Hmmmm. You sound a lot like Tery. In her case though it's the complete refusal to suspend disbelief, which of course is a mandatory requirement in most if not all horror movies. She also enjoyed Shaun and Zombieland though.
Funny you should mention the fast vs. slow zombies. I dislike "fast" zombies based on science (which contradicts what I just said about suspending disbelief): if you're talking about a zombie in the purest sense of the word, the walking dead, they wouldn't have the brain or muscle power to move very quickly (and I'm also aware that the original zombies from voodoo culture weren't actually dead people. Interestingly enough, I just watched a Halloween special about zombies and George Romero himself, the "godfather of movie zombies," protested repeatedly that in his film "Night of the Living Dead" he never even called them zombies).
Anyhoo. I think Zombieland and 28 Days Later get around the "fast" zombies thing because they don't call them zombies either; I think in both films they specify there was a virus that made people enraged and cannibalistic, not walking dead. Of course, all the lazy reviewers and fans jump straight to the zed word, which kind of irritates me.
And now you know more than you needed to about my feelings on zombies. ; )
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Re: More than you ever needed to know about my relationship with horror
Date: 2009-11-19 06:11 pm (UTC)Funny you should mention the fast vs. slow zombies. I dislike "fast" zombies based on science (which contradicts what I just said about suspending disbelief): if you're talking about a zombie in the purest sense of the word, the walking dead, they wouldn't have the brain or muscle power to move very quickly (and I'm also aware that the original zombies from voodoo culture weren't actually dead people. Interestingly enough, I just watched a Halloween special about zombies and George Romero himself, the "godfather of movie zombies," protested repeatedly that in his film "Night of the Living Dead" he never even called them zombies).
Anyhoo. I think Zombieland and 28 Days Later get around the "fast" zombies thing because they don't call them zombies either; I think in both films they specify there was a virus that made people enraged and cannibalistic, not walking dead. Of course, all the lazy reviewers and fans jump straight to the zed word, which kind of irritates me.
And now you know more than you needed to about my feelings on zombies. ; )