Why are the zombies angry?

by L. J. Williamson

Why is it that every time you see a zombie movie, the zombies seem so pissed off? I mean, aren't they just hungry and trying to get food? Are they mad that you're running away from them?

When a hunter tracks a deer, he doesn't snarl and moan and scream, does he? No. He's quiet. Stealthy. I want to see more movies with zombies that are methodical hunters, not brainless sneering jerks.

Zombies are usually full of desperation and despair. Are they mad that they didn't get the afterlife they were promised -- the one with harps and wings, or the one with 57 virgins, or the one that releases them from the wheel of samsara into nirvana?

Zombiehood is a pretty cruddy reincarnation, after all. I guess I'd be angry too.

| 06/26/07 | Entertainment

"methodical hunters, not brainless sneering jerks"

they are practically brainless. The only movie in which "zombies" are properly angry is 28 days later and they're not even zombies.

In movies like Zombie Flesh Eaters and Day of the Dead, the zombies are relatively calm, they just like inflicting terrible pain on people and then feasting upon their entrails.