They’re after your brains. They hunger, thirst, want, and need only your fresh delicious brains. The trouble is that they’re over there, you’re over here, and they move very slowly. Alas, zombies rarely get what they want unless you’re a dramatic movie character that happens to trip while running away. But that is, only if they are the type of zombie that is from the old movie classics. In more recent times, different films and video games have popped up with new explanations for how zombies come about and with much deadlier consequences. It isn’t a set rule any longer that zombies come straight from the gave and are slow shambling clumsy things.

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In the newer movies and games, the zombies come about through means of a chemical. In the film 28 Days later, a laboratory is experimenting on animals with something only known as “Rage”. The chimps infected with it are aggressive, strong, and deadly. But the animal activists that come to rescue these test animals don’t know that. After disregarding the warning from a scientist they open the cadges and the animals immediately attack them, thereby infecting the first humans with ‘Rage’. Quickly it spreads throughout the city and most everyone becomes infected. They don’t have to be bitten to get this zombie disease either, all it takes is one drop of infected blood in a wound, orifice, or even an eye. Within a minute they become a zombie as well. The difference between these ‘zombies’ and the ones of old films are that they have all the speed that their host had during their normal life. So if a cross country runner happened to be infected, and his or her zombified self was after you; you’re basically doomed.

It similar in the popular game/movie series Resident Evil, the zombies (though these were actually legitimately killed and brought back to life) are born from a scientific mishap and are capable of good running speeds. But only when they have to.

One thing is the same for any zombie series from any time; substantial injury to the zombie’s head, or complete removal, is the only way to stop them.

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow