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Characteristics of zombies vary from film to film. Each filmmaker gives their zombies a unique set of qualities for the universe of that film. While zombies are often portrayed as slow-moving, such as in Night of the Living Dead, other films such as World War Z (2013) depict fast-moving zombies that can run.
Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings. They are commonly portrayed as anthropophagous in nature—labeling them as cannibals would imply zombies are still members of the human species, and expert opinions quoted in some of the films below, e.g. Dawn of the Dead, specifically state this is not the case.
The film focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie (Palmer), a young woman, and R (Hoult), a zombie, and their eventual romance, causing R to slowly return to human form. The film is noted for displaying human characteristics in zombie characters and for being told from a zombie's perspective. [8] [9]
Army of the Dead is, in its own way, undead. Fanboy auteur Zack Snyder came up with the premise for an original zombie movie more than a decade ago -- years after breaking out with his Dawn of the ...
The film, described as a "mordant punk comedy," [1] is known for introducing multiple popular concepts to the zombie genre: zombies eating specifically brains, as opposed to eating any form of human flesh; and zombies being invulnerable to a gunshot to the head. [5]
The movie was directed by Steven C. Miller, who has one of those super-niche indie-B-movie cult followings; they prize his intermittent action ingenuity combined with his lack of pretension. But ...
The "romantic zombie" angle still remains popular, however: the late 2010s and early 2020s saw the release of the TV series American Gods, iZombie, and Santa Clarita Diet, as well as the 2018 Disney Channel Original Movie Zombies and sequels Zombies 2 (2020) and Zombies 3 (2022).
Murphy starred in 2002's "28 Days Later" as Jim, and his character survived the events of the film. He did not return for the 2007 sequel, "28 Weeks Later," which centered on new characters.