Actually Frightened By Zombies?

[ilovetotravel]

I have read quite a few posts on here, and it seems as if some posters don't seem very afraid of zombies, but feel it is a chance to act like a commando or a tough guy, etc.

I also have read remarks about posters suddenly being able to do karate against a zombie, even though they may or may not have actually taken karate classes, etc., making references to very easy escapes in the event of a zombie outbreak, etc.

To me, I am terrified of them. Terrified. The idea of a dead person walking and trying to eat me is horrific! I don't suddenly imagine being able to fight them off or being super atheletic.

Who on here is actually terrified of the possibility of zombies actually existing?

[chewy]

Often, I'm forced to wonder how many users here have ever even seen, up close & personal, a dead human body. I've seen more than I care to remember (I'd guesstimate somewhere around 200) and every time I did, it still skeeved me a bit. I can't even guess what my reaction would've been if one of them had decided to get off a gurney and try to attack me.

[DentFoster]

I think allot of people are jaded from horror & gore films. In real life "Mr. Tough Guy" would be changing his soiled britches along with everyone else if a corpse re-animated in his presence. The freak out factor alone would probably cause a mental breakdown.

[chewy]

In real life "Mr. Tough Guy" would be changing his soiled britches along with everyone else if a corpse re-animated in his presence.

Good point. Here's a little story to demonstrate...

My GF has been a paramedic for about 15 years. A few weeks ago, they got a call for a unconcious person in a field. In medic terms, "unconcious person" usually means they're going to find a corpse when they get there. They arrived on the scene at the same time as BLS. My GF said that her, her partner, and the two medics walked up to what they thought was a corpse. From a distance they couldn't see any signs of life. Her partner kneeled down and grabbed this person's wrist to check for a pulse, at which point the "unconcious person" sat up and yelled "WHADDYA WANT?!?!" My GF said that her partner and both of the medics screamed like little girls.:lol:

[nirvroxx]

Good point. Here's a little story to demonstrate...

My GF has been a paramedic for about 15 years. A few weeks ago, they got a call for a unconcious person in a field. In medic terms, "unconcious person" usually means they're going to find a corpse when they get there. They arrived on the scene at the same time as BLS. My GF said that her, her partner, and the two medics walked up to what they thought was a corpse. From a distance they couldn't see any signs of life. Her partner kneeled down and grabbed this person's wrist to check for a pulse, at which point the "unconcious person" sat up and yelled "WHADDYA WANT?!?!" My GF said that her partner and both of the medics screamed like little girls.:lol:

LMAO!


in all honesty, I think the idea of a corpse, getting up and attacking the living is a terrifying one indeed...I dont no what my re-action would really be if it happened...probably soil myself like the rest of the world would.

[DentFoster]

in all honesty, I think the idea of a corpse, getting up and attacking the living is a terrifying one indeed...I dont no what my re-action would really be if it happened...probably soil myself like the rest of the world would.

I pooped a little just thinking about it...

[nirvroxx]

I pooped a little just thinking about it...

BRB, changing my shorts.:poo:

[chewy]

I pooped a little just thinking about it...

Awww... You poor old people with your "control" issues.:-(

Just remember: Depends ain't so damn dependable.:lol:

[Zombie_215]

I would be scared as hell if the dead were walking towards me. :scare: But at the same time in the back of my head I would be screaming: " I told you it could happen!!! " :roll:

[Diablo]

Dude I saw my dead grandfather up-close when I was in first grade. Most nine year olds probably couldn't handle the concept of death but I did. Okay granted he didn't get up and try to consume my flesh but still how many nine year olds actually see their dead grandparent up close.

[DentFoster]

Dude I saw my dead grandfather up-close when I was in first grade. Most nine year olds probably couldn't handle the concept of death but I did. Okay granted he didn't get up and try to consume my flesh but still how many nine year olds actually see their dead grandparent up close.

Death is one thing. Both myself and my children have been around plenty of it.
Undead is a completely different story. :naughty:
You would poop right along with us. :poo:

[chewy]

Dude I saw my dead grandfather up-close when I was in first grade. Most nine year olds probably couldn't handle the concept of death but I did. Okay granted he didn't get up and try to consume my flesh but still how many nine year olds actually see their dead grandparent up close.

Was he already in a casket, all prettyfied by the mortician? If so, that really lessens the effect. I learned the hard way that there's a world of difference between a corpse laying on a gurney after an expected clinical death versus finding somebody dead "out in the wild" (so to speak). To me, a corpse after it's gone through the mortuary & been prepped for burial isn't really all too different from a mannequin. If you saw your grandpa before the body was prepped, I truly feel bad for you. That's not something a child should have to see.

Handling the "concept" of death is one thing; that's an abstract idea. Seeing an honest-to-Elvis corpse in front of you is a different story.

[BRAAAAAAINNNNNS]

If I see someone dead come back to life and start eating anything alive. No reasoning, no emotion, no chance of survival terrifies me above anything.

[Zombie King]

The only thing I'm affraid of is STD's!

[chewy]

The only thing I'm affraid of is STD's!

"Wearing a condom is like taking a shower with a raincoat on!"

Obviously.

[Propaganda13]

Slow zombies is one thing. Fast zombies are definitely scaring and frightening. Just think about living in a city with a million rabid dogs. Zombies would be worse than that.

[The Phantom]

It's nice to poop together :D
The idea(and the smell) of a dead person ain't so scary as the fact it wants to bite you..
But hey, take a look from a different angle on those "tough" guys that can rip zombies' head off with bare hands or whatsoever. We know that fear makes some people do crazy stuff. Yea, some people do petrify when they're scared, but the others could get an adrenaline rush and actually fight zombies more effectively.
And, speaking of petrifying from fear during an outbreak, I think I'm not that kind of person. Instead, I'd find myself a few miles away running like hell :D

[dead and loving it]

I don't think anything could frighten me more than a reanimated corpse. :scare:
i know how I'd react, :poo: .....first I'd say it, then I'd do it!

[The Phantom]

i know how I'd react, :poo: .....first I'd say it, then I'd do it!
Kinda funny when you think of it...Zombies probably won't even come close when all of us are :poo: -ing

[DentFoster]

We know that fear makes some people do crazy stuff. Yea, some people do petrify when they're scared, but the others could get an adrenaline rush and actually fight zombies more effectively.
You're quite right. I think most people would completely flip out at first but then (if you're not left a blubbering idiot :drool:) the survival instinct along with adrenaline kicks in and the fight is on.

Kinda funny when you think of it...Zombies probably won't even come close when all of us are :poo: -ing
You have to consider that when you die, your bladder & bowels let loose, so the zombies would have soiled themselves as well.
We would actually have the advantage because we would have the sense to clean ourselves up. They'd be poopie, pee soaked and rotting, and you know how far the stank of rotting road kill carries. We would be able to smell 'em a mile away.

[Cornflakes]

As in the words of dennis hopper "Zombies, man. They creep me out."
I think I'd be one of the 1st to die seeing a body come back to life and I'd either go like Barbra in Notld or hide in a closet crying like a little baby.

[The Phantom]

You're quite right. I think most people would completely flip out at first but then (if you're not left a blubbering idiot :drool:) the survival instinct along with adrenaline kicks in and the fight is on.


You have to consider that when you die, your bladder & bowels let loose, so the zombies would have soiled themselves as well.
We would actually have the advantage because we would have the sense to clean ourselves up. They'd be poopie, pee soaked and rotting, and you know how far the stank of rotting road kill carries. We would be able to smell 'em a mile away.
But hey, the smell would be everywhere then, and we don't have keen enough senses to detect an individual zombie in the whole palette of smell that would be around. So, yea, we would be able to smell them a mile away, but we can't be sure...

[DentFoster]

True, we would be surronded by stank.

As far as after the initial shock wore off and I actually began to fight, I think my fear would drop significantly for my favorite type of zombies, the Romero shamblers. I honestly don't think they'd be much of a match for us.
Now as for the runners, Feck that. That'd be some scary shite and I really don't think there'd be many survivors for long.

[The Phantom]

True, we would be surronded by stank.

As far as after the initial shock wore off and I actually began to fight, I think my fear would drop significantly for my favorite type of zombies, the Romero shamblers. I honestly don't think they'd be much of a match for us.
Now as for the runners, Feck that. That'd be some scary shite and I really don't think there'd be many survivors for long.
Yea. Take "raged" for example: they seem half scary on the screen, but everyone would be scared shitless from hearing their shrieking.
Probably the worst(psychological) situation would be: being behind a glass with a bloody zed punching it from the other side. I had a day-dream of this, and almost screamed in the middle of class :D

[Diablo]

Was he already in a casket, all prettyfied by the mortician? If so, that really lessens the effect. I learned the hard way that there's a world of difference between a corpse laying on a gurney after an expected clinical death versus finding somebody dead "out in the wild" (so to speak). To me, a corpse after it's gone through the mortuary & been prepped for burial isn't really all too different from a mannequin. If you saw your grandpa before the body was prepped, I truly feel bad for you. That's not something a child should have to see.

Handling the "concept" of death is one thing; that's an abstract idea. Seeing an honest-to-Elvis corpse in front of you is a different story.

I saw him before and after the mortician prettified him. Also the smell of dead people almost made me puke....:puke: :puke:

[chewy]

Also the smell of dead people almost made me puke....:puke: :puke:

You think that's bad, one time I was doing CPR on somebody who had been down for too long. I didn't have a mask handy, so I was doing direct mouth-to-mouth. I wound up with that "corpse" taste in my mouth. That was a bad morning. There wasn't enough Listerine in the world.

[dominion]

I have no problem with corpses, I once saw up close a motorbike crash, the bloke had been speeding, travelled 200 feet and had his head near enough taken off, it didn't bother me at all, as it is only a corpse, but if he got up and took a bite out of someone, I would shit meself then run, very very fast

[RedsofBlack]

I'n my whole 16 years of life (so far!) I've only ever seen two dead bodys, and one was my grandfather in the back room of the church before the public funeral, and one was when I was working with my friend driving a herse and we were taking a body to the freezer, and when I glanced in the review vision mirror, he was slouching forward

(And if anyone here is simple minded, I'm not implying he was a zombie)
His abdominal muscles contracted a short while after death and I SHAT myself, literally.
Great times.

[DentFoster]

I wound up with that "corpse" taste in my mouth.
Damn chewy, that's just nasty. :puke:

I would shit meself then run, very very fast

he was slouching forward..................His abdominal muscles contracted a short while after death and I SHAT myself, literally.
Great times.
I rest my case. :scare::poo::scare:

[ilovetotravel]

The only thing I'm affraid of is STD's!

Remind me to never date this guy, ok?

Sorry, but condoms are the only way to go....unless you are married....

[ilovetotravel]

You think that's bad, one time I was doing CPR on somebody who had been down for too long. I didn't have a mask handy, so I was doing direct mouth-to-mouth. I wound up with that "corpse" taste in my mouth. That was a bad morning. There wasn't enough Listerine in the world.

Why did you do cpr on someone who had been expired too long?

[dominion]

I think there is a 5 minute window for resuscitation, after that, lack of oxygen leads to brain damage, I personally have flat lined for 2 minutes

[chewy]

Why did you do cpr on someone who had been expired too long?

He was my brother. I didn't want him to go.

[Zombie King]

Remind me to never date this guy, ok?

Sorry, but condoms are the only way to go....unless you are married....

Hey! I didn't say I had STD's, I said I am affraid of them. I'm a very clean guy. Even though I don't use condoms I am still very careful.

[raym]

I scared of zombies.

The idea of a loved one (or ANYONE) dead, then walking around - AND wanting to kill me - sends a shiver up and across my spine.

There really was only one time that happened, and that was while watching Savini's NoTLD, during the closing credits with the photos.

O_O

[Patrick]

I have read quite a few posts on here, and it seems as if some posters don't seem very afraid of zombies, but feel it is a chance to act like a commando or a tough guy, etc.


I think it would be necessary to act like a commando. I'd be terrified if it really happened, but I want to survive so I'd have to be a commando now, terrified later. Hopefully, I'd be able to do that.

[Boozbie]

He was my brother. I didn't want him to go.

Sorry to hear about that.


Never seen a body before have known a fair amount of people who've died i honestly dont know how i would react if corpses start coming at me but whenever im started i always just start swinging but i hae been freaked out by zombies since i was like 9-10 i couldnt sleep had bigtime anxiety but over the years ive just menatlly prepared myself for it.

My old man has been a K9 cop for like 17 years and if you let him he will tell you the absolute worst stories you can imagine show you the pictures and everything

[Diablo]

It also helps if you happen to hate the person who has become a zombie, it sort of allows you to get away with "murder."

[Barbara]

Seriously, if the dead we're walking and feeding, Im raiding the nearest Pharmacy...and overdosing.

I aint trying to survive damnit. Screw that.

[UNDEAD FRED]

I think I would head straight home, Load my guns, and start to board up.

[Boozbie]

Well one thing for certain after enough of us saying how totally awesome it would be if the dead rise and we all fnally get our wishes even if we didnt mean it we damn well better enjoy it because its our selfish little faults that the word is plunged into chaos, just so we can brain a few corpses.......besides scared or not it beats going to work that day!

[lavel]

I think allot of people are jaded from horror & gore films. In real life "Mr. Tough Guy" would be changing his soiled britches along with everyone else if a corpse re-animated in his presence. The freak out factor alone would probably cause a mental breakdown.

Exactly! I've seen alot of living of the dead movies and the little I've seen was real human emotions in them. The only movies I've seen with real human emotions was in Night of the living dead, Dawn of the dead '06 with Sarah Polley crying, and in Shaun of the dead where he was crying about losing his mother and his best friend. I rarely saw real human emotions coming out of the actors where if this was a real situation that someone is going to break down. Someone is going to show the true blue. No one cannot go on blindly and say I haven't seen that before and act as if it was spectical. Something is going to give. And most likely it will be your guts.:evil:

[lavel]

Seriously, if the dead we're walking and feeding, Im raiding the nearest Pharmacy...and overdosing.

I aint trying to survive damnit. Screw that.

Well, hope just flew out the window.:lol:

[Diablo]

Seriously, if the dead we're walking and feeding, Im raiding the nearest Pharmacy...and overdosing.

I aint trying to survive damnit. Screw that.

You're not even going to try? Hell I'd try before I even thought about killing myself:machgun2: :guns: :shotg: :pray:

[Augustus Desius]

I don't know how I would react if I saw a zombie. I think I would spend an hour or so trying to wake up, then when that didn't work, I would probably freak right out for about another half hour, then I would get a hold of myself and begin contacting people.

But the idea of being furiously murdered by mastication isn't a pleasnt thought at all.

[Zombie333]

I would :poo: my self lol simple.

Anyone who says they wouldn't be scared if they saw like 10 corpses letting out blood curdling moans with no emotion what so ever and wanted to rip them a new one then eat it well i wouldn't believe them lol.

[Corpse Grinder]

Hell, ya-I'd probably be :poo: bricks! Then I'd be throwing them at the zoms! :lol: But I hope that I would be able to keep my composure so my family, friends or coworkers wouldn't panic.

I've seen alot of dead bodies in my lifetime-either from family just passing away, a girlfriend literally dying in my arms, and I used to work at a cemetery/mortuary. I've read chewy's posts & he'll testify to this-bodies get hard eventually. If a body actually rises, it's gonna be cold, hard and literally dead weight! I can't imagine how Peter can constantly punch zoms in the head in the 1978 DOTD. Of course, since the brain is still active, maybe the body is still soft.

Plus, if you can manage to stay calm, what about others around you? I don't want to be shot by some idiot firing blindly (Stephen from '78 DOTD, again)! Or getting killed because someone in my group panicked or a wrong/bad decision from a leader (pick ANY movie). Here's an anecdote: About a month in working at the cemetery, I was trimming headstones with a weed whacker when my left leg sank into a grave up to my thigh. At first I was scared, but after I realized I only sank, not pulled in, I calmed down; even though I was stuck. I called out to my two co-workers about 20 yards away, but they couldn't hear me because they were trimming too. They finally saw me waving and they just laughed. I thought it was funny, too. But can you imagine if I was being pulled in and no one had heard me? Or if they did, they would just laugh as my leg was being gnawed on.

Yeah, even though this happened almost 20 years ago, I still think about it, momentarily being scared and helpless. So if a rising does occur, I can only hope that my Boy Scout instinct kicks in and I'll be prepared.

[Zombie Superman]

I'll be honest.

The reason I'm here is because I've been terrified of zombies since I was a kid. I'm thirty one now.

My brother used to watch Night of the Living dead and Return of the Living Dead often. I only saw a few scenes of people getting eaten to be terrified of the idea of dead people reanimating and eating the living.

About five years ago, I took off from work on Halloween, put blankets over the windows, and rented five horror movies. The first one I watched was the original Night of the Living Dead, which I hadn't seen all of before. I'd forgotten the little I'd seen as a kid.

I was utterly horrified. No movie before or since has disturbed me like that one. And there was no color and no gore.

I didn't watch any of those movies that day. I took the blankets off the windows and went to my girlfriend's house (now my wife) early to get ready for our Halloween party. We had three TVs going with horror films on, and NoTLD was one, but I just put it on and went away. I couldn't take it again. I've had nightmares about the movie every two or three weeks since then.

This past weekend, with the wife away, I rented Shaun of the Dead. I was a little spooked but laughed a lot, and then decided I needed to face my fear. I've been visiting zombie websites and downloaded NoTLD to watch again. I used to not even be able to really look at pics of zombies.

I'm hoping to immerse myself in it so I can make peace with the fear.

But I doubt it'll ever really go away. Zombies tap something primal in all of us, and I'd be afraid if I ever lost my fear of what zombies represent.

Z\S/

[Boozbie]

same here my man i used to be like that when i was little but over long enough time it morphed into a interest and fascination alot of people here were and totally still are scared shitless by these things but for some reason just cant stop watching!?




Maybe if your trying to get over this try watching the absolutely most hilariously bad zombie movies you can find first before all the gorey truly creepy classics

[Zombie Superman]

same here my man i used to be like that when i was little but over long enough time it morphed into a interest and fascination alot of people here were and totally still are scared shitless by these things but for some reason just cant stop watching!?




Maybe if your trying to get over this try watching the absolutely most hilariously bad zombie movies you can find first before all the gorey truly creepy classics

What would you recommend? I've only seen the original NoTLD and Shaun of the Dead. Never could get myself to rent the "Dawn" remake.

Z\S/

[Boozbie]

Curse of the Cannibal Confederates is pretty bad so is Zombie Lake im drawning a blank right now the NOTLD colored version has commentary from one of the guys from mystery science theater

[MaxVeers]

I personally am afraid of zombies, yes. The treeline right behind my apartment seems like a perfectly logical place for them to come from, which always weirds me out. Basically, of all the random less-than-probable horror movie monsters, ghosts, and ghouls, zombies make the most sense to me. So, naturally, they get me the most. Besides, everyone dies.

[duner]

The ideia of zombies doesnt frighten me. But thats one thing, living the experience i have no ideia how i would react. Common sense makes me think i would go mad.

I think that what would scare me most would be the high probability in being chased;eaten by someone i actually knew - my mother, father, sister, GF etc. -.
Thats hell on earth.

[Sambob]

Yeah I gotta say I may get over things quickly but knowing that my family might be in danger from the undead would drive me insane.

If I was by myself then I reckon I could handle it but above all else I protect my sister, if she comes in danger my life doesn't matter.

[Horror of Party Beach]

I am 99.99% sure no zombie outbreak will occur. The other .01% of me thinks there's a slight possibility, enough to warrant preparation on a "just incase" basis. BUT, 100% of me is absolutely, positively, scared to death at the prospects of meeting up with/seeing/hearing of true zombies. I am, like you said, just terrified out of my mind. I have nightmares about them ALL-THE-TIME. It sux. I can remember nightmares I had as a kid, they made THAT much of an impact on my awake life. I think, daily, about ways to protect myself. I often find my thoughts wandering, at night, to how I would survive a zombie attack, barracade doors and windows, how long would my food supply hold out, could I in fact save my kids, etc. I'm no commando type person, I'm an absolute whimp and imagine if it really did happen I'd probably be so freaked out I'd blow my brains out with the first gun I could get my hands on. That would most likely be the outcome of MY life should that actually happen. I couldn't take zombies. I'd probably die of a heart attack long before a zombie ate me, from being THAT scared. I'd probably kill myself IF I don't die of horror first. But then, saving my kids lives would maybe provoke me into remaining mentally intact enough to make decisions to save THEM.

[Blackshambler93]

I used to be Absolutly Terrified of zombies - You have NO idea how much.

But recently i have become fasinated by them. I don't know why. They still scare me a little bit, but not much.

My freinds know i'm obsessed with Zombies, and i am :)


But they still scare me. i don't know what i would do if they where real, but i know i would be terrified beyone belief.

[mazlionheart]

In life I've seen a total of 6 dead bodies - 2 of which include my parents. If they were to somehow reanimate and become one of the horrific flesh eaters we seem to love so much then I be crapping bricks. I would be terrified of such an event occuring yet at the same time there is something about the whole zombie genre/nature that is enigmatic and compelling.

[Kemper]

I was scared after I saw Dawn of the Dead for the first time, decades ago.

I used to look out across the highway behind our yard to see if any zombies were coming to get me. It's amazing thinking back how the mind really works. I really thought it might happen. bizarre.

Of course today I am totally normal:loon: :lol: :evil:

[28 Posts Later]

I can say that I am not afraid of zombies but some of the dreams I have had about a zombie outbreak have scared the :poo: out of me.

[headshotscrazy]

Personally I don't get scared by the movies. Now I have only witnessed one dead body (All dressed up by the mortician) Now there wasn't anything scary in that it was just strange! The whole dead feel around the corpse and well second I couldn't be scared because I was holding back my emotions.

Now I am not saying that a walking corpse wouldn't scare me! It would be the total opposite... The bowels release then probably I would collapse. Well that would be if it where dead (No pulse or movement) then to suddenly get up off the floor and chase after you. If it was a zombie that was stumbling towards me from a distance I would be a little less worried and probably just go home (If possible) as fast as I could.

The following hours after any of these two encounters (If not bitten) I would probably just sit behind my bedroom door holding something comforting like a weapon and watch the news... Maby padlock the gate shut and sit behind the front door holding a weapon and just think over something. Later on make some phone calls, ask some questions and stay awake for the rest of the night.

[Jimmy]

Dude I saw my dead grandfather up-close when I was in first grade. Most nine year olds probably couldn't handle the concept of death but I did. Okay granted he didn't get up and try to consume my flesh but still how many nine year olds actually see their dead grandparent up close.

In first grade you were 9 years old? ._.

[DentFoster]

In first grade you were 9 years old? ._.
LMFAO! Ouch....:roll: