Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140712065858/@comment-6052796-20140715040802

I agree the talking zombie idea is kinda stupid to some extent. But I think while the explination of the Zombies in return was mostly scientific, there was also voodoo like approaches to it. Sorta making it pseudo supernatural.

Well the thing about Goblin though is that it has a Jaws like approach to the music. For example the main theme if you listen carefully each instrument represents a thing that is happening in the movie. The drum beat for example is a lone zombie walking around and when it gets faster, that's it Grabbing and biting his recent catch. The bass represents a group of Zombies walking together doing the same. Stuff like that. Plus they have a way of fooling listeners too. For example one song in their soundtrack called The Hunt in english (The Band is italian.)  at first I thought the solo they did was electronic like the rest of the song. But nope it was all done with an accoustic. You need to be very good at finger style guitar to pull that off.

Actually Romero didn't quite say vampires either. Before Zombie was coined for the flesh eating monsters we know and love. He originally called them the following "Them, those things and ghouls." The latter word was often associated with vampires, but Ghouls was the original term. In fact, in the original Dawn, the first person to ever say Zombies In context, was Ken Foree's character Peter. But that was because he had already established a history of believing In voodoo, where he also came up with the Tagline both the original and the remake use. "When there's no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth." You might recognize him as the TV preacher in the remake too.

As for what I said about the running zombies I also mentioned unless supernatural means occur as well. But the idea though for Romero's approach was that we never intend to know how the Zombies came to be. The reason for that was, because he wanted to treat the pandemic like it was no different than a real life disaster. Like a Tornado or an earthquake. We can work on what we do know about them, but it would take an eternity to figure out every single aspect. Romero however does give vague hints on how they operate as well as a few guesses on how they may have happened. In Night it was implied that a probe that was launched in space, absorbed foreign radiation from Venus and upon crashing into earth, it's radiation gave the dead the unique ability to rise. Both Dawns, give us the impression that it could be supernatural means such as no more room in hell. Day implied that God might have been pissed and is taking it out on earth. Originally Day was supposed to be the final. Romero had the idea that whatever was causing them to rise was over. Oh there were still zombies walking around, but no recently risen dead.

If you want to talk about uniqueness here's something you might not know. In the Romero series, the bite doesn't turn you. The entire idea in that context, is that no matter how you died, unless your brain is destroyed, you will rise. The bite however is the result of every bacterial disease that lingers in a corpse which in turn becomes sort of a concentrated "Venom" if you will. The bite kills you then you rise. It took Roger 3 days to die out from it before Peter had to put him down when he rose. Stephen died quicker because he lost alot of blood from both the bites and the bikers shooting him.