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shouldn't have called it ZOMBIES

posted 17 years ago by septimus_phoenix
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way to take a title and use it for a ridiculous purpose. why on earth did they change the name? wicked little things made more sense.

to me these children arn't zombies. today if you say zombie the first things that comes to mind is a dead body walking around with little to no inteligence eating anyone they find - or a dead walking corpse calling out brains. this is the modern zombie. in the past zombie stretched much further. a zombie was originally a corpse that a voodoo priest had raised and controlled as a slave. before night of the living dead zombies weren't flesh eaters. so we could argue that these children could still be catagorised as zombies. however i dont agree with this. just because it's been brought back from the dead doesn't make it a zombie. i wouldn't say eric draven is a zombie either.

the problem is by naming this 'zombies' a modern audience expects flesh or brain eating ghouls. the writers just tried to jump onto the zombie bandwagon, when i believe the film would have been more satisfying is it remained titled wicked little things, the word zombie was never uttered, adn they didn't eat flesh. someone comming back from the dead for revenge makes sense, but the whole flesheating thing just screws it up.

can't talk. eating brains

[–] kironimo120 17 years ago

Not true. 28 days later people can be catogorized as zombies and they dont only eat brains.

[–] septimus_phoenix 17 years ago

28 days later people can't be catagorised as zombies. for one they aren't dead. they are good as dead, but that's not the same. they are infected with rage. and they eventually die from starvation. they do not eat people, they just attack them in rage, which spreads the condition.

not dead + not flesh or brain eating = not zombies

can't talk. eating brains

[–] darth_schneider67 16 years ago

I just watched this and "What are they?" was bugging me.
The kids say the zombies are an urban legend. "Zombie" is what the locals call them. They were definitely "Undead" but were more somewhere between ghost (spirit seeking vengeance) and ghoul (undead fleash-eater). They shared the similar characteristics of a ghost in that they:

1) kept the same appearance in death as they had in life. They had black eyes but at near 100 years old and in an explosion and cave-in they were not charred or rotted.
2) They frequented the same locations they did in as when they were living.
3) A ghost stays in their state because they do not wish to leave or until something was left unfinished in life. they were not blood thirsty after they killed Carlton and ended the line of the family that brought about their demise.

The biggest difference is the children were corporeal and able to use weapons to attack, like a zombie.

Zombies are reanimated dead without a will of their own, sometimes under the control of another (voodoo zombie) or mindlessly wandering & eating flesh (Hollywood zombies since NOTLD in '68) The post NOTLD corporeal undead also usually "spread" their affliction to others.

The closest things I can find they could be classified as are:

Mylings\utburds: a Scandinavian spirit of a murdered child.
Nachzehrer: a sort of German vampire that ate dead bodies, usually created from an illness or accident.
Revenant: from Medieval Europe. a ghost or animated corpse that returned to terrorize the living, usually family members and neighbors and sometimes for revenge against their killers.

I think the children were just a new take on a corporeal revenge seeking ghost.

[–] Strazdamonas 16 years ago

Well the Dvd i rented was called "wicked little things" and only here i found out its actually "Zombies". i like WLF more.