The zombie genre is flawed?!
 

At least, according to this guy -

http://goseetalk.com/2010/04/20/rand...e-day-zombies/

He raises some pretty valid points. And, questions to which I d very much like to know the answers myself.

The replies to his blog-post clarify a lot of the stuff though.

They don't always finish off people they start eating because of their fickle nature. The grass is always greener on the other side and all that. They might start devouring someone only to hear someone screaming or maybe hear a car horn in the distance. There's no way a Zombie would be able to not go check it out. Then you're left with a fair few partically devoured people being reanimated. Zombies are too fickle to finish a meal.

The life expectancy of zombies is indefinate. They have been reanimated, after all. I would say a zombie who is prepared to eat well and exercise and maintain a high protein diet will be around for many years after reanimation.

Digging out of a casket 6 feet under takes time and dedication. With hard work, perseverance and the right grade of soil to dig through it is an achievable goal....

Zombies by their very nature are inconsistant- Alan Partridge.

Also, the creatures everybody calls zombies are actually ghouls.

Yes, marauding ghouls.

I always thought a ghoul was a LIVING person who ate people- not a reanimated corpse.

According to dictionary.com, the defining quality of a ghoul is that they rob graves, and also they mention they are often demons or evil spirits:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ghoul

None of this seems to fit with zombie lore. They don't rob graves- they look for living victims, and they certainly aren't demons or spirits.

I'll have to disagree with Doc & crabby.

There are stories about demonic ghouls eating the flesh of the dead. And yes, they aren't by nature undead but ghouls are a lot closer to Romero zombies that voduon zombies are. If you want to be really specific, the closest creature to the zombie as we know it, according to Jonathan Mayberry's awesome book They Bite is called the Craquehe (I have no clue if I'm spelling that right and the book is upstairs). But, since the defining quality of ghouls is that they are supernatural cannibals that devour the flesh of the dead I think it's a moor apt phraseology than zombies, which are harmless and tragic.

But zombies are not seeking the flesh of the dead- they want living flesh...

They want... dying ...flesh




































































....flesh for fantasy

I always thought that a ghoul was the exact opposite of a zombie

Zombie - Dead eats the living

Ghoul - Living eats the dead

But, I see them both as 'creatures'...Humanoid, but not human

I see them as a little girl in a pink dress, sticking a hotdog through a doughnut.