Zombie

Who doesn’t love a good zombie on Halloween? Who doesn’t love zombies, period? Blasphemous people, that’s who. The zombie costume is a fantastic way to gross out your more squeamish friends on Halloween, and thoroughly impress your less squeamish ones. As with some of the costumes I’ve mentioned before, the more gore applied to this type of thing, the better!

The key to a zombie costume is that you look like you’ve just crawled out of your grave, and because of this the best way to do it is to do it yourself. There really isn’t much point in buying a ‘zombie costume’ just to ruin it because it‘s not torn or dirty enough for your taste. You might as well go through your old clothes and find things that you don’t wear anymore or that you use when you mow the lawn. These clothes will be the perfect type for your zombie costume. After you select what you want to wear the fun part begins. Everything is up to you! You take a pair of scissors to those clothes, and afterwards do whatever you see fit with paint, fake blood, or artificial ‘dirt’. The worse it looks the better your costume will be. It’s really not anything that requires any kind of skill.

Something that might require a little bit of care though is what your face and body look like. Around Halloween time there are a lot of places that sell make-up kits that feature crème based make up for your face and body. They come in sets geared towards different costumes (vampire, clown, Frankenstein) but you really don’t have to get any particular one. Picking and choosing based on the colors offered is generally the best plan. So if you wanted to be a more ‘old movie’ type zombie, you would pick a set that featured lots of greens and grays, but if you wanted to be one of those zombies that has clearly been rotting for a while or has recently had a delicious snack of brains; then you would pick a kit that featured reds, blacks, and grays.

For the really ambitious there are fx make-up kits that include plastic skin so that you can make it look like bits and pieces of your flesh are falling off of your face. Personally, I believe that the grosser the zombie looks, the better the zombie is. Good luck!

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