2/16/2023 0 Comments 28 weeks later zombiesLike, insanely, senselessly, ridiculously angry. But don’t let the teeth-gnashing fool you 28WL zombies aren’t chomping through your trachea because they’re hungry. Some zombies eat brains, some zombies are partial to human flesh, and some zombies will go after anything with a pulse. Quick, toss that clumsy face mask aside and let’s attack it with melee weapons while screaming!”Ģ) They’re driven by mindless rage, not hunger “That contagious, rage-driven flesh-eater is spewing blood vomit all over the place. One drop is quite literally all it takes. well, anyone else. See, as a survivor in this particular movieverse, you essentially have to treat each drop of liquid as a potential hazard (within infected areas, at least) inheriting the rage virus is as simple as slugging from the wrong canteen or leaning up against a bloody car after picking a scab. (Most zombies don’t vomit anything.) And while this skill-if harnessed correctly-might be useful to the interior decorator of Tom Six’s lower basements, it’s less great for. If this was your doctor back in the day, you were pretty much screwed.ģ) The disease is transmitted specifically through bodily fluidsĪ less-savory attribute of the 28WL zombie is its penchant for unpredictably projectile-vomiting blood all over the place. Plus, if history books are to be trusted, we haven’t always been awesome at dealing with viral plagues. And researchers dick around with viruses on the regular, so it’s not super farfetched to imagine one bad day wreaking havoc on the general public. Have you been keeping up with all the advances in medical research lately? Me neither, but scientists discover new shit about the human brain all the time cancer’s not going to cure itself, after all. It’s the realism factor that gets to me here. (Not evil scientists, either these guys were trying to use their research on neurochemicals to benefit mankind, not reduce us to growling, bloodthirsty Steve Austins.) So yeah, in this case the zombie apocalypse was totally preventable. In 28 Days Later, however, there is no ambiguity about the origin of the infected: they’re caused by the rage virus, and the rage virus was created by Cambridge University scientists. Plenty of horror flicks take advantage of this fact by offering only the most cursory of backstories to their otherworldly antagonists. The fear of the unknown is a powerful thing. After all, a recurring theme in many post-apocalyptic sagas is the whole “human nature is the real threat” thing, and anyone familiar with The Road or Children of Men knows what I’m talking about.īut there’s something to be said about zombies from 28 Days Later (i.e., “the infected”), who exist just outside the Brooks-Romero canon. They’ve just always scared the shit out of me, and I’ll never be assuaged of this opinion. Some viewers were up in arms after TWD episodes that were sparse on the walkers, but I found those parts of the narrative refreshing the conflicts between zombie survivors are always more interesting than the zombies themselves. To me, the best zombie sagas exist with zombies as a backdrop. I, for one, am cool with it sticking around for a while longer. I guess that’s natural with all the other zombie crap that’s become part of American pop culture (still not sure how I feel about zombie X-Men), though some internet denizens claim the genre is starting to overstay its welcome. The Walking Dead wrapped up its second season just a few weeks ago, and I’ve had zombies on the brain ever since.
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