Important science question!

[MN Dave]

Do zombies poop? 

[Papageno]

tsk tsk tsk tsk... Dave, Dave, Dave... What am I going to do with you?  

[MN Dave]

Science! 

[Joe Barron]

Do zombies poop? 

Is a bear Catholic? Does the pope shit in the woods? If they eat hearts, brains and other organs (see Night of the Living Dead, the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh), there has to be some waste. Not all parts of the brain are digestible.

[MN Dave]

Is a bear Catholic? Does the pope shit in the woods? If they eat hearts, brains and other organs (see Night of the Living Dead, the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh), there has to be some waste. Not all parts of the brain are digestible.

If the digestive system isn't working (dead), maybe the consumed flesh either slides right back out or the zombies explode like meat bombs. 

[karlhenning]

the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh

. . . beating a crowded field 

[Papageno]

Ah- these arbitrary posts, where do they come from???

[MN Dave]

You mean your posts? I dunno.

[Franco]

Do zombies poop? 

Um, there are no such things as zombies.

[Joe Barron]

...maybe the consumed flesh either slides right back out or the zombies explode like meat bombs.  

The former would fit the definition of poop. The latter, well, I can only say I have never seen a zombie explode. But then, I've never seen a zombie, unless II count myself after twelve hours at the news desk.

[Valentino]

In Norway they wear zwastikas.



Dead Snow. Not the scariest movie ever filmed on Finnmarksvidda.

[MN Dave]

Yes, but...

[Joe Barron]

the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh

. . . beating a crowded field 

I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review:

It would be fun to be able to dismiss this as undoubtedly the best movie ever made in Pittsburgh, but it also happens to be one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made--and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. It's about a night when the dead rise and eat the living; seven people (the most resourceful one is played by Duane Jones) take refuge in a farm house, and we watch as the relentlessly marching, hungry corpses come in and tear at them--and we see, in closeup, the devouring of hearts, lungs, entrails. Made by George A. Romero, who photographed and directed on a budget of $114,000. The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it--gives it a crude realism; even the flatness of the amateurish acting and the unfunny attempts at campy comedy add, somehow, to the horror--there's no art to transmute the ghoulishness. (The dead also rise and come toward us at the climax of Abel Gance's pacifist film J'ACCUSE, but the effect there goes far beyond the grisly-scary; the horror has grandeur.) At first this film received almost no attention, but in two or three years it became a hit at midnight showings after the regularly scheduled feature--and not just in the U.S. but in Tokyo, Paris, and other centers.

[karlhenning]

I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review . . . .

I enjoy her reviews, too.

[MN Dave]

They're coming for you, Barbara.

[karlhenning]

I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review:

It would be fun to be able to dismiss this as undoubtedly the best movie ever made in Pittsburgh, but it also happens to be one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made--and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. It's about a night when the dead rise and eat the living; seven people (the most resourceful one is played by Duane Jones) take refuge in a farm house, and we watch as the relentlessly marching, hungry corpses come in and tear at them--and we see, in closeup, the devouring of hearts, lungs, entrails. Made by George A. Romero, who photographed and directed on a budget of $114,000. The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it--gives it a crude realism; even the flatness of the amateurish acting and the unfunny attempts at campy comedy add, somehow, to the horror--there's no art to transmute the ghoulishness. (The dead also rise and come toward us at the climax of Abel Gance's pacifist film J'ACCUSE, but the effect there goes far beyond the grisly-scary; the horror has grandeur.) At first this film received almost no attention, but in two or three years it became a hit at midnight showings after the regularly scheduled feature--and not just in the U.S. but in Tokyo, Paris, and other centers.

Gosh and now there's a 25^th-anniversary documentary . . . .

[karlhenning]

Night of the Living Dead Mexicans is down 6% in popularity this week.

[Dana]

Um, there are no such things as zombies.

      You can go ahead and tell them so when they come to eat your brains. I'll be in the bell tower with the shotgun and about 1000 cans of baked beans.

[MN Dave]

 

[Papy Oli]

I'll be in the bell tower with the shotgun and about 1000 cans of baked beans.

can you actually make a zombie suffocate....that's actually another important science question...