How do you make zombies interesting again?

>>211441161 (OP)
>again
They were never interesting

Do what Highschool of the Dead did: add cool guns, cool swords, and fat titties.

>>211441161 (OP)
Release 28 years later

>>211441161 (OP)
a deadrising movie but good this time

>>211441161 (OP)
Make their origin a voodoo doctor and use the actual lore and make them a local threat for a small jungle island with a tribe or two, or maybe one small semi-modern town, and the radio tower is down or it's pre industrial and they're either uncontacted or a ship only goes by every ten years or so, or a supply ship with British soldiers on it be coming until next week, or whatever.
Make it a small, isolated, supernatural black magic issue, not a window dressing of the whole world dead mobs of thousands of zombies you will never meaningfully interact with anyways.

>>211441161 (OP)
they're played out you'd have to have a full draught for 20 years to let all the slop burn itself out then come back with the classics keep them slow and numerous it's not frightening when they're "le fast" and "le run" the real fear is the slow, impending doom of it all that you will never win

>>211441161 (OP)
Make them blood spitters who can infect you from long range.

>>211441161 (OP)
The zombies win. After a few years zombies start to regain their memories and become conscious again. They have to deal with their bodies disintegrating and having no way to repopulate the earth. A miracle child is born. It’s human. The zombies revert to their original form and eat him. It seems that they only become mindless when there is prey around. Oops.

>>211441520
I didn't like any of the fan movies and wouldn't like a modern Hollywood adaptation, but imagine a proper l4d film where you encounter each special infected only once, they don't generally name them or have a scene about what to call them, and the director has the maturity to recognize Louis as the protagonist the movie should introduce first in individual survival scenes, and it should be his perspective that's mostly followed.
Use the original soundtrack.
Heavily.
Draw inspiration from or directly recreate the trailers between each "act".
Save the L4D2 cast strictly for the sequel.
Do alternate endings like Clue so Bill only dies for half of theaters.

>>211441546
The only time I've seen zombie cure explored in depth, despite it being a common goal, was that British show I dropped for being really gay both literally and figuratively.
It had them getting sent through standard therapy, taking allegories for AIDS medicine, and saying they remember nothing even though they have some partial repressed memories from the most recent times before they were cured.
Wasted potential the show, it was just faggotry and the not-IRA bigot churchgoer farmers understanding the gay zombies

you can't

>>211441161 (OP)
They'd need to go all in something like - it's the whole crisis from the Presidents' perspective.

Act one is a kind of bizarro West Wing thing with the POTUS in a weird pandemic crisis, and then the B-story is around the soldier who'll eventually be escorting the POTUS later in the film being one of the first to fight against zombies in some remote location,

then act two is more of a thriller or war film, starting out with the political situation becoming more fraught, a few attempts on the President's life, the B-story soldier gets called in to advise on things, and finally ending up with the POTUS being moved to a bunker with a military escort but it gets all FUBAR,

and act three they're just part of a random survivor group on their last legs, maybe even hiding their true identity.

>>211441161 (OP)
Have it so they can be cured but the medical treatment is expensive and limited to only a certain number per year due to production bottlenecks. This will make zombie slaughter morally questionable as they are still human but not responsible for their actions and have the effect of uh...certain demographics in society suffering from the pandemic more.

>>211441161 (OP)
Do a zombie story done ultra realistically like they're literally walking corpses that are vulnerable to the elements, they need to eat people or else they die of starvation, and while the sickness can devastate the unprepared population, they're otherwise pretty easy to deal with. Kind of like in the original Night of the Living Dead where they just easily kill all the zombies.

Give them guns so they can shoot back.
https://youtu.be/jcwn7oTBkYM?si=VEKxye5rKxzC11zj

>>211441161 (OP)
all zombies are sentient and functioning with their own civilization and its a race war allegory vs humans

1. You bring back the actual infection angle of it. Seeing Walking Dead characters getting sprayed with infected blood while they stab zombies directly through the skull with folding knives just ruins it.

2. Bring back the fear of being held down and eaten alive by a swarm. For such a fucking terrible death, zombie media seems to really pussy out on characters dealing with having to live in fear of that fate constantly. People would be getting flashbacks at the dinner table watching people eat ribs or chicken.

3. The zombies need to look like people, not monsters. Focus on the eyes. Walking Dead zombies mostly have glazed over glassy monster eyes. You need to connect to them as a human to get the full effect of the uncanny valley effect.

>>211441875
This is I am Legend except they're like vampires.

>>211441161 (OP)
Cosmic horror zombies. Coming into contact with an entity beyond human comprehension shatters our higher functions and reduces us to feral zombie-like monsters.

>>211441161 (OP)
Instead of the zombies eating people, have them rape people, that adds a whole new level of fear

>>211441990
honestly most zombies just need to be blind.
of all the decaying/damaged parts of the body eyelids are almost always the first to go since thinnest skin layer.
eyeballs unprotected would be zipped within a few hours even and rotted out completely within a few days after.

just fucked up blind zombies in an endless swarm.

>>211441465
This but make it about slavery. "Slavery bad" and zombie movies are both overdone, but I really feel there's a good Jordan Peele or a more fucked up horror movie there in combining them.

>"The zombie belief has its roots in traditions brought to Haiti by enslaved Africans and their subsequent experiences in the New World. It was thought that the voodoo deity Baron Samedi would gather them from their grave to bring them to a heavenly afterlife in Africa ("Guinea"), unless they had offended him in some way, in which case they would be forever a slave after death, as a zombie"
> "... the modern concept of zombies was strongly influenced by Haitian slavery. Slave drivers on the plantations, who were usually slaves themselves and sometimes voodoo priests, used the fear of zombification to discourage slaves from committing suicide"

Making zombification block the only way out or having the twist that the slave owners were fooling the dumb niggers and laughing all the way could be cool

>>211441446
Watchtower was better than it had any right to be.

>>211441161 (OP)
Go back to the roots of the genre and make it one singular, truly unstoppable zombie in a setting where weaponry is limited.

invisible zombies, once their bodies are destroyed

OK hear me out because this genius: zombies, of course, except now they have 300IQ while they are decaying. Also they figure out that they can survive winter so they kind of start a society there and start to harvest humans in a organized manner. Basically they become the origin story of some sort of vampires.
Give 50M now and I will get your blockbuster alright

>>211444161
>this is genius
>start a society in the north
Aaaaaa fixed

what if there were zombies but in outer space like mars or the moon because of a research facility like umprella was secretly built there in the passed but then space pirates stole the z virus and accidentally disposed of a biohazardous sample in the milk whey galaxy where an ancient evil awakened. . .

>>211441161 (OP)
>movie starts like any other zombie movie with an outbreak of virus-based zombie shit
>reports from around the country coming in of zombie outbreaks in different towns
>protagonist narrowly escaping sudden zombie shit in his town hears report of outbreak in next town where his woman lives
>tries to get there fighting zombies all the way
>the zombies have bright red skin and have weird strengths and weaknesses - non-standard zombie shit - fast, rage-based powers, virulent, but burn out quickly
>reaches other town, blue zombies, have different characteristics like stay motionless and hidden until target gets too close then attack, can't be killed by decapitation or brain destruction
>thinks the colour is weird but thinks he knows how to handle 'zombies' but gets rude shock just as he finds his girlfriend who is using stealth and recon against blue zombies and is trying to tell him to STFU because his tactics are all wrong
>escape and red and blue zombies become intermingled creating a landscape multiple times harder to navigate
>green zombies from next town show up, whatever, go nuts
>find out 'Wuhan-like' lab that released them was experimenting on different strains, blah, blah, blah ... writes itself. You get the idea.

Could make the tint in the skin more subtle for 'muh realism' - like blood flushed red and apoxia blue, (say virus attacks different organs/systems, like yellow zombies have jaundice - or brighter more unrealistic prime colours for fun and more simplistic cinematic flair.

>>211444430
Why would someone develop such evil shit in a lab? Work on that and come back.

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombie movie where it's a virus but it only affects niggers. White people are immune. Nobody knows where virus came from, whether it was created and why, but we know because, you know.

Whole movie is white people having fun taking out their nigger fatigue on nigger zombies, and loving it. Not even in any real danger just going around killing zombies under the guise of pretending to protect the remaining black population, but knowing it's 'hopeless', and a 'terrible tragedy' that they're all going to get wiped out.

>>211441392
That show sucked. I'm glad the faggot who made it is dead. It's a shame it's literally the only time in history Japan has ever attempted a zombie story

>>211444482
Two words faggot: Wuhan.

>zombies but even MORE realism and meta and problem solving!

>>211444482
>he actually thinks there aren't worse things in development or already developed IRL
aww how cute babby's still in his nobody-is-evil-nothing-bad-can-happen phase

>>211444509
Now that you mention it, unironically, I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't already done this but race swapped. A bunch of black survivors killing white zombies. You just know a faggot like Jordan Peele or Kobi Libii would love to make an "elevated horror" movie like that

>>211441651
I liked that one cheery zombie girl who was happy to return from death since she died from stomach cancer or something like that. turns out she was patient zero since the rest of the zombies got turned from a bite

Zombies With Machine Guns.

I only need to tell you the title, just like 'Snakes on a Plane' tells you everything you need to know.

Hell, you could put that into ChatGPT and it could do the rest for you no problem.

>>211441161 (OP)
Introduce a cure in the middle of the entire arc, so you add the dilemma of people that you loved who had become zombies could have been saved.

Maybe make the cure like less than 50% likely to be effective to add further tension on whether or not to kill zombies

>>211444577
Yeah but OP said 'make zombies interesting again'. Notice how it's just boring the other way, but actually fun when it's whites killing niggers - not out of actually real racism, but if that situation happened nobody would lose any sleep.

It wouldn't be a big moral dilemma as much as a great pity on paper that we'd have to live in a post-Apocalyptic world where bikes are now safe.

i want magical curse zombies digging themselves out of the graveyard
bioweapons are gay

>>211444602
Or a triage situation, now you have the cure being created in limited quantity, who gets it?

>>211444639
Fuck you. AI Neurolink Borg zombies.

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombies riding dinosaurs.

Zombie apocalypse but during medieval times

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombies were never a good premise because realistically all of them would die out after a year (winter alone would make them all freeze to death). Then you have to go the magic route where none of the science applies but that only works in the fantasy genre where zombies are merely a very small part of the whole world. Making them the whole premise is retarded.

>>211441161 (OP)
You dont. Please let this shit trend die.

>>211442170
Reminds me how Danny Boyle wanted the male zombies in 28 Days Later to have erections.

>>211444161
Isn't that just the plot of Daybreakers?

>>211445497
I don't know. I don't remember it starting with a virus infection, nor them being extremely smart. I did watch back in the day, though.

>>211444645
Its honestly baffling that outside of I am Legend no one else explored such themes

>>211441614
hire this man

>>211445772
>thinking that you can actually make fun movies and games
you are WRONG anon

>>211445804
yea ?explain this little chuddie

>>211445071
First season of Kingdom was exactly that but in korea and it was GREAT. Dropped second season after 3 episodes because they almost frogot about zombies and made it whole be about evil queen and politics bullshit.

>>211445556
it literally started as virus infection and made people into vampires and they still as smart so they take over the planet.

>>211441161 (OP)
>zombies
>apocalypse
>post apocalypse
>survival
>zombie survival
>zombie apocalypse
>apocalypse survival
>post apocalypse survival
>zombie post apocalypse survival

The zombie genre has been done and done to death and now it is dead and dead. The genre is dead, stale, moldy, and mildewed. It's over. Move on. Time for something original, fresh, and new.

You want to know how to make zombies interesting again? Make the genre go away for twenty years until it has been forgotten about, and then bring it back with a new approach.

>>211444512
it would have been nice if they all got nuked at the end

>>211441161 (OP)
One is to make them mindless and emotionless, the shittiest way to make zombies is to have them look angry and have them snarl and scream.
Anger is an emotion and zombies shouldn't show it, zombies need to have a completely emotionless face and lifeless stare, zombies in original resident evil games is an example of this.

>>211441392
Outside of the tiddies it was pretty boring though. It's a shame japanese cannot into storytelling to save their lives.
>>211444512
They don't think zombies are scary because japanese are more scared of le spooky ancestor ghost being disappointed in their mediocre JAV collection

is the book in chronological order? I'm at page 30 and so far it only addresses the human character behind the scenes.

>>211444512
>It's a shame it's literally the only time in history Japan has ever attempted a zombie story
Haven't heard of Resident Evil?

>>211444509
>Zombie movie where it's a virus but it only affects niggers.
That would just make them less dangerous

>>211448042
>They don't think zombies are scary
It's weird though, because the Asians went out of their way to have their own version of zombies. Jiangshi. Maybe there's a whole treasure trove of Chinese zombie kino out there that I'm too lazy to find, but either way, Japs are allergic to it for some reason

>>211448120
i think he is talking about anime only, not videogame.

>>211448120
Good point, but I meant in the realm of movies and anime/manga. From how it seems to me, Japs are much more explorative in the medium of video-games, but when it comes to movies and anime, they religiously stick to the same 5 genres

>>211448177
>Jiangshi.
They are retarded

make them also rape

>>211448229
Hellsing. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, I Am a Hero

>>211448156
as if we needed an excuse to shoot niggers.

>>211448541
stop being gay/incel

>>211448541
That's coming in 28 Years Later

Make them magical. A small town is beset by a cult of necromancy....

>>211444512
Zom100 was fun

bring back magic zombies, the ones raising from the grave, going BRAAAAINS, not this virus shit

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombies are just a metaphor for wokeism and leftists ideologies, those are your zombies.

>>211448718
>>211448870
that is the only way to make them scary. slow zombies are not scary, zombies that rip you apart in one second after touching you is not scary

rape is actually scary

Make zombies magic again. Science is played out and lame. Gimme a lich.

the unkillable zombies from night of the living dead are probably the scariest because there is just nothing you can really do as a normal person with basic equipment or even good equipment. relatively fast and strong, only true destruction method is completely obliterating the body via massive explosion or melting them in acid probably.

I wonder if you could do an interesting Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now type movie with zombies

>>211449239
Maybe in the 80s. Not nowadays.

>>211449061
Yeah but zoomers act like rape depictions are the ultimate taboo so that would never happen nowadays

>>211449061
>rape is actually scary
it has to be benis in vergina to be scary. even if you're getting faceraped, impregnated and giving birth to the monster's offspring, at least it wasn't vagina rape!

>>211449123
Are you talking about Return of the Living Dead? Night zombies were killed pretty easily. It's just that normal people aren't used to killing and are generally horrified by it, so they took a while to start doing it. Return zombies can't die no matter what, then burning them spreads the forever chemicals all over which could raise corpses or infect more people

>>211441161 (OP)
Similar to the rage virus from 28 days later, how about the lust virus? Think World War Z type of aggression zombies that just want to rape.

>>211448229
>but when it comes to movies and anime, they religiously stick to the same 5 genres
To be fair most western tv shows were either crime slop, hospital slop, or reality TV

As one jew put it, zombie trends reflect our societal angst.
So, we went through everything, from raging edgelords to fumbling potheads and goofy marvel fans, to HECKIN fast zoomin zombies for the modern urbanite.

Next stop, climate hoax and ethnic warfare. Can't see how jewbal warming can be made into a zombie genre, but you can have different zombies forming subspecies and clans then duking it out like wildlife animals to simulate whatever war is going on right now occupying your average Pfizer prion spreader's mind.

>>211441161 (OP)
Kingdom was the best new zombie story. It was fresh and an interesting way to take it. Very interesting to set it back in the past before firearms were big. They only have a few muzzleloaders that take a while to fire.

>>211441161 (OP)
end the movie / show before your reach the humans are the real monsters trope.

>>211449694
you're describing black people

>>211449098
I'll settle on supernatural. Magic is just too gay.

>>211441161 (OP)
Go past the zombie. How about a scenario where ppl are reanimating, but their bodies are restored to a healthy status as before, they retain all their faculties, they are now immortal except for brain trauma, they all want to cannibalize humans who haven't died their first death yet. People reanimate as evil flesh hungry bastards. So all in all, outright war everywhere all at once, and rampant scenes of gore. I've just taken the zombie scenario and altered some key parameters.

>>211450689
Thats just vampires

>>211450689
That's literally just Return of the Living Dead. The two main guys get exposed, "die" then start craving to eat brains. They're still intelligent. They're immortal, but will rot and suffer damage. The one guy can't take it and burns himself.

>>211450731
No, they're distinct. No vampire stuff. The only vampire overlap is the fact they retain memory and faculties, and turned bad. Even Romero was heavily inspired by a vampire story, I Am Legend. His zombie was a quasi-offshoot of a set of vampires.

>>211450924
No, these reanimated ppl would not be walking around decayed. If they take physical damage their flesh fixes itself. Flawless health-wise.

>>211451022
Maybe even they could take brain damage that repairs itself. Obviously a beheading would kill one, unless you put the head back on the body then it would mend itself together. It would take a lot to kill one, certain measures.

>>211451022
That's stupid.

>>211441161 (OP)
>get an empty movie template
>add interesting story that haven't been told yet
>don't add "The Lost" tier drama
>add zombies
It wasn't that hard.

>>211451091
And I'd lean towards having their flesh eating be necessary for sustenance. They must eat human flesh. This is more like a wide-scale Wendigo possession than anything else.

>>211441161 (OP)
Give them tanks and attack helicopters

>>211441161 (OP)
Crossed

>The story follows survivors dealing with a pandemic that causes its victims to carry out their most evil thoughts.
>Carriers of the virus are generally known as the "Crossed" due to a large, cross-like rash that appears on their faces.
>contagion is primarily spread through bodily fluids, which the Crossed have used to great effect by treating their weapons with their fluids, as well as through other forms of direct fluidic contact such as rape and bites.
>while the Crossed are turned into homicidal violent psychopaths, they still retain a basic human-level of intelligence: thus, they are still capable of using tools and weapons, driving motor vehicles, setting complex traps, and other actions.

>The contagion spread across the entire world, with the Crossed killing, raping, engaging in cannibalism and maiming for fun, with governments and military overwhelmed; friends and family butchered each other with anything they laid their hands on
>Much of the Middle East was wiped out when Israel deployed nuclear weapons. The last organized act by the U.S. government was to shut down as many nuclear power plants as possible and then kill the nuclear scientists and technicians to prevent them from reactivating the plants. A few nuclear power plants were not reached in time, however, such as Wolf Creek in Kansas and Browns Ferry in Alabama, detonated by Crossed who removed the control rods.
>One by one, the remaining military bases are overrun. Soon human civilization is all but gone, and mankind is an increasingly endangered species.

>>211441427
What happened to 28 months later?

>>211451418
I'll just call in air strikes

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombie movies are only interesting when you dont see the zombie (except for a couple movies, like Return of the Living Dead). Make it a character drama where the zombies are 'realistic zombies', as in just walking piles of rotting flesh. I wouldn't even make them a treat, they're too far in the infection. The horror would reside in the slow decay around the characters. The initial "boom" was enough to make modern civilization fall, but now the zombies just roam aimlessly. They don't even attack anymore because their teeth are falling off the gum (if they have a jaw left to begin with) and their limbs fall off from any forceful movement.

it's an allegory to the aging population, boooo hooo, scary!

But really, I think zombie movies are just boring now. They should stop making them for at least a decade.

>>211451679
What did he kill the guy in the turret for

>>211451826
nah, you can just not watch them for a decade, then consume all the movies at once. Don't be mad others still want these movies. Also, watch Alive

>>211451884
He didn't pledge allegiance to Israel

>>211451477
Crossed is the gayest thing ever.

>>211441161 (OP)

This is my list.

1. Make it realistic and gritty. What is realitic and gritty is Generation Kill. What is boring is Band Of Brothers/The Pacific. I want the movie experience to feel like it could really happen just like that.

2. No romance. Preferably no women because in a real zombie apocalypse world what happens first is they are made into sex slaves by whatever raider factions that exist after there are no more consequences for crime. I don't want to see some pretty to ok-tier woman pretending to be a hardass because in reality there would be none.

3. Relating to 3, no stupid storylines of doing reckless shit for sentimental reasons. Lean on the human survival ability, becasue anyone who has had a close call will know how much things change when you are really looking at the possibility of death. I don't want to see the same fucking story again where the hero saves his loved one or whatever.

4. Make the zombies plausible. There is no way they have superhuman strength or can run and live without any energy. Being a zombie could for example be a mind disease where some disease takes over the human brain and causes zombification like with rabies. Why couldn't it be some iteration of rabies that causes aggressive transmission via spit or something.

5. Part 1 of the trilogy focuses on the world getting destroyed by the zombie pandemic, part 2 is the fight to stop it, part 3 is the world rebuilding again without some stupid ending where the zombie pandemic starts again.

I want a realistic movie that has realistic characters doing realistic things and I don't want everything to turn to shit every time the movie ends, I want the world to be rebuilt from the ashes. Imagine a world where the pandemic ravages through all the jeets and other low value humans and you end up with a White utopia built by the White man for White people. All the ASPD basketball survivalists/raiders would perish immediately because you can't survive being anti-social.

Dead Set was pretty interesting

>>211452109
For me its the most underrated piece of zombie media of all time.

>>211444512
I Am a Hero is pretty good.

>>211441161 (OP)
>How do you make zombies interesting again?
Stop the sprinting and bring back proper slow as sludge zombies.

>>211452268
why are slow shamblers scarier than sprinters

>>211451884
maybe he wanted to give him a quick death since he'd either get eaten by zombies or blown up

>>211452376
Because they figure out the cultural pathways

>>211452417
what

>>211441161 (OP)
>suffer like G did...
Mad scientist unleashes bio-zombies on an unsuspecting small European town. Main characters are Agents hot on the scientist trail who find themselves in the middle of the attack. They need to fight through hoards of zombies and other devious monsters Goldman(the baddie) throws at them.

>>211452179
we should have a stream of Dead Set some time to get anons to watch it

>>211441161 (OP)
>cowboys vs zombies
>romans vs zombies
>samurais vs zombies
>medieval knights vs zombies
I think everything that can be done with zombies in a modern day setting has been done.

>>211452696
Dead Set is an underrated (or at least, little seen) zombie gem.

>>211448229
Japanese zombie movies:
One Cut of the Dead
Zombie Ass Toilet of the Dead
Wild Zero
Horny House of Horror
Big Tits Zombie
Tokyo Zombie
I Am a Hero
Helldriver
Versus
And that's just off the top of my head.

stop all the infection/virus bullshit and make them cursed beings again

>>211452702
a faithful adaptation of World War Z has not been done

>>211441161 (OP)
Give them guns

>>211452109
Never heard of it, will check it out thanks anon

>>211443075
No make the zombies a missunderstanded minority and the plot of the movie is to fight for zombies rights and inclusion of zombies into modern society.

>>211448042
> Japanese cannot into storytelling
You are right. Exposition, 10-minute monologues, 20-minute flashbacks just to go back into a monologue, no nuance, and so on.

>>211444509
Based

>>211441161 (OP)
Make Warm Bodies but gender-bent

>>211441392
Interesting idea, but was ruined by too much fanservice, and terrible main protagonist. The series couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a horror or ecchi anime.

I get the feeling that you guys never liked zombies to begin with.

>>211452645
Yeah but can they type though?

>>211441161 (OP)
Lets make canibalism a widespread thing in society were it works like a drug, once you start consuming it you like it so much that you cannot stop and it reaches the point were is the only food your body can digest
So in this scenario we have crazy canibals blinded by hunger, and profesional human hunters wich and traficers who want your meat to sell it on the black market.

>>211453553
I only like old zombies. Those are the only ones you're allowed to watch.

I think most zombie stuff is boring because people always go down the human drama/humans are the real threat angle. Something I wish was more common overall, are animal zombies mixed in to it as well as more fucked up stuff like really deranged looking mutations or designs like the tar man and stuff like you'd see in dead space or house of the dead/resident evil.

>>211441161 (OP)
You don’t, they’re lame.

>>211454367
You can't keep any of that interesting for a two hour movie. Only a game.

>>211451477
Sincerely, kill yourself.

>>211441546
Daybreakers is kind of like this

>>211441161 (OP)
They were never interesting, because of all the contrived shit you need to make them a threat. Also, the fucking obnoxious drama and bullshit about people being the biggest threat is retarded.

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombies are inherently uninteresting

>>211441161 (OP)
Zombies are inherently so interesting

>>211453905
>can they type though?
That will be a tease mid-credits as sequel bait
>>211453553
>get the feeling that you guys never liked zombies to begin with
Not true. Every anon here only has the best of intentions. That being said I could see a tweest zombie film where instead of mindless killing zombies it makes all women infected super horny to the point of being in pain and the only way subdue the symptoms for a time is by fucking other men. Men can become carriers but show no signs of infection themselves which sets up neat scenarios when they are in an uneffected group and the women by being in close contact start to turn. Should take place in a secluded place. Maybe summer camp or a country hospital during a bad storm.

>>211451477
I liked it more when it was called The Crazies.

>>211441161 (OP)
>zombies
Buddy, the 2000s are over. Its time to move on.

>>211449694
They already did that with Crossed and it's spiritual adaptation The Sadness. I think there was also a borderline porno called Lust of the Dead/Rape Zombie in Japan, but it's sadly neither a proper porno and it's very cheaply made.

Make zombies part of a limited hive mind. The more there are, the dumber they get because the mind is spread too thin. The more you kill, the smarter they become as the mind can focus. The zombie hive mind reduced to a single body is super super genius level. It has lived since the dawn of man and only starts plaguing and expanding as a defense mechanism in response to threats. Usually is a small clan of 5-10.


Fuck that’s actually a good idea

>>211441161 (OP)
Another War Z movie

>>211441161 (OP)
Snyders DOTD was a good approach. He just fucked up with the zoomed in shaky cam and sprinter zombies. Take that same concept, stretch the 2nd act by an hour, end it with everybody dying.

>>211441990
This, they make zombies act too alive. They should have that unfocused, vacant look in their eyes that real dead and dying people have. They should either look realistically grimy and decaying or realistically dead. There's a scene in the Vietnam movie Hamburger Hill where a guy caught in a mortar attack staggers out of the smoke, and it's clear he's mortally wounded even though he's not dead yet. That scene still sticks with me and horror movies should try to capture that kind of disturbing realism

>>211442170
That's crossed

>>211444512

Fuck off and die faggot. Put some respect on that man's name, he contributed more than you ever will.

>>211442170
>rape zombies
it's been done in:
Shivers (1975)
The Sadness (2021)

>>211444385
Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Every zombie movie ever
>Good guys have a good thing going on until an asshole fucks it up
Or
>Asshole has an asshole thing going on until the good guys fuck it up

>>211441514
lmao how many high profile zombie movies in the last 20 years? The Zack Snyder one and that's it?

>>211457515
name 5

>>211444512
One Cut of the Dead was fun

The last good zombie movie was Return of the Living Dead

>>211441161 (OP)
You don't. They need to go away for a few decades.

>>211441161 (OP)
Lollipop Chainsaw live action trilogy with Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell as the main characters and all side characters should be ridiculously hot/ripped with oiled up titties or oiled up muscles.

They could make a movie of Dying Light. But it's even more fun to play it

>>211441546
Stop being antisemitic.

World War Z TV series, or something based on it.

The logistics and civil planning aspect of zombies is cooler than all of the "what if consumerism is le bad" or "what if humans are le real monsters" shit or using them as a gimmicky plot device.

The threat of societal collapse and how people do or do not organise for it is more interesting. Zombies are the most interesting way to represent this because it represents a threat that is physically embodies and grows exponentially.

Also slow zombies are cool since they represent the threat of complacency and how sheer numbers can overwhelm any situation.

>>211441161 (OP)
make them slow and rotten but still smart enough to play tricks and use weapons. burial ground is the only film I've seen which did it.

>>211451996
The pacific is kino and you are gay also tldr or no read

>>211441161 (OP)
By watching GA Romero's 1978 film Dawn of the Dead.

>>211443075
That's a pretty good take.
>Wholesome White plantation family terrorised by their hoard of brain-dead, murderous slaves.
I'd watch it.

>>211457967

It was a good show, don't get me wrong. But it's not Generation Kill. Nothing beats GK.

>>211447608
So you're saying make another zombie movie but make it a commentary on the "rotted corpse" of the genre? I like your style.

>>211441161 (OP)
Instead of zombies just eating brains, the infection, (perhaps progressively), strips you down to a singular uninhibited motivation - and for everyone it's different. So if you're letcherous as a zombie you'll chase only women. If you're a paedophile, you'll chase only kids. If you're a faggot you'll chase only men. If you're a furfag you'll chase dogs or whatever. If you're a Downie, you'll chase trains and firetrucks. But could be more complex, like stockbroker zombies will stand staring at stock-tickers on the side of a building and respond to money thrown in the street. Fat zombies all congregate in McDonald's and try to eat shit directly out of the fryer, drink boiling oil or whatever. A fan of a celebrity will be an uber-zombie stalker.

All motivations still translate into biting and/or spreading the infection somehow.

Makes it interesting because:

1. Zombies are all different, and responding to different things, but still single-minded and undead. Instead of one group moving in the same direction or toward the same thing, they're going in all different directions, so it's chaotic so getting through them is more akin to Han Solo trying to navigate an asteroid field, where you might pass right through and the direction of each zombie might seem predictable, but the chances of getting blindsided by a zombie with a 'thing' for (You) personally, or any individual in the group is higher than is immediately obvious.

2. Exposes people's secrets, especially when someone in the group gets infected and turning, trying to resist whatever their 'thing' is, it makes for some interesting dynamics. Like the usual thing where they get bit but conceal it from everyone else, but progressively lose control.

Or someone starts acting weird, one of the other's spots it and wants them put down, but it's unclear whether it's just a personality quirk, reaction to the situation, or they're infected and turning. Like if someone is just a sperg they'll get suspected.

>>211441161 (OP)
Do Crossed the Series.

>>211459863
So you can see how it writes itself putting a group of survivors together:

1. Rare surviving recognisable celebrity, like Beiber-esq pretty-boy from a boy band or something.
All the other celebrities are quickly wiped out by teenage zombies after the initial infection because someone is going to be obsessed with them and they make public appearances in front of crowds or whatever. The surviving guy was getting plastic surgery or something that day and his face was concealed, until he figured it out.

2. Young girl who is secretly, or not so secretly, a fan of celebrity.

3. Secret paedophile who is a danger to the young girl.

4. Closeted homo who is also a danger to pretty boy.

5. Bodyguard, or some Chad offered money to protect celebrity and get him out of city.

6. Disposable nigger who is obsessed with expensive shoes celebrity is wearing.

7. Hot chick with a set of big tits, like she's the girlfriend of celebrity, who has the attention of men in the group.

You can see how you can quickly build a group of survivors where people are an inherent danger to each other in a rock, paper, scissors kind of way if they turn, and then you just write the most fun version of that or adjust motivations to make it interesting.

Have group not know what the fuck is going on when they initially come together, but progressively figure out how the zombies work over the span of the film and then start seeing specific individuals in the group as a personal threat, (like boy-band celebrityfag knows young girl is a fan and wants the bodyguard to eliminate that possible threat).

make em gay lol got em

>>211460581
that's just humans are monsters again boooooooo

>>211460867
Not really, some zombies could have a heroic obsession or be based. Like what do you think a White Supreme-isist zombie is going to do when they turn? Right, the same thing as a white cop zombie - go around killing niggers.

Also 'le twists', like celeb tries to have teenage girl killed and fails, she eventually gets turned and turns out just a fan but not her major obsession and the real threat is the closeted homo, so celeb gets a Carter Burke comeuppance moment.

Which is the gays are the real monsters, and they mostly come out at night - mostly.

>>211451477
Cringe

>>211451477
Every time someone mentions this in a post, it has the edgiest image attached to it. Can't take this shit seriously

>>211441161 (OP)
Alternate history: The Black Death was a Zombie Plague.

Nobody ever really tried zombies as we understand them in "...of the Dead" in a medieval setting until Kingdom which did a twist on them. Seeing a zombie outbreak in ancient rome would be interesting to me.

>>211461180
nah wouldn't work as a movie, maybe a series but it's too quirky. though on other hand maybe you could franchise that for different kinds of zombies. don't focus on people, just weird zombies. but that would have next to no dialogue so I don't know.

>>211461511

>>211461679
It would have to be a similar premise to Kingdom. There's just so much more space, so many fewer people to zombify, and the populace are way more used to killing and fighting in general. Swords, spears, fortifications are plentiful compared to now. But if someone is purposefully spreading it where populations are vulnerable and sabotaging any resistance, then it could work

>>211441161 (OP)
Make them into a thinly veiled political analogy of the writers opposing worldviews

>>211461998
Because you would know faggot.

>Zombie Apocalypse finally starts
>you've been waiting all your life
>hell yeah, gonna kill some zeds, this is gonna be awesome!
>die immediately

>>211452109
yeh it was great

>>211441161 (OP)
do what Walking Dead should have done. Focus on communities rebuilding and securing land based around hydropower plants, with everyone generally accepting that on a generational basis, even hydro plants are temporary. At least the big ones.

If Walking Dead had magiced up something to prevent literally everyone from being walkers after like season 5 or something, then its just a matter of time before trenches and pikes wiped out the walkers. Not even mentioning the guns.

>>211462450
hey fuck off that wasn't nice, I was sincerely discussing the idea

>>211442170
>>211445451
>>211456553
>>211457266
Literally terabytes of pornwith this premise. we dont need more.

>>211451530
Doesn't roll off the tongue like 28 years later. Plus it breaks up the pattern, kinda cool.

>>211457794
>World War Z TV series, or something based on it.
A good basis would be that the book is a series of propaganda stories, as the former world government try to reclaim the world, but they have 1-5% of the loyal personnel they used to have, sometimes less. And while they have loads of advanced weaponry and technology, they can't replace any of it, and in some cases can't even use it up fast enough. Meanwhile, the masses are working with the mutinied remnants of the former military and law enforcement personnel who didn't appreciate the betrayal.

Possible original element for a zombie film.

Imagine scenario like Resident Evil with evil 'Umbrella Corp' type organisation. Heroes find source of virus and find guy responsible.

le twist:
Turns out they are not evil but some kind of FOSS biotech organisation that wanted to give free genetic upgrades to everyone to prevent governments getting a hold of it, or misusing it. Like say they invented a cure for death - immortality - but didn't want the political bullshit or triage situation where some people got it and others didn't before they died, so they just engineered a viral form and released it into the wild without a by your leave from anyone.

Shit went pear-shaped unexpectedly and they've been trying to fix it ever since.

Lesson: Don't play God because then Einstein forces you to play dice with the universe ... or something like that, I don't remember.

>>211462767
And I'm sincerely discussing the idea that you're a retarded double-nigger.

>>211464474
really rude

>>211441161 (OP)
i feel it's tapped out. 2004 dawn of the dead was the pinnacle of the genre. then TWD just got cartoonishly stupid and killed all hype.

>>211441161 (OP)
The Road style depressing times plus really slow moving Z's.

put boyscouts into the story

>>211441161 (OP)
take the action back out of the genre.

Resident Evil (OG) was scary because it was a resource management game. On your first play through blind you were probably wasting ammo/etc and it provided tension.
If there is no tension, there is no suspense. This is true in all forms of media. Including book, movie, music.

Tension, suspense, release is the natural cycle of the world.
Action takes away all tension. If I don't believe the people can die, there is no threat.

>>211441392
Gen z hates tits

>>211466652
only if they're actually kids, not 20 year old "scouts".

>>211441161 (OP)
make a romance, where the girl is a jew and the zombie is a zombie

I want to see a zombo show or movie that follows a military unit. They can start extremely strong, zombies are no threat, trying to maintain order and be moral, fully supplied. But over time supplies dwindle, weapons wear out, and hey those civilians have some things that would be useful to us. But not everybody is on board with this

it practically writes itself.

>>211441161 (OP)
let the zombie aquifer rest for a decade or two
stop trying to pump the thing dry

>>211466851
make it an Iraq invasion allegory and it's a seller

>>211466684
I don't disagree with you but I'd add that the way most movies/shows do action is a contributing factor. Instead of trying to make people fighting for their lives tense, they turn it into a ballet, where it's magical dancing around and they feel invulnerable because they're doing the choreographed moves
They never feel in danger or under threat which is literally the entire point
If you make action feel dangerous, and deadly, simply by not making ridiculous overpowered superheroes, have fingers and limbs blown off and people screaming and scared shitless, instead of dancing around like a nonce, and it'd help

>>211466851
i liked Girl With All The Gifts for it's operator scenes.

>>211466937
The Last of Us show should have shown that but instead it just focused on talking. If they spent a whole episode on a gay prepper I don't understand why they didn't do one with Joel teaching how to make traps, make quiet kills and so on. You can still sneak some snark in if you need but at least build the characters as capable in their environment.

>>211466937
Semantics, I have no argument against what you're saying, but I also don't agree entirely either.
Kind of two sides of the same coin?
I don't want all action taken out, it's just we have become so oversaturated with goyslop marvel movies they have to keep zoomers entertained by making everything bright and crazy 24/7.

That is the antithesis to tension.
If I can provide some citations musically.

Tension
>Playing a Bass E3 note while playing a Treble Gb5 note
Humans can hear harmony, but also know the harmony is wrong. Providing tension.
>Speeding up or slowing down purposefully while the melody or rhythm stays the same
Provides tension, human can feel the sense we are rushing and/or dragging.
>Abrasive disharmonic noises during a beautiful written piano part
Provides tension, the listener wonders why this chaos was introduced.

Now imagine a song where the entire song is just that over and over. That is what you're describing. Every fight scene is just 120% all the time.
That's the opposite of tension, since the tension has now become the norm. Meaning it is harmonic again.

Tension must have musically what's called relief to not become the norm of the song.
So in movies action cannot be going on 24/7, there is no relief from the action. there is no downtime.

Therefore zombies cannot be scary.
Any action, any tension must have an equally large amount of relief to provide a return to basis.

The antithesis to this equation in the OPPOSITE direction would be
>Tombs of The Blind Dead (night of the seagulls)
Which is such a slow burn snozzfest it's basically not horror because the movie is too much tension.

>>211451370
>>211451679
>alright, now smear some grease on the edge of the lens
Why did he do it

>>211467377
I'll just say hi to fellow music nerd

>>211441161 (OP)
No more faggy reddit zombie viruses
A big tiddy goth necromancer is going around the city raising the dead

>>211457611
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Train to Busan

Crossed

>>211441161 (OP)
>humans are the real monsters

fucking just stop doing this
its not that complicated

>>211470397
then how do you keep it interesting? survivors working together for two hours with no problems? your movie is shit

>>211471271
>with no problems
it's a ZOMBIE movie you retard

>>211470063
/thread.

Took this fucking long for the only good answer, this board is done.

put them underground

Make good movies / shows with good actors. Literally all it takes. I find zombies boring as fuck but I loved Black Summer.

>>211441161 (OP)
Demonic/supernatural zombies are the best and very underrated

>>211473228
Cool monster shit movie

slow walking zombies.

set in an old folks home

Zombies being a thing is our prehistoric concept of in group preference malfunctioning in this modern deracinated society

>>211441161 (OP)
Make a zombie show/movie that's actually about people surviving an zombie apocalypse through cunning and determination instead of yet another gay ass allegory whining about how MAYBE WE'RE THE REAL MONSTERS or whatever.

I'm sick of zombie stories that spend 20 minutes following survivors as they try to survive the endless onslaught of the undead followed by 20 hours of clumsy social commentary.

Zombies but it's now an allegory for racism and immigrant policies.

>>211441210
fpbp