<![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Yeah let's hear more about dead alive.

UtaCalvus

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Don't forget Futurama's Hanukkah Zombie, who finally makes an appearance in "Bender's Big Score." Gotta Love a Zombie with a TIE Fighter!

EGN

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @TOMMIGUN

I'm glad you made that point. 28 Days Later and I Am Legend had infected, but still living, humans. A zombie in my mind is a creature that was once a living, breathing human that died, and is now moving and preying on humans but has no operating human functions. Zombies don't breath, their blood doesn't circulate, and they don't digest the flesh they ingest.

completegeek

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> How about ironic zombies, like Shaun of the Dead? :D

DarlingMagpie

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> The canceled Babylon Fields pilot had some interesting zombies. More like promises of good zombies. But I guess we'll never know.

guibom

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Please allow me to submit this argument for confirmation by this panel. Zombies, by popular and historical cinematic definition, are reanimated corpses or the un-dead for a concise definiton. Creatures in movies such as I am Legend or Resident Evil x, are instead mutants. Mutants being any living creature who has been changed by some force (viral, chemical, Nuclear , etc..) into a new form, but still living. While perhaps not a terribly important nuance, I think all you highly intelligent Horror fans would appreciate the clarification and would agree with my submitted thesis.

Tommigun

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @putch: No I'm not. There's Romero's "Dead" series (dawn,day, land, diary) then there are those other "Living Dead" series. I just couldn't remember Russo's name.

I was just bringing it up since Charlie mentioned in the article that the Venus probe is speculated as being the cause of the Zombies. Even though the "Living Dead" movies are sort of an unofficial alternate universe continuation of the "Dead" movies, even they ignore the probe in favor of toxic gas (Trioxin).

Is it me, or does toxic gas feel kinda lazy these days?

SomeAudioGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @Bellatrixie: And this is why I'm home schooling my kids. They don't need the quadratic formula; they need to know how to build a flamethrower.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Don't forget Night of the Comet! Although I'm not sure those count as zombies, though, since they can form sentences.

TWSS

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Knowing your zombies is crucial to your survival in the coming catastrophe. Your survival strategy should vary depending on what sort of zombie is threatening you. I've got a guide going and I'll have to update it for Zombie Prom and Fido.

Bellatrixie

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> The same is true in the games as in the movies when it comes to Resi.

Mister Adequate

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> you definitely have two sets of Zombie genres. The SciFi type (gas, toxin, radiation etc) usually, but not always created by a meglomaniac scientist or an 'evil' corporation that tends to reflect environment/political concerns, not the Zombies, the film. I don't think Zombies care about the environment. And then the 'Other' zombie flicks. The ones that involve spiritualism, devil worship and magic. The old Fantasy/SciFi divide.

What is bizarre, from an anthropological point of view, is that the Voodoo type Zombies are arguably a result of a society based on exploitation/oppression and religion/magic is used as a freeing force from the sociopolitical environment. Whilst the sci-fi Zombies are the result of private or corporate/State freedom gone CRAZY!

I'll go and die now in my pool of over intellectualizing vomit ;)

nha

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @omg-ponies:
It's called "The Re-Penetrator" and it is neither sexy nor scary. It's just...messy.

[www.repenetrator.com]

shudderstep

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> The Audiobook of World War Z is spectacular. Hearing Jurgen Prochnow talk about herding civilians to their doom and Henry Rollins as a bad-ass Zombie Mercenary is a thing of beauty.

shudderstep

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @engtech: Zombie pr0n exists. I don't know (or want to know) the title of some zombie/reanimator porno playing at a dive bar in Brooklyn I went to a few times. It was bad, not titillating, and set on loop.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @munch420s: zombie pron exists

Go watch Night Watch with Ewan McGregor if you don't believe me.

Worst date movie ever.

engtech

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @nerdgasm: And then there's Jesus of Nazareth - the original Zombie King

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Max Brooks is pretty clear that REAL zombies are caused by the solanum virus and not voodoo. Come on, folks, read your literature!

nerdgasm

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Unless black magic or Easter is involved, it just ain't a zombie...

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> The original Return of the Living Dead never fails to un-nerve me. I honestly can't watch it more than once every couple of years, even though it holds a real fascination for me. It was the Fangoria pix of a half-zombie being interrogated that drew me in.

I generally go for Romero's slow-shuffling, inexorable horde as my zombie of choice. Why? Cause they act like dead people, only not so much with the immobility. And I love the idea that there might be an explanation, but the world goes to shit before it can be identified (though the bite transmission seems to point to a viral cause). Even the scientist in Day of the Dead has given up trying to find it.

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> ZOMBIES vs ROBOTS. A zombifying contagion is inadvertently brought to the present by mankind's time-travelling robots.

rig

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @mrmaps:

Then there is the question of people reduced to zombie-like shells or breathing donor banks in medical thrillers like COMA or the living anatomical models in the ANATOMY series.

Who would have imagined there was such variety within the general "zombie" category?

Who wants to take a shot at categorizing ghouls, then?

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @Someaudiguy you're confusing romero's series (night of living dead, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, land of the dead) with russo/o'bannon's return of the living dead series. which is understandable because russo co-created romero's night of the living dead and return references night a few times. the return series is based on a military gas. romero's "dead" series doesnt really speculate the cause except to theorize it was the probe and/or that "hell was full." but, who needs explanations when you've got zombies.

did anyone else think that the scene in AVP:R where they nuke the small town was reminiscent of o'bannon's return of the living dead. especially since they both found the humor in those situations. i mean, o'bannon helped create the alien franchise, so i felt it fitting.

putch

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Or the real-life zombies as portrayed in "Serpent and the Rainbow?" (Shellfish Toxin)

But, wait, thats real, not sci-fi.

Dug

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> I enjoyed FIDO, which reminded me of PARENTS, somewhat.

28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER owes a lot to Romero's OTHER 1960s sci-fi/horror civil disaster flick, THE CRAZIES, where a bio-weapon accidentally turns a township near Pittsburgh into raving homicidal maniacs & incestous rapists. There was also a book from the 1970s called YELLOW FOG where a bio-weapon turns London into a city of raving nutters as well.

So, to recap: sci-fi zombies include the original Romero trilogy, Return of the Living Dead, Reanimator, 28 Days Later, Fido, and the utterly derivative Resident Evil & House of the Dead franchises.

Supernatural zombies include anything in a Fulci movie, White Zombie, The Evil Dead, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Kung Fu Zombies, and I Walked With A Zombie. Arguments can be made whether Evil Dead & Demons involve zombies or humans possessed by demons.

The zombies in Dead Alive are anyone's guess.

P.S. Sorry, Frankenstein's Monster ain't a zombie. To be a zombie you have to be composed 100% of one dead guy. Being made of numerous dead guys doesn't make you a zombie. It makes you a monster/creature.

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Return of the Living Dead 3 is one of the finest zombie movies ever. [www.imdb.com]
Yes, there, I said it. I love that movie. And when I say it's a Good Movie, I say it in the way some people say American Beauty is a Good Movie.

Hm, Trioxin. So all it takes to make zombies is three oxygen molecules?

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> In Romero's "The Crazies", the plague was caused by an accident with a biological weapon. The crazies weren't dead, if I remember correctly, just infected and therefore Crazy Like a Zombie.

WWZ has some interesting parts about people selling sham vaccines and cures for the virus.

Gazelle

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> I got a bit excited when I read Zombie Pron, only to be let down when I found out that I misread Zombie Prom

Munch the BanNail

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Don't forget that the zombies in The Return of the Living Dead sequels were created by a gas called 2-4-5 Trioxin being released from a medical lab's storage area after the accident that caused the accident that the Night of the Living Dead was based on.

Freddie Freelance

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> @zeppelined: dang beat me to it...

I actually prefer the "no method" movies like Night to be honest. Was used perfectly in Shaun of the Dead...

SomeAudioGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Though you do have to admit the trippy spiritualism of Cemetery Man is pretty cool too...

The rest of the "Living Dead" movies also ignore the Venus probe in favor of toxic gases.

Love Zombies!

SomeAudioGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> The zombies in the various Return of the Living Dead movies are created by some kind of military gas. In fact, I nominate the bioweapon gone awry as the leading brand of zombie creation plot devices.

Voodoo zombies are boring.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Great Zombies Of Science Fiction]]> Let's not forget about "Dead Alive". Peter Jackson gives us a masters veiw of what a zombie movie should be. Gore, Gore, and more Gore!

mgcramps

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