Food For Thought (That Even Zombies Can Eat)

[aiselnepn]

*Warning* The following is a random ramble from a random-er rambler.

Those who know me know that I love zombies in all their rotting, disgusting g(l)ory. ^^ Recently, I checked out the first few volumes of the zombie/action manga, Highschool of the Dead, by Daisuke Sato & Shouji Sato. Not yet sure if the series will scale the top of my favorites

Comments

[jessie_kad]

The way I've always seen it (and I'm basically making this assumption strictly from Night of the Living Dead, which is still the only zombie movie I can openly watch and enjoy [though Shaun of the Dead is in a league of its own]), people in zombie movieland don't call them zombies because the word doesn't exist. There is no conception of this scenario because it's never been thought up. In NOTLD, they don't even realize the dead are coming to life until midway into the story. They don't know what is going on and throw around a bunch of theories. In real life (God-forbid) if we were encountered by things that looked like zombies, acted like zombies, smelled like zombies, etc, we'd most likely scream, "OMG, it's a zombie!" But in the movies' universes? This breed of horror is something they've never even imagined.

Just my two-cents. ^^ Again, based solely on NOTLD and those poor, ignorant, unsuspecting people. XD

[aiselnepn]

That makes sense, and you made a great case with Night of the Living Dead. Whenever zombies come to life, people act like this is the "first" time something of the sort has ever happened. Again, it makes sense. We know about zombies thanks to TV, movies, etc., but actors in such films aren't suppost to behave or "realize" they're in an actual movie/TV show, right? Even SPN uses "zombies" sparingly (although most of SPN's zombie cases are far from the stereotypical zombie fare, too). Plus, I suppose it adds a level of mystery/vulnerability to a story if characters don't really know "what" the monsters are. A good horror element is to keep the victims in the dark, even if the audience knows "what" those walking corpses are. ^^