Slaying my way through geekdom!: It's Zombie Time!!!

Well, anyone who knows me probably knows about my blatant obsession with zombies.
I've seen some of the weirdest zombie movies (such as Flesh Eating Mothers... it's pretty bizarre and I would say definitely avoidable!) but what are my thoughts on the Undead?

Personally, it depends on what kind of zombie they are.
I know people go "yeah, but the ones in 28 days later aren't zombies, they're infected" BUT they get infected, their bodies shut down, then they rejuvenate with a whole new mindset of "I'm going to eat you're fucking face off" and they infect enough people to create hordes and as we all know, zombies like to congregate in hordes to turn their living brethren into flesh eating maniacs like themselves.
Although zombies do eat human flesh, they aren't technically cannibals because cannibalism is a choice, whereas zombies are just attacking humans because of their intuitive nature to survive.

Which also poses another question... do zombies get hungry? or is it just in their nature to eat and eat and eat and eat?! Because, let's face it, as soon as someone gets turned into a zombie, the first thing they do is try to eat someone.
Is this because that person has been running from the onslaught of the living dead and so are pretty hungry and once they revert back to this sort of primal state, their initial reaction is to just eat whatever is in front of them?

Now here is a little history lesson for you... zombies in movies can be created by numerous things; whether that be some sort of poison in the waterhole, a radioactive leak, some satanic ritual or just the opening of the gates of hell on a lovely hallowe'en night.
But zombies, originally, where the result of voodoo rituals.
Voodoo is a religion, that used to be very popular in places such as Haiti. It involved blood sacrifices (usually from animals) to their gods and they believed many weird and wonderful potions etc. gave people superhuman strength, bigger boobs, eternal life or a more fertile womb in which to harvest children.
But voodoo rituals were also used to create zombies.
The first ever recorded record of actual zombies was in the early 1900s by an explorer who visited Haiti. He discovered farms where seemingly mindless people were being used to do all the farm work, as though this was the only thing in their nature. These people were just drones.
Upon talking to some of the natives in the area, he found out why this was.
In their culture, it was common practice that when someone died, they were buried straight away and the family would closely guard the grave for the next 24 hours. This is because the body was still "good" to be turned into a zombie using a concoction derived from various pulp and juices from animals and plants for the next 24 hours. The people of Haiti believed this fate of almost eternal life as a mindless "zombie" was a fate worse than death and believed that their family should just be left to rest in peace.

So where has the whole flesh eating zombie thing come from? Do we blame George A Romero for this? We think so.
He brought out the classic 1968 movie Night Of The Living Dead, which saw the dead come back alive to attack humans and eat their flesh.
Originally shot in black and white, this film is an absolute classic and is surely to blame for the flesh eating creations we see today.

The zombies in Romero's films have always been the slow, shuffling kind of zombies, but then over movies (such as the remake of Dawn Of The Dead and 28 Days Later) involve zombies that can run, bringing that extra bit of fear into our hearts.
I personally find the slow, shuffling zombies that bit more terrifying than the ones who can run for the plain simple fact there will be one zombie in front of you, scraping its feet across the floor, staring blankly at you with one thought going through it's head "BRRAAAAIIIIINNNSSSSS!!", so you turn around to run the other way but there's 5 right there.
So you turn back to run past the lone zombie that is now behind you, but you turn and suddenly there's 15, so you turn again to run past the 5 zombies... but this 5 has now multiplied in 50, so you turn again to go the other direction and the 15 has turned into 100.. and so on and so on.
Whereas the running zombies seem to come in a crowd, but don't just appear from nowhere.
You can hear them coming, you can see them running and you can use their speed against them to spear them with less effort, to throw them to one side as they get closer to you.
I just find slower zombies that multiply rapidly even more scary!

And lets be honest now, anyone who has seen a zombie movie MUST have developed their own "Zombie Apocalypse survival plan" but I shall leave this for next time.
Possibly complete with diagrams... but for the time being, let me leave you with some beautiful images of zombiesssss!! RRAARRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I'd be straight to the hospital if my baby was trying to get out this way..