The Unintended: The Side Effect Zombie Type
on October 25, 2010 at 5:00 amOne of my favorite movies is “Return of the Living Dead.”
Great Cthulhu! I love that movie. It’s one of those guilty pleasures I can watch over and over again. In ROTLD the zombies are caused by exposure to “Trioxin” gas which in the movie was originally developed by the Darrow Chemical Company for the United States military as an herbicide to destroy marijuana plants.
Unfortunately, it has a nasty side affect of turning the dead into fast, intelligent, brain hungry zombies that cannot be killed with a head shot. It’s pretty safe to say that of all the types of zombies out there those from this movie would be one of the most dangerous.
Also it should be noted that while George Romero brought the “Pop Culture” zombie into popularity it was “Return of the Living Dead” that the idea of zombies as brain eaters came from.
If you haven’t seen this horror/comedy you really should. It’s just my opinion but I think it still holds up to this day.
That makes me think; the worst zombies ever are those ones with all the extra nipples…and those slightly hairy warts…I mean ew…deadly AND morbidly mutated.
That reminds me, mini-motorcycle: worst zombie getaway vehicle ever? Other than maybe a shopping cart.
Wait a mo…Trioxin was created to wipe out marijuana and ended up creating zombies….
Oh the folly on man and soon to be zombie man.
Huh, I never saw it, but would the freaks from I am Legend technically fall into this category if zombies they be? From what little I know it was all due to an attempt to cure cancer that came back around and bit humanity in its collective ass.
If i had a nickel for every time that happend to me .
I am Legend, the movie at least, would appear to be similar with the key differences being that it was reversible and the infected ‘merely’ had jacked up strength, dexterity and immunity to pain rather than the benefits of being reanimated and not necessarily needing their brain a la ROTLD.
A lesson from ROTLD: cemeteries could be just as entertaining as a strip club but choose your night carefully.
I don’t know if I would qualify the I am Legend “Bad guys” as zombies. They are alive and have a will of their own. They don’t seam to demonstrate any zombie like behavior other than looking gross. They certainly aren’t a mixed drink so according to my zombie definition they aren’t zombies, just mutants.
If they were zombies I don’t think they would be chemical zombies. Wasn’t the “Cancer Cure” that created them some sort of Retrovirus? I don’t think it was a chemical. I wasn’t a fan of the movie. Whenever there is a dog in a movie and they kill it, that instantly earns my hatred. I love doggies.
The book by Richard Matheson was much better. The Will Smith version screwed up the ending to bad for me to like it.
It occurs to me that maybe the most deadly zombie would be the one completely covered in superfluous nipples. Terrifying.
Yes superfluous nipples on decaying body equals wrong on N levels. That’s my equation and I’m sticking to it.
Aaaah is it really wrong? Or is it soooo right that you’ve scared yourself by what it reveals about yourself.
LOL Don’t ask me the same question… I plead the 5th!
Dang it. Pianoman beat me to the I Am Legend thing. And GOOD GOD! That zombie has cleavage! …And tentacles.
And a vile of… something.
I know, in my “Zombie Universe” there is nothing smaller than a D cup. You may think this is weird, but I actually think just a little bit of cleavage is more attractive than full on nudity. Perhaps because I have a vivid imagination, I have no idea. Oh well.
I try to keep the comic at about a PG 13 kind of level as I’m kind of a PG 13 kind of person.
And you do a very good job of keeping it at about that level. And I was attempting to be funny by pointing out everything in the order that most of us were likely to notice it in.
LOL I got that, and it was funny.
That’s the exact order I would have noticed things. In fact I may not have noticed he tentacles for some time.
The I am legend creatures are actually vampires { they are harmed by sunlight and subsist by feeding on blood } but yes they are technically {Side effect} monsters even if they arent zombies
I just hated the rewritten ending in the movie. If you’ve read the book you’ll know what I mean. But the ending is the most critical part of the story and where the title “I am Legend” comes from…. You can’t change that without f’ing the whole thing up.
Plus dude, they killed the dog off. I can’t stand that.
Wait a tick, I think Trixon would be “spray on marijuana or something.”
But yeah that movie holds up extremely well, I caught it on youtube a few weeks ago. I liked how the characters were actually competent. Romero zombie victims wouldn’t have lasted five minutes against THOSE zombies.