how come zombies dont get shin splints?

longshanks

i've been thinking about this for a while now. we've all seen the footage: a load of zombies sitting about, not up too much, just chillin and whatnot. when, of a sudden some fresh meat wanders by and then, bang, those badboys are hot footin it like linford christie after said fresh meat, no warm up, no stretches, not even a lunge. nothing. and christ can they run. sprinting across fields, through subways, hurdling over cars in streets. whats the story there then? do their shins get the dreaded splints? mine'd be in a right mess in that situation

Fajitas!

Because those bad boys don't feel the pain. It's all about the feast to them!

Reku

Thought folks had agreed that the runners from the 28 days later/28 weeks later didn't count as zombies, just pissed off uumies?

My 2 Cents

farohar wrote: »

Thought folks had agreed that the runners from the 28 days later/28 weeks later didn't count as zombies, just pissed off uumies?

yeah that would make sense because something i observed was the fact that most Zombies seem to develope a serious problem with balance and general walking in an upright position along with there hunger for brains!

unreggd

Maybe they do, thats prob why they groan all the time

and yes runners are a diff thing altogether, an all an anyways

Fajitas!

No, they're still zombies, but of the infected kind, rather than rising dead.

And I'm sticking by that...

Reku

Fajitas! wrote: »

No, they're still zombies, but of the infected kind, rather than rising dead.

And I'm sticking by that...

Surely the simple fact that they have no desire to eat flesh/brains disqualifies them, they only want to kill anything living they encounter, hence even the rats run from them => runners are not zombies.

Duff

Fajitas! wrote: »

No, they're still zombies, but of the infected kind, rather than rising dead.

And I'm sticking by that...

According to numerous dictionarys and Wikipeida:
A zombie is a reanimated human corpse.

Therefore the infected in 28 days and such films are not infact zombies.

Reku

In fact the disease in 28 days/weeks later is really nothing more than a more virulant (readily transmitted and much faster symptom development than is normal) but non-lethal version of rabies.
So are some people trying to say that Old Yeller was actually a zombie movie?:eek:
:P

Fajitas!

Duff wrote: »

According to numerous dictionarys and Wikipeida:
A zombie is a reanimated human corpse.

Therefore the infected in 28 days and such films are not infact zombies.

Tbh, zombie movies are more about the idea behind the risen/infected humans trying to attack/kill/eat humans rather than any technicalities of them being risen dead.

Wiki can describe a zombie however it wants, but I'll still be bringing in the zombie survival plans when I see a hoard of rabid people running around Dublin.

Reku

Also keep in mind that unlike actual zombies a successful hit on any vital organ is a kill shot on runners, bloodloss will kill them, in fact anything that will kill a normal human will work, so they are much easier to kill than zombies.

longshanks

in the remake of day of dawn of the dead those badass's could run, and we all know they were zombies. by the way, i prefer to think of it as not so much a remake, more of a factual telling of how things really happened. its based on a true story you know

Doctor DooM

I reckon the theory that they start out as runners and degrade into shamblers is the most logical.

Duff

SDooM wrote: »

I reckon the theory that they start out as runners and degrade into shamblers is the most logical.

If that was the case then they would eventually degrade into motionless corpses which defeats the whole purpose of this forum!

Once a runner, always a runner.

Reku

So do we take the remake, i.e. Hollywood f*cking things up as usual, over the originals? Even in Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead the recently deceased were arising as shamblers not runners.

Wow, looking at the details for what the zombies can do in the hack remack of Day of The Dead they're REALLY taking liberties (never mind their complete and utter bastardisation of the actual story from the original):

while out in the waiting room all the infected have suddenly gone frozen. Bud runs to inform Sarah of the situation, when all the infected reanimate. They turn into zombie-like creatures, although unlike traditional zombies they were never dead to begin with, and possess super-human strength that allows them to run, jump long distances, and crawl on the ceiling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_%282007_film%29

What next, shapeshifting and phasing?:rolleyes:

MarkHall

SDooM wrote: »

I reckon the theory that they start out as runners and degrade into shamblers is the most logical.

Makes sense to me.

I do think that too much running would have Dead limbs flying all over the place.

Reku

One thought that strikes me is that they probably couldn't actually do more than one burst of speed, it'd be full on as they feel no pain (nerves are dead) but at the same time it'd tear the muscles (because they feel no pain) turning them into shamblers. So it'd really only be the very recently deceased you'd need to worry about as the rest would probably already have used their burst.

*imagines 40+ stone zombie on a treadmill chasing a chunk of meat dangling in front of him*:D