reply to post by Mintwithahole.
Hey there. I wanted to answer a post you made awhile ago on this thread. Sorry that I forgot to get around to it until now. School just started so I
won’t be able to be on ATS as much as I’d like to.
also, sorry ahead of time for being long winded here. I just love talking about zombies.
As to your question about how the zombies originally reanimated, I assume you are asking about the George A. Ramero Zombie movies. (Night of the
living dead, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, land of the dead, and diary of the dead.)
It never conclusively says. In the original black and white version of night of the living dead they do mention radiation from a returning space probe
as a possible reason, but never say definitively.
It is never (to my knowledge) mentioned anywhere in his movies how exactly it started, and that is something I thought was one of the creepiest parts.
If you don’t know how it started you can’t figure out how to stop it.
That, which is unknown and unseen, always commands the greatest fear.
I think the above quote was from H.P. Lovecraft, but I’m not sure.
Anyway, the remake of “Dawn of the Dead”, as well as numerous other zombie films makes it out to be an illness. This was probably because of the
whole being bitten turns you into a zombie thing expressed by Ramero. But the human mouth is a filthy thing. Even before death the human mouths swim
with harmful bacteria barley kept in check by our immune system.
Any deep tissue bite from a human can cause sepsis, as well as a host of other infections and problems. I would assume that a zombie’s mouth is even
rifer with disease, and I assume the bites from a zombie going untreated would quickly lead to the person’s demise.
So It could have been seen as a disease, except that in Ramero’s movies everyone that dies comes back, not just those infected through bites.
Thanks for the posts.
[edit on 26-8-2009 by NRA4ever333]
