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A zombie is a dead person that is brought back to life through a curse (voodoo, necromancy) or a mutation and has recovered some vital functions like movement. They are near-mindless, possessing little reasoning power, though many can perform "remembered behaviors" from their mortal existence.
Zombies have been confused with many other monstrous creatures. Monstrous will try to make a clear distinction between the different entities that proceed from death.
Some zombies have the appearance of the living but their lack of free will and souls give them the appearance of mechanical robots.
Other display visible signs of desiccation, decay and emaciation on their face and body. They have blank, expressionless faces that become more animated when they get hungry and engage in a feeding frenzy.
They are incapable of speech, but often tend to make moaning and guttural sounds. They are normally encountered wearing whatever clothing they wore in their human life, prior to reanimation.
* Zombies never sleep, and they are incapable of fatigue.
* Zombies are impervious to pain and require no air to breathe.
* They are thus immune to drugs, poisons, gases, extremes of temperature and pressure, high voltage electricity, suffocation, and drowning.
* While not invulnerable to physical injury, zombies can suffer great damage to their bodies (including dismemberment) without being adversely affected. Dismembering the legs will render the zombie immobile, but the creature will still continue to subsist. Likewise, decapitation will incapacitate the body, but the head will still "live".
* Zombies don’t possess any superhuman strength, nor do they have a night vision, a characteristic usually common to undead monsters.
As a slightly potty researcher illustrates in Day of the Dead, the dead do not need to eat, they reach for live flesh even when they have no mouth or gullet, even when their stomachs have been removed. The impulse is part of their very fiber, a spiritual craving. They are dead, and death wants to consume life. It is an image of insatiable nihilism that is hard to resist. In Romero’s trilogy and sequels, the world has discovered that these zombies are particularly fond of human brains, requiring the chemicals in the hypothalamus for maintaining their existence.

I believe that it will rain candy cane from the skies before any zombies decide to attack. But obviously it is handy to have a guide just in case :)

I think it's just a general human fear.

We fear death coming, then we fear death being reversed with nasty side effects.

It would be horrible to be hunted by your own. The concept of zombies is so illogical however, the idea is just sort of funny.

no, i do not believe in movie zombies. Zombies are people who are drugged and controlled in reality in Haiti.

The Haitian zombies are drugged with a mixture of Datura and other drugs that makes them delirious and suggestive, and as long as they regulary get a dose, they're zombie slaves for their whole lives.

As far as undead zombies, they can't be raised from the dead. There are some interesting concepts in the Zombie Survival Guide, which is a rather good book. It talks about a mutated virus that disables the body's natural functions, but the frontal lobes (or whatever controls movement, etc.) remain active. It's a crock of shit to me, but other people may find it interesting or (gods help us) useful.

Humans are allready being hunted by some of their own. I also think that zombies and the idea of attacks have more to do with the fear of death like Morrigon said.

There is a potion that can put you in a zombielike position, but it is very dangerous. It is used in Voodoo although I do not remember its way of manufacture, its ingredients sounds really disgusting.

Try the Serpent and the Rainbow for your movie. Based on book by same name.

Yeah that's the one!
I couldn't sleep for a week after it. It's truly disturbing.

Skjaldepigen, the main ingredient in that potion is Datura. That's what I was referencing. It is indeed a VERY dangerous brew. Datura is a very risky drug to work with. But they combine it with a few others and it puts the subject into a coma-like delirium. They're zombies in every way (aside from being dead of course).

Now that would be very interesting, but very unlikely to happen, at least in the way these zombies are described.

yes, I know Datura I just could not remember if it was that, but thank you.

There was an episode of MTV's fear, where they played with Vodoo, they used another zombie potion, only this one contained a muscle relaxation drug but I doubt they used the real Haitian recipie.

Yeah, there's no way they'd be allowed to use it. I think some of the ingredients are illegal in the states, though Datura isn't. They're literally playing with death if they use the original. I've had 3 friends end up in ICU after using a NORMAL dose of Datura. Take someone who doesn't know the proper dosage (which can't be established, as the atropine concentration levels differ from plant to plant), and you're just being a fucking moron. lol.

I dont believe there would be an attack, but if there were I'd get on the nearest boat and sail away

Well when they do attack, I have my trusty AR-15, tactical shotgun, and a few others. So I say let them come. :)

um well if you really want to know i think if it ever happens it will be because of the government. like an experiment gone bad. As far as killing them I will smash their heads make sure the brain is gone. body can't function without a brain.

I feel the same way if there are any kind of Zombie Attack it would be from a Government screw-up (On purpose) LOL yet I am a survivor so I am ready for anything , plus I watch enough movies to know to not waste my ammo and shoot them in the head and move around quietly... told ya I watch alot of Zombie /walkin dead movies LOL

do i think it impossible no nothing is. people can posion things like water reserves and so on and so forth trying to form a group of people easily control. I read a lot I have seen a few books about different drugs that create very controlable people with a pritty short dose of a drug. you never know what control hungry people may try to have power it is a very dangerous thought.

Zombie hell anything is possible whenever you get down to it LOL I know though anything can be destroyed also I watch alot of zombie movies and well I am sure I would be fine LOL

Movie zombies? nah...people though dead but were actually in a coma, then used by bad vodun priest/priestesses...yes.

The attack will come, even though the time is unknown. Whether it be military caused, meteorite, chemical warfare inticed, toxins in water supplies or otherwise extra-terestrial related. In the pages of said guide, there have been numerous outbreaks all over the world, believing the outbreaks or not is individual decision. But, many within the world are very very well prepared for this kind of epidemic.

Oh, by the way...Diary of the Dead, George A. Romero's newest zombi flick says it all. Another on screan survival guide.

well the way science is going i wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of chemical outbreak that would turn people into zombies. so, i wouldnt completelly rule out a zombie attack i just think it would be unlikely

I doubt it will happen, but I've doubted alot & it's come true. So yes, I think in time something similar will occur along the lines of the whole zombie nation movies

maybe. supposing a saprophytic organism was to evolve,be created,or come from space - something akin to a fungus, but grows inside dead bodies. one that is rather more advanced than terrestrial fungi, and is almost of animal inteeligence. if it was to settle in the brain, and then spread outwards from it, it could possibly hijack the brain and nervous system, thereby using the dead body as a vehicle.

there is a better chance of rainbows changing into skittles than having a zombie attack.. if there was one however, magic would be quite effective.. since they are usually in dry rags, setting them ablaze would be quiet fun

I can tell you this much, I would imagine the most killer thing about a zombie would be their gas and burp breathe...

I believe this statement is a great thing.

'You're a great friend; But if zombies attack I'm tripping your ass'.

You don't have to run fast, you just have to run faster than one of your friends.

I also believe the cause of zombies existing would be because of a somewhat Resident Evil type thing.

A virus.

*Hands raised* oooh ooh oooh...*Chuckles* A voodun ritual gone bad????? Sounds like a bloody marvelous scenerio!!

I'm not sure if I believe zombies could ever be real. But I would get a boat to the nearest island of the coast of Maine, because I live near there and camp out there until the threat was over. It's the easiest place to defend if need be.

i believe that zombie are real.... not in the since of every movie put it... but its gonna be.. nature is gonna kick our ass.. and fight back.....only the strong will survive

i dont believe there would be an attack. but if so i will have alot of guns and Ammo then

i disagree that zombies feel no pain. i think maybe zombies are portrayed as vicious is because the cause of their death combined with the decay of tissue would make any being cranky.

well... i would be cranky too... wouldn't you

Yeah I think if I woke up and half my face was gone, I'd run toward the nearest living thing and kill it...lol...

Soulshroude...yes that movie ROCKS OUT LOUD!!! I bought it Wednesday and have seen it 3 times. Romero is a GOD ...haha

Looks like you beat me to it ~Divine~, since it is a Blockbuster exclusive, I am waiting until it hits the 14.99 rack. Though it is one of Romero's best in a very long while, I can wait. I did rent it as well as watch it for a week straight.

Someone does need to make a movie out of the Zombie Survival Guide, I would love it if Romero took the time.

Well our muscles respond to electricity, so I guess if technology advanced to the point where machines totally controlled our limbs, I guess you could make someone a zombie once their brain dead, but they wouldn't need to eat brains. They machines would have more of a need for electricity.

As for protecting myself against zombies I would use the Hollywood method. Shoot first, ask questions later.

I love all these responses....I often find myself at work, staring out into the world and I can almost picture them...lumbering across the parking lot, the ethereal moan that seems to surround you once they set upon you...

And I agree 150% SoulShroude ...Romero really needs to make the Survival Guide or...I feel that when he is done with the "Dead" series, he should wrap it up with a movie called "Back from the dead" and show the aftermath of an all out zombie attack...would mankind survive somehow and if so...how?

hmmm, unless some one actually manages to pull off one of the rituals where the dead do "rise to smell the incense" or "MAY THE DEAD RISE AND CONSUME THE LIVING" *ahem* anyway.

till then a Katana, and a Cricket bat will do me just fine. That is unless of course we are talking about a time when magick can do more damage then it does now, in which case, i will quite look forward to the amount of devastating effects my art will have on the zombie population if it comes after me. Assuming its not partially my fault. At least in my region anyway....

but all and all. id lock the door and put in a good movie.

Nice answer Infernalmage! Pop in a good Romero flick and kick back and welcome the end of existence...lol

*nods* something like that. All though id be more a fan of watching something like tank girl, or even something that would put me in the mood for a fight. Assuming the world was still around, and i ran out of booze, if i woke up the next day and there were still hordes outside, then it might be party time.

I vouch for the book, its quite a lovely suggestion manual. But the thing is, a blade is better then a gun....you dont run out of bullets when you have a blade.....but it would be nice to have a shotgun laying around, and remember that its only the head which is important.

i would also have to send flowers to the vodoun witch responsible if they did muck up a working.

I treasure my survival guide. The zombie attack I fear is of the near mindless hordes invading my neighborhood either because their brains have been destroyed by (1) drug addiction (2) hopelessness (3) they forgot to take their meds. Urged on by a fatalistic view of their future and a local catastrophe such as a forest fire, a riot, or a severe natural calamity like an earthquake, tornado or hurricane, they run amuck looting businesses and engaging in home invasions. Cannibalism is a afterthought which I would not encourage by the accurate use of a shotgun removal of their brains.

Tank Girl is a good flick...old school for sure...

YES ABOVE ALL...ALWAYS REMEMBER TO DESTROY THE HEAD!!! Be creative...just get the job done, the more you kill...the less I have to :P

again....people tend to get cut up by all sorts of things when looting a building. so removal of appendages with surgical precision use of a boom stick isn't a bad idea.

Hahahahah
LOL

I love the tripping quote!

That's classic.

I don't know about zombie attacks. If there were drugs that caused that state that the so-called Haitian Zombies are to take on, you would need to plant the ideas of what to do. If there were mass drugging or disease that imitated those symptoms, you would just have a throng of drugged/diseased people standing around motionless. That doesn't seem too intimidating. Just more road blocks.

How awesome would that be? To have a gun as hand during a zombie outbreak...lol...

just remember is Nictu not Nectie and we should all be spared from invasions of deadites....>.< damn undead biatches....

*pets the double barrel blue steel Remington available on Isle 5*

Give me some sugar baby...hahahaha...I think hordes that look like those would not strike fear in the hearts of too many folks...

Oh and another good tip for surviving a zombie attack...cut your hair and wear tight fitting clothing so that the zombies have nothing to grab onto.

*Chuckles* Yes ~Devine~ wear that "tight fitting" clothing would you? Oh, you mean to guard against the undead hordes.

Yessss, all you need to know and much much more, yours for the extremely low price of a five finger discount at your local shopping plaza...THE BOOK!!

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Isn't it amazing the number of people who scoff at the idea of zombies being brought out of their graves but at the same time, consider themselves vampires?

*Chuckles* That is irony for you my dear, from one extreme to the other with a blatant ignorance governing the mentality of so many within modern culture.

Now, if the UK has something up their sleeve for such attacks, then something must be going on in the governments background. I smell conspiracy.

I enjoyed the UK statements LOL, Well believe me I agree if it was to happen I guarantee you that some government was behind it all.. I just know how to survive, and all Zombie and walking Dead movies are your basic survival tip movies... :)

Granted my knowledge is limitted on "Zombies", but the characteristics of a "Zombie" could possibly be created by many contributing factors, including biological, nuclear, etc.

It is a possibillity that "Zombism" may occur, though they would most likely not be "the living dead" as portreyed in movies and books.

well I tend to believe that there could be living Dead Imean, as long as the brain has been exposed to electric current or something that would start the brain going again, then I think you would havewalking dead, the body would be just going through the motions, yet I do not see them wanting to eat me LOL but, hey, I am not a scientist either so.. I just have a very open mind to possiblity... :)

The problem with reanimating a brain is the fact that after the nerve impulses have stopped, degeneration begins immediately. The story Herbert West: Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft has some very interesting insights. Unless you can get the body prepped for reanimation almost immediately after it dies, your chances of bringing dead tissue to life is impossible. There was a part in the story where West brought back a body that had died suspiciously, and when they reanimated it, the man's last memory (aka West giving him a lethal injection) gave him a heart attack. It's possible.

At the possibility of sounding completly stupid, the outbreak would be caused by a virus of some kind, this is highly possible due to the growing amount of phamacuitical companies and the testing on animals, its not a matter of 'if' but a matter of 'when'.

That's likely the ONLY way it could happen. Something that would eliminate the in-between DEAD stage. That's the basis for the Zombie Survival Guide.

Oh, and I thought I'd mention: What makes any of you think you'd be safe on an island? You'd be trapped on a small, easily surroundable island with water all around you. Zombies are essentially dead. They can conceivably walk through water. You'll die rather quickly.

Well I think that zombies are a handical entrophy challenge individuals and unless they are specifically noshing on the brains of a victim should be contained to a recreative shelter environment..

SO Bring your Family Zombie Down To Zombie Land .. Entertaining Your Zombie is Fun For the Entire Family...

ok maybe we are surrounded but we have a lot of hills and cliffs, but they cant walk though water because they still need the basics, the breathe and you cant breathe under the water unless you have gills. so maybe we will be screwed or maybe not.

BRAINS!!!!

So many different kinds of zombies from the movies - something I'd not like to come across though... but that survival guide book is a very good read, actually.

LaMuerte is so on with the zombies of Haiti and wherever else the art may be practiced... that's some creepy stuff and how it so totally takes over a person.

Serpent and the Rainbow was an excellent movie and would give anyone the creeps about being a zombie.. wasn't there a line about watching when/how you bury me, I might not be dead or something to that affect - being buried alive is something that would freak anyone out.

we already do, im surprised it hasnt happened before!

LOL Belief or not. I was raised to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Some may consider this a parinoid personality trait, but even the old boyscout mottoe is "Be Prepared." LOL So I have my own plans incase of Zombie Outbreaks. As well as defenses against other things that go bumb in the night. LOL
As that old law states. 'What ever can go wrong....." >;]

No thats good be perpared indeed, the best thing to be, but i can garentee you it will happen, it may not be humans but animals, and if not animals, microorganisms the we would all truly be bugered!

Contract Zombie Extermination, and Quarintine..

Head Shot Productions -All Cases Handled Swiftly-

LOL Well we can only prepare for so much. LOL

Yes we can and it will be fate in the end that decides all! If you have watched 28 days later, watch the special fetures.

I do feel that it is a very real possibility right now that zombies or something akin to them could rise up and attack OUR world. I think that we would all be shocked, outraged, and terrified of the things the government has "stored in the basement"...just watch the news and try to look beyond the bullshit...there are some horrific things going down in the world right now.

I know it all to well thats why i said its not if but when. it will hapen!

28 days later was a very spooky movie. Man made viruses destroying the world.. sounds like something that might just happen if the wrong virus gets into the wrong hands.

E gads a zombie attack, well according to your post there is nothing that can kill them. The movies I have watched all pointed to severing their heads as the best recourse. Of course they are quite stupid and who knows what the government has up their sleeves, hopefully something....

V, 28 Days Later was awesome!

i wish i had a rediculous government salary to create early warnings for zombie infestations, eradication, and study....

maybe we can collect them and drop them on iraq....it might be kind of funny...

Well my thought is, if zombies do what they did in their mortal life, how can you say they don't have a soul? Isn't a soul what makes you have will? Or is their brain remembering?
But if they're technically brain dead, how would their memory still be intact?
And what about motor functions? I know that when you get brain damaged, motor function is the first to go. If their brain is deteriorated, wouldn't they be incapable of moving?

I don't think zombie attacks are really a realistic thing. I believe in a lot of things but not zombies. =]
(probably better for my sanity that way)

Or ~Infernal~, have them as pets just like in the movie: Fido. I would love a scenerio like that, where you don't have to pay the help.

oooo pets would be good....

*smirks* they could eat my annoying neighbors....it wouldn't be all bad. Or even my roommates dogs.

haha....*chains one up out front with a sign that says Beware of Zombies*

Fido was an AWESOME movie...lol. A very cool concept, definatly a new spin on zombies, for sure.

The odds of Zombies coming to life and terrorizing the planet is extremely unlikely. Their brains would be eaten away by maggots and other disgusting vermin that they wouldn't be able to move or even function. They also wouldn't have any blood running through their veins so they wouldn't be able to do much at all.

The only possible way (even this isn't even possible) is if a huge toxic, chemical plant exploded near a graveyard, contamination all the corpses and somehow bringing them back to life.

Or unless Necromancy is actually able to bring back the dead. If it were somehow able to bring a deads soul back, and somehow make brain matter that actually could operate, maybe then the dead could rise... until then Zombies coming back to life will only happen in movies.

*Chuckles* Some individuals simply have no respect for a fantastical scenerio of real life based obscurity.

I think it is possible, the government have lots of shit there not tell us about! in underground labs. its the shit that you dont hear about on the news, they dot want us to know theyve fucked up! it probably has appened before. but it will again.

Anyone ever been near a riot? A mob? Mass hysteria? Humans using only the most primitive part of their brain? Imagine a group like this scavenging for resources after a natural or man-made disaster. It's zombie live-action time, not voodoo or the movies. The flesh eating would commence once the meat lockers at McDonalds were ransacked.

I don't believe in zombies personally, but if there is such a phenomenon...I would like to volunteer my ex wife to be one...so I could legally take her head off.

Or so she could find some brains...

either way, it would be an improvement.

in our current age I dont believe we will ever come under attack by zombies, even though there are a lot of brain dead ppl out there they are not zombies so to say. However in the future who knows with the way we as a race create more and more weapons and try and change mother nature who is to say something wont go wrong and we will have to face a mass of zombies...

as to how I would defend my self fill my room with fresh meet and throw to them...feel if i had enough supply they might not eat me lol

A riot?
Humans using only the most primitive part of their brain?

Yes, for 30 years of my life and no its not something that should titillate the imagination or be romanticized about as people get seriously harmed and maimed. Then again this thread is clearly make believe ;)

Pbox; that movie scared the crap out of me. Every other sentence was "ARRRRGGGGHHH" and uber creepy. :(

Getting back to the original question, personally I don’t think a zombie attack would ever happen. However, should I be proved wrong, speed and agility are skills that would come in useful, as we all know Zombies can move fast, thank god I go to the gym :P Failing that I would hot wire the nearest car and be outta there quick smart ..lol

zombie uprising is a great concept check out

www.homepageofthedead.com

good stuff

That website is outstanding! There is gonna be another "Diary of the Dead"...that is so awesome, and World War Z is in screenplay right now!!!

I think it is possible, the government have lots of shit there not tell us about! in underground labs. its the shit that you dont hear about on the news, they dot want us to know theyve fucked up! it probably has appened before. but it will again.


Paranoid? or are you still waiting for Alien Santas to Bring you your Zombie ray Gun?

Yeah its all stuff that we dont hear because its all wrong. Moraliy wrong in that fact and mentially, the govenment is retarded,demented.

I think you should join a cult to pool resources against the goverment and then they will show you proof of the zombies.. who by the way are that way because of an alien experiment that went wrong, they( the aliens) where trying to give us a cure for cancer.. turns out it raised and animated the dead.. good news though for 1000 dollars per person you can come to my time share property and build invibible suits( suits that zombies cannot smell you in..

anything is possible, and if there is a zombie out break i believe it will be caused by the government, and in protection of myself and my loved ones i have a sniper rifle and am well trainedin how to use it.

Tactical Nukes.. We may have to factor in some collateral damage but hay to stop zombies and rid ourselves of the bodies as well.. extreme measures are called for.

Nuking an area is probably the way our government would come up with to handle it...total loss for the greater good.

Well it is an agreed situation that the goverment .. your conspirace got a response and you boo ho the intervention.. you cannot have omlettes without breaking eggs, I thought the zombies where the enemy not the goverment.. I think conspiracy nuts scare me more then zombies, after all zombies are not trying to prove anything.

i believe that zombies will attack when humanity decides that they can try to postpone death, or prevent it. we will eventually stop death, and then what? the person will decay after a long period of time, and we will denote them zombies.

When zombies attack .. bring along a fat kid.

Seriously, I think a virus would cause it.

until we prove that those types of viruses can make a human still be able to get up, move around, walk, and crave brains and flesh, then it is simply a myth and theory....and i doubt that it will happen anytime soon in the "hollywoood/resident evil" style.

You are so on my anti zombie barge.. I'll put you on the Tactical Nuke Silo

wonderful analysis of the definition of a zombie...too bad they dont exist. As they share my taste in food I wish they did. I'm sure we could enjoy many a wonderful meal.

It makes me shiver thinking about zombies attacking... I have to admit that I do fear it, but it's probably not very likely. But still... sometimes the most unlikely of events happen by some chance. ..

MBK...I love that theory...take a fat kid...lol

Rastaferal...all I can say to your post is Oooookaaaay.

always remember always keep one bullet for yourself it funny how they always say that in the movies then when the time comes they have run out of bullets...go figure...who are the brain dead in this case.

im not liking the land of the dead references in this thread that movie blew chunks lol.

However I do not see why it would not be possible for a zombie-ish event to happen.

perhaps meth addicts gone bad, looking at their situation they tend to be up for days on end along with a kinda blah look/zombie lookish, the lack of sleep and the fact they can have habits of picking at themselves which produces visible wounds also the feeling of being able to do anything.
and meth mouth, teeth rot out the odor they probably produce from lack of bathing.All can produce a zombie like effect to a weary and paranoid mind.
even though that would be an extreme case.

many other drugs also adds to the looks of zombie behavior all it would really take is some sick minded person to fill a water supply or food supply with mass amounts of these drugs and well a zombie like epedimic would ensue.

Well yeah its true, all i know is that it can happen, you gotta remember that it doesnt just affect humans, it could affect animals.

I do not believe in zombies and them attacking in that way
that would be a switch and to kill them would be difficult because they are dead alll ready but the only possible way to kill them mostlikely is to burryt hem alive or burn them and then burry them

i was a zombie yesterday for zombie day.

yes and i played tag with sevral other people who were zombie'd out. especially hitting on people afterwards and going to the 7-11 and hobble around saying "SLURPEEE" haha. good times were had by all.

sURE IT CAN HAPPEN, MAYBE A DISEASE. I would hold up in a department store or an ary base. someplace that has plenty of weapons and ammo. Food and a place to sleep. I would have my friends and family of course, if they could make it to me. Then I would do the beast I can with hunting and stuff making sure I and my friends and family remain hidden. Eventually we will have to leave the department store. Just be prepared for anything.

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