MovieChat Forums > Super 8 (2011) Discussion > The kids movie featuring zombies had it ...

The kids movie featuring zombies had it wrong

posted 8 years ago by wordsatplaytoday
6 replies | jump to latest

First of all, at the time the movie takes place in, zombies were not that much of a trend as they are now.
So I kinda doubt the kids would have even thought of having zombies in their movie.
Zombies were nowhere near as popular or in pop culture as they are now.

Second, zombies were still thought of as beings that had risen from the dead. Not as someone alive who had mutated.
And that is how the zombies were explained in the kid's movie.
So they wouldn't have been the result of a chemical plant.

Damn, I'm good.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (62046923) 8 years ago

So? Zombies were still a thing back then.

[–] wordsatplaytoday 8 years ago

Yeah, but the story about them at the time was they still rose from the dead and were not mutants as the fiction is about them now.

[–] swordedsoul 8 years ago

First of all, at the time the movie takes place in, zombies were not that much of a trend as they are now.
So I kinda doubt the kids would have even thought of having zombies in their movie.

1978 Dawn of the dead came out, 1979 they were all the rage. I guess you would have had to been a kid back then. I know the drive in gave each car a puke bag when entering the movie, I thought that was awesome.

Second, zombies were still thought of as beings that had risen from the dead. Not as someone alive who had mutated.

Nobody really explained where Zombies came from especially George Romero, so i take it as the kids made it up on their own. BTW why would that even cross your mind when watching, LOL.

All Hail Zorg

[–] kgwrote-854-104240 8 years ago

I was a kid back then and yes the OP is right. Zombies were still associated with Haitian voodoo mainly.
They should have been making films about vampires or werewolves which were popular at the time.

[–] WeirdRaptor 8 years ago

Except you're wrong. Dawn of the Dead had come out the year before without really explaining how they're risen from the dead and zombies were all the rage at the time.

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." -Gandalf

[–] TwittingOnTrender 7 years ago

They weren't "all the rage" - they're a phenomenon now (inexplicable to me - I find them boring) but back then they EXISTED in Dawn of the Dead etc, but they wouldn't have been the automatic choice for kids making a horror movie. Having said that, the chubby kid was quite the cineaste so, who knows? He may have been a fan of Romero.

I'm sure zombies have different "origins" in different movies - does 28 Days Later count?

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.