Would zombies stink?

[UNDEAD FRED]

We all talk about zombies, getting in close for the kill. But wouldnt zombie stink like a dead skunks ass. probilly puke your guts out if they got close. How bad would thier breath be? God help us if they farted.:loon: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[evilzombie20]

Zombies I'd imagine would smell awful, but I think after a while we'd become desensitized to the stench. We'd adapt to it and it'd just be another everyday smell...

[Grimm]

Good thing I don't have a sense of smell.

It really depends on what type of zombie it is, and how long it's been... er... dead. A "graver" would smell like any other rotten corpse. A "Sickness" zombie wouldn't smell bad until about a week or two into the invasion, when they started rotting. "Rage" zombies, of course, would only smell as bad as the shit they've been rolling in, along with ol' fashioned B.O. Think bad eggs, milk, and moldey meat, all mixed together with a dash of burning hair.

[UNDEAD FRED]

I do not see how a zombie could sneak up on you and take a bite out of your ass. If you ever smelled a dead body? But, do zombies stink? That is the question young Jedi.

[Grimm]

Well, under stress, your body would focus on more important senses. Sight, hearing, and possibly touch. That would reduce the usage of taste and smell. Therefore, if a zombie is quiet, and moves slowly, it is possible to sneak up on you. However, this would have to be a rather intellegent one.

[Pain]

Get yourself a nice big cut of meat, leave it in the sun for a few days, then come back and smell it.

I think you'll have your answer there:lol:

[UNDEAD FRED]

I dont know about that. I was in the gulf war, theres no misstaking that smell.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Get yourself a nice big cut of meat, leave it in the sun for a few days, then come back and smell it.

I think you'll have your answer there:lol:
YUMMY. is that sort of like pheasent under glass? or whatever its called?

[Pain]

YUMMY. is that sort of like pheasent under glass? or whatever its called?

Lmao, rotten meat has a distinct aroma to it!

[Gnash]

4 to 10 days after death:

"Bacteria break down tissues and cells, releasing fluids into body cavities. They often respire in the absence of oxygen (anaerobically) and produce various gases including hydrogen sulphide, methane, cadaverine and putrescine as by-products. People might find these gases foul smelling, but they are very attractive to a variety of insects.

The build up of gas resulting from the intense activity of the multiplying bacteria, creates pressure within the body. This pressure inflates the body and forces fluids out of cells and blood vessels and into the body cavity."

10 to 20 days after death:

"The bloated body eventually collapses, leaving a flattened body whose flesh has a creamy consistency. The exposed parts of the body are black in colour and there is a very strong smell of decay.

A large volume of body fluids drain from the body at this stage and seep into the surrounding soil. Other insects and mites feed on this material.

The insects consume the bulk of the flesh and the body temperature increases with their activity. Bacterial decay is still very important, and bacteria will eventually consume the body if insects are excluded."


I know what you're thinking... great more crap about bacteria. There's just no escaping the little bastards. :evil:

The worst stench of the zombies would be over after the gases and bodily fluids have dissipated. This of course depends on the characterstics of decomposition for a particular zombie. My "bacteria zombies" would stink for a very long time because the bacteria would slow down or even halt decomposition which means the bodily fluids will stay trapped inside the body cavity.

[UNDEAD FRED]

In the extras of Day of the dead, When they filmed Cpt. Rhodes getting torn apart. They used rotten meat. you can see it in his face, and some of the zombies faces to. I guess someone unpluged the refrigerator durning a break in filming.

[BIGkeeblerOG]

yea i would think so, but if it was fresh than no. I am sure someone else already said that:)

[Bad Zombie Night]

Zombies I'd imagine would smell awful, but I think after a while we'd become desensitized to the stench. We'd adapt to it and it'd just be another everyday smell...
That sounds like the best explanation I've read so far as to why the characters in the movies are relatively unaffected by it.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Im going to use zombie movies as a reference to determine if zombies stink. They dont have smell a vision, thank god. But in Land of the Dead zombies were often referred to as Stenches, or Stenchers. thats sounds like a stink ass zombie to me. Can anyone else quote names in other zombie movies that references zombies, and stank?

[Zombie Survivor]

Isn't exposure to a corpse toxic? I mean the gasses and bacteria that decompose the body can't be healthy... right?

[Bad Zombie Night]

Isn't exposure to a corpse toxic? I mean the gasses and bacteria that decompose the body can't be healthy... right?
Maybe if you were locked in an airtight room with them. :puke:

[UNDEAD FRED]

If a zombie farted in the woods, and no living human was around, would it make a sound? or stink?:loon:

[Darth Erroneous]

I'm going to say "yes" just because since they look like they're rotting, they must smell like they're rotting. Which leaves this quagmire: Do you use nose plugs to block the stench thereby alleviating the putrid stench or do you go commando and use the smell as an early warning "device"? :think:

[Andy Bit it]

Yeah I think we can all agree that the smell of the zombie would be determined on what kind of zombie is and we would most likely get use to the smell of zombie in an outbreak but that would not be a smell that would be fun getting use to. But would the smell/gasses be toxic? And would the smell be unhealthy? Now that’s something I want to know more about. Would it be better for your health to wear a mask when encountering a zombie? But then again if you wear a mask you would lose one of the best ways of knowing a zombie is near…smell.

[UNDEAD FRED]

I talk to a old friend today when I went to the Mall, Wallmart had ROTLD in the $5.50 dvd bin, YES. He works in fire/flood restoration, insurance work. He did a job last month where a guy killed himself, OD, in a condo. been in there for three weeks,I could imagine the smell. It took them over a month to get the smell out, After removing the carpets, cabinets, even gutted out the drywall, down to bare 2x4s. Sprayed everything down with a special chemical fogging machine, and set up what is called a O'zone machine for two weeks. Just to get the smell out death,ZOMBIE, out. So when the zeds are pounding on yor barricaded, and boarded up doors, and windows, Zombie stank will try to get in to.

[Sambob]

All smells are different. You can get used to just about every smell imaginable. But there is one smell that will always be there. When you wake up in the morning and the stench of a hundred corpses is the first thing that fills your nose, you never get used to that smell. No matter how many times you smell it the pungent sickly sweet odur of death is always there. You can try and get it out of your clothes your hair, but you will be trying in vain. The smell sticks to everything, you could shave your head and buy new clothes buy you will still get the stench because it is stuck in your nose. It takes months to get it out of there.

[zombiekilling101]

theres only one real answer.

do open untreated wounds stink? yes. theres your answer

[The Hero]

Sambob how do you no what a 100 corpses smell like and all that stuff its kinda creepy lol:lol:

[Zombie Lurv]

You have to ask yoursel fif You'd even be able to HANDEL being face to face with a zombie first. I mean during an infestation ( of a larger level i guess) the smell would become one you quickly get used to but on a smaller level.. I dunno.

[Project Mayhem]

I bet the ones in zombie flesh eaters smell like flowers

[Divided Soul]

You have to ask yoursel fif You'd even be able to HANDEL being face to face with a zombie first. I mean during an infestation ( of a larger level i guess) the smell would become one you quickly get used to but on a smaller level.. I dunno.
It would also seve to warn you if they were around

[The Hero]

The question is would zombies stink,yes of course, just because are nose's get used to the "smell" dosent mean it wont smell/stink.

[raym]

I'd believe they would smell very bad.

Much like this precious thing here...:poo:

Unless, of course, the zombie in question was beautiful and clean, with no open wounds.:clap:

[UNDEAD FRED]

The Goerge Romero zombies dont seem to decay, or show signs of advanced rot as in some other zombie movies, like DOTD 04. Maybe his theory is that what ever has caused the dead to get up and walk the earth, a virus, has turned thier blood, and body fluids to turn into something like formaldehyde, stopping the decomposition process. But they did call them stenchers in LOTD. In DOTD 04, those zombie were rotting away on the vine. Being up there on the mall roof, watching Andy take out Jay, and Burt. It must of stank like 3 day old zombie road kill. Why wernt there maggots crawling all over the DOTD 04 zombies? Or when the living expire, dont they lose thier bowels? zombies with big dumps in thier pants. Ah, all those un-ansewred question in life.

[shadow-daemon]

Yes zombies would definatly smell ,what with all the rotting and desease.

[shadow-daemon]

They would decay because all of there organs stop working when they are a zombie so they dont even need to breath.

[Mastertickles]

Yea they would never be able to sneak up on anyone. You would be able to smell them so easily. Also the flies would be everywhere so you would hear the flies also. So yes they would be horriable up close, causing instant vomiting.

[UNDEAD FRED]

I want to see maggot coverd zombies .:puke:

[Fierce_Track]

this thread should be closed i mean what an ez question is that of course they stink

[Pain]

this thread should be closed i mean what an ez question is that of course they stink

I'll bear that in mind

[Divided Soul]

Damn right.... it's part of the mystique of the dead!

[Fierce_Track]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/deadthread.gif this is such and ez question

[Patrick]

Yes, and this is yet another reason I don't want to get close to them when fighting them.

[headshotscrazy]

well if you dont know if a zombie will stink get a dead pet (recently dead) and leave it in a room for a few days then walk in and there will be a awful stench of rotting flesh.

[chewy]

In Keene's The Rising and City of the Dead, the stench of the dead was how the characters could always tell when they were close. I like the idea of stinky zombies. It acts as an early warning system.

[ZombieJohn]

The ones that raised from the dead proabably, but the very recently deceased may not depending on their life style individually

[chewy]

The ones that raised from the dead proabably, but the very recently deceased may not depending on their life style individually

It takes less than 24 hours for internal decay to make a corpse stink enough where you can smell it from a distance. From personal experience, I can tell you that you can smell rot starting via exhaled gases in less than four hours.

[ZombieJohn]

I guess good thuinking i never thoght of that

[Weapons_Check_Food_Crap!!]

Funny, I always thought they'd smell like junior mints and popsicles.

Thank god for gardener masks.

[Leeboy]

Every time someone dies, their bowels let loose, okay? Now, combine that with the general zombie-like smell of decay and rot and such and . . . Well, hell, they're stenches.

[UNDEAD FRED]

To bad movies dont have smell a vision.:lol:

[detpat]

you bet your drooling anus they would stink. once you have smelled a rotting body in the summer sun, you will never again mistake one for anything else. trust me!

pat

[SurvivalOfTheLeastTasty]

That would be a good thing. A smelly zombie means a decaying zombie. A decaying zombie would have a limited "life" span.

[Jimmy]

I think zombies would smell because of the necrotic decaying flesh. I don't think their breath would smell though because I don't think they would be breathing. >_> When they started bloating some "leakage" would probably occur resulting in a "fart". D=

[detpat]

the dreaded blubbering death fart. i have heard a few bodies make some interesting sounds over the years, M.E. assistants can make bodies produce some of the most entertaining sounds.
mpi

[DentFoster]

They would smell sooooo bad it would be difficult to defend yourself you'd be retching so hard!!! :puke:

[Zombie Survivor]

Decaying flesh + rotting breath + stinking juices and excretement = :puke:

[Whackjob]

Yea they would never be able to sneak up on anyone. You would be able to smell them so easily.

Just wanted to point out real quickly that humans have a very poor ability to localize scents -sure you'd know "there's a zombie here" but you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell what direction they were cmoing from.

Let's just hope they moan -it's much easier to localize sound.

[Darkness]

"I got three words for you: 'Camphor Based Cream'. It works for the Pathologists." :)