• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Idea for a horror comedy movie:

    A group of teenagers encounter the first zombie and put it down, but the damn thing just keeps getting back up.

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        NGL I did enjoy that film, but it had a lot of invincible zombies not just 1.

        I’m talking about a film with ONE cheesy, campy, animalistic, frothing and gurgling zombie that they run over, stab, burn, shoot in the head, feed its intestines into a woodchipper, cut in half, etc but it just keeps crawling back to find another victim when they’re displaying a human moment of vulnerability.

        Specifics can change but I imagine a misty mountainside with lots of oaks and a creek and long winding roads. Put the kids out there as part of their college studies in cooperation with the forestry services. Get a scene where a character breaks their leg from a fall and has to crawl away while being chased by the zombie with only 1 arm, a head, and a torso.

        Possibly have the twist ending be the last survivor find an old torn apart camp with the zombie’s camera and personal identifying information and the character realizes he died out there all alone and nobody ever even looked for him, make it a meta-narrative about male loneliness destroying lives, idk, there is options for sure.

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      How about one that diverts expectations?

      Like, instead of slow zombies, you get fast ones. Faster than they could run before. Maybe even faster than some vehicles. Because they don’t feel pain.

      And instead of dumb zombies, they are smart. They set traps, use tools. Maybe even drive cars.

      Shooting the brain also does nothing. You got to shoot them in the ass since that is the way the parasite entered the body and how they communicate with the hive.

      And like all the zombie preppers die-out quickly because they think the zombies will react like the ones from Hollywood. So they think they can play the hero while being outsmarted by fast zombies.

      Humanity would not last long, and afterwards the world is populated entirely by a zombie civilization that looks eerily similar to our own but like better.

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        World War Z - fast

        Reanimator - smart

        The Return of the living dead - immune to headshots, make traps

        Dreamcatcher - Alien Ass Parasites

        Zombieland - unlikely survivors

        I don’t think you’re as original as you think you are, pal. Good luck on your screenplay go, sounds like a great time.

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        I like it. Let’s do that. But then the twist happens.

        The super fast super genius zombies get infected. And now they have to survive in a apocalyptic post-apocalyst. Directed by M Night.