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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I unironically want to see this movie.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Read "I am legend" and please take note of the original publication date.

The movie is such a let down (saw it before reading the book), the book was just kind good (still very pleasant) until I checked out the original publication date, for it's time it was amazing.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For social interaction with zombies my favorite movie is Fido.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You may want to check out "The Girl With All the Gifts" - book or movie.

Spoiler for the big twist in The Girl With All the Gifts

The Zombies turn out to be able to reason (whenever they don't smell prey) and are able to reproduce to sustain their own numbers.

This turns the story into a humans vs neanderthals, or homo-sapiens vs homo-superior, kind of situation.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quoting spoiler

able to reason (whenever they don't smell prey)

So it smelling prey for zombies like being horny for humans?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

more spoiler talk for The Girl With All the Gifts

Yep! So at first humans don't think the zombies have any higher brain function, since the zombies cannot have any higher brain function when they smell a human.

Eventually humans figure out that hiding their scent can provide them some protection. Then they realize they've been killing sentient people when defending themselves against the zombies.

There's a whole plotline in between where humans think it's just a few zombies that are sentient, including the title character - "the Girl with All the Gifts".

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

Oof, that's pretty creepy.