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What about animal zombies? Say a forest near a town had been subjected to a virus which had then spread through the creatures - wolves, deer etc. It could even spread to the zoo...
That's a rubbish idea isn't it?
Crashbang,
Do you think a chicken with the zombie virus will work?
Until recently, I would have agreed that Zombies had been done to death.
However I had a sudden urge for more zombie stories and I bought a few anthologies of the Living Dead.
I was quite amazed by how original some of the stories were...and enormously impressed with the quality of some of the stories.
It made me realise that in actual fact films have only been telling one aspect of them over and over again..the relatively mindless zombie who eats people. They've made them faster, moved locations around, changed the cause...but they tell the same fundamental story. Ordinary world that suddenly becomes infected.
The originality lies in what the dead represent. The effect the dead rising would have on politics, religion, morality etc. What if it's just the murder victims who rise seeking justice? What if it's some other group? They touch on ideas of immortality and everything surrounding that.
Do Zombies feel pain? What do they remember? How would people really react if their loved ones were infected? Would people want them to have rights as humans? Would they necessarily be mindless?
Despite appearances, the field is still relatively untapped.
What about animal zombies? Say a forest near a town had been subjected to a virus which had then spread through the creatures - wolves, deer etc. It could even spread to the zoo...
That's a rubbish idea isn't it?
It's as good as any other horror idea...all depends on how you do it. Create a strong theme and inventive kills. Imagine a Zombie elephant!
Do you think a chicken with the zombie virus will work?
JT
I've actually seen a rabid chicken. Scary ass thing, it jumped like two feet in the air and chased us into the house. Would probably have to be black comedy for it to work though. Plus it doesn't really go with this collaborative idea.
I've actually seen a rabid chicken. Scary ass thing, it jumped like two feet in the air and chased us into the house. Would probably have to be black comedy for it to work though. Plus it doesn't really go with this collaborative idea.
Have a read of Phil's Zombie Chicken. Not a black comedy but it works.
Just stumbled on to the question. Might be interesting, but I don't know what else I can really do to the horror-sub genre. I do have a zombie-ish story currently on the site, 'Rancorium' , where the zombie apocalypse is actually winding down- the catch being that a group of half-human, half-zombies are on a quest to find a cure for themselves and others. They are constantly attacked and/or setback by not only the severely infected who are beyond curing, but also the paranoid human survivors who shoot first, ask questions later.
One aspect of "the heroes" is that, having an awareness that they were participants (although perhaps unwilling) in a carnage, and see the goal as possible redemption, they are still feared with prejudice.
In that script, there is a character named Hanson who is horribly burned and mistaken for the undead. There is a bit in my script where, in not trusting some of the others in the group, he goes out on foot to seek out other survivors. He hooks up with the group later, but I don't have any scenes regarding Hanson's jaunt.
American Werewolf still rules regarding our hair friends.
They've redone Frankenstein so often I've forgotten which one's good.
R xo
I was a huge fan of the Ginger Snaps flms and Dog Soldiers rules. As for Franky, right now I like The Bride with Sting and Jennifer Beals--- or should I say, Clancy Brown and the late David Rappaport who really stole the film? I am also curious to see if another take on Franky (aside from the recent Dean Koontz re-imagining) becomes one of Guillemo Del Toro's projects.
Feel like I'm taking the point massively off the collaborative effort here...but hell it's a zombie idea.
A man is bitten by a zombie, and goes back to his family knowng he is going to die. He suffers horrible dreams - the dreams that people with the virus suffer, when alternate instincts are taking hold. He resolves to end himself - go into the most zombie infested areas and kill as many as possible. So he burns lots of zombies in the films final set piece, lays down and dies.
Except that he wakes up. He still has his origional thoughts, but they are conflicting with new instincts, combining. He has become what would be known as the ghoul - an alpha zombie with intelligence who would lead the zombies onward. someone who could possibly be the salvation of all humankind. Or something like that.
You'd have to come up with a good reason why he doesn't change into a zombie. You'd also need to establish this world. How long have the zombies been around? What condition have they left the world? Etc...
Feel like I'm taking the point massively off the collaborative effort here...but hell it's a zombie idea.
A man is bitten by a zombie, and goes back to his family knowng he is going to die. He suffers horrible dreams - the dreams that people with the virus suffer, when alternate instincts are taking hold. He resolves to end himself - go into the most zombie infested areas and kill as many as possible. So he burns lots of zombies in the films final set piece, lays down and dies.
Except that he wakes up. He still has his origional thoughts, but they are conflicting with new instincts, combining. He has become what would be known as the ghoul - an alpha zombie with intelligence who would lead the zombies onward. someone who could possibly be the salvation of all humankind. Or something like that.
Not discrediting your idea, but Zombies have proven to only work a handful of times in film.
Night Night remake Dawn Day Return of
And... Well, that's about it. I haven't seen a zombie movie 1 outside of those that were any good or worth watching more than 1 time. Of course I have for guilty pleasure reasons but still... you can only take so much from a "Hell of the Living Dead" or a "Burial Ground" or a "Zombie Afterlife" -- When they do work it is always the most rudimentary of ideas that makes them work. Big elaborate ideas and Zombies don't go well together... They just don't. Zombie movies need to be as mindless as the zombies themselves. Breaking the mold with Zombies almost always results in a fail for fail situation.
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