this, they all depend on the cast being bumbling morons or the story won't last longer than a week
let's take the walking dead, someone actually does make a set of arm length bite proof gloves, other characters remark on their effectiveness then they are swiftly never used again
they find a couple of ways to avoid zombies, like the covering yourself in guts method, which they use rarely and forget about all the time when it should be a useful trick in a lot of situations, now i can understand this being a last resort due to the risk of infection
however then there is michones camouflage, it seems to be so effective that with just 2 docile walkers she can freely walk through giant herds unnoticed, yet this is never adopted by anyone else
zombie threats are always ridiculously non uniform, in one scene we have 2 people slaughter 100 zombies with just melee weapons, in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
Pretty much every slasher or monster movie that doesn't go full supernatural relies on the humans being morons.
Take Aliens, an otherwise great movie. So the humans know that xenomorphs are present (signs of battle, face huggers in jars), they know the basic biology of the xenomorphs from Ripley and they know that there are a big cluster of un-moving civilian beacons deep underground. So rather than realising the colonists are probably dead and sending some sort of camera drone down there to check before gassing the whole nest they send their entire team of soldiers in to the nest where they are promptly surrounded and almost wiped out in close quarters. They also fail to do basic security on their shuttle, resulting in it getting destroyed when a single xenomorph sneaks onboard and kills the crew.
But then, Gorman declares that an area is "secure" when he has a whole ten soldiers and an enemy that can sneak through air ducts. Cameron is great about character stuff but a lot of the action is dependent on the characters being utterly moronic. This isn't only Gorman, the others forget about the ducts too later.
It is explained why Gorman called the place secure when he did.
On the drop he was asked how many drops was this, to which the reply comes back 30+ ...simulated but this would be his second actual combat drop.
He was supremely naïve and inexperienced for the threat of the Xenomorph.
The second reason was also they didn't truly believe Ripley, apart from perhaps 1 or 2 of the entire lot of them, Burke believed but he wanted a specimen, he wanted them to become infected so he could return to Earth with a new bio-weapon for the company to exploit.
Back to my previous point, in the debriefing back on the ship, it is asked "is this a stand up fight or another bug hunt?"
They come to the conclusion it's a bug hunt, but exchanged sarcastic glances to each other. They've done this dance before, they've been sent out to search for dangerous creatures to discover nothing and it's a common thing in military parlance of the time.
In other words, they expect to find nothing except maybe a colonist or two went on a shooting spree, nothing they couldn't handle.
I personally would've loved to see a full company of Marines being sent but for practical reasons this would simply not be possible in live action at the time. It would cost the studio making the movie too much money.
Even Starship troopers in the wide shots of large amounts of troop movements they are layered shots with the same 30 or so actors layered on shot after shot.
You can do that, but it's time consuming and will only work in wide.
Michones camouflage looked straight-up moronic compared to the lore of whisperers and smearing themselves with guts, they couldn't have an entire show of people wearing clean shirts walking through zombie hordes unmolested for the rest of time.
>Michones camouflage looked straight-up moronic compared to the lore of whisperers and smearing themselves with guts,
This was the fault of the comic. Michonne is a terrible marry sue character.
always blew my mind when they were at the prison and "omg we cant spear the zombies in the head pressed up against the chainlink fence fast enough"
my first thought was that five or six people doing that all day could easily kill hundreds of zombies if they kept at it
you are me, i fricking hate that dick around with the zombies and the fence, firstly fricking reinforce it properly, there are plenty of materials around to use
secondly, like you say just have teams working on it constantly, there is no way you would need people on it 24/7 if they were more proactive
thirdly, they intentionally let the problem get worse a bunch of times, one example is when carol gets Maggie to help her recover a walker body to practice c sections, carol and Maggie stab 1 walker through the fence then Maggie walks a few meters away and baits the still alive zombies to her so carol can grab the body, why the frick wouldn't you just kill the other few zombies? they all are right there, the zombies at the fence had already been established as an issue at this point so instead of taking the 30 seconds to stab a few heads, they leave them alive, banging on the fence, attracting more walkers, weakening the fence, leaving easy to have killed walkers alive to jump out at someone later etc etc its just fricking frustrating to watch
>in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
There's also the fact a normal walk can easily outpace the zombies. It should be impossible to get surrounded when they are that slow. A 10 second sprint will get you 80m away from any group.
this, they all depend on the cast being bumbling morons or the story won't last longer than a week
let's take the walking dead, someone actually does make a set of arm length bite proof gloves, other characters remark on their effectiveness then they are swiftly never used again
they find a couple of ways to avoid zombies, like the covering yourself in guts method, which they use rarely and forget about all the time when it should be a useful trick in a lot of situations, now i can understand this being a last resort due to the risk of infection
however then there is michones camouflage, it seems to be so effective that with just 2 docile walkers she can freely walk through giant herds unnoticed, yet this is never adopted by anyone else
zombie threats are always ridiculously non uniform, in one scene we have 2 people slaughter 100 zombies with just melee weapons, in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
this, they all depend on the cast being bumbling morons or the story won't last longer than a week
let's take the walking dead, someone actually does make a set of arm length bite proof gloves, other characters remark on their effectiveness then they are swiftly never used again
they find a couple of ways to avoid zombies, like the covering yourself in guts method, which they use rarely and forget about all the time when it should be a useful trick in a lot of situations, now i can understand this being a last resort due to the risk of infection
however then there is michones camouflage, it seems to be so effective that with just 2 docile walkers she can freely walk through giant herds unnoticed, yet this is never adopted by anyone else
zombie threats are always ridiculously non uniform, in one scene we have 2 people slaughter 100 zombies with just melee weapons, in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
this is why John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is so much better than the over produced crap Hollywood pumps out. Highly recommended
>According to the natural transfer theory (also called "hunter theory" or "bushmeat theory"), in the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission" of SIV or HIV (post mutation), the virus was transmitted from an ape or monkey to a human when a hunter or bushmeat vendor/handler was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering the animal. The resulting exposure to blood or other bodily fluids of the animal can result in SIV infection.
Eating and/or fricking
This post got me thinking.
How come "oh frick, there are millions of them!" isn't a more common apocalypse genre outside of zombies?
The robots in Terminator and the apes in Planet of the Apes come to mind.
A couple of alien flicks too but rarely straight horror.
afaik there's never been roaming hordes of werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
>vampires
Well, "Stakeland" and "The Last Man on Earth" essentially had fairly typical movie zombies that were just called vampires
But otherwise this is the only definitive "vampire apocalypse" movie I can think of that ticks what you're looking for, where most of the world gets infected with vampirism, and most people being sentient and relatively benevolent just try to keep society going for as long as possible, but the logistical and ethical pressures are clearly making the wheels brutally fall off of it anyway
>werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
That's because there wouldn't be any resistance whatsoever. They would just stomp us. Zombies at least are either slow and decaying fast, or when they are really fricking fast, you can gun them down with normal guns and still think about finding a cure or whatever.
This. A werewolf horde not voluntarily checking itself would just fricking curbstomp mankind. On the upside, the werewolves would then repopulate the planet.
>werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
That's because there wouldn't be any resistance whatsoever. They would just stomp us. Zombies at least are either slow and decaying fast, or when they are really fricking fast, you can gun them down with normal guns and still think about finding a cure or whatever.
This post got me thinking.
How come "oh frick, there are millions of them!" isn't a more common apocalypse genre outside of zombies?
The robots in Terminator and the apes in Planet of the Apes come to mind.
A couple of alien flicks too but rarely straight horror.
afaik there's never been roaming hordes of werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
I want a movie about a werewolf apocalypse now with all the traditional lore that goes along with it like every month during the full moon is when they spread and eat/turn people so people have to prepare to defend themselves and they don't know who's a werewolf until they turn.
1 year ago
Anonymous
FRICKING FUND IT.
Goddam, that sounds amazing.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>takes 10 minutes to turn >gets blasted in the frickin' head by a 12 gauge
Open and shut case, Johnson.
1 year ago
Anonymous
What would be the downside of becoming a werewolf though?
1 year ago
Anonymous
Gayness and lack of proper manners. Imagine shitting in the woods. Frick that, give me vampirism anytime.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Yea, imagine getting turned into a Furry.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Nothing, honestly. You’d basically have an entire planet of mystical Wolverines that wolf out once a month. Now I want a sci-fi movie that takes the Werewolf apocalypse as backhistory as they expand out into the universe.
>afaik there's never been roaming hordes of werewolves, vampires
In Daybreakers (2009) almost all of humanity got turned into Vampires. Only a few bands of wild humans survive.
The last of us tv show. The chick was already infected and minutes away from turning, but I question the decision making process behind 'zombie kissu' being a thing.
It makes sense. Its the biggest orifice in sight and if they can transfer the fungus without causing damage to the host even better. Its not really a kiss.
I have no idea. FEDRA wasn't exactly ever portrayed as good, so it's not like they're trying to add sympathy points by not involving them in Tess's death.
It's just moronic for the sake of being moronic.
Why doesn't Hollywood make movies with fun unexplored concepts like this? I remember there was some r*dditor who pitched a movie "Rome Sweet Rome" about a US marine battalion that gets thrown back in time and has to fight a Roman legion, and everybody thought it was a great idea, and then the studios put it in development hell and whittled the concept down to nothing.
Is this a bdsm thing?
I like keeping my neck and chest area covered during cold weather, this actually looks perfect.
But I bet it's a fricking pervert thing.
A necromancer would be lame. Some sort of AI would be better. As a necromancer the zombies would only be able to get simple orders: bite this, bite that, hold this etc.
>As a necromancer the zombies would only be able to get simple orders: bite this, bite that, hold this etc.
Says who? Is there a necromancy rulebook somewhere?
He would still be limited as to how he can give orders. He sure would be able to have some sort of army, but nothing magical like controlling by thought or anything. I know ofttimes you just think "oh, but it's magic", but I feel some stuff forces things too much without no explanation. A necromancer able to just raise the dead and control them by thought would be eldritch as frick and nigh unstoppable.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>He would still be limited as to how he can give orders. > but nothing magical like controlling by thought or anything.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>He would still be limited as to how he can give orders
u wot m8?
its fricking magic, if i create a necromancer story you better believe that necromancer can give perfect orders to every necrotic entity under his command
1 year ago
Anonymous
He has zombie sergeants that get main orders and they give smaller orders to other zombies
We are talking about a necromancer raising things from the dead and you are saying a human brain can only comprehend certain things? The brain of a fantastical necromancer? What a strange thing to get hung up about lol.
Yes. It's about asymmetrical internal consistency. Some things you can just have it for the sake of fantasy without much explanation, but others not so much.
It's like the actor that played Sam Tarly in Game of Thrones complaining about people coming to him and saying that it's a bit weird that he's still fat as frick and his defense is "we have dragons and whatnot and Sam being fat is what bothers you?". It's a shitty cop out.
1 year ago
Anonymous
What if the necromancer made a potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence?
1 year ago
Anonymous
That wouldn't be enough for me, but it's still better than nothing, I'll give you that, but it never happens.
1 year ago
Anonymous
He'd piss his brains out.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Also, just to add a bit: Because this would be such an enormous advantage for the necromancer, I'd rather have him "work" for it a bit or at the very least be limited in scope. For example, he is using a psychic link with the brain of an eldritch abomination to better "convey" his actions to the swarm/herd, and there's a mental straining involved and perhaps some weird maintenance.
1 year ago
Anonymous
the necromancer is using magic to control those undead, the brain in the undeads body doesn't matter, it could be a completely picked clean skelly without even 1 braincell still in its head and the necromancer would still be able to give it commands it can carry out
now I'm with you on >"we have dragons and whatnot and Sam being fat is what bothers you?"
but this isn't one of those arguments,a necromancer is an established magical entity that can raise and control the dead, the undead having the mental ability to follow the necromancers orders isn't a fat sam
1 year ago
Anonymous
To re-estate my point like I tried here:
https://i.imgur.com/tyYnIgI.jpg
Also, just to add a bit: Because this would be such an enormous advantage for the necromancer, I'd rather have him "work" for it a bit or at the very least be limited in scope. For example, he is using a psychic link with the brain of an eldritch abomination to better "convey" his actions to the swarm/herd, and there's a mental straining involved and perhaps some weird maintenance.
: it should have more intricacies to it and absolutely not be cheap or easy to pull off. I think that's a better summary of what I was trying to convey.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Just show his nose bleeding or something. Boom. Lets break for lunch.
He's talking about this >wot if everyone on earth who was having a phone conversation at a specific moment suddenly turned into a zombie
Joss Whedon's shitshow Dollhouse did it too
You ever check something out because you liked an idea in it even if the execution was awful?
Because it was a crappy book and a crappy movie but I found it compelling that the whole phone zombie mind virus thing was clearly the first strike by an emergent SkyNet type entity, and that by the end of the story the heroes still have no fricking idea what it actually is or where it came from and have gained nothing more than minor, halting and extremely costly "wins" over it that entirely come from it indulging them out or boredom, curiosity or sadism
Typing this post, King's The Mist suddenly comes to mind, where you get nothing in explanation except a vague and possibly hearsay "Maybe the Army was fricking with something?"
1 year ago
Anonymous
>You ever check something out because you liked an idea in it even if the execution was awful?
Absolutely. And that's precisely why I'll watch this, just for the idea. kek
It's the same reason I like The Devil's Rock, Overlord and some others. WWI/II nazis doing weird shit.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>King's The Mist suddenly comes to mind, where you get nothing in explanation except a vague and possibly hearsay "Maybe the Army was fricking with something?"
Im the movie it seemed like they were experimenting with the doorways to other worlds from the Dark Tower series. Seemed like a cool way to reference how all worlds are connected across all tine with which is the overarching theme of DT. If you find yourself on the path of the beam it's even easier and Callahan was exploring dozen of alternate realities just by walking around a lot.
The only way for zombies to exist is if the host has a functioning circulatory system, twitching dead animals only works while the animal is fresh and has cells still alive, ready to work but requiring a signal to activate. In the case of the frog, the salt absorbed through the skin triggers the sodium potassium pumps to briefly activate, using their limited supply of ATP to flood muscles with calcium, which then contracts muscle. The calcium can't be reabsorbed without continuous supply of ATP, and can't get re-released, so what ends up happening is a few muscle spasms that eventually peters out and can't be activated again.
Depends how the necromancer magic works 😉
If its just a reanimation virus thing, eventually the whole body will seize up and not be able to move, and animals/bugs would eat the flesh and connective tissue. I can only imagine that pseudo-telekinesis type magic would work long-term, the type that reanimated a spooky scary skeleton that is missing all its ligaments and tendons and has no real way to move its arms, legs, jaw etc.
In most modern movies they are still alive. Just barely.
The Zombie disease allows them to stay alive despite being various stages of rot, starvation and injury. It usually slows down their metabolism and lowers their body temperature so they can survive for a long time with little food.
I wish they made a zombie apocalypse movie where the infection was 'in the air' like TLOU, but the zombies were pretty much slow and stupid, the biggest risk being you or people close to your getting infected out of nowhere. Imagine how segregated society would be, how paranoid everyone would be all the time. It could be kino.
They could potentially study her body and come up with a cure or vaccination.
Yeah but so? Joel and all the other people still alive aren't infected too, they're all immune to the airborne spores flying around everywhere for some reason. All they have to do is stay away from the infected people and they'll be fine. And if she really is that important then why not take her on a chopper to her destination?
1 year ago
Anonymous
It makes the difference between Humans barely surviving in fortified retreats and always having to watch out for swarms of infected, vs. Humanity reclaiming the planet and rebuilding civilization.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>immune to the airborne spores flying around everywhere for some reason
Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the spores are concentrated in closed areas like sewers, tunnels and some other places. And I think they wear masks sometimes in the game? The thing is this: in open places you are usually safe.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The thing is this: in open places you are usually safe.
I think it's implied several times that the spores can't survive direct sunlight.
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Yeah but so? Joel and all the other people still alive aren't infected too, they're all immune to the airborne spores flying around everywhere for some reason. All they have to do is stay away from the infected people and they'll be fine. And if she really is that important then why not take her on a chopper to her destination?
>The thing is this: in open places you are usually safe.
I think it's implied several times that the spores can't survive direct sunlight.
if your all talking about the show tlou then there are no spores the creators left them out of the show think they said something like if it was spores then humans are just fricked so they switched it to the tendrils
1 year ago
Anonymous
that makes sense, everything in the kiss scene to me looked scientifically accurate.
1 year ago
Anonymous
This is correct. Spores are always in dark, enclosed spaces, and they always have gas masks for that.
It's a pretty nifty premise, honestly.
Zombies would just swarm you and bite you for days until they get to your flesh. Even if you got full plate armor you would get asphyxiated by zombies instantly
human teeth cannot gnaw through leather if if's thick enough.
asphyxiation is a problem, but that's the point when the dozens of other people in your group start lobotomizing the zombies on top of you and drag you back behind the shield wall
it’ll definitely save you from the odd bullshit bite from zombies that are hiding >this building is safe bros, let me just check the basement that I know is cleared for some snacks
Shes a saint and a prostitute, which is the best combination for woman. Guzzling bootleg`s dick just makes me appreciate her intellectual side even more.
Just wear a scuba wetsuit, humans don't have enough bite force to penetrate it so zombies can't either since their jaw muscles are same size. It's also flexible and surprisingly comfy.
And this in turn was one of the few "zombie blood is extremely dangerous" adaptations - which frankly actually sorta makes sense and makes you wonder how so many movies had protagonists freely swimming in the shit, but also really makes it obvious how plot armor underlies all fiction.
Why nobody ever use a frickin bicycle during those shows/movies >fast >no need for gas >can carry stuff >you can carry it >silent >can shoot from it >easy to maintain and repair
>According to the natural transfer theory (also called "hunter theory" or "bushmeat theory"), in the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission" of SIV or HIV (post mutation), the virus was transmitted from an ape or monkey to a human when a hunter or bushmeat vendor/handler was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering the animal. The resulting exposure to blood or other bodily fluids of the animal can result in SIV infection.
Eating and/or fricking
Jokes on you. HIV was created by butthole idiot vaxxers trying to make a live attenuated virus vaccine for polio thinking they could attenuate their virus by injecting it into simians.
What if you just dug a hole then made noise and the zombies walked towards you then fell in the hole. Couldn't you just walk around causally stabbing them in the head with a long spear or set them on fire, rinse and repeat as much as necessary?
Goddamn I loved this series. I was expecting goofyness but instead got 16th century Korean politics with zombies kino. Ashin got me again with just how dark it was.
show pitch >zombies have a natural compulsion to eat brains >eat enough brains and they become conscious again >zombies gaining consciousness mid shamble through a survivor camp now realise they need to get the frick away from the people >zombies that have become conscious band together and build their own settlement >start farming humans so they can elevate their brothers >zombies rebuild society while farming humans
show pitch >zombies have a natural compulsion to eat brains >eat enough brains and they become conscious again >zombies gaining consciousness mid shamble through a survivor camp now realise they need to get the frick away from the people >zombies that have become conscious band together and build their own settlement >start farming humans so they can elevate their brothers >zombies rebuild society while farming humans
That take of "zombies are now a sentient species" was portrayed in The Girl With All the Gifts, but still quite different that what you described. My only problem so far is this: it would have to happen quite fast (the conflict between human and the others) because if you drag it down for too long people will start to wonder why some humans haven't sided with them and actually tried to understand what's going on, maybe some cure or whatever.
This show was an amusing take because the whole premise ran with the usually unthinkable - that you can just plain cure zombies. In the background the zombie "apocalypse" had already broken out and blown over when injections were invented that turned zombies back into people, so now you had to deal with
>millions of now-normal people who still have vivid memories of attacking and eating other people >millions of people who gunned down friends or family members either in self-defense or before they realized they could be cured >the usual racism allegory nonsense where vengeful militia types want to genocide the cured anyway just on principle and in return a few of the more edgelord cured start going "hey maybe we should finish eating the hu-mans, that'd teach them, zombie pride world wide" >a few pragmatic stragglers who objectively look at what happened and go "wow this sucks but it's actually a very practical last ditch cure for terminal cancer/Alzheimers/etc."
That take of "zombies are now a sentient species" was portrayed in The Girl With All the Gifts, but still quite different that what you described. My only problem so far is this: it would have to happen quite fast (the conflict between human and the others) because if you drag it down for too long people will start to wonder why some humans haven't sided with them and actually tried to understand what's going on, maybe some cure or whatever.
I seem to remember cloned blood but I could have my wires crossed with Daybreakers, which I'm convinced was conceived as an unofficial sequel to I Am Legend.
The vampires were definitely OK without natural human blood at least.
If I had to write a zombie movie I'd go with an illness that's both airborne and transmissible through bodily fluids, with the catch being that the airborne variant is actually survivable due to the much lower viral load. This would help explain why it could even get to the "apocalyptic" stage in the first place (much easier to sneeze on someone than just to bite them, and people would be way more reluctant to just gun down someone who's showing signs of an infection because they still might recover), without buffing the zombies themselves too hard. My main problem with modern zombie media is that they just give them superpowers, which ironically makes them less scary than the based and trad slow zombies.
The original Romero rule where anyone who dies, for any reason, WILL reanimate was actually a more thoughtful crisis explanation than a lot of the movies that followed it for decades
Imagine what a hazard any hospital becomes, permanently. Any senior home, any car accident site. The fricking nightmare if a plane crashes near your town.
There are people out in the world who 100% a zombie apocalypse will happen in their lifetime and have already prepared for the scenario with various instruments that can restrain a zombie just so they can have sex with it
based tbdesu
I couldn't believe the fricking balls of this movie to have the guy with the zombie sex slave portrayed as a sympathetic, protagonist-aligned character even though all the other "good guys" thought he was harmlessly weird, it's so much more genuinely edgy and subversive than anything that's been in a movie in years
The trickier part about zombies is actually having them around for more than say, a month. All those hordes would be decimated by decay in no time, all you have to do is wait.
Ideally you would need some sort of brain function and basic survival instincts to eat and protect the body from weather etc. Everything else similar to say Walking Dead is a lot more trivial. Countryside towns would be manageable in no time.
Why do these brainlets who make zombie shit never address how the human body rots into a disgusting blackish material in a very short amount of time. They got these mummified corpses surviving for months or longer running around and shit lmao.
Zombie magic preserves the body and keeps the muscles nice and limber, no rigor mortis, no decay that turns all their muscles and ligaments into a soupy mess. Somehow the zombie can stand upright even after the intricate inner ear mechanism that allows humans to balance is rotted away to nothing, and the muscular apparatus that can hold the spine straight is turned to mush.
Zombies are stupid. The people who like them are stupid. There are so many reasons zombies don't make any sense even within the internal logic of their own setting. I'd sooner buy magically animated skeletons as a threat than reanimated corpses.
suppose we have an Abrams tank, how do zombies get to us? I mean, we are in a fricking tanks that can drive over them, fire at them, crush them and we can simply close the hatches.
Abrams tanks hold 490 gallons of fuel.
With that 490 gallons it can travel less than 260 miles. With idling and anything else you're gonna run out of fuel in a week, you probably burn up 10 gallons just to start the thing.
Good luck finding another 490 gallons of fuel, even if you find a gas station that isn't ransacked I'm pretty sure those things don't run on 87 unleaded.
There is this novel, the mountain man where the protag actually moves around with full motorcycle gear.
The problem is when he gets swarmed by the zombies [ they dont sprint but move in a fast "im gonna be late in the office" walk] he starts to get ripped apart because the zombies keep pulling and pulling and pulling on all his limbs etc. So with enough of them, he would get torn apart, even if they cant bite.
the only reason I would even be aware of a zombie apocalypse would be because of the posts here in PrepHole
I would never experience any of it from where I am
The problem is that very few monster tropes should logically be a threats when you can use modern weapons against it. Resident Evil realized this in pre-production and opted to go for absurdly mutated monstrosities to keep some tension, but this has the contrary issue of making the monster too unrealistic for the player to be afraid of it.
The only way to have genuine horror in a video game is to remove reaistically effective weapons from the game.
>The only way to have genuine horror in a video game is to remove reaistically effective weapons from the game.
Part of the intensity from the RE games is the scarcity of resources. Yeah you'll be fine if you have a shotgun but hey you got a handful of shells to get you past an army of undead. Gotta be smart and not just cowboy your way to an empty magazine in a room full of zombies.
There are 0 good movies or TV shows about a zombie apocalypse.
this, they all depend on the cast being bumbling morons or the story won't last longer than a week
let's take the walking dead, someone actually does make a set of arm length bite proof gloves, other characters remark on their effectiveness then they are swiftly never used again
they find a couple of ways to avoid zombies, like the covering yourself in guts method, which they use rarely and forget about all the time when it should be a useful trick in a lot of situations, now i can understand this being a last resort due to the risk of infection
however then there is michones camouflage, it seems to be so effective that with just 2 docile walkers she can freely walk through giant herds unnoticed, yet this is never adopted by anyone else
zombie threats are always ridiculously non uniform, in one scene we have 2 people slaughter 100 zombies with just melee weapons, in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
>overly drawn out post
Nice reddit reply but this is PrepHole, we talk about moronic shit and sucking femboy wieners
Pretty much every slasher or monster movie that doesn't go full supernatural relies on the humans being morons.
Take Aliens, an otherwise great movie. So the humans know that xenomorphs are present (signs of battle, face huggers in jars), they know the basic biology of the xenomorphs from Ripley and they know that there are a big cluster of un-moving civilian beacons deep underground. So rather than realising the colonists are probably dead and sending some sort of camera drone down there to check before gassing the whole nest they send their entire team of soldiers in to the nest where they are promptly surrounded and almost wiped out in close quarters. They also fail to do basic security on their shuttle, resulting in it getting destroyed when a single xenomorph sneaks onboard and kills the crew.
But then, Gorman declares that an area is "secure" when he has a whole ten soldiers and an enemy that can sneak through air ducts. Cameron is great about character stuff but a lot of the action is dependent on the characters being utterly moronic. This isn't only Gorman, the others forget about the ducts too later.
It is explained why Gorman called the place secure when he did.
On the drop he was asked how many drops was this, to which the reply comes back 30+ ...simulated but this would be his second actual combat drop.
He was supremely naïve and inexperienced for the threat of the Xenomorph.
The second reason was also they didn't truly believe Ripley, apart from perhaps 1 or 2 of the entire lot of them, Burke believed but he wanted a specimen, he wanted them to become infected so he could return to Earth with a new bio-weapon for the company to exploit.
Back to my previous point, in the debriefing back on the ship, it is asked "is this a stand up fight or another bug hunt?"
They come to the conclusion it's a bug hunt, but exchanged sarcastic glances to each other. They've done this dance before, they've been sent out to search for dangerous creatures to discover nothing and it's a common thing in military parlance of the time.
In other words, they expect to find nothing except maybe a colonist or two went on a shooting spree, nothing they couldn't handle.
I personally would've loved to see a full company of Marines being sent but for practical reasons this would simply not be possible in live action at the time. It would cost the studio making the movie too much money.
Even Starship troopers in the wide shots of large amounts of troop movements they are layered shots with the same 30 or so actors layered on shot after shot.
You can do that, but it's time consuming and will only work in wide.
Michones camouflage looked straight-up moronic compared to the lore of whisperers and smearing themselves with guts, they couldn't have an entire show of people wearing clean shirts walking through zombie hordes unmolested for the rest of time.
>Michones camouflage looked straight-up moronic compared to the lore of whisperers and smearing themselves with guts,
This was the fault of the comic. Michonne is a terrible marry sue character.
always blew my mind when they were at the prison and "omg we cant spear the zombies in the head pressed up against the chainlink fence fast enough"
my first thought was that five or six people doing that all day could easily kill hundreds of zombies if they kept at it
you are me, i fricking hate that dick around with the zombies and the fence, firstly fricking reinforce it properly, there are plenty of materials around to use
secondly, like you say just have teams working on it constantly, there is no way you would need people on it 24/7 if they were more proactive
thirdly, they intentionally let the problem get worse a bunch of times, one example is when carol gets Maggie to help her recover a walker body to practice c sections, carol and Maggie stab 1 walker through the fence then Maggie walks a few meters away and baits the still alive zombies to her so carol can grab the body, why the frick wouldn't you just kill the other few zombies? they all are right there, the zombies at the fence had already been established as an issue at this point so instead of taking the 30 seconds to stab a few heads, they leave them alive, banging on the fence, attracting more walkers, weakening the fence, leaving easy to have killed walkers alive to jump out at someone later etc etc its just fricking frustrating to watch
The zombies thing is just a climate change analogy so everything makes sense through that lens.
There were many allegories throughout the years, I always thought it was slavery (Lugosi, White Zombie) and then consumerism (Romero, DOTD).
Soon we'll have big budget series from zombie POV and humans were the real monsters all along
>and humans were the real monsters all along
I Am Legend/Omega Man
No the zombies in those movies were still monsters
My homie don't waste your time thinking about that shit. WD jumped the shark long ago.
>in another scene 10 people with guns and melee weapons are panicking and trying to avoid a handful of zombies
There's also the fact a normal walk can easily outpace the zombies. It should be impossible to get surrounded when they are that slow. A 10 second sprint will get you 80m away from any group.
The Dawn of the Dead remake is pretty good
>The Dawn of the Dead remake is pretty good
the walking dead is kino
Was* and then season two happened but in fairness that's due to AMC execs being moronic, gotta admit I did enjoy the governer though.
this is why John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is so much better than the over produced crap Hollywood pumps out. Highly recommended
Check out Dead Set, a show aired on Channel 4 in the UK
Shaun of the Dead is arguably the best zombie movie.
Fricking monkeys would not cause the virus you big brained anon.
Why not? It caused AIDs.
American education by any chance?
suck it yuropoor
Because zombie as a apocalypse monster makes no sense in first place.
This post got me thinking.
How come "oh frick, there are millions of them!" isn't a more common apocalypse genre outside of zombies?
The robots in Terminator and the apes in Planet of the Apes come to mind.
A couple of alien flicks too but rarely straight horror.
afaik there's never been roaming hordes of werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
>vampires
Well, "Stakeland" and "The Last Man on Earth" essentially had fairly typical movie zombies that were just called vampires
But otherwise this is the only definitive "vampire apocalypse" movie I can think of that ticks what you're looking for, where most of the world gets infected with vampirism, and most people being sentient and relatively benevolent just try to keep society going for as long as possible, but the logistical and ethical pressures are clearly making the wheels brutally fall off of it anyway
>werewolves, vampires, evil magicians, bigfoot etc that groups of human survivors have to avoid/defeat.
That's because there wouldn't be any resistance whatsoever. They would just stomp us. Zombies at least are either slow and decaying fast, or when they are really fricking fast, you can gun them down with normal guns and still think about finding a cure or whatever.
This. A werewolf horde not voluntarily checking itself would just fricking curbstomp mankind. On the upside, the werewolves would then repopulate the planet.
I want a movie about a werewolf apocalypse now with all the traditional lore that goes along with it like every month during the full moon is when they spread and eat/turn people so people have to prepare to defend themselves and they don't know who's a werewolf until they turn.
FRICKING FUND IT.
Goddam, that sounds amazing.
>takes 10 minutes to turn
>gets blasted in the frickin' head by a 12 gauge
Open and shut case, Johnson.
What would be the downside of becoming a werewolf though?
Gayness and lack of proper manners. Imagine shitting in the woods. Frick that, give me vampirism anytime.
Yea, imagine getting turned into a Furry.
Nothing, honestly. You’d basically have an entire planet of mystical Wolverines that wolf out once a month. Now I want a sci-fi movie that takes the Werewolf apocalypse as backhistory as they expand out into the universe.
>afaik there's never been roaming hordes of werewolves, vampires
In Daybreakers (2009) almost all of humanity got turned into Vampires. Only a few bands of wild humans survive.
The Gamera trilogy ends with one of the main monsters evolving to reproduce at a rapid pace and becoming a swarm of building sized pterodactyls.
True except for the one anime, Highschool of the dead
This. Although it's hard to recommend to normies because of all of the tiddies.
Last of Us is great too. But neither of those are PrepHole, sadly.
Correct. It's a shitty premise.
The Battery
28 days later
REC
Resident Evil
dotd (snyder)
the crazies (not really a zombie movie tho is it)
28 weeks after still freaks me out, imagine getting chased by zombie frickers that run at 30 mph without tiring
Kingdom
*bites your neck*
Those would do literally nothing to protect you from zombie kissu
The frick is this shit ?
HBO's kinoe of the century
The last of us tv show. The chick was already infected and minutes away from turning, but I question the decision making process behind 'zombie kissu' being a thing.
It makes sense. Its the biggest orifice in sight and if they can transfer the fungus without causing damage to the host even better. Its not really a kiss.
An alagory for consent not always being consent.
What exactly was the point of this scene? Why did they change the game's original Tess death to some fricking fanfic shit?
I have no idea. FEDRA wasn't exactly ever portrayed as good, so it's not like they're trying to add sympathy points by not involving them in Tess's death.
It's just moronic for the sake of being moronic.
Why the frick are they kissing?
So fricking creepy.
Why the frick did she just stand there?
Because she’s already losing control.
That's the big dumb asf, what a crap zombie film
>critically acclaimed show of the year
Glad I'm not watching this shit
hey, its israeliteerg again
I got another fetish I need you to put in this thing
this is just like the bugs in the belly button scene
what in the frick
Just go all in already
A motorcycle set would be easier to wear and get.
the leather club's two blocks down
F U C K
Y O U
Leather won't do shit, chainmail, now that's something.
>Leather won't do shit
an alligator wrote this
>chainmail
I like how you think, but isn't it too noisy for stealth?
Zombies vs Crusaders would be kino
Why doesn't Hollywood make movies with fun unexplored concepts like this? I remember there was some r*dditor who pitched a movie "Rome Sweet Rome" about a US marine battalion that gets thrown back in time and has to fight a Roman legion, and everybody thought it was a great idea, and then the studios put it in development hell and whittled the concept down to nothing.
you think amazon is going to deliver a leather neck warmer to you when the spores start spreading?
Is this a bdsm thing?
I like keeping my neck and chest area covered during cold weather, this actually looks perfect.
But I bet it's a fricking pervert thing.
>gets a boner
Poor apu zombie, it's all chud and soijaks fault. Now he'll take his revenge
what a lovely apu
bleh!
Zombies are lame and gay. Unless a necromancer is controlling them. Then they are high quality kino machines.
When will magic undead zombies come back, I am so suck of this predictive programming rage virus nonsense
A necromancer would be lame. Some sort of AI would be better. As a necromancer the zombies would only be able to get simple orders: bite this, bite that, hold this etc.
>As a necromancer the zombies would only be able to get simple orders: bite this, bite that, hold this etc.
Says who? Is there a necromancy rulebook somewhere?
Do you expect that kind of coordination/parallel work from a human-like brain?
I expect the magic wizard to do essentially as he pleases. Maybe he imbued them with gypsy souls or something so they are semi-intelligent.
He would still be limited as to how he can give orders. He sure would be able to have some sort of army, but nothing magical like controlling by thought or anything. I know ofttimes you just think "oh, but it's magic", but I feel some stuff forces things too much without no explanation. A necromancer able to just raise the dead and control them by thought would be eldritch as frick and nigh unstoppable.
>He would still be limited as to how he can give orders.
> but nothing magical like controlling by thought or anything.
>He would still be limited as to how he can give orders
u wot m8?
its fricking magic, if i create a necromancer story you better believe that necromancer can give perfect orders to every necrotic entity under his command
He has zombie sergeants that get main orders and they give smaller orders to other zombies
We are talking about a necromancer raising things from the dead and you are saying a human brain can only comprehend certain things? The brain of a fantastical necromancer? What a strange thing to get hung up about lol.
Yes. It's about asymmetrical internal consistency. Some things you can just have it for the sake of fantasy without much explanation, but others not so much.
It's like the actor that played Sam Tarly in Game of Thrones complaining about people coming to him and saying that it's a bit weird that he's still fat as frick and his defense is "we have dragons and whatnot and Sam being fat is what bothers you?". It's a shitty cop out.
What if the necromancer made a potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence and then drank the potion and made another potion to boost his intelligence?
That wouldn't be enough for me, but it's still better than nothing, I'll give you that, but it never happens.
He'd piss his brains out.
Also, just to add a bit: Because this would be such an enormous advantage for the necromancer, I'd rather have him "work" for it a bit or at the very least be limited in scope. For example, he is using a psychic link with the brain of an eldritch abomination to better "convey" his actions to the swarm/herd, and there's a mental straining involved and perhaps some weird maintenance.
the necromancer is using magic to control those undead, the brain in the undeads body doesn't matter, it could be a completely picked clean skelly without even 1 braincell still in its head and the necromancer would still be able to give it commands it can carry out
now I'm with you on
>"we have dragons and whatnot and Sam being fat is what bothers you?"
but this isn't one of those arguments,a necromancer is an established magical entity that can raise and control the dead, the undead having the mental ability to follow the necromancers orders isn't a fat sam
To re-estate my point like I tried here:
: it should have more intricacies to it and absolutely not be cheap or easy to pull off. I think that's a better summary of what I was trying to convey.
Just show his nose bleeding or something. Boom. Lets break for lunch.
Yes, there is.
There was a shitty Steven king film that did this
I'm searching for it, but nothing comes up. Is it Pet Sematary?
He's talking about this
>wot if everyone on earth who was having a phone conversation at a specific moment suddenly turned into a zombie
Joss Whedon's shitshow Dollhouse did it too
Thanks, anon.
You ever check something out because you liked an idea in it even if the execution was awful?
Because it was a crappy book and a crappy movie but I found it compelling that the whole phone zombie mind virus thing was clearly the first strike by an emergent SkyNet type entity, and that by the end of the story the heroes still have no fricking idea what it actually is or where it came from and have gained nothing more than minor, halting and extremely costly "wins" over it that entirely come from it indulging them out or boredom, curiosity or sadism
Typing this post, King's The Mist suddenly comes to mind, where you get nothing in explanation except a vague and possibly hearsay "Maybe the Army was fricking with something?"
>You ever check something out because you liked an idea in it even if the execution was awful?
Absolutely. And that's precisely why I'll watch this, just for the idea. kek
It's the same reason I like The Devil's Rock, Overlord and some others. WWI/II nazis doing weird shit.
>King's The Mist suddenly comes to mind, where you get nothing in explanation except a vague and possibly hearsay "Maybe the Army was fricking with something?"
Im the movie it seemed like they were experimenting with the doorways to other worlds from the Dark Tower series. Seemed like a cool way to reference how all worlds are connected across all tine with which is the overarching theme of DT. If you find yourself on the path of the beam it's even easier and Callahan was exploring dozen of alternate realities just by walking around a lot.
Based, Cusack is based in horror, the motel one, the hotel one, he is mega comfy in horrors.
yikes
>*rapes the zombie apocalypse in your path*
but literally
agreed
>dead people can move their muscles without brain/nerve function or blood flow or calories
I always figured it was similar to putting salt on frog legs or when a chicken gets decapitated and runs around for a while
Muscles operating purely out of muscle memory or rudimentary nervous system function
The only way for zombies to exist is if the host has a functioning circulatory system, twitching dead animals only works while the animal is fresh and has cells still alive, ready to work but requiring a signal to activate. In the case of the frog, the salt absorbed through the skin triggers the sodium potassium pumps to briefly activate, using their limited supply of ATP to flood muscles with calcium, which then contracts muscle. The calcium can't be reabsorbed without continuous supply of ATP, and can't get re-released, so what ends up happening is a few muscle spasms that eventually peters out and can't be activated again.
Necromancers also keep scienceBlack folk away from my kinos which is great.
Depends how the necromancer magic works 😉
If its just a reanimation virus thing, eventually the whole body will seize up and not be able to move, and animals/bugs would eat the flesh and connective tissue. I can only imagine that pseudo-telekinesis type magic would work long-term, the type that reanimated a spooky scary skeleton that is missing all its ligaments and tendons and has no real way to move its arms, legs, jaw etc.
what if they're not actually undead
Most zombies in movies aren’t dead you absolute brainlet. If they are real undead they are moved by fricking magic, not their muscles.
In most modern movies they are still alive. Just barely.
The Zombie disease allows them to stay alive despite being various stages of rot, starvation and injury. It usually slows down their metabolism and lowers their body temperature so they can survive for a long time with little food.
You're apparently pulling it off.
Pic unrelated.
never heard of anaerobic respiration anon?
I HAVE A DREAM
I wish they made a zombie apocalypse movie where the infection was 'in the air' like TLOU, but the zombies were pretty much slow and stupid, the biggest risk being you or people close to your getting infected out of nowhere. Imagine how segregated society would be, how paranoid everyone would be all the time. It could be kino.
airborne zombie virus just means extinction, there would be no long term human survival
Some people wouldn't get infected though, their immune systems would be able to fight it off.
Then why is Ellie such a big deal in TLOU then if the people still alive don't get infected unless they get bit?
Because she got bit and the infection didn't spread.
more horrifying than all the fungus people combined
Yeah but so? Joel and all the other people still alive aren't infected too, they're all immune to the airborne spores flying around everywhere for some reason. All they have to do is stay away from the infected people and they'll be fine. And if she really is that important then why not take her on a chopper to her destination?
It makes the difference between Humans barely surviving in fortified retreats and always having to watch out for swarms of infected, vs. Humanity reclaiming the planet and rebuilding civilization.
>immune to the airborne spores flying around everywhere for some reason
Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the spores are concentrated in closed areas like sewers, tunnels and some other places. And I think they wear masks sometimes in the game? The thing is this: in open places you are usually safe.
>The thing is this: in open places you are usually safe.
I think it's implied several times that the spores can't survive direct sunlight.
if your all talking about the show tlou then there are no spores the creators left them out of the show think they said something like if it was spores then humans are just fricked so they switched it to the tendrils
that makes sense, everything in the kiss scene to me looked scientifically accurate.
This is correct. Spores are always in dark, enclosed spaces, and they always have gas masks for that.
It's a pretty nifty premise, honestly.
The extra chromosome is what makes her immune.
Women need to start getting blasted drunk when preggers in TLOU.
They could potentially study her body and come up with a cure or vaccination.
Well then only those people live. All the others die. That's it.
similar to death stranding or a better example is maze runner
in the scarch
28 days later and the opening of 28 weeks later are the only good zombie movies
dumb idiot you don't have infinite stamina what will you do if a horde comes at you?
Zombies would just swarm you and bite you for days until they get to your flesh. Even if you got full plate armor you would get asphyxiated by zombies instantly
Depends on the type of zombies and how many are piling on you. Walking Dead zombies would be easy peasy.
80% of americans are obese. Even WWZ zombies would be slow as shit
human teeth cannot gnaw through leather if if's thick enough.
asphyxiation is a problem, but that's the point when the dozens of other people in your group start lobotomizing the zombies on top of you and drag you back behind the shield wall
it’ll definitely save you from the odd bullshit bite from zombies that are hiding
>this building is safe bros, let me just check the basement that I know is cleared for some snacks
I love zombie kino I've seen em all please tell me an abstract one I haven't seen yet.
she'd be safe with me in a zombie apocalypse. i'd never let any zombie, no matter how frightening or ferocious, harm this pure maiden.
>pure maiden
Anon... I
Shes a saint and a prostitute, which is the best combination for woman. Guzzling bootleg`s dick just makes me appreciate her intellectual side even more.
That heart signifies how large her c**t is after getting railed by her art colleague. I am real proud of her.
>pic related
>I recognize her
I do not deserve God's mercy
explain?
damn bro you are so unique
she made a porn video in university where she got destroyed
Sauce?
Dude she is Maily, the pinnacle of Facial Abuse Porn
Watch the South Korean zombie kinos like All of Us Are Dead and Train to Busan and the sequel to it and Alive
this
and this
are very comfy asiatic zombie kinos.
Protect that smile forever
Diary of the Dead
why did she do it?
Probably for fun
You want kino watch "the night ate the world"
I thought I was the only person who liked that movie.
It is a european movie so it is filtering the americans
doesnt save you from 28days later infected
Is this your idea? Because it is freakin' kino.
Just wear a scuba wetsuit, humans don't have enough bite force to penetrate it so zombies can't either since their jaw muscles are same size. It's also flexible and surprisingly comfy.
already been done in 2002
And this in turn was one of the few "zombie blood is extremely dangerous" adaptations - which frankly actually sorta makes sense and makes you wonder how so many movies had protagonists freely swimming in the shit, but also really makes it obvious how plot armor underlies all fiction.
28 days later doesnt have zombies.
Literally the same shit.
Your move creep. Because i can't.
They would just pile on you until you run out of air
That's the problem
Why can't they make a single zombie movie that doesn't devolve in the second half into humans that are real monsters?
The powers that be think that we are very cynical nowadays. They aren't exactly wrong, but yeah.
Why nobody ever use a frickin bicycle during those shows/movies
>fast
>no need for gas
>can carry stuff
>you can carry it
>silent
>can shoot from it
>easy to maintain and repair
americans dont know what those are
Wrong. Every American fondly remembers their bicycle, before it got stolen by tyrone
World War Z had a bit where the protags used bikes to travel quietly.
because you're vulnerable as frick on a bike and you expend your own energy powering it
Bicycles would only last as long as the roads do. A year or two or no road repair and a bike isn't going to be more efficient than walking.
I can see you are not very bright from that post alone.
>I can see you are not very bright from that post alone.
Go ride a bike over rough broken concrete and heavy grass. It's going to brutalize your legs.
Also just wait for a shrub or some tall grass to get caught in the chain. RIP
Bro wtf that is so dumb
>no road repair
homie there isn't fricking amazon trucks driving on that shit 24/7
roads get fricked up by the heavy weight vehicles
>roads get fricked up by the heavy weight vehicles
Heavy rainfall followed by a long, cold week destroys roads
I guess mountain bikers are an urban myth
>A year or two or no road repair and a bike isn't going to be more efficient than walking.
roads would be good for a couple of decades
Still mad that we got a shitty Brad Pitt vehicle instead of a proper World War Z anthology series.
>op fisting horses for insemination
Blight: Survival has you playing as a knight fighting zombies.
>necromancers
PrepHole is that way
>Zombie kissu
>According to the natural transfer theory (also called "hunter theory" or "bushmeat theory"), in the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission" of SIV or HIV (post mutation), the virus was transmitted from an ape or monkey to a human when a hunter or bushmeat vendor/handler was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering the animal. The resulting exposure to blood or other bodily fluids of the animal can result in SIV infection.
Eating and/or fricking
Jokes on you. HIV was created by butthole idiot vaxxers trying to make a live attenuated virus vaccine for polio thinking they could attenuate their virus by injecting it into simians.
Why does he looks like a serial killer from the 1980s
Do you know how bad you would smell wearing full leather armor all day every day in the sun for weeks on end without showering?
Oh yeah, better choose death and zombification than BAD BODY ODOR
You do know you can use water and soap without a shower right?
What if you just dug a hole then made noise and the zombies walked towards you then fell in the hole. Couldn't you just walk around causally stabbing them in the head with a long spear or set them on fire, rinse and repeat as much as necessary?
What if you trip and fall in the hole with them? What's your plan then smart guy?
>rinse and repeat
You mean drag the zombie corpses out before your hole fills up and they just walk across on a pile of zombies?
That's what they basically did in the Kingdom.
Highly recommend, absolutely amazing series.
Goddamn I loved this series. I was expecting goofyness but instead got 16th century Korean politics with zombies kino. Ashin got me again with just how dark it was.
genuinely one of the best shows I've watched
are we ever getting season 3??
What if they evolve into mole-zombies?
If people are going to whine about how zombies don't make scientific sense then there's so way we can include something as silly as evolution.
walking dead did evolving zombies about 3 episodes from the end
Damn Zombies. Always evolving themselves out of holes, especially plot holes.
show pitch
>zombies have a natural compulsion to eat brains
>eat enough brains and they become conscious again
>zombies gaining consciousness mid shamble through a survivor camp now realise they need to get the frick away from the people
>zombies that have become conscious band together and build their own settlement
>start farming humans so they can elevate their brothers
>zombies rebuild society while farming humans
There was that shitty iZombie TV show with this premise. Zombies have to eat brains to stay sentient.
This show was an amusing take because the whole premise ran with the usually unthinkable - that you can just plain cure zombies. In the background the zombie "apocalypse" had already broken out and blown over when injections were invented that turned zombies back into people, so now you had to deal with
>millions of now-normal people who still have vivid memories of attacking and eating other people
>millions of people who gunned down friends or family members either in self-defense or before they realized they could be cured
>the usual racism allegory nonsense where vengeful militia types want to genocide the cured anyway just on principle and in return a few of the more edgelord cured start going "hey maybe we should finish eating the hu-mans, that'd teach them, zombie pride world wide"
>a few pragmatic stragglers who objectively look at what happened and go "wow this sucks but it's actually a very practical last ditch cure for terminal cancer/Alzheimers/etc."
Change zombie cure to covid vaccine, haha
Good show
That take of "zombies are now a sentient species" was portrayed in The Girl With All the Gifts, but still quite different that what you described. My only problem so far is this: it would have to happen quite fast (the conflict between human and the others) because if you drag it down for too long people will start to wonder why some humans haven't sided with them and actually tried to understand what's going on, maybe some cure or whatever.
I'm sure I've read this somewhere.
It's the plot of I am Legend. The movie completely and utterly butchered it.
There are differences. Namely they were vampires, a mixture of the ghoulish mindless type and the more sophisticated types.
There's also nothing about farming humans. In fact, the book strongly suggests that the protagonist is the last human alive.
I seem to remember cloned blood but I could have my wires crossed with Daybreakers, which I'm convinced was conceived as an unofficial sequel to I Am Legend.
The vampires were definitely OK without natural human blood at least.
That's from Daybreakers. The reveal of Vampire society is at the very end of the novel so it does not really explain much of it or what they feed on.
Sounds like this but with zombies instead of vampires.
Sounds like Warm Bodies.
sounds like attack on titan
sounds fricking gay
KNEEL
If I had to write a zombie movie I'd go with an illness that's both airborne and transmissible through bodily fluids, with the catch being that the airborne variant is actually survivable due to the much lower viral load. This would help explain why it could even get to the "apocalyptic" stage in the first place (much easier to sneeze on someone than just to bite them, and people would be way more reluctant to just gun down someone who's showing signs of an infection because they still might recover), without buffing the zombies themselves too hard. My main problem with modern zombie media is that they just give them superpowers, which ironically makes them less scary than the based and trad slow zombies.
The original Romero rule where anyone who dies, for any reason, WILL reanimate was actually a more thoughtful crisis explanation than a lot of the movies that followed it for decades
Imagine what a hazard any hospital becomes, permanently. Any senior home, any car accident site. The fricking nightmare if a plane crashes near your town.
There are people out in the world who 100% a zombie apocalypse will happen in their lifetime and have already prepared for the scenario with various instruments that can restrain a zombie just so they can have sex with it
based tbdesu
I couldn't believe the fricking balls of this movie to have the guy with the zombie sex slave portrayed as a sympathetic, protagonist-aligned character even though all the other "good guys" thought he was harmlessly weird, it's so much more genuinely edgy and subversive than anything that's been in a movie in years
Tim Blake Nelson just being in this makes it at least worth a look.
Was ok enough film. Human Male Zombie Female is ok Zombie Male Human Female is NOT tho
Wasn't the zombie also a teenager or previous student or something like that?
The trickier part about zombies is actually having them around for more than say, a month. All those hordes would be decimated by decay in no time, all you have to do is wait.
Ideally you would need some sort of brain function and basic survival instincts to eat and protect the body from weather etc. Everything else similar to say Walking Dead is a lot more trivial. Countryside towns would be manageable in no time.
>everyone magically become zombies
>when guns exists
>when melee weapons exist
All zombies can do at best is run. You could lock a door and be safe
Why do these brainlets who make zombie shit never address how the human body rots into a disgusting blackish material in a very short amount of time. They got these mummified corpses surviving for months or longer running around and shit lmao.
Zombie magic preserves the body and keeps the muscles nice and limber, no rigor mortis, no decay that turns all their muscles and ligaments into a soupy mess. Somehow the zombie can stand upright even after the intricate inner ear mechanism that allows humans to balance is rotted away to nothing, and the muscular apparatus that can hold the spine straight is turned to mush.
Wow you're so smart.
Zombies are stupid. The people who like them are stupid. There are so many reasons zombies don't make any sense even within the internal logic of their own setting. I'd sooner buy magically animated skeletons as a threat than reanimated corpses.
but at least there aren't spores, anon!!!! at least they got that right!
suppose we have an Abrams tank, how do zombies get to us? I mean, we are in a fricking tanks that can drive over them, fire at them, crush them and we can simply close the hatches.
You're good until you run out of fuel.
Does your tank run on electricity? Also depending on the zombie you are going to bring an horde with you. kek
Abrams tanks hold 490 gallons of fuel.
With that 490 gallons it can travel less than 260 miles. With idling and anything else you're gonna run out of fuel in a week, you probably burn up 10 gallons just to start the thing.
Good luck finding another 490 gallons of fuel, even if you find a gas station that isn't ransacked I'm pretty sure those things don't run on 87 unleaded.
>dude these slow-moving, clumsy monsters are totally a serious threat that could overwhelm a heavily armed military force
lol
can zombies give consent to being raped?
The real zombies are white capitalists consumers am I right Marxbros?
>It's entirely possible that an alien civilisation somewhere in the universe is having its version of a zombie apocalypse right now
what do you think the great filter is?
>the Flood
Can you imagine a zombie movie but set in the past? Zombie samurai? Medieval Zombie? Caveman Zombie?
There is this novel, the mountain man where the protag actually moves around with full motorcycle gear.
The problem is when he gets swarmed by the zombies [ they dont sprint but move in a fast "im gonna be late in the office" walk] he starts to get ripped apart because the zombies keep pulling and pulling and pulling on all his limbs etc. So with enough of them, he would get torn apart, even if they cant bite.
uhoh that zombie bit her!
>her
:/
They'll grab that and pull you in for a nice face bite
the only reason I would even be aware of a zombie apocalypse would be because of the posts here in PrepHole
I would never experience any of it from where I am
Zombies are pathetic necromorphs are the real horror and we have 0 good necromorph movies.
Closest we have is The Thing.
Dead Space 2 opens and shows that if a necromorph is about to eat your face you just headbutt it and it'll fall over. They're nothing.
The problem is that very few monster tropes should logically be a threats when you can use modern weapons against it. Resident Evil realized this in pre-production and opted to go for absurdly mutated monstrosities to keep some tension, but this has the contrary issue of making the monster too unrealistic for the player to be afraid of it.
The only way to have genuine horror in a video game is to remove reaistically effective weapons from the game.
>The only way to have genuine horror in a video game is to remove reaistically effective weapons from the game.
Part of the intensity from the RE games is the scarcity of resources. Yeah you'll be fine if you have a shotgun but hey you got a handful of shells to get you past an army of undead. Gotta be smart and not just cowboy your way to an empty magazine in a room full of zombies.
Any zombie movie with a zombie hierarchy? A smart zombie commanding the dumb zombies?
The one in Las Vegas that was made on Netflix.
game of thrones