I ahve to wonder what it is that zombies and vampires, or rather our obsession with them, says about us?
By making zombies quick, they are merely conflating them with vampires, or maybe the angry mob that normally gathers around them. But how is it that there is a consensus about either creature, when neither creature has been in the popular mythos for more than a century? Are they really representing some older and much more established paradigm - the zombies some slow moving and unstoppable force of contagion, the vampires some superfast agent of evil seduction?
according to my good pal and fount of all zombie knowledge, Darryl - "Physically there's no reason for them not to be able to run. Rigor mortis isn't permanent and works itself out if the muscles are moved. So a shambling zombie would rid itself of rigor after a short time. And a fresh corpse wouldn't have rigor at all so wouldn't be affected".
I like the explanation for the original zombie myth. Tales of poisons that leave the victim looking dead but actually still alive abound - Snow White, fr'instance - and one such was apparently used to create "zombies." The victim would "die," then the zombie master would snatch the body. The victim, believed dead by everyone including themselves, was then used as a slave by the zombie master
By all accounts, the voodoo version left the victim in a stupor. Mindless (or single-minded), slow and deliberate. This might be the basis for the shambling zombie.
I ahve to wonder what it is that zombies and vampires, or rather our obsession with them, says about us?
ReplyDeleteBy making zombies quick, they are merely conflating them with vampires, or maybe the angry mob that normally gathers around them. But how is it that there is a consensus about either creature, when neither creature has been in the popular mythos for more than a century? Are they really representing some older and much more established paradigm - the zombies some slow moving and unstoppable force of contagion, the vampires some superfast agent of evil seduction?
according to my good pal and fount of all zombie knowledge, Darryl - "Physically there's no reason for them not to be able to run. Rigor mortis isn't permanent and works itself out if the muscles are moved. So a shambling zombie would rid itself of rigor after a short time. And a fresh corpse wouldn't have rigor at all so wouldn't be affected".
ReplyDeleteI like the explanation for the original zombie myth. Tales of poisons that leave the victim looking dead but actually still alive abound - Snow White, fr'instance - and one such was apparently used to create "zombies." The victim would "die," then the zombie master would snatch the body. The victim, believed dead by everyone including themselves, was then used as a slave by the zombie master
ReplyDeleteBy all accounts, the voodoo version left the victim in a stupor. Mindless (or single-minded), slow and deliberate. This might be the basis for the shambling zombie.
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