The Walking Dead

[Cinjin]

The real truth is that in reality, even if it were possible to create a walking zombie immediately after death they would have a very short shelf life.

The biggest problem to overcome is that a dead body left outdoors decays extremely quickly, and the reanimated brain stem that supposedly powers a zombie would decay as well. At the very most, a zombie might have a month long life span but even then, it is likely that his legs would not be able to move him around for that entire duration either. The muscles would become useless as they quickly putrefy.

Nonetheless .... I LOVE zombie movies.

It depends on the type of zombie. If they are traditional undeads, that would indeed be a problem. Virus pseudo-zombies, though, bring up plenty of other problem, like how the host can survive the infection at all and why they suddenly want to bite people. But, yeah, zombie movies aren't about the realism.

We should make a list of the inherent problems with zombies.

Another would be (from resident evil) "the need to feed"
If only the most basic of functions are reanimated, why wouldn't zombies feed on eachother? In nature, every animal when hungry, scavenger or not, will feed on dead flesh. A zombie with only "basic functions" isn't going to have any idea what flesh is infected and what is not.

... I have others