Flibbertigibbet Posted April 23, 2012 #1 Share Posted April 23, 2012 There are loads of books and TV shows romanticising vampires, yet in the original legends vampires were hideous animated corpses preying on the livng, just like zombies. Yet vampires have now become noble, misundrstood creatures and everyone want to be one. Why not zombies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah_444 Posted April 23, 2012 #2 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Google "Warm Bodies" - supposed to be coming out in 2013 sometime. I haven't read into it much, but so far, it's looking pretty....sparkly. Edited April 23, 2012 by sarah_444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaikou Posted April 23, 2012 #3 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Google "Warm Bodies" - supposed to be coming out in 2013 sometime. I haven't read into it much, but so far, it's looking pretty....sparkley. lol, I saw something about that a few weeks ago. Seems like the zombie equivalent to twilight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flibbertigibbet Posted April 23, 2012 Author #4 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Google "Warm Bodies" - supposed to be coming out in 2013 sometime. I haven't read into it much, but so far, it's looking pretty....sparkly. Seems like someone beat me to it! Grrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted April 23, 2012 #5 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I thought zombies need brains for food or they are in pain. Although thinking about it there are quite a few different 'types' of zombies depending on what book, film or game you have experienced. Suppose it was inevitable that there would be 'sparkle' zombies at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted April 23, 2012 #6 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Vampires had a better PR agent I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flibbertigibbet Posted April 23, 2012 Author #7 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Vampires had a better PR agent I guess. Zombies are still crying out for their own Bram Stoker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauly Dangerously Posted April 23, 2012 #8 Share Posted April 23, 2012 You mean romanticise a bunch of old, decrepit, shambling things, endlessly looking for love while being emotionless and dead inside? They already did that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted April 23, 2012 #9 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Wouldn't it be **********? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOMBIE Posted April 23, 2012 #10 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Sure! The same goes for vampires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancelikestate Posted April 23, 2012 #11 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Google "Warm Bodies" - supposed to be coming out in 2013 sometime. I haven't read into it much, but so far, it's looking pretty....sparkly. They've already ruined vampires and now they are going to ruin zombies too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grc Posted April 23, 2012 #12 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Wouldn't it be **********? That's what I was thinking. Just imagine the smell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakazi Posted April 23, 2012 #13 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That's what I was thinking. Just imagine the smell... No, no, no, it's totally sexy. *gag* Ugh why do they have to ruin zombies too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted April 23, 2012 #14 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I thought zombies need brains for food or they are in pain. Although thinking about it there are quite a few different 'types' of zombies depending on what book, film or game you have experienced. Suppose it was inevitable that there would be 'sparkle' zombies at some point. Zombies didn't eat brains prior to the movie,Return of the Living Dead. It's just Hollywood reinventing the zombie. As far as i know,they also didn't eat human flesh,prior to night of the Living dead. Return of the Living dead opted for brains,to make it different from its predecessors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setton Posted April 23, 2012 #15 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Oh but they do Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted April 23, 2012 #16 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I think it is because most Zombies are assumed to not be presevered, so they begin to rot. Nothing sexy about bits and pieces falling off, and stinking up the place. If you don't eat or breath, and yet don't rot, then are you really dead? And if you're not dead, then are you a zombie? I think pop-culture wise, a preserved zombie is actually a mummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted April 24, 2012 #17 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Well Demi Moore loved a ghost. That girl in Twilight loved a vampire AND a werewolf. Its about time zombies got some action too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogue trooper Posted April 24, 2012 #18 Share Posted April 24, 2012 The rot started (pardon the pun) in Land of the Dead, when the zombies became aware, intelligent etc. Don't worry, if this new zombie teen flick gets you down, there's always Shaun of the Dead to make you smile again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el midgetron Posted April 24, 2012 #19 Share Posted April 24, 2012 The Italians were exploring this genre back in the early 1980s. Although, in a more carnal than "romantic" sense. Several films continue to explore that aspect of the living dead, there is even an all male cast adult zombie movie.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted April 24, 2012 #20 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I found this funny, until the warm bodies thing was posted..... Really? It was a fair point though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dreamer - Hybrid89 Posted April 24, 2012 #21 Share Posted April 24, 2012 There are loads of books and TV shows romanticizing vampires, yet in the original legends vampires were hideous animated corpses preying on the livng, just like zombies. Yet vampires have now become noble, misunderstood creatures and everyone want to be one. Why not zombies? I suppose if you look at it really and ive also done a bit of research into vampires, the best way to describe the myths/folklore on vampires is 'a Chinese whisper' its starts off as one thing and over time it changes into something completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted April 25, 2012 #22 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Watch Fido. There is a love story that involves a zombie. And it is a very entertaining movie. Billy Connelly and Carrie-Ann Moss star in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willowdreams Posted April 25, 2012 #23 Share Posted April 25, 2012 well, somehow through blood vamps are solid.. zombies.. are decaying. when i think of romance, i think of sex.. do you want to go down on someone who's member may fall off in your mouth or hoochie coochie? do you want to french kiss someone and their tongue fall off... in your mouth. do you want to be spooning and suddenly feel pain in the back of your head as their hunger for brains overcomes their romantic feelings? i mean the euwwwwwwww factor is like.. beyond euwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted April 25, 2012 #24 Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) well, somehow through blood vamps are solid.. zombies.. are decaying. when i think of romance, i think of sex.. do you want to go down on someone who's member may fall off in your mouth or hoochie coochie? do you want to french kiss someone and their tongue fall off... in your mouth. do you want to be spooning and suddenly feel pain in the back of your head as their hunger for brains overcomes their romantic feelings? i mean the euwwwwwwww factor is like.. beyond euwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Yeah but the point is that if these Romantic teen films about werewolves and vampires where based on the original stories of them, then that would also be "euwwwwwwwww". lol Yet people still went there and glamorized it. With Twighlight they even mixed Native American Shape shifting with the European werewolf. Native American Shape shifting: Turns into a normal Wolf or other normal animal depending on the persons Totem. European werewolf: A curse that turns a man into a wolf on a full moon. She just took the bits she liked from both to Romanticize it. It's kinda disrespectful to Native Americans as well. Edited April 25, 2012 by Coffey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted April 26, 2012 #25 Share Posted April 26, 2012 World War Z is supposed to be coming out on film this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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