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Originally Posted by siorai
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.
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The slow zombies build and build, the terror rising while the numbers increase. It's the security you feel being able to easily dispatch the zombies slowly fading away as the numbers continue to rise. What makes fast zombies so much different than people infected with the Rage? It's just an alteration of a classic monster to help those with ADD enjoy zombie flicks.