On the speed of zombies...

I recently saw the re-re-make of "Dawn of the Dead" (capsule review: bit of a downer, what with all the death but otherwise pretty good). One thing that occurred to me was that Zombie's in current movies seem to move a lot faster than they used to. For example, in the original Dawn of the Dead, they kind of slowly trumbled around bumping into things (in many ways, they remind me of John Kerry). With the advent of Resident Evil / 28 days later / Dawn of the Dead, zombies now run after you at high speed which makes them a lot scarier. Slate just had an article on this very topic so I'm not the only one who has been thinking about zombies. And Jamie Zawinski has a collection of funny Zombie related headlines (my fave: Zombies defeat robot Jesus) I can't wait for Resident Evil : Apocalypse later this year!