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The First Zombie of a Zombie Apocalypse
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Idea for a horror comedy movie:
A group of teenagers encounter the first zombie and put it down, but the damn thing just keeps getting back up.
How about one that diverts expectations?
Like, instead of slow zombies, you get fast ones. Faster than they could run before. Maybe even faster than some vehicles. Because they don't feel pain.
And instead of dumb zombies, they are smart. They set traps, use tools. Maybe even drive cars.
Shooting the brain also does nothing. You got to shoot them in the ass since that is the way the parasite entered the body and how they communicate with the hive.
And like all the zombie preppers die-out quickly because they think the zombies will react like the ones from Hollywood. So they think they can play the hero while being outsmarted by fast zombies.
Humanity would not last long, and afterwards the world is populated entirely by a zombie civilization that looks eerily similar to our own but like better.
World War Z - fast
Reanimator - smart
The Return of the living dead - immune to headshots, make traps
Dreamcatcher - Alien Ass Parasites
Zombieland - unlikely survivors
I don't think you're as original as you think you are, pal. Good luck on your screenplay go, sounds like a great time.
I'll try, the billionaires figure out a serum that let's them live forever but forces them to consume human flesh which becomes, with automatisation, one of the few ways to make a living for the filthy non-billionaires who decided not to be born rich.
Is that fiction?
Fiction imitates life.
You're just describing vampires/peter theil, except flesh now.
Thats a really good original plot, the closest thing to that would be Daybreakers 2009 but it's not very similar.
None of those depict an after-the-apocalypse world run by smart zombies, though.
I like it. Let's do that. But then the twist happens.
The super fast super genius zombies get infected. And now they have to survive in a apocalyptic post-apocalyst. Directed by M Night.
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
NGL I did enjoy that film, but it had a lot of invincible zombies not just 1.
I'm talking about a film with ONE cheesy, campy, animalistic, frothing and gurgling zombie that they run over, stab, burn, shoot in the head, feed its intestines into a woodchipper, cut in half, etc but it just keeps crawling back to find another victim when they're displaying a human moment of vulnerability.
Specifics can change but I imagine a misty mountainside with lots of oaks and a creek and long winding roads. Put the kids out there as part of their college studies in cooperation with the forestry services. Get a scene where a character breaks their leg from a fall and has to crawl away while being chased by the zombie with only 1 arm, a head, and a torso.
Possibly have the twist ending be the last survivor find an old torn apart camp with the zombie's camera and personal identifying information and the character realizes he died out there all alone and nobody ever even looked for him, make it a meta-narrative about male loneliness destroying lives, idk, there is options for sure.
Return of the Return of the Living Dead?
No, you're thinking of the 1988 sequel Return of the Living Dead II.
Or the reboot maybe?
Wild to think theres six movies in this franchise with the first in 1985 and the latest this year.
Wanna know an even wilder franchise? Spaceballs - first movie in 1987, second one coming in 2027. Mell Brooks will be 100!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w
Gonna be one hell of a trilogy.
Weekend against Bernie
Chop it up so it can't move. Problem solved!
Yeah but then the movie would end. It would be like the Child's Play film if the mom read the instructions on the box.
"Why don't they just chop it up so it can't move?"
"Because then there wouldn't be a movie."
"Oh, right, that makes sense."
Theres also the HISHE series that goes over a ton of movies like that, too.
It's been so long since I have seen that guy! Thanks for the great reminder!
loool, that's a great idea!!