Are you tired of zombies in fiction?

[Feenix]

Not as tired as I am with ****** vampire movies.

Indeed! It's been perverted. At least zombies are still the walking dead who tend to kill the living.

Vampires are now sparkly, moody paedophiles who can walk around in the sunlight and have children.

But, yes, I do see way too many zombie movies. I do love the Resident Evil movies, though.

 

[NickNitro]

I feel the Underworld movies were the last recent movies to portray vampires/werewolves correctly.

 

[chamber-music]

I feel the Underworld movies were the last recent movies to portray vampires/werewolves correctly.

What do you mean by correctly?

I think mythological monsters are open to interpretation.

Not trying to start to start any conflict or anything just curious

 

[NickNitro]

No chamber, I take immediate offense to that and shall see you on the field of battle!

I think vampires in the years have lost their......I dont know how to describe it....their origins. Like before everyone who rags on Twilight and the other teeny bop vampire/werewolf adaptations are in the right.

I'm absolutely all for a writers interpretation (not interruption lol) but I can only take soo much.

I think Underworld and the vampires from 30 days of Night were truly scary.

 

[chamber-music]

I see, so its that they aren't as scary any more or have lost their mystique. I can understand that

 

[NickNitro]

Yes their mystique. That's a good way to put it. Vampires are notorious for lerking in the shadows, stalking its prey. It's not supposed to fall in love at a highschool with some chick and knock her up, then sparkle when it steps into the light.

It's supposed to savagely rip its prey's throat out, but also have a real struggle. Either its impending doom for living a life immortal, or what have you.

Interview with a Vampire was a great adaptation.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I wouldn't say I am tired of them. But then I tend to ignore most of the zombie stuff.

This. I enjoy TWD and the occasional movie. I dont pay attention to anything else.

 

[The Question]

Yes and no. I think that while they're a bit over exposed these days, they still have a bit of untapped potential that would be nice to see. I'd love to see a Zombie apocalypse story where there is actually a viable hope for curing the zombies and making them human again. Then you'd have pretty big moral dilemma every time one of the heroes has to kill one. That's be really interesting.


Also someone mentioned Vampires earlier, and that's another direction I'd like to see a Zombie apocalypse story go in. Have a Zombie apocalypse set up, but have it be Vampires instead. Same basic threat and atmosphere of terror and decay, but now the undead horrors seeking to infect you are intelligent and have individual personalities to make them a little more interesting.

 

[NickNitro]

The Zombie genre tends to have the same exact same interpretations every time which sucks.

28 days later was pretty cool, TWD is unique because it focuses less on the zombie outbreak and more on the human aspect. I like that it goes more into the psyche of the different archetypes of people and how they change/adapt in such trialed times.

 

[webhead9707]

With horror films though, Insidious and The Conjuring I feel are the best horror films of the last decade.

I hate slashers so paranormal movies are top of my list for the Horror genre.

Really? Insidious didn't scare me at all..I literally laughed out loud at a couple parts. Dawn of the Dead (Remake) and Walking Dead are more scary to me than Insidious. (Even then it's not that bad. Tense more than anything.)

 

[NickNitro]

Evil Dead wasn't scary to me. It was more of a Saw type movie to me, where the gore makes you turn away rather than the story.

I think its why I don't like movies like slashers/Saws. When I truly get terrified its from the paranormal and not "oh man she's splitting her own tongue that's ****ing disgusting".

But hey that's just me.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Also someone mentioned Vampires earlier, and that's another direction I'd like to see a Zombie apocalypse story go in. Have a Zombie apocalypse set up, but have it be Vampires instead. Same basic threat and atmosphere of terror and decay, but now the undead horrors seeking to infect you are intelligent and have individual personalities to make them a little more interesting.

There's a webcomic called Last Blood about vampires protecting the remaining humans after a zombie apocalypse. Not exactly what you're talking about but your post reminded me of it.

 

[NickNitro]

I always liked the vampires in Blade where they'd have human farming facilities to keep their species alive.

It would make sense that if vampires lived for thousands of years they would have roots in major organizations and be able to have them under the radar.

 

[The Question]

There's a webcomic called Last Blood about vampires protecting the remaining humans after a zombie apocalypse. Not exactly what you're talking about but your post reminded me of it.

That's also interesting and something that would be interesting to see in Zombie fiction: How other kinds of supernatural creatures react to a Zombie apocalypse. How are Vampires going to deal with their food source slowly being replaced by a lesser breed of undead that tastes like ashes in their mouth? Does someone's Lycanthropy remain even after they've become a Zombie, and if so what does a Zombie-Werewolf look like? Maybe the humans make shaky alliances with Demons and dark sorcerers for their mutual survival.

I'd also be interested to see a World of Darkness/Buffy/Supernatural kind of world with all kinds of monsters in it and how it related to Aliens invading and colonizing the Earth. There could be a whole underground rebel army against the Aliens made up of Vampires and Werewolves and Demons.

 

[KevanG]

Yes and no. I think that while they're a bit over exposed these days, they still have a bit of untapped potential that would be nice to see. I'd love to see a Zombie apocalypse story where there is actually a viable hope for curing the zombies and making them human again. Then you'd have pretty big moral dilemma every time one of the heroes has to kill one. That's be really interesting.


Also someone mentioned Vampires earlier, and that's another direction I'd like to see a Zombie apocalypse story go in. Have a Zombie apocalypse set up, but have it be Vampires instead. Same basic threat and atmosphere of terror and decay, but now the undead horrors seeking to infect you are intelligent and have individual personalities to make them a little more interesting.

They had Daybreakers. I rather liked it.

 

[webhead9707]

Evil Dead wasn't scary to me. It was more of a Saw type movie to me, where the gore makes you turn away rather than the story.

I think its why I don't like movies like slashers/Saws. When I truly get terrified its from the paranormal and not "oh man she's splitting her own tongue that's ****ing disgusting".

But hey that's just me.

Not Evil Dead, sorry. I was reading an article that mentioned it and got distracted. I meant Dawn of the Dead.

The stuff that makes me the most tense is when people are in danger and I *know they're going to die, but I also know I can't do anything about it. Cabin In The Woods got me. It didn't scare me but it made me really tense. I really don't remember the last time a movie "scared" me, really. The tongue splitting stuff can be creepy or gross, but it doesn't really scare me.

 

[NickNitro]

Ahh see we get scared by completely different things. When I know they are going to die I just go "yup...x,y,z's dead...just wait" and for some reason that takes me out of the movie and now I just feel like I'm more of an observer and not apart of the film.

With paranormal movies I love not knowing. The unseen is soo horrifying to me. I think its because I get in my head too much in life so that issue is exaggerated in the movies.

 

[webhead9707]

Ahh see we get scared by completely different things. When I know they are going to die I just go "yup...x,y,z's dead...just wait" and for some reason that takes me out of the movie and now I just feel like I'm more of an observer and not apart of the film.

With paranormal movies I love not knowing. The unseen is soo horrifying to me. I think its because I get in my head too much in life so that issue is exaggerated in the movies.

Gee, you must have loved Cloverfield and Jaws.

 

[Maximus One]

Yes. And basically anything supernatural in nature.

 

[NickNitro]

Gee, you must have loved Cloverfield and Jaws.

Loved them. Cloverfield had its moments, but Jaws as a kid really scared me.

Open water freaks me the **** out soo badly.

 

[webhead9707]

Loved them. Cloverfield had its moments, but Jaws as a kid really scared me.

Open water freaks me the **** out soo badly.

Cloverfield was the first thriller I really watched all the way through. My mom was always very sheltering when I was little so I didn't get to watch horror and thrillers much. Jaws is one of my favorite movies ever though. Love it. Oddly, one thing I distinctly remember that still makes me uneasy is the Thriller video. I saw it when I was VERY little and it scared me, and now it's funny to watch and I love it, but it still gives me a slight creepy factor for some reason.

 

[NickNitro]

After I saw Jaws as a kid, I wouldn't swim in my above ground pool for over a week because I was afraid Jaws was in there. My mom loved horror films and let me watch them at an early age haha. I also had a nightmare Jaws came out of the bathtub when I was taking a bath.

 

[Victarion]

I'd like to see more horror monsters like those from the Silent Hill movies.

 

[NickNitro]

Terrifying....especially how they moved.

 

[Piper Maru]

I voted As long as the stories are good I'm happy.