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I have a new found love for the Zombie style of movies. I have always enjoyed them, even as a youngster. With my uncle as director & principle photographer we even made our own remake of the Romero classic Night of the Living Dead. It was 1987, and I was in the 8th grade. I played the the original cemetery Zombie. The other reason is my wife has a case of "zombie love". She is all about anything zombie. Even the desktop on the laptop is zombie pinup girl. As any gentleman out there knows, if your wife is all about something, then somehow you tend to be directed in that direction.

The fast moving zombies are my preferred type because, scientifically it makes a lot more sense to me. I am not a geneticist, a cellular biologist, medical examiner or any other type of medical expert that makes my opinion the correct one. Although the current trend of the zombie genre leaning towards the fast movers has made me enjoy the movies all the more.

The process that makes a person a zombie is spread in the same way that a blood born pathogen is spread. Contact with infected bodily fluids (usually through a bite) will turn a normal human into a zombie. Most the time it is the work of some secret agency's scientist whose work was meant for good, but the government has taken the research for there own diabolical purpose. If you think about it, if the zombie bites you, you are infected. That is the way that a lot of pathogens are spread in the real world. Rabies is a good example of a disease spreading in this manner.

Since the pathogen has the ability to bring dead things back to life, why wouldn't it continue the stimulation of the cells? That would explain the need that the undead have for continuous intake of calories. In this case it would be other people, especially their brains. I have wondered many times though, why don't more of the zombies eat each other? Can they sense which creatures are already infected? Does it really matter? I mean it's not like they are going to die from it.

If the pathogen has jump started the metabolic rate at which the cells consume food, I would think that you would have somewhat of a "burn out" factor. As soon as the amount of food decreases then the cells will die. Even in zombie land you have to have some sort of energy to keep the machine working. If we look at it from a normal human point of view, an example would be amphetamines. They cause the body to have more energy, although its cause is chemical, but you still burn the calories.

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