MovieChat Forums > Busanhaeng (2016) Discussion > They like to nibble, but aren't terribly...

They like to nibble, but aren't terribly hungry.


Did anyone actually get eaten?

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Haha, excellent point. These are some of the weakest zombies I think i've ever seen. They're stopped by just about any door in the entire world, and can literally be punched out of the way while posing no real threat. One character just walks into a line of them and starts swinging to get them out of the way. Once that happened they lost any notion of being scary or intimidating, which kind of hurt the movie honestly.


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They are not that weak, just a little dumb.

They're not like usual Zombies where you can destroy the brain. Nothing kills these guys.

The guys that dropped onto the pavement from the helicopters should have been destroyed but they just got up and attacked again.

I don't think one zombie was 'killed' in the whole movie....

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Just because we never show anyone kill them -since apparently not a single character had ever seen a zombie movie in his entire life, and despite their screamingly obvious "zombieness" they kept mentioning "violent behavior"(...)- it does not mean that they could not be killed. Falling from a helicopter might damage but does not completely destroy a brain - unless perhaps they fell head first.

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

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Falling from a helicopter doesn't necessarily damage the brain?

Are you having a laugh?

Maybe if you tripped onto the ground getting out the door of it! But these guys fell hundreds of feet from the sky. They didn't even seem to break any bones, let alone burst open!

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The weakest zombies I've seen lately were in The Dead 2. You don't even have to punch them. Just give them a little push. I think these zombies, who were "infected" were conceived more like the World War Z zombies. They are a host for a rabid virus that wants to spread itself through bites and not the super-hungry living dead types that really want to eat you.

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If the virus' "objective" (or "programming", if the biotech company was building a bio-weapon) was just to spread then the zombie bodies were just its spreading method. Of course nothing can survive without resources, so what would happen if all the bodies turned into zombies?
If the virus was a weapon then that would be the weapon's optimal goal (the maximum expansion of the virus). And since that virus would act as a true parasite, as any parasite it would eventually die along with all its host zombie bodies - presumably both humans and animals. The end.

p.s. The zombie people and animals would either die of hunger (like I said, nothing can survive without resources, not even cancer) directly or, when their hunger was high enough, they would lower their dietary standards and eat each other out.

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

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This is a good point. These zombies just get a taste and move on. There was I think one exception where they gathered around some body, but otherwise they would take a nibble and chase new victims...

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By my thinking these people weren't really zombies. You have to die for that to happen and all I ever noted were people going from suffering to highly pissed off. These people were EXTREMELY rabid, not zombies. They were motivated to bite and pass along their infection, not rip and eat.

Once they'd passed their infection on to somebody else they lost interest in attacking them.

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