Simon Pegg view, runners vs shamblers

[ryansson]

Apologies if this has been posted before but just read this article and think it explains wonderfully why, for me at least, shamblers are the definitive zombie. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...-pegg-dead-set

[Yojimbo]

Thank you ryanson for the link to a well written article.

[bassman]

Couldn't agree more! This quote had me laughing. I've compared Snyder's speedsters to raptors since day one... "the second they emit furious velociraptor screeches (as opposed to the correct mournful moans of longing),"

[Cody]

Peggs gotta good head on his shoulders

[ryansson]

Peggs gotta good head on his shoulders Certainly has, was very impressed by that article, wish I'd have thought of it myself

[Craig]

Great article, really affirms what the slow zombie and zombie genre in general is all about. I just hope we get a good shambler movie soon... maybe in the form of World War Z, if it's good no doubt it has potential to be popular in the mainstream too.

[MinionZombie]

Pegg - what a legend - it has to be said. This is exactly the sort of thing I've been banging on about since 28 Days Later came out (they're NOT zombies!) and then when Yawn04 came out (110 reasons in 110 minutes why it's sh*t), and I too thought Dead Set was superb stuff ... ... but ... ... the running zombies, gah! As I've said many times before - anything running at you is scary, especially if it's screaming a scream the human vocal chord is incapable of achieving ... but in so-doing, all the subtlety, the meaning, the creeping dread and the sudden realisation that you're totally f*cked when you never saw it coming, is all lost as soon as the dead become track stars. I truly believe there is more skill in creating a shambling zombie film, because you have to figure out how your people will become victims, how the dead can catch on in the populace...I've said it before, but I'll say it again - I'm gonna be starting my zombie epic script soon (once I can shake off the crushing malaise I always face prior to hammering the keyboard), and it WILL contain shamblers. I think he summed it up well when he said that death is a disability to the zombies, not a super power. I maintain that a zombie should act like a drunk toddler, capable of movement and even menace, but far from capable of complex body control - such as running.

[Bub666]

Great article,Simon Pegg is dead on about zombies in that article.

[Doc]

I personally, would like to see a zed film where you start with runners(not to the extend of Dawn '04 though) that maybe move fast for two weeks to a month or so. Then maybe as time goes on the first wave zombies begin to slow down. So by the time they slow down their numbers make up for their physical limitations. Err....Well thats how I think of it.

[blind2d]

Yeah, Minion! You took the words right out of my mouth, and then some!

[ryansson]

I personally, would like to see a zed film where you start with runners(not to the extend of Dawn '04 though) that maybe move fast for two weeks to a month or so. Then maybe as time goes on the first wave zombies begin to slow down. So by the time they slow down their numbers make up for their physical limitations. Err....Well thats how I think of it. Personally I would like to see a seperation, the shamblers earning the title of true classic zombie and the runners being not dead but rabid/posessed. I think as the article mentions there is good reason for the zed to shamble, it sets it apart from the vamp or the werewolf in a most effective way

[DawnGirl27]

Yeah, Minion! You took the words right out of my mouth, and then some! (In Cameron's voice from Ferris Bueller's Day Off) "MZ, you're my hero..." And the article was a great one. Very well-written.

[Bunker65]

Great article, thanks for sharing it ryan . I would also echo what others have said regarding MZ's post, spot on & I agree 100% !!

[AcesandEights]

Flying zombies ftw!

[DjfunkmasterG]

Good article, but Even Pegg admits himself having the debate is pointless because of reality and the zombie apocalypse. This is one mans opinion on how he feels zombies should exist, but just because Romero gave us one thing doesn't mean that should be the entire standard. I like running zombies, they depict a larger threat, that shamblers no longer represent. Although I use both styles in my films.