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Originally Posted by Despare
Actually slow zombies build more tension and create a creepier atmosphere. It's great because they're so easily dispatched until they gather in numbers and groups fall apart or make a mistake. Fast zombies are ok but they really don't create the same environment of terror.
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Slow zombies make for a more brooding kind of horror. Fast zombies make for a more instantaneous threat. With slow zombies you're basically an idiot if they get you. You're only really in trouble if you're surrounded or barricade yourself in a building of some sort. Otherwise in the real world, a slow zombie would not catch anyone. You could see a slow zombie across the street and not be in immediate danger. Just turn away and walk briskly. A fast zombie though? You better be able to run.
I find the thought of a fast, relentless predator far more scary than a slow one. Which would scare you more? Having a cheetah or a three-toed sloth decide they wanted to eat your yummy brainmeats? Give me the sloth any day of the week because I wouldn't even have to break a sweat to escape it. for that reason I prefer the movies with fast zombies. The slow ones just mean that at some point there's going to have to be a huge mistake made by the characters in order to push the plot forward.