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Did You Spot the Robot Zombies in Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’?

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There are many questions proposed by Army of the Dead that Zack Snyder intentionally fails to answer, including strong suggestions that the zombies are actually aliens along with the revelation that zombies in this movie’s world, well, they can actually… have sex and get pregnant? And what about that whole time loop thing? Is there any legitimacy to that?

These are the questions Snyder will surely be asked time and time again as he continues making the rounds while promoting Army of the Dead, but one of the biggest (and strangest) questions has actually already been answered by Snyder. Sort of, at least…

At a couple different points, you may have noticed that some of the zombies that litter the apocalyptic Las Vegas setting in Army of the Dead don’t actually appear to be conventional zombies, making them different than both the surprisingly intelligent Alphas and the more traditional Shamblers. These zombies, well, they might not actually even be zombies at all.

We’re talking about the film’s Robot Zombies, one of which is most glaringly present in the casino shootout that takes place about 1 hour, 53 minutes into the movie. As our heroes gun down hordes of Shamblers, their heads mostly explode in the way you’d expect them to, spewing blood all over the place. Except for one of them, shot in the head by Mikey Guzman.

Raúl Castillo’s character fires a shot into one zombie’s head and rather than blood, it seems to be an oil-like substance that spills out. Underneath his skin, making things even stranger, looks to be a Terminator-esque metal skeleton. And it’s not a case of unfinished effects work, we assure you, but rather Snyder intentionally teasing the existence of Robot Zombies.

As Snyder explained to Movie Web back in April, “I had the idea from the beginning that these zombies were going to embody an evolution, that they were on their way to becoming something else, not stagnant like the zombies we’re used to. It was a way to make them fresh, while still delivering the zombie canon in some ways. I really wanted this sort of weird ambiguity to their origins – which, of course, we’ll explore in the animated series. If you pay close attention, there’s a number of zombies that are clearly not zombies.”

Snyder continues, “You see normal zombies and then you see some robot zombies. Are they monitors that the government has placed among the zombies to monitor them? Are they technology from the other world? What’s happening there?”

It would seem that Snyder has a massive mythology for the world of Army of the Dead that he only lightly touched upon in the movie itself, with the upcoming prequel animated series and live action prequel movie set to expand upon that universe. And if Snyder has his way, he’ll also be making a sequel to Army of the Dead, which he’s already mapped out in his head.

Alien Zombie Robots, man. They freak me out.

Jump to 6:30 in the video below to see one of these bizarre mashup monsters in action. And let us know down in the comments if you spotted any other Robot Zombies in the film…

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Do ‘Ready or Not’ and ‘Abigail’ Take Place in the Same Universe? Did You Spot This Connection?

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Both extremely bloody cat-and-mouse chases through massive mansions, Radio Silence’s horror movies Ready or Not and Abigail (now playing in theaters!) are certainly cut from the same cloth, but do they actually take place within a shared universe? It was a question the filmmakers were asked, and their response suggests that the answer to that question is YES.

Collider’s Perri Nemiroff asked the question of Radio Silence filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who co-directed both 2019’s Ready or Not and this year’s Abigail. As they point out, an Easter egg nestled within Abigail confirms a shared universe connection.

Bettinelli-Olpin tells Collider, “There is a portrait in the background of one of the scenes [in Abigail] of Henry Czerny’s [character from Ready or Not].” Gillet chimes in to clarify, “It would be a grandfather. A great, great, great, great grandfather [of Czerny’s character].”

Bettinelli-Olpin adds, “There is a little bit of a tied universe to Ready or Not within the movie.”

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Actor Henry Czerny played the character Tony Le Domas in Radio Silence’s crowd-pleasing hit Ready or Not, the owner of the Le Domas Gaming Dominion and patriarch of the Le Domas family. The film centers on the Le Domas family’s deal with the devil to build their fortune, which Samara Weaving’s character Grace of course finds herself paying the price for.

If the Le Domas family exists in the world of Abigail, as the aforementioned portrait suggests, then that would indeed indicate that both films exist within the same bloody universe!

And it would seem there’s a deeper connection between the Le Domas family and the Lazar crime family introduced in Abigail. Have fun playing around with that idea. We know you will!

We’ll get you started. Is it possible that Abigail’s father is Mr. Le Bail from Ready or Not…?

In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”

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