There is one thing I don't get. Everywhere Miller and his wife come there are bodies all over the place like on the fairgrounds. Why didn't those bodies stand up and attack them? I thought they said if someone gets killed by them he becomes a ghould to!
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Though it's a bit far feteched, it could be said they were already killed after revival. Or, vampires killed them in a way that damaged the head. Remember that police office in the hospital who got decapitated? I bet he didn't come back. :)
My favorite logic puzzles from the movie:
1.) how do these creatures know they need new red blood cells?
2.) how does ingesting blood replace their depeleted cells?
3.) why, if people are attacked for their fresh, red blood cells, do these creatures end up spilling a whole lot of it through exceedingly violent acts that, though look good in an exploitation film, waste a lot of said blood. ;)
The removal of the nipple was awesome wasn't it. :D
shareThat's my problem with this movie as well: for all the exposition, I still don't get just how the "contamination" got spread as widely as that in a Romero film. First off, I can buy that their need for blood could awaken some killer instinct. The important thing this brings up is that they must need an intact circulatory system, making them more alive than your average walking corpse. Now, their fast tissue regeneration could offset stabbings and gunshots below the head, but I don't see how someone whose throat is completely slashed, like most of the victims here, could regenerate their jugular completely enough to reanimate given this condition. So I believe that most of those bodies weren't double-killed, but actually stayed dead. But this leaves me wondering who the comtamination WAS spread to? Anyone who touched the zombies without getting slaughtered by them? Seems like that has to be a pretty small number. Do they have some instinct to multiply as well as drink blood, then? That might be the only explanation for the soldier at the power plant who suddenly changes while just standing there and then goes nuts, allowing the zombies to take out the plant. Did he suddenly become privy to the zombie collective unconscious, and act on their master plan? Did the zombies just touch him earlier?
I know I'm overanalyzing a wacky exploitation film, but I can't find it fun unless there's a set of rules that registers with me, at least subconsciously. City of the Living Dead didn't make much more sense, but Fulci somehow convinced me that he was operating by a set of rules that he never lets us in on, and that he intentionally breaks throughout the last half hour. I can't explain how that looks any different, so I guess it's just that intangible something your zombie movie either captures or doesn't.
"Oh, I am going to smack you SO HARD if this works, movie!" -Crow T. Robot