There are very few things in life that are undisputable fact. 1.) Eventually we’re all going to die. 2.) Zombies are absolutely awesome. It’s a simple fact of nature that zombies are a uniquely frightening creature. Unlike vampires, they don’t have any semblence of emotion. Unlike werewolves, they don’t magically stop being zombies when the moon dips below the horizon. Zombies are relentless. They don’t sleep. They don’t stop.

And no matter how they get you, whether it’s from infection or from being chow, your death will be slow and very painful.

So in a way, they’re perfect for building up a tension and then snapping it like a twig in a glorious hale of gunfire.

Unless you’re dealing with fast movers, which I personally find to be a giant horror movie cop-out. The entire idea behind zombies is that they are slow, methodical. They can’t be bargained with or reasoned with. They don’t feel pity or remorse or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

…so in a way, The Terminator is the greatest zombie movie of all time. In a way.

Fast movers, sadly, were created because lazy filmmakers didn’t want to think of how they could keep the zombie scary. What makes it even worse is that George Romero, the man who popularized zombie films in America and is even considered to be a legend by many, is the biggest offender of this.

He had zombies learn to use weapons.

But video games have kep the idea of the pure zombie alive, with games like Dead Rising and Resident Evil. I hesitate to call Left 4 Dead a zombie game simply because A.) fast movers and B.) many of the enemies aren’t even zombies.

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