Pre-romero movie lore had a number of ways of killing zombine, as Matt say decpitation and filling the mouth with salt. Also sliver bullets. I'm pretty sure the silver bullets at least were just made up/stolen from werewolf movies.
I'm all up in the law now, but damn it feels good to get my violence on.
Gunn ,'Unleashed'
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Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2012 6:41:09 pm PDT #19777 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Dana - Mar 24, 2012 7:30:27 pm PDT #19778 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
We are catching up on The Walking Dead, and I am already spoiled (husband is not), but I cannot BELIEVE how shitty the gender roles are on this show. They actually had someone argue that they should leave the menfolk to the fighting, and the women should just be doing the cooking and cleaning.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2012 7:48:20 pm PDT #19779 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
right? between that and T-Dog they really have hit almost all of the stereotypes.
all they need is a homicidal gay man and trifecta.
Theodosia - Mar 25, 2012 3:41:53 am PDT #19780 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'll ever so slightly defend Lori on this -- under stress, some people revert to gender stereotypes (which kinda explains a lot about the Republican party right now) as a source of comfort and "rightness". I think that's where she was coming from.
I remember the Nightstalker series as being rather funny. But remember, it was a rather lone example of its genre at the time... (What year was Night of the Living Dead released again?)
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2012 4:42:53 am PDT #19781 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
NotLD was 1968, Theo.
Theodosia - Mar 25, 2012 7:44:03 am PDT #19782 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
So there'd been enough time for Romero's "zombies" to get accepted as the canon mythology.
Typo Boy - Mar 25, 2012 8:27:58 am PDT #19783 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Although KNown, dont think they were "the" Canon yet. Other zombie mytholodies still very active in popular culture, including the tormented zombie who passed for human and hated his (almost always a he) unlife.
quester - Mar 25, 2012 8:52:25 am PDT #19784 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Loved the episodes of Korra. I just hope the rest of them will be accessable on line.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2012 8:54:36 am PDT #19785 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you have any examples of that, Typo? I'd love to read about some pre-Romero non-Vodou zombies.
Typo Boy - Mar 25, 2012 9:50:58 am PDT #19786 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well they were usually Voudou, but the author's Voudou, with not much of a nod to actual Voudou culture.
One really awful non-Voudou one 'The Return of Dr. X' [link]
Humphrey Bogart is the zombie doctor.
[on edit] early on, a pale Bogart with a streak of white in his hair is introduced stroking a bunny. "we are both victims" he says. "Victims of what he is asked" answer: pause "circumstances".