they are real. sometimes dead bodies as in the person not alive can be re animated through parasitic viruses apparently,

of course the person is still dead they don't come back to life, but the dead body gets turned into a "zombie" or animated corpse

also i do believe that voodoo and evil magic can bring dead people back as mindless zombies but still its touchy, might not be totally true anyway

"real" zombies aren't flesh eating Resident evil types

i too dream of the day when the zombie invasion starts!!

zombie killers unite!!!!!!

The one thing I never got about the zombies in the movies. Where to they get there energy? They walk around for months with only a few of them actually getting a meal. They rest should in fact stop functioning very quick. Movment takes lots of energy. If zombies some how did formed from corpses they wouldn't last more than 1hr or 2. Zombies formed form already living people would last for about 2 to 3 weeks with out a meal.

A few ways zombies could be real. Virus/disease, magic(note magic zombies may last long basessed on the majic source. Note: if majic is real.), nano tech(solar powerd or nuklear), and there may be more.

[edit on 28-10-2006 by halfmask]

Well from what we've learnt from the film "Day of the dead" the one where they are in a military bunker. The virus or whatever it was that caused the zombies, made the zombies run purley on a instinct to eat humans. The scientist even took out every organ in a zombies body and it was still trying to bite him. therefore they don't seem to need energy.

Plus we're talking about zombies, proper man eating zombies i'm sure if this could happen then its possible for something to run without energy lol.

Good point though