Originally Posted by
woodenheart
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1. Undead...the zombie was at one point dead.
I can agree with this rule
2. Hunger for human flesh.
Reanimator, Evil Deads, Pet Semetarys, Dead and Buried...there are tons of "zombie" movies that contain the undead where they don't want human flesh
3. Not damaged by non-lethal harm.
Not sure what you mean here but I guess you mean you can take off an arm or something and they wont feel pain...or it wont affect their drive?
shit this can go for almost any horror movie, how many times have we seen a slasher take a gun shot or a stab wound and keep coming, even the "infected" don't care if they get injured...they just keep coming.
4.Killed only by destroying the brain. Even after severing the spinal column, Romero zombies' heads still live.
RotLDs, Evil Dead, lots of zombie movies ignore the brain thing.
5.Minimal mental thinking. The classic Romero-style zombies seem to be able to process only the information necessary for following and consuming live flesh. They are driven mostly on instinct alone. They are incapable of speech or complex thoughts. Outside of the Romero movies, it is not unusual to see this idea twisted or broken for the sake of creating a more interesting monster. Still, ''smart'' zombies are very rare.
So Land of the Dead, the Blind Dead, Return of the living Dead, Evil Deads, Pet Semetarys, etc, shouldnt be zombie movies because the risen dead think?
The problem with trying to classify what a zombie is, is that there are so many counter examples that exist. Here's the way I feel:
Does 28days/weeks have any zombies in it? No.
Does 28days/weeks still feel like a zombie movie? Hell yes it does...the only difference is there are no zombies in it.
Spoiler...
I feel much the same way about April fools day. Is it a slasher...technically no since no one dies. Does it feel like a slasher? yup.