Why are the infected are not called zombies

The Zombie genre is one of the oldest and sustainable pallers in horror, starting with the movie Viktor Halperin in 1932, 1932, “White Zombie” featuring White Lugos. The palpon has developed and has developed a lot of changes over the decades, with new variations, genre mixtures and rethinking that keep “walking dead” fresh and relevant. Be it George Romero who defines modern zombies with acute social comment its “dead” movie series It started with “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, Danny Boyle brought a genre to the current time with a quick zombie and a fierce pocket producer into “28 days” or “The Walking Dead”, turning the inanimate television drama in the 2010s.

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The only thing is that many modern zombie films have a common thing that may seem intricate to those who are not too familiar with the genre is the lack of the word “zombie”. Indeed, Zombie is an almost dirty word in the genre, with most modern films and shows – from “Game of Thrones” to “Shaun of the Dead” “The Walking Dead” – never uttering the word zombie. Instead, these stories are winding ways to indicate non -livest names, such as “walkers”, “werewolves”, “infected” or “biters”. For the most part, this is reduced to the stories of zombies who want to preserve the illusion of genre blindness, that is, the story can leave the characters never heard about zombies before, and slowly find them kill them, not immediately know their weakness.

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“The last of us” is one of the shows that never talks about the word zombie, which calls the main creatures of the show “infected”. Although this decision may seem arbitrary and stupid at first, there is a very important reason why the “last of us” cannot call infected zombies.

By definition, zombie is a resuscitation corpse, a dead man who begins to move as if they were alive, even though they were dead in all respects. This is not what is infected with the “last of us”. These are not dead people, they are very living people who are literally infected with mushrooms.

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That’s right, biology is not lying, and infected in the “last of us” is exactly what the people who are slowly taking away their consciousness and will. The fungal infection of the show also based on a very real and very horrible true mushroom It can eat from your master and control it – without killing it. Because they are not just resuscitated corpses, but people are slowly mutated from the infection, the “last of us” can have our own pie and also eat it. It has a variety of creatures that you will find in zombie games, such as “resident evil” while making it part of the same zombification progression.

You see, the infection of the Cardesics occurs in the stages when the mushroom spreads, imitates its master and slowly mures his body. Different types of infected Not different beings, but the vital cycle of cardicism infection, since fungal growths imitate the body to the fact that it becomes a peculiar armor, making them large and inflated, and eventually fastening the body infected to the environment as soon as the owner’s body dies. In other words, do not call them zombies.

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