Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
The reason Dawn is ingenious for me is down to the mall setting. It's what makes it such a subversive movie: the grim joke is we're ALL friggin' zombies wandering in a stupor round a bleak consumer-wasteland...
I got a pic of the 4 main cast in a action pose, and they all signed it. While I felt odd having Tom sign a pic he wasn't in, he is a cool guy to say the least. However, Ken wasn't really that conversive at the con, it was sign, and move on.
Another thing about the remake and it's 'reinvention' of Zombie lore - I might be wrong here, but in the original Romero Zombieverse, everyone had the disease already. If you were bitten, you just became a zombie faster. Same as 'The Walking Dead'.
In the remake, unless you are bitten you don't become a zombie.
Is that correct?
Nope. In Romero's movies, at least in Night, it was explained as the result from radiation from a probe sent to Venus, and returning to earth. The probe was destroyed before making it back, but the unknown radiation still fell back to the planet.
In Romero's Dead series, any human being who dies after the onset of the zombie apocalypse can and will reanimate shortly after death, excluding those who died by massive brain trauma (such as a gunshot wound to the head) or had their brain incapacitated post-mortem. Being bitten by a zombie is not a prerequisite for returning to life, as any deceased human, regardless of exposure to a zombie, will return. No Romero film has definitively revealed the cause of reanimation, but several have featured characters speculating on possible causes, including radiation from a NASA probe, divine intervention, and viral infection. The length of time between death and reanimation seems to vary, but generally is only a few minutes.
If a character is bitten by a zombie, they will become violently ill and die within three days. The interim till death seems to be dependent on the location and degree of the bite (meaning that bites on or near major arteries or veins will spread the infection much faster than small bites or scratches). Multiple bite wounds will cause the infection to spread all the faster. Also, massive blood loss caused by one of these bites will speed the death of the victim.
In Day of the Dead a limb is amputated and cauterised in an attempt to stop the infection. The efficiency of this treatment is not revealed, as the character dies of other causes before the infection would have taken effect.