Minimum Zombie Requirements

So my fiancé says to me, “there are sure a lot of zombie movies coming out”. She was specifically referring to a new movie called Venom. I watched the trailer for this movie, and it looks like it has something to do with some meddling kids who try to bring one of their friends back to life, but ending up resurrecting a big bald-headed killer who cannot be stopped.

“That’s not a zombie movie” I said.

“Why not?” she says.

“Because there’s only one zombie in it.”

“How many zombies do you need for it to be a zombie movie?”

“Uhh…three?”

It was funny at that moment. You had to be there. But seriously, I’m no zombie expert, but I’ve seen my share of zombie movies. By my definition, an actual zombie movie must consist of a group of zombies chasing the normal humans around. They only want to eat human flesh or brains. That’s all they can do - they’re zombies.

They can be the classic slow, shuffling zombies, like in the original Night of the Living Dead, or the more modern faster track-star zombies like in 28 Days Later of the recent Dawn of the Dead remake. Usually there has to be a high zombie-to-human ratio, but in my opinion, it’s not a zombie party unless you have a minimum of three, OK?

Incidentally, I hear that they may make a sequel to 28 Days Later called 28 Weeks Later. Hopefully it won’t suck.