I always wondered about that.
I can kind of understand your typical, shuffling, moaning, non-intelligent zombie going specifically for a beating heart with warm flesh and blood. But how would they distinguish that? And how would they stop from decomposing?
Your typical shambler zombie is undead and the who's, how's and why's of that are not explained, just a inexplicable phenomena that the audience is as unaware of as the characters themselves. I like it, it works. I mean, werewolf and vampire movies never really felt the need to explicitly outline where their monsters come from and how the function beyond "how do I kill this mofo", why should zombie flicks?
As for the 28weeks later version, why didn't they just set upon each other in an orgy of violence? I cringed multiple times in the second movie (in which I hoped the military would be portrayed well) and pointed out various problems of which would never have happened*, or would easily have been remedied.
Pheromones, maybe. Smelled the infected blood and all that.
Also totally agree with you on 28 Weeks Later's handling of the military. That was dumb.
The only times they looked smart was with the gassing, bombing and flamethrowing.
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