Fast zombies are scarier than slow zombies. Agree or disagree?

[Andrew]

Fast zombies vs. slow zombies: which ones are scarier?

Discuss.

[Ryan Elliott]

I can outrun slow zombies.

Anything I can outrun isn't scary.

[NickT]

I'd say slow is scarier. The wall of the dead, arms outstretched for you, slowly coming towards you in an unstoppable mass.

[NeverWanderer]

Faster is always scarier.

Slow zombies are a challenge. Fast zombies are a race against death.

[NeverWanderer]

I'd say slow is scarier. The wall of the dead, arms outstretched for you, slowly coming towards you in an unstoppable mass.

....now imagine that wall booking it toward you at top speed, screaming their bloodthirsty fury.

:shudder:

[Adrian B AWESOME]

Why even bother making it a zombie movie if you're going to have "fast" zombies?

The very idea that decompasing and rigmortis bodies could run, even after being reanimated, is silly.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Fast zombies are scarier. Thank god they don't exist.

Unlike the real threat of slow zombies.

[Adrian B AWESOME]

....now imagine that wall booking it toward you at top speed, screaming their bloodthirsty fury.

:shudder:

Um, that's a vampire.

Zombies are brainthirsty, thank you very much.

[Adrian B AWESOME]

And frankly, fast, slow, it doesn't matter. There's way more of them than there will EVER be of us.

[NeverWanderer]

Um, that's a vampire.

Zombies are brainthirsty, thank you very much.

......I can't argue with that.

[NickT]

....now imagine that wall booking it toward you at top speed, screaming their bloodthirsty fury.

:shudder:
Wouldn't be a wall then, it'd be a bunch of people running. More dangerous, but the slow moving wall would be scarier IMO.

[oconnellmd]

Fast. This is why I dug the Dawn of the Dead remake so much. Running zombies scare all the hell right out of me.

Uh oh...I feel a "Kids in the Hall" moment coming on....

Running freeeeee
Running freeeeee
Running zommmbiiieeee...

[NeverWanderer]

Wouldn't be a wall then, it'd be a bunch of people running. More dangerous, but the slow moving wall would be scarier IMO.

Ahhh, but isn't fear an instinctive reaction to danger?

[Adrian B AWESOME]

Running zombies are silly. You wouldn't be scared, you'd have too much adrenaline pumping in your veins, trying to get away. You wouldn't feel FEAR or being SCARED, you'd be panicking and thinking of a way to live.

Slow zombies, you seal yourself in, and wait for death to come to you.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd rather be dead quickly then sitting there, waiting for the inevitable to happen.

[shoelaceless]

Fast. This is why I dug the Dawn of the Dead remake so much. Running zombies scare all the hell right out of me.

Uh oh...I feel a "Kids in the Hall" moment coming on....

Running freeeeee
Running freeeeee
Running zommmbiiieeee...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdfiARf1v0

[NeverWanderer]

Running zombies are silly. You wouldn't be scared, you'd have too much adrenaline pumping in your veins, trying to get away. You wouldn't feel FEAR or being SCARED, you'd be panicking and thinking of a way to live.

Slow zombies, you seal yourself in, and wait for death to come to you.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd rather be dead quickly then sitting there, waiting for the inevitable to happen.

See, I begin to agree with you... but then I remember the first ten minutes of Dawn of the Dead '04. :shock:

[NeverWanderer]

...AND the end of 28 Weeks Later.


Okay, I'll say a sea of slow moving zombies is scary, but a single fast-moving zombie is scarier.

[Shane McCarthy]

The very idea that decompasing and rigmortis bodies could be reanimated, is silly.

Fixed ;)

[Shane McCarthy]

Um, that's a vampire.

Zombies are brainthirsty, thank you very much.

O'Bannon's Zombies are brain thirsty. Romero's are EVERYTHING thirsty.

[ernster]

you could also call this thread left4dead or call of duty: nazi zombies...

and possibly resident evil.

[ever_seeking]

Fast of course, slow is way more defensible.

And the slow being reanimated is just as "silly" as the fast when we're talking reality, but this fiction, so it makes sense.

IMO.

8-)

[JoeE]

Left 4 Dead doesn't have true Zombies, it has Infected. They don't reanimate - they're dead once you kill them - they mutate in ways that true zombies don't, and they are extremely fast.

[Adrian B AWESOME]

...AND the end of 28 Weeks Later.


Okay, I'll say a sea of slow moving zombies is scary, but a single fast-moving zombie is scarier.

I swear to God...the monsters in 28 Weeks Later are INFECTED, no ZOMBIES.

[Adrian B AWESOME]

Plus: zombies = silly? Blasphemy. This is serious stuff.

[oconnellmd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdfiARf1v0

That wasn't even the reference I was thinking of! And yet now that I've seen it, that was one of most terrifying cinematic experiences I've ever had!!

:Panic:

[NeverWanderer]

I swear to God...the monsters in 28 Weeks Later are INFECTED, no ZOMBIES.

Well, then there are no zombies in the George Romero movies either. :p

TRUE zombies are people placed under a drug-induced trance by a voodoo priest who is then able to control them. The monsters in the Living Dead movies are just undead ghouls.

But then... what fun would threads like this be if we were gonna go getting all specifical about it? ;)

[Jerome Gibbons]

The scariest zombies I've seen in the last couple of years are probably Ellis' Blackgas zombies, who I don't recall being especially fast. It's been a while since I last read the book, but I believe what made them scary is that 1) they came from EVERYWHERE at once and 2) they did some FUCKED UP shit, beyond the usual cannibalizing people. I think under circumstances like that, slow zombies might be scarier. Fast zombies might make you panic, but I don't know if it'd really give time for the horror of the situation to really settle in and germinate within the mind.

[Andrew]

The scariest zombies I've seen in the last couple of years are probably Ellis' Blackgas zombies, who I don't recall being especially fast. It's been a while since I last read the book, but I believe what made them scary is that 1) they came from EVERYWHERE at once and 2) they did some FUCKED UP shit, beyond the usual cannibalizing people. I think under circumstances like that, slow zombies might be scarier. Fast zombies might make you panic, but I don't know if it'd really give time for the horror of the situation to really settle in and germinate within the mind.

But that's just it though; the scariest thing, to me, would be something that comes at you so quickly that you have no choice but to react instinctively, which would make it really easy to make a mistake that leads to you getting killed.

At least with slow zombies, you'd have some time to establish a game plan.

[NeverWanderer]

But that's just it though; the scariest thing, to me, would be something that comes at you so quickly that you have no choice but to react instinctively, which would make it really easy to make a mistake that leads to you getting killed.

At least with slow zombies, you'd have some time to establish a game plan.

Agreed. To me, the worst kind of fear is that screaming, hyperventilating, scrambling horror; the knowledge that you are living your last moments, right now. Even if you fight back, there's no guarantee you'll survive. There is no escape. There is no hiding. There is only the sudden realization of your death. Just slow enough realize what's happening, just fast enough to not be able to do a damn thing about.

That's the shit that truly horrifies me.

[shoelaceless]

That wasn't even the reference I was thinking of! And yet now that I've seen it, that was one of most terrifying cinematic experiences I've ever had!!

:Panic:

Haha, yeah I got the reference you were making, but I just had to post that one. It's a pretty scathing parody of slow zombies (although I guess at the time there weren't any fast ones), wouldn't you say?

[The Human Target]

Why even bother making it a zombie movie if you're going to have "fast" zombies?

The very idea that decompasing and rigmortis bodies could run, even after being reanimated, is silly.

:lol:

Fast things are scarier.

I'm fat and lazy and anything I can outrun is fairly non-threatening.

I'm more afraid of pit bulls than slow zombies.

[MaccLad]

Zombies shouldn't be fast. :no:

[Hyperstorm]

Slow zombies are scarier because they are underestimated based on their lack of speed.

Besides that, zombies can't think and live on a simple instinct to eat brains so their reflexs would be slow regardless of their speed. Fast zombies would be easy to defeat by just running around thereby getting them to run into each other.

[Ryan Elliott]

Slow zombies are scarier because they are underestimated based on their lack of speed.

Besides that, zombies can't think and live on a simple instinct to eat brains so their reflexs would be slow regardless of their speed. Fast zombies would be easy to defeat by just running around thereby getting them to run into each other.


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:rofl:

[Mr. Sean]

Do you know how you get away from slow zombies? You slowly walk backwards, or turn around and stroll away. Hell, you can even stop at the food cart and get a snack. I get that they're GROSS, but i never understood what was threatening about a monster that was 5 times as slow and 10 times dumber than....a normal human being. Any of us here are more of a threat to one another than our zombie selves would be. The only thing less scary than a zombie (well, monster-wise) is a mummy.

[Hyperstorm]

Do you know how you get away from slow zombies? You slowly walk backwards, or turn around and stroll away. Hell, you can even stop at the food cart and get a snack. I get that they're GROSS, but i never understood what was threatening about a monster that was 5 times as slow and 10 times dumber than....a normal human being. Any of us here are more of a threat to one another than our zombie selves would be. The only thing less scary than a zombie (well, monster-wise) is a mummy.

But isn't a mummy a zombie in bandages?

Then again, mummies are old and therefore probably brittle. AND their mouths are bandaged shut.

Okay, you may have a point there.

[Ryan Elliott]

Do you know how you get away from slow zombies? You slowly walk backwards, or turn around and stroll away. Hell, you can even stop at the food cart and get a snack. I get that they're GROSS, but i never understood what was threatening about a monster that was 5 times as slow and 10 times dumber than....a normal human being. Any of us here are more of a threat to one another than our zombie selves would be. The only thing less scary than a zombie (well, monster-wise) is a mummy.

One word:

Curse.

You could outlive a zombie invasion if you were crafty enough, but a curse garuntees that a mummy is going to kill.

[SteveZegers]

Wouldn't be a wall then, it'd be a bunch of people running. More dangerous, but the slow moving wall would be scarier IMO.

You've clearly never been on the wrong end of a marathon.

[Spleeny]

All things being equal, fast zombies are scarier. They're just like slow zombies, only it's harder to outrun them.

But all things aren't equal. Fast zombies are lame. Lame is not scary. I'd like to think that if a fast zombie killed me, my last words would be calling it lame.

[snoozer]

To me the slow zombies are pretty damn scary because they creep ever forward, like a virus. They may be easy to evade but are always there waiting for you to slip up. And humans always do.
Leave a door unlocked, a vent unguarded, an elevator running, they'll find a way in.
Relentless is kind of terrifying.

Now, fast Zombies ON FIRE, ala 04' Dawn of the Dead. That made me jump.

[Stupendous Man]

I think the fast zombies are scarier. However, the terror of zombies rests mostly in the sheer numbers, rather than the prowess of an individual. If you're surrounded you're fucked whether they can run or not.

[thatguyfromsyracuse]

I'm pretty sure that I could take out slow zombies. Fast zombies would just make me poop in my pants and probably off myself.

[Silent G]

I guess it depends on the situation I find myself in. Caught out in the open with fast zombies hauling ass after me would be scary but being backed in a corner by a large group of slow ass zombies wouldn't be great either.

[Evan the Shaggy]

Are we talking from a viewer's point of view or from actually being chased by them?

[Blandy vs Terrorism]

Why even bother making it a zombie movie if you're going to have "fast" zombies?

The very idea that decompasing and rigmortis bodies could run, even after being reanimated, is silly.

Yeah! Movies about fantasy monsters should be ultra realistic!

[AndrewG]

That slow moving wall of the undead is indeed scary but you have a fighting chance if you just run and hopefully find a place to hide/take cover. Fast zombies will just chase you until you tire out. Fast zombies are definately scarier.