Dead when that Johnny Cash song was playing.
Please stop now.

Vedderlution_Baby

Cree Nations wrote:

"Here's five ways it could happen, according to science.".
I stopped there cause I knew I would think about it.
One of the creepiest song openings was for the recent Day of the Dead when that Johnny Cash song was playing.
Please stop now.

Can I atleast tell you about one? Just one

Cree Nations

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

Can I atleast tell you about one? Just one

...just one please.

Vedderlution_Baby

Cree Nations wrote:

...just one please.

Brain Parasites

As seen in ...
Resident Evil IV

What are they?
Parasites that turn victims into mindless, zombie-like slaves are fairly common in nature. There's one called toxoplasmosa gondii that seems to devote its entire existence to being terrifying.

This bug infects rats, but can only breed inside the intestines of a cat. The parasite knows it needs to get the rat inside the cat (yes, we realize this sounds like the beginning of the most fucked-up Dr. Seuss poem ever) so the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out. The rat is being programmed to get itself eaten, and it doesn't even know.

Of course, those are just rats, right?

How it can result in zombies:
Hey, did we mention that half the human population on Earth is infected with toxoplasmosa, and don't know it? Hey, maybe you're one of them. Flip a coin.

Oh, also, they've done studies and shown that the infected see a change in their personality and have a higher chance of going batshit insane.

Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
Humans and rats aren't all that different; thats why they use them to test our drugs. All it takes is a more evolved version of toxoplasmosa, one that could to do us what it does to the rats. So, imagine if half the world suddenly had no instinct for self-preservation or rational thought. Even less than they do now, we mean.

If you're comforting yourself with the thought that it may take forever for such a parasite to evolve, you're forgetting about all the biological weapons programs around the world, intentionally weaponizing such bugs. You've got to wonder if the lab workers don't carry out their work under the unwitting command of the toxoplasmosa gondii already in their brains. If you don't want to sleep at night, that is.

You may be protesting that technically these people have never been dead and thus don't fit the dictionary definition of "zombies," but we can assure you that the distinction won't matter a whole lot once these groaning hordes are clawing their way through your windows.



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And that's the first one

Cree Nations

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

Brain Parasites

As seen in ...
Resident Evil IV

What are they?
Parasites that turn victims into mindless, zombie-like slaves are fairly common in nature. There's one called toxoplasmosa gondii that seems to devote its entire existence to being terrifying.

This bug infects rats, but can only breed inside the intestines of a cat. The parasite knows it needs to get the rat inside the cat (yes, we realize this sounds like the beginning of the most fucked-up Dr. Seuss poem ever) so the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out. The rat is being programmed to get itself eaten, and it doesn't even know.

Of course, those are just rats, right?

How it can result in zombies:
Hey, did we mention that half the human population on Earth is infected with toxoplasmosa, and don't know it? Hey, maybe you're one of them. Flip a coin.

Oh, also, they've done studies and shown that the infected see a change in their personality and have a higher chance of going batshit insane.

Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
Humans and rats aren't all that different; thats why they use them to test our drugs. All it takes is a more evolved version of toxoplasmosa, one that could to do us what it does to the rats. So, imagine if half the world suddenly had no instinct for self-preservation or rational thought. Even less than they do now, we mean.

If you're comforting yourself with the thought that it may take forever for such a parasite to evolve, you're forgetting about all the biological weapons programs around the world, intentionally weaponizing such bugs. You've got to wonder if the lab workers don't carry out their work under the unwitting command of the toxoplasmosa gondii already in their brains. If you don't want to sleep at night, that is.

You may be protesting that technically these people have never been dead and thus don't fit the dictionary definition of "zombies," but we can assure you that the distinction won't matter a whole lot once these groaning hordes are clawing their way through your windows.



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And that's the first one

....bastard.

PearlJamaholic

does any one know if this will open in more theaters? its not being played near here at all.