“Zombies don’t run!”
When zombies ran in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, horror fans lost their shit. Now, the younger generation doesn’t even care. Why? Well, because the idea of a slow-moving zombie isn’t as scary as one that can run you down and rip out your throat.
Filmmaker collective Killers and Company pokes fun at the “slow zombie” in this short film that’s really well made, pretty smart, and about 50% funny (it’s too long, frankly). The short opens with zombies attacking a man who is totally freaking out. As he’s on the ground screaming, another man walks into frame and calmly asks what the big fuckin’ deal is. And he’s right. Unless you’re completely surrounded, slow-moving zombies aren’t much of a threat.
Watch the video below, and then hope for the follow up: If zombies completely tear apart humans for food, how are there any zombies in the first place? Or maybe they can even address Stephen King’s tweet that questions how zombies don’t eventually rot and die because of decomposition…
There’s some brain food for ya.
