On one hand, anything that can run, and especially anything that can run faster than me, is plenty scary. The Entertainment team decided to have a go at this debate, choosing once and for all which kind of zombie we'd be least thrilled about being pursued by.Įmma Stefansky: I've seen a lot of zombie movies in my time, not to brag, and I'm of two minds about this. Pretty much everyone has an opinion on which type is scarier, and both kinds of zombies are frightening in their own right. Pop culture has separated the undead over the years into two distinct types: fast zombies, which can sprint after their prey and usually possess superhuman strength, and the more classical slow zombies, which trudge towards you, inevitable, dribbling pieces of flesh in their wake.Īrmy of the Dead, the new zombie apocalypse casino heist movie from Zack Snyder, has both: the mindless, sluggish 'shamblers' that go dormant when they're not ambling around Las Vegas, and the intelligent 'alphas' ruled over by a zombie king and queen.
Whether they're running, jumping, crawling, or simply walking slowly out of the mist, we can all agree that zombies, corpses brought back to life with spreading their contagion as their only goal, are pretty scary.