To me, that's what makes it interesting.

We've seen hordes of slow zombies. That's scary. It's just the sense of inevitability. You're out numbered... eventually, you'll be overwhelmed.

We've seen the fast version, and they're scary because any one of them could take you out at any time.

We've never seen a horde of fast zombies. To me that's intriguing. The horde moves like a flock of birds, almost a hive mind kinda thing.

I like this...

To me, that's not only new and interesting, it's ****ing terrifying.

It's just that there are so many of them.

I agree.

To some zombie movies may be a little overdone. So, the challenge to think of something new is always there.

Quick moving zombies, which move like a tidal wave intrigue the shit out of me.

It's something new and different.

Zombies can't be faster and stronger than what their muscles allow.


This is becoming FAIL pretty quick.

I must be a zombie nut.

I enjoy slow and fast zombies.

:shrug:

Maybe the freshly dead/infected still have enough physical ability to pull off a mile sprint, and just degrade over time?

The Walking Dead nails it, imo. The more zombies that are in a group, the more focused and faster they are. Maybe the scenes we saw just took that idea and ran with it.

So I finally saw this full trailer.

The movie looks good, but the title is about the only relationship it seems to share with the book.

After watching the trailer with my oldest son, and showing him this thread, we both had the same comment: The zombies don't so much look like a tidal wave to us as ... a swarm of ants.

Insects, not water.

That made it creepier to us.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book, The Zombie Survival Guide.

Read both, pretty good...

The main point is though, THAT is not WWZ. That is just some zombie flick with Pitt in it. I wanted to see WWZ.

We knew from the get-go, though, that the narrative style of WWZ would create problems for a movie. The best approximation would have probably been to have done a "found footage" type film.

I agree that it's certainly NOT even an adaptation of WWZ the book, though. It looks to just shares a name with it.

I was thinking that Z should be a "Pulp Fiction" type movie.

Everything is seperate but tied together in the end.

Zombies were always better than vampires. Vampires are mostly for teen girls.

Did you read Cronin's The Passage? It's going to be a movie as well, and it's a pretty excellent treatment of vamps. It sort of combines the best of both worlds, though. The dark psychological horror of vampires with the postapocalyptic milieu of zombies (similar to I am Legend).

No, but I could probably enjoy that.

On a side note - I don't think the well on zombies movies will run dry for quite a while, though. Some stories will just be better than others. It's a survival tale, first, really. The good ones anyway. The zombies are sort of a plot device to get the characters to the point where they're in a constant state of fighting to survive.