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So, I have some questions about the ending...


It's revealed, toward the end of the movie, that Tovar was the one who brought all the zombies back. Fair enough. He mentions the potential, I believe, of there being a couple hundred - not an entire army by any means.

Okay. So, we can assume, based on his comments, that this is an isolated incident, unlike the original, where the epidemic spread throughout, from what we're led to believe, most of the east coast.

In this movie, it's not, since the zombies are essentially the dead that he was supposed to cremate in his mortuary (or those bitten by the dead). Tovar even says the dead are too weak to crawl out of the ground, so, it's not even the dead rising from the ground.

Yet at the end of the movie, Barb urges Ben to kill her, essentially giving up because, gosh, there is nowhere else to go! Ben turns into a zombie (not quite sure how...but, whatever) and Barb shoots him before she's devoured by the zombies as they break through the garage door (you hear her screams as the movie ends).

So...why did Barb give up so easily? If this was an isolated incident, only centered around Tovar's mortuary, why not just run anywhere - even if you might feel it's in vain? The zombies are still Romero zombies, so, they're slow, and sooner or later, she'd get far enough away from the targeted area where there wouldn't be undead. So, since it's not an epidemic, it would be easy for the authorities to get a handle on the situation and even easier for her to escape.

But she just gives up and allows the zombies to eat her? What the hell? I could see giving up if the entire world had been consumed by 'em - but it's specifically stated that it's only Tovar who's bringing 'em back. So, why after fighting for your life the whole night, do you just say, "eh, screw it!" and give up?

It makes no sense. She knew the zombie outbreak was limited. She knew, the further she got from the mortuary, the less at risk she would be, and yet she doesn't try to even escape. She just gives up.

I don't know. That bugged me. Maybe I'm reading too much into it (especially since the movie sucked anyway), but eh...

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I noticed the same things. But then again, we're giving this more thought than the writers.

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Ben turned into a zombie because he was dead due to a crowbar being impaled through his back and chest,

i agree, that Barb giving up made no logical sense within the movie...but i think the filmmakers were going for that same hopelessness you feel at the end of the original... a little misguided though


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