Quote:
|
Originally Posted by dr wadd
Grrr, 28 Days Later was *not* a zombie film. Even George Romero's films are not zombie films.
Zombies are corpses that are re-animated due to voodoo. These are not corpses re-animated by voodoo, in 28 Days Later they aren`t even corpses at all. Don`t forget, that apart from one exception in Dawn, not once are they referred to as zombies in Night, Dawn and Day, although it looks like Land has thrown that one out the window.
Sorry to be a pedant, but this is quite an important distinction for me. I was so happy when Tom Savini made the same point on the commentary track for the remake of NotLD.  |
Picky...
Yes I know 28days is not a Zombie film.
However, just because they are not referred to as Zombies in the Romero films doesn't mean they aren't.
Yes the classic zombies are made via voodoo (by the way they are not re-animated corpses) by druging the poor person with the poison extracted from the puffer fish thus paralysing them to the point of near death. They are buried and then dug up and given then given an anitidote,but they are kept drugged and made to work as mindless creatures.
However, the flesh eating kind in the Romero films are brought about by the "mythical" virus solanum.