Question about Zombies...the official zombie thread

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[mauve66]

DUDE, i just saw a commercial for a new ZOMBIE movie, WWW.ZOMBIELAND.COM

they had a zombie running down a guy on a football field, man, they really are quick

didn't see anything in the commercial about zombie sex though, i'll keep looking..................................

[bull]

DUDE, i just saw a commercial for a new ZOMBIE movie, WWW.ZOMBIELAND.COM

they had a zombie running down a guy on a football field, man, they really are quick

didn't see anything in the commercial about zombie sex though, i'll keep looking..................................

I've seen the ad for that a couple times now and it looks like it might be decent for a zombie comedy. Woody Harrelson looks to be the only name-brand actor.

If you want zombie sex check out Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive."

[Lowprofile]

Resident Evil 4: Afterlife......coming in 2010!  

 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/resident-evil-4-afterlife-confirmed-for-2010/

[1BAD68]

 

[LeadfootBob]

If you want zombie sex check out Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive."

Dude... Makes me nauseous just thinking about that movie 
Although I have to say, it has one of the most hilarious lines in all of cinema:
"I Kick ass... FOR THE LORD!"

[mauve66]

Resident Evil 4: Afterlife......coming in 2010! 

  http://www.beyondhollywood.com/resident-evil-4-afterlife-confirmed-for-2010/

oh baby oh baby oh

[Landonsrt]

Ive been seeing alot of trailers on tv for Zombieland. Even though im not crazy about the whole zombie thing, that movie looks pretty good!

[bull]

Ive been seeing alot of trailers on tv for Zombieland. Even though im not crazy about the whole zombie thing, that movie looks pretty good!

It was good. I couldn't wait to see it so I found a midnight showing from which I just returned. There was a lot of gross-out stuff early on but then it settled into a really good dark comedy with a good subplot. Highly recommended.

[Landonsrt]

Sounds good. My wife doesnt care much for gory movies. Thats a plus for me!

[rav440]

Resident Evil 4: Afterlife......coming in 2010!  

 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/resident-evil-4-afterlife-confirmed-for-2010/

[ZSmithersCharges]

Just saw ZombieLand tonight... F*CKING AWESOME! Thats all folks.

[BigRed66]

#1 Movie in America last weekend...

depending on your perspective, either an indictment on the intelligence of Americans, or
a testimony to the fact that Zombies Rule...  

[AKcharger]

Saw it lst night and it was great! It had some pretty funny stuff, athough not completely realisitc according to the zombie survival guide. Notice when they cross the bridge into LA there's a crashed 69/70 Super Bee...it was a quick shot

[SeattleCharger]

What is the history of zombies?  also the word itself.  is it a modern day monster?  made in america for movies or whatever?   or does it have more history like dracula and vampires, they go back a ways in literature and that.
thanks, Nate             ps. I wanna see this new zombie movie, looks ok

[bull]

It has its roots in Voodoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie

"According to the tenets of Voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. "Zombi" is also another name of the Vodou snake lwa Damballah Wedo, of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kikongo word nzambi, which means "god". There also exists within the voudon tradition the zombi astral which is a part of the human soul that is captured by a bokor and used to enhance the bokor's power. The zombi astral is typically kept inside a bottle which the bokor can sell to clients for luck, healing or business success. It is understood that after a time God will take the soul back and so the zombi is a temporary spiritual entity.

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman that appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given powerful drugs, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote:

" What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony. - Zora Neale Hurston."

[SeattleCharger]

thanks for info Bull.  ever see the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow?  I think in that movie the voodoo guy used a potion that made the person seem dead, until after they were buried at funeral, then they would wake up underground, something like that.

  I saw Zombie land, entertaining flick.  love the slow motion scenes in beginning to metalica, and the seatbelt rule being shown of what not to do by that one lady,  ouch     woody saying thank god for rednecks 

[AKcharger]

I heard somthing about a Zombie MOPAR... I think a plymouth?

[AKcharger]

Oh, I was close...


Sun Eruption That May Have Spawned Zombie Satellite Identified
By Zoe Macintosh
SPACE.com Staff Writer
posted: 13 July 2010

Scientists have identified a massive eruption from the sun in April that reached all the way to Earth and may be responsible for knocking out a satellite, creating a so-called "zombie satellite."

The huge explosion of plasma and magnetic energy, called as a coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred on April 3 and was observed by NASA's sun-watching STEREO spacecraft, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The laboratory released new images of the solar storm last week.

The solar storm appears to have disabled the Intelsat communications satellite Galaxy 15, NRL officials said. Galaxy 15 lost contact with its ground controllers on April 5 and has been drifting around Earth ever since.

The observations suggest the coronal mass ejection flung material away from the sun at a phenomenal 1,000 kilometers per second. The solar eruption was moving at 2.2 million mph (3.6 million kph) while it was still close to the sun on April 3. It then slowed down to about 700 kilometers per second (1.5 million mph or 2.5 million kph) when it reached Earth on April 5.

There is an odd twist to the Galaxy 15 satellite failure. While the satellite has stopped communicating with its ground control center, its C-band telecommunications payload (which provided broadcast services to customers) is stuck on, earning it the "zombie satellite" nickname.

"Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are powerful eruptions of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona," NRL officials wrote in the July 7 statement. "When these sudden outbursts are directed toward Earth, they can have both breathtakingly beautiful and potentially damaging effects." [Amazing new sun photos.]

The study of the April 3 coronal mass ejection event was performed using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), a set of twin spacecraft on opposite sides of Earth that continuously watch the sun in what produces a stereo view, due to the wide separate of the probes in space.

The unique lateral views provided by STEREO were ideal for studying the kinematics and morphology of the developing event, said Russell Howard, the STEREO mission's principal investigator at the Naval Research Laboratory.

Three-dimensional reconstruction of the evolving cloud of electrified gas showed its form to be a crescent-shaped "flux rope" with a shock wave driven in front.

Prior awareness that the coronal mass ejection was headed straight for Earth came from the NRL-developed coronagraph aboard the SOHO solar observatory, which is located at a spot between the Earth and sun. That Large Angle Coronograph-Spectrograph (LASCO) instrument on SOHO observed a "halo" around the sun formed by the expanding and approaching solar eruption, NRL officials said.

Meanwhile, the now-aimless electronic signal from Galaxy 15 has forced other communications satellites to conduct evasive maneuvers from time to time to avoid signal interference. But the chances of the Galaxy 15 spacecraft hitting another satellite are so remote, they are non-existent, Intelsat officials have said. This month, Galaxy 15 will be flying near two other Intelsat satellites (Galaxy 13 and Galaxy 14).

[bull]

Great. Now the zombie satellite is going to eat the other satellites and then my cell phone won't work.

[Bob T]

If you want zombie sex check out Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive."

Funny enough, it was released here in 1992 as BrainDead. I went to the premiere and Lo, there was Peter Jackson.
Similarly check out Bad Taste his debut movie , low budget splatter action  


bit of  a hijack but , hell its a good low buget pisstake kiwi classic movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCnCri2cTU

[SeattleCharger]

zombies suck.     but I like the zombie movies.  . . . . .    show me how to deal with them,  though they do vary from movie to movie, fast, slow, smarter, etc. 

     28 days and 28 days later   are good ones if you didn't see em.   

[Rockatanski]

If your interested with a zombie story with a twist, read Brian Keenes The Rising and its sequel, City of the Dead. Quite disturbing.

[JoeyGowdy]

You can be a part of: Dodge Dakota in River City Dead

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806103121/dodge-dakota-in-river-city-dead

[AKcharger]

Minneapolis will pay $165,000 to zombies!

Now they have attorneys!

http://www.startribune.com/local/101273159.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU