How come almost every zombie film's universe not even acknowledge zombie film or culture from the past? How come characters don't take into account films that have explained what zombies are, how to do with them and how to survive. They often don't even call them zombies.
Really makes you think.
It's almost as if all zombie movies are retarded as shit
I always thought it was a storytelling technique. If you tell the audience that the fiction of zombies exists in this world, it becomes less believable to imagine what you would do if it happened in real life.
But in vampire movies they always reference vampire legends, so I'm probably wrong.
Zombies lose the pretense of being scary when characters understand rigid formulas and go through every autist's dream "How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse" checklist, but it's mostly because screenwriters are hacks and enjoy making the first act to every zombie movie virtually identical
Off the top of my head Return of the Living Dead is one of the biggest ones to actually reference Night of the Living Dead, and actually play around with the rules established by George Romero by having the character's expectations of zombies subverted
>that webm
I'm fucking dying. Thank you.
I don't want zombie movies to follow a strict set of rules from what they've seen in zombie culture but it's kind of weird where people don't seem to know anything about it at all when it's so huge.
>I don't want zombie movies to follow a strict set of rules
But rules can be hilarious.
this is why its so dumb, every vampire movie acknowledges vampires yet every zombie movie the characters can never have prior knowledge
That's because vampire movies conform to the historical/cultural norms of what a vampire is, how they work, how to beat them.
Hardly any zombie movies do this, because the historical/cultural norm is voodoo and shit. In most movies it's the result of some virus or something, and to start with people aren't sure what to do. Because you don't want to start chopping heads off willy-nilly if all you have to do is drown the original zombie in worcestershire sauce.
Vampires usually have superhuman strength and or speed so it's not hard to imagine ways to get killed by them, but you have to be extra retarded to get killed by a fucking slow ass shambling dead guy. That's why there's always that one person at the beginning of every zombie movie that's like, "hey bro, you look sick or something..."
It's a gif you fucking butthead
>that gif
I'm fucking retarded. Thank you.
>Characters see zombies for the first time
>"What the hell are these things?"
>being a vampire or werewolf is no longer about being cursed
>zombies are just rabid humans with super speed
>eldritch horror is just dude tentacles lmao
People would probably call them Zombies, so much is true.
But why would you assume that any movie rule about Zombies would hold any weight?
Vampires are myth that has existence in various forms for most of recorded history, they are like dragons basically, traditional movie zombies are not. That said I'd fucking love to see a zombie movie centered around actual voodoo zombies.
ancient vampires are an "unstoppable force" villain, so prior knowledge of them is irrelevant. zombies are extremely stoppable, and prior knowledge of them and how to deal with them would render them a non-threat within a matter of days.
>characters see superhero for the first time
>wow it's like he's some sort of hero or something!
absolute pleb detected
The rules for modern Zombies have been made up by film makers in living memory and everybody is aware of this. If you made a zombie movie in which the characters are aware of these rules, they probably would say something like "might aswell try what they did in the movies" but they wouldn't have any reason to trust these rules.
That being said, Return of the Living Dead DID reference prior zombie movies to comedic effect since their methods were completely ineffective in this universe ("but it worked in the movies!")
>Because you don't want to start chopping heads off willy-nilly if all you have to do is drown the original zombie in worcestershire sauce.
What is this reddit sentence? fuck outta here
>But why would you assume that any movie rule about Zombies would hold any weight?
I'm not saying they would. I'm not even saying that all zombie movies should have dialog where they discuss movies, comics, games etc about zombies in depth. It just seems odd how so many films don't even acknowledge the mythos of zombies.
Yeah, I agree with you on this.
They're too scared
I think this is a reference to South Park’s season one Halloween special. Kenny turns into a zombie after being embalmed with Worcestershire sauce. Also in this episode killing the original zombie turns everyone back normal. This is found out after Stan and Cartman kill like 50 zombies with chainsaws.
redisent evil does
name five cases
Because that’s the point retard.