Why was Ben turned into a zombie,if he was never bitten?
I don't get how he became a zombie,as he was never bitten,but died from gunshot wounds.Any explanations?
shareWhat gave you the idea that a bite from a zombie was required?
Put your money where your stumps are.
Where he contracted it from, the air?
shareThe air, yes.
Put your money where your stumps are.
Where did the original zombies get it from? All we know is that they recently died and they came back, and Ben was wounded, he might not have made it through the night.
shareI don't get how the original zombies contracted the disease either.From the air?Ben becoming a zombie is an absurd,he was never bitten.I guess he had open wounds and spent his last night in the same room where Helen was(who became a zombie),and so the virus or causing agent spread through it.A big plot hole.
shareI think that's something they should've mentioned why it started , but as Ben said early on in the film , " no one know's what's going on" , I don't think Ben turning into a zombie was because Helen was in the basement where Ben died , don't forget that news report that Cooper was watching upstairs saying the virus is in the air ? well Ben was fighting zombies man to man (or zombie lol) and was amongst them so there's no way he wouldn't of caught the virus , answer is , Ben and the rest had the virus in them and once he died he was a zombie ,
also little strange , after Cooper and Ben have their "shootout" from Ben trying to shoot Coopers zombie daughter after Cooper jumps in the other room , see how he went to the attic ? that's a more safer place then the basement , the Zombies as Ben said " aren't strong but get a few together that could smash the door down" why not go in the attic ? they can't reach the door and it's a bigger space up there , i would of went up there ,
All recently dead reanimate as zombies in this, and all Romero movies. Whatever the reanimating agent is (and it's never explained) is everywhere. No bite is needed. If your grandma dies of a stroke, she'll become a gimpy zombie and try to gum you to death.
Put your money where your stumps are.
Now it makes sense,at least partially.You're right,I've been searching in the net and seems that according to Romero's movies "logic",everyone becomes a zombie,regardless if one is bitten or dies from natural causes or wounds,like Ben did.
LOL,I don't know why I spent time trying to find any logic in a movie where the dead wake up from graves and start biting the living!Now It makes watching Romero's movies even more exciting,screw the logic!
Well, there is some logic, or at least there's possibilities.
An airborne virus isn't less logical than an infection through a bite. And in his 1968 Original Romero offered some possible explanations for the raising of the dead - a NASA satellite probe from a Venus project (something like in the 1970 THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN), though it is never established that this was the cause.
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Cooper would not have been safe regardless of where he hid in that house, considering his fate at the end.
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