Talk:Living Dead

Only brain damage affects zombies

In DAY OF THE DEAD, clearly only direct brain damage can affect a zombie, "killing" it. In one of the movie scenes a zombie head is cut in half via a shovel attack and we can clearly see that the severed zombie head still functions as its eyes revolves back and forth (note that the shovel attack severed the head by its mandible, not damaging the skull and brain). In other scenes where the zombies get headshots, they clearly "dies".

We can assume that only direct brain damage turns off zombie drive to exist. --200.216.236.75 (talk) 12:56, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Return of the Living Dad How Scary?

Should the series of films (films 4 & 5 are to be aired on the SciFi Channel) also be included in this article? It's closely related to Romero, but I'm unsure if it's created by him; it is afterall heavilly influenced by his series of films, and I think that is enough to include it. Also, are there other "living dead" films that should be included in this listing, or is Return of the Living Dead the only ones to have been excluded?

Fantaco did some Living Dead comics

Fantaco also did some Living Dead comics, to wit:

http://www.deadtrilogy.freeservers.com/photo3.html http://www.deadtrilogy.freeservers.com/photo3.html

Odd sentence fragment

"The films' only continuation is the epidemic of the living dead, the situation advancing with each film, but with different characters and even moving the time ahead from the last to the time in which they were filmed despite the world's progression being the only interlocking aspect of the series."

This to me does not feel grammatically correct and I am unsure what it is supposed to mean. 67.164.12.39 22:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

agreed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.138.180 (talk) 02:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Romero Zombies

It is undetermined how the dead come back to life whether it's viral, chemical or magical(Vodoo). We only know that if bitten, anybody will turn into a Zombie. Infection can therefore spread really fast to pandemic levels and are hard to contain.

This is inaccurate, not to mention contradicting. Romero Zombies aren't caused by infection. Anyone who dies, whether at the hands of a Zombie or by natural means, becomes a Zombie (if the brain remains intact). There are two explanations given for this in his films. In Night, the recently buried dead (i.e. corpses whose brains hadn't already decayed too much) began to rise around the same time a Venus space probe exploded in the Earth's atmosphere, leading scientists to believe the two events were related and the reanimation of the dead was caused by radiation from the space probe explosion. In Dawn, it was explained that "when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Note that in the remake of Dawn, while the cause of the epidemic is unknown, it is in fact viral and spread by infection, and those who die by natural means do not become Zombies, but this is NOT the way it works in Romero's series. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.173.142 (talk) 18:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, you know what... yeah, you are right when I think about it now, that's how it happens. I was focused on the fact that you die and become a Zombie when bitten. But yeah, just dying is good enough.--Slamcool 19:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Since the "Venus space probe" theory is just that - a theory proposed by characters in the film, rather than a canonical explanation - and the exact cause is not known, I've made that clearer in the text. 81.98.163.108 (talk) 22:22, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

"Romero's zombies are slow and shambling without exception"

If I remember correctly, in the original Night of the Living Dead, when some people attempt to fuel up a vehicle and drive away, some of the zombies run faster than the vehicle and catch up with it. This would suggest superhuman speed, not a slower more shambling speed. Promontoriumispromontorium (talk) 08:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Searching "living dead" does not work...

Unless the search is done using upper "D" you get redirected to undead automatically... It's kind of a problem. I mean, this page is good and is worth to be found easily ;) --Slamcool 19:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the redirect so living dead redirects here, and will add a {{redirect}} note to the top of this article in a minute. A case could also be made that the lower case version should go to Undead, but since I assume the denizens of Talk:Living Dead are probably more diehard than the Talk:Undead regulars, it's less risky to make you lot happy, and risk their wrath. --barneca (talk) 19:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The way you implmented it is perfect and it still offers a link to go to undead for the ones who really want to see the more generic term.--Slamcool 13:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Danél Griffin

Can someone tell me why Danél Griffin's observations are notable enough for this article? If no one has any problems, I'm going to remove it.--CyberGhostface (talk) 18:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Dance Of the Dead

I noticed that there is no mention about this remake. [1] D-BorG (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC).

Hexalogy

The movies are more than 3. So why do they call them Trilogy? A trilogy means 3 films. So should we change it to Hexalogy which is for 6? - Suicida (talk) 13:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)