What weapons are the best for killing a zombie?

What is a zombie: A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. A zombie is a dead person that is brought back to life through a curse (voodoo, necromancy) or a mutation and has recovered some vital functions like movement.

They are near-mindless, possessing little reasoning power, though many can perform "remembered behaviors" from their mortal existence.

Zombies are omnipresent in the folklore of Haïti, where they are created by voodoo, an african type of black witchcraft. More recently, zombies films have exposed new theories according to which man-made virus or genetical experiments are held responsible for the creation of zombies. Such films put a strong emphasis on flesh and blood : rotting bodies and their attendant maggots, as well as the still-warm gore resulting from savage, often cannibalistic attacks upon the living.

What is a zombie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zNoxRxs_A

So I ask which weapons are best against zombies?

my personal favorites are grenades, shotties, chainsaws (the more blood the better), and florescent lights. even though zombies aren't going to be a major threat to anybody anytime soon =P these should work just fine

im a sword person
so knives daggers swordes......oh bow and arrows

lol, lets see how long you last... im gonna be protected with my totally beastly awesome pwnerator5000 chainsaw with cool lights!!!

oh, wait you could bring ur mum and at first sight all the zombies would run away XD

lol...jk

A good long hooked fireplace poker.

lol, but that would only get ya like 5 mins... maybe a flare gun...arent they afraid of those?

at least i cant run out of ammo smart guy

depends are we talking rez evil or 28 days later?

She is right you know.

a chainsaw... and i could find extra gas during da daytime

anybod remember this part in the movie?

i was liek get up u hefalefer!!!! dummie got his dog died

wow..

what do you mean by wow...?

I assume you mean the typical stereotype zombie???The slow,dumb,and clumsy type???

666XZ:Yea yorg,those ones.

Ok got it.



In that case your first defense has to be range.You have to keep them as far away from you as possible.So you start out with longe-ranged rifles,grenades,and explosives like dynamite and mines.Then as they get closer(as they inevitably will) you move down to pistols and shotties.Finally you move down to melee,which although it doesn't have range,it has the second most amount of damage on zombies(under explosives and fire).A blunt object would be preferable,since blades tend only to slice their flesh,which doesn't effect them in a huge way,and even if you cut their head off they're body can still attack you.Ideally the goal would be to bludgeon them until their body was so destroyed it couldn't move anymore,but since you won't have that time,you have to give them a solid whack to the head,which will stun them for a few minutes,letting you run.Remember,with zombies,you always run.You never go attack the zombie horde,unless you have a bomb strapped to your chest

EDIT:Another tactic for running away is a flare gun.You fire it in the air and all the zombies stop to stare at it,whilst you make a break for it.

lol i cried when sam died

lol...i just wondered why he didn't give the stinkin dog the shot...i would have! and i know that if he really wanted to he could have made it to his car alot faster than that, so in return it is his fault that the dog died!!! BAD WILL!

XD

id still carry my sword and all my daggers arrows and stuff i cant run out of

lol, look at the 2nd post that bog creeper put it the brown bomber sect.!!!!!!!!

-.-


Anyway,i just wanted to add that the typical dawn of the dead type zombies have no fear of light.So the IAmLegend thing won't work.

Seconded.

Anyways, a sword, axe, spear, knife, etc... wouldn't create the amount of noise a gunshot creates, so you can quietly dispose of any zombies that would be in your way without drawing the attention of any others. That is, unless you have a silencer for all your weapons, which I wouldn't know why you would, but even those create some noise.

you can definatly run out of arrows, and after a while your sword becomes blunt and it has no use anymore except hitting the zombies

no the dog wasnt immune!!!! and the vaccein didnt work!!

dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut.....uuurrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh

have u seen shun of the dead??? they had one gun no bullets and they through the whole movie hit zombies to death.......

I'd rather use a bow than a gun. It's silent, and you can easily create more arrows, whereas creating more bullets would require a lot more. Bows are also simple designs, especially compared to a gun, which has the potential to break and fail.

im just saying you so could have a cricket bat and still live

1) the vaccine did work (note: you need to watch the end of the movie)

2) the person that he tested the vaccine on...it worked on her

3) he didn't use it on the dog, he just let it turn in =to zombie sam and then he choked it

it worked... turst me

oh, time for 2nd period...g2g

exactly pluse you can retreive arrows

not if the zombies are near them....

not if the zombies are near them....

dude dogs where differant then humans duh!! the vaccien didnt work on dogs!! only the rat and human after the humans tep was dropped!!!! he did use it i read the script and he put a suringe in sam in the movie!!

the girls temp was dropped to about -0 then the vaccien worked

Actually zombies have a hive mind...or so I've heard.They are all one mind functioning together TO GET MORE BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!So basically if one finds you they all know where you are.Srry.Also you can run out of arrows,and a blade only does so much against zombies.I suggest a bat,club,metal pole,hammer,etc.,any kind of blunt object that you can stun them with.The only blade that would be really effective would be a chainsaw,which is a good choice against anything

You can't run out of crowbar

lmao

A tank ala Flinstone. I wouldn't run out of gas and I can run over those zombies with my tank.

hmmm alot of strength needed tho

Not really. Zombies 'commune' through sight, smell, and sound. Hive mentality isn't telepathic by default, but rather an instinctive social structure set on one goal, and in the case of zombies, that goal is your flesh. One zombie spotting you doesn't send some kind of magical radio wave calling all other zombies in the area. That zombie would instead have to cry out or otherwise somehow draw attention from other zombies. I think you're just basing all zombies off the Land of the Dead version. That's where you got the idea of the flare-trick, which doesn't work for other zombie versions.



See "create more" for more info. The point is, a bow is more reliable than a gun, with less noise and much more easily replenished ammunition.



Uh... how does that work? The same amount of energy you'd use and number of strikes to be made with a blunt weapon can just as effectively be used with a blade. Even a screwdriver would work. A dead-body isn't going to function without the reanimated brain controlling it. A blunt weapon does the same thing as a bladed weapon if used to destroy the brain. It's not like one has magical properties. The body might step or crawl for a few seconds, but that's about it. If you decapitated the zombie, the brain loses oxygen and blood, thus, dies. A chainsaw would just spread blood all over the place and create a lot of noise. A chop to the head with a sword will do the same thing as a chainsaw ripping through the skull. It's not like chainsaws are the zombie-equivalent of the silver bullet, or something.

i thought he put the suringe down, and even if he did it wouldn't have made a difference because it doesen't work that fast

ahem...*cough*

what I would need to survive a zombie apocalpyse.

1. MP3 player loaded with slayer

2. Really sharp battle axe.

3. Red bull

well, in the whole 2 hrs that you survive im sure you'd have fun.

I vote for a flame thrower. Good distance and aesthetically pleasing effects.

I have always thought that a deep moat of hydrogen peroxide would work well to bubble away and burn their infected flesh.

I just put my fingers up like they're a cross, that usually works.

Depends on the type of zombies we're talking about.There are the modern,fast,agile,strong,virus-infested kind in which case you have no chance so yoou may as well shoot yourself,or the older,evil,slow moving,moaning,living-dead kind that were brought to life by a necromancer or witchcraft.The latter have a hive mind that connects them because they are all being controlled by one person,said necromancer.In the case of the modern ones,they usually travel in hordes of hundreds at a time,so killing one without the others knowing will be pretty much impossible


Again,depends on the zombies.The modern ones are easier to kill,since they do rely on their brains,but then again they are strong,agile,and quick so that puts them right back up at hard to kill.The older ones,being controlled by a necromancer or some evil force,don't rely on brains,cuz the dude is controlling them as one.So you can chop their head off but the body will keep coming.In that case you want to knock it over with a wack to the head,because seeing as they are all being controlled at once,it will have some trouble getting back up.
Even the modern day zombies are still dead,so they can't be killed as if they were alive

Not me, I'll try to survive. Those zombies still have human bodies, they're no more stronger, faster, or more agile than a human, unless you're using zombies that are so far from reality that it makes Resident Evil look like a History Channel documentary.



Necromancy and witchcraft are not all that revives the bodies in 'older' zombie versions. Slow moving zombies decompose at a slower rate. All you have to do to survive a zombie infestation like that from the Dawn of the Dead remake where the zombies are fast and agile, but decompose at a much faster rate (after a day, the zombies were already falling apart) is just wait it out. The slow moving zombies (which Romero said is more logical because the ones from the Dawn remake would break their ankles trying to run the way they do) would be around to bother you for a lot longer, and are much more dangerous because they can use basic intelligence and often function in groups.



We're not discussing necromancy-only zombies. We're discussing general zombie survival skills gained from folklore. The only case in which zombies seem to be telepathically linked is through sorcery or in some kind of unexplored method such as the ones in Land of the Dead. Whereas Romero and other zombie creators have them communing through sight, sound, and smell, not telepathy.



If by modern you mean the ones who rely on speed and agility then no, they don't rely on their brains. All zombies with the exception of Army of Darkness-types revived through sorcery are easily killed by destroying the brain. The ones you're refering to (which you seem to be mixing with Land of the Dead and necromancy) can't be 'killed' because they're just dead corpses who's bodies are controlled by some kind of force. Chop off an arm, and that arm can still grasp your throat, cut off a leg, and that leg can still twitch, remove the head and the body can still attack. The 'modern' zombies who rely on speed and agility don't use their brains as much as the ones created and inspired by those like Romero who are known to use tools and very simple strategies to great effect.



What older ones are you refering to? You seem to be grouping them into old and modern, basing modern ones strictly from the remake of Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead, and older ones strictly on necromancy. Zombies aren't simply split into groups like that.



Err.. 'modern day' zombies are either rendered rabid like in 28 Days Later or are brought back to life through reanimation via the brain. I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean by 'modern' and 'older' zombies since you seem be attributing them into character groups that are either contradictory, too limited in version, or mismatched. I'm thinking you group sorcery-controlled zombies into old and the running, distracted by fireworks zombies into modern, when there are much more versions for both old and modern.

But the point is, if the zombie depends on some kind of brain activity to remain functional, then you can kill it. The most effective way of killing zombies is to destroy the brain (which kills the zombie) and then burning the corpse (which then kills the virus). And a sword can be used to just the same effect, if not better to kill a zombie just as a baseball bat.

as an avid collector of guns I can recommend the goodies.

1) The .50 Desert Eagle

2) The 22 Rifle small but accurate

3)spaz shotgun

4) The Mini 14

5) AR-15

After playing numerous "Resident Evil" games, I recommend:

1) A Shotgun

2) A Handgun

3) And running away as fast as you can!!