[Vodstok]

I figured it would be cool to get some folklore vs movie vs your opinion on what makes some of our favorite traditional horror monsters.... I may take this and turn it into an article series on my site (full creative credit will be given for all contributions, if i decide to go to "print" with them).

First off, zombies. (all hollywood refernces use Romeroesque zombies, as i do not like the ROTLD movies)

traditionally, they were the reanimated corpses, created by evil voodoo preists (as opposed to the good ones, who would never do such a thing) mostly as slave labor. Games like Dungeons and Dragons mildy altered this basic idea for their zombies (created by evil mages or preists)

Now hollywood has given us "rules" for them. You decide on Fast Vs Slow. i will try to cover both.

Slow:

Easy to justify, decay would quickly limit the usefulness of muscle tissue, making them slow and uncoordinated.

Fast:
They ARE people, and the human body is capable of some pretty incredible feats, especially when the person is unable to feel pain, and has no regard for onesself.

there are common themes though. Head trauma kills them. This makes sense, one way or another, the brain is what moves us and processes our world. Without it, there is no way for the body to function.

Romero's zombies in the original NOTLD seemed to be afraid of fire. the ones in the new Dawn seemed oblivious to it. i have to agree with the new one on this, if a zombie will take gunshot after gunshot without flinching, why would it "fear" fire, especially when they dont "know" anything.

Tool Use:
the original movies do show a certain degree of tool use. The zombie that attacked Johnny used a rock to break the car window. in the original dawn, one uses a crowbar to break the window of a truck roger was in. In Day, Bud used a gun.
Hell, in the original dawn, they figured out how to use a ladder.

Do they retain that level of thought, for lack of a better word?

Ihave always wondered how long the zombies would persist. Do they stop rotting? that doesnt appear to be the case. Does the rot stop at a certain point? Does it continue, but slow down to the point that you cant tell?