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Fursuiters + zombies = what?
15 years ago
I have had an itch on my brain for a while about zombies and fursuiters. Looking at pictures from Anthrocon you can't avoid seeing a bunch of fursuiters walk around. Now what if a zombie outbreak would occur. A worldwide one, real George A. Romero style. Would zombies know that there's a human inside a fursuit?
Think about it, all they see is something fuzzy and hairy. And if the person inside just walks slowly and don't say anything, would it be possible to walk through a mass of zombies to safety? In movies zombies surround houses because they saw some humans enter, or they peeked out and stared right in the face of the zombie. Zombies are stubborn and resistant, once they get their eyes on a human they won't leave. Ever. And this attract other zombies nearby, they see some zombies banging on the walls and doors at the hideout.
If you are hiding and don't let the zombies know you're there, they won't know. But a human can only stay in one place for a while, sooner or later it have to leave. (Get supplies, ammunation, someone in the group is starting to show signs of cabin fever, etc.) This is where the fursuits comes in. A SWAT guy is also mostly covered, but in 'ordinary' clothes. It's a shape easily recognized. But a fursuit is big and have a different anatomy than an ordinary human.
Can a zombie be fooled? And what if a person get bitten before he puts on his fursuit? You think it's a human inside, lets him into your hideout, helps him take off the head, and then you suddenly stare into this pale, decomposing face. Now that's a party pooper.
I'm always looking for ways to fine-tune my zombie plan. Any of you got any tips you want to share?
Think about it, all they see is something fuzzy and hairy. And if the person inside just walks slowly and don't say anything, would it be possible to walk through a mass of zombies to safety? In movies zombies surround houses because they saw some humans enter, or they peeked out and stared right in the face of the zombie. Zombies are stubborn and resistant, once they get their eyes on a human they won't leave. Ever. And this attract other zombies nearby, they see some zombies banging on the walls and doors at the hideout.
If you are hiding and don't let the zombies know you're there, they won't know. But a human can only stay in one place for a while, sooner or later it have to leave. (Get supplies, ammunation, someone in the group is starting to show signs of cabin fever, etc.) This is where the fursuits comes in. A SWAT guy is also mostly covered, but in 'ordinary' clothes. It's a shape easily recognized. But a fursuit is big and have a different anatomy than an ordinary human.
Can a zombie be fooled? And what if a person get bitten before he puts on his fursuit? You think it's a human inside, lets him into your hideout, helps him take off the head, and then you suddenly stare into this pale, decomposing face. Now that's a party pooper.
I'm always looking for ways to fine-tune my zombie plan. Any of you got any tips you want to share?
You just described AC this year <3
The Return of the Living Dead is a fun zombie movie. One of the main characters say her hidden desire is to get eaten by old men. And voilà, suddenly her wish becomes true. :p
You just gotta love Linnea Quigley. <3
i have an actual love-hate relationship with zombies.
i love zombie movies, some of favorite movies are zombie movies, but im absolutely terrified by the idea. All my nightmares are almost always zombies chasing/eating me (always the newer type, never slow ones).
all zombie movies terrify me, no matter how funny or scary. i have this irrational fear of them. but i love them.
Dreaming about them is terrifying, but watching movies with them are always a good time. I think it is the whole zombie scenario that scares us. The world doesn't end all at once, it is slowly ending. First everything is working, then electricity vanishes. Gasoline for cars will be harder to get a hold on. Medicine is going out on date. Food becomes more worth than money. Everyone with competence to do stuff (electricans, plummers, engineers, etc.) dies. Suddenly you are al alone. It's worse to see a world fading slowly away than suddenly cease to exist. Because your are then every second reminded about things you have lost, and are going to loose.
I also hate clingy strangers, and who are more clingy than zombies? :p
they might be ok if you escape right after the sex/rape before they try to eat you.
Lucio Fulcis zombies tend to be much more voodoo oriented, and their hunting style relies as much on aimless wandering and sound, as it does anything else, so in that case, it may be a different story.
Again, with the Return of the Living dead series, where most of the zombies hunger only for brains, they sniff out the skull muffins they're after. In this case, suiters would still not be safe, save for the time it took for the zombies to remove the suit heads :3
And of course, if you go for Shawn of the Dead, they sorta spoof the entire concept, which covers exactly what you brought up, being able to fool them in plainsight.
If the "zombies" were infected, such as Resident Evil, 28 days/weeks later, or Left 4 Dead, then the virus seems to have markers that help the infected single out thoes who are healthy, so it would still bode poorly for the suiters :3
I'd personally say get your favortie gun, load up when you can on ammo, and keep moving. Leave the suits behind.
I wouldn't be too secuare around Fulci's zombies, many of them can teleport (City of the Living Dead) and when there's some supernatural voodoo hoodoo involved no one can be safe. And the only sane person you can thrust turns out to be the cause of the mess. Not even sharks are safe from the darn Fulci zombies. Why should a person in a fursuit be? :p
Had a The Return of the Living Dead marathon not long ago, all five movies in one go. But for me the three first are the real one, the fourth and fifth are just hideous leeches that doesn't deserve called a Return.. movie. These zombies are the hardest to get rid of since destroying the brain doesn't help. And they run. And can somehow think. They never give up. The only good thing about wearing a fursuit is that your death would have been comical. It's all about going out with style, baby.
Maybe you would be safe around the zombies from Resident Evil? And the running ones from the re-make of Dawn of the Dead? When the survivors were trying to get into the mall, this asian guy with one arm was walking in the distance. Then he turns his head, frowns, and when he see they are human he starts running towards them, screaming. Nearby zombies join him. He used his sight, so maybe wearing a fursuit would be possible?
The 28 Days/Weeks Later aren't zombies, just humans infected with a rage virus. In a scenario like that it woulnd't be necessary with a fursuit, you just need enough food and water to barricade yourself someplace safe, and after a couple of months all of the infected would be dead of starvation. I still love the opening scene in 28 Weeks Later when the infected comes running over that hill. A perfect scenario for the paranoid. :D
Too many people think it would be cool with a zombie apocalupse. The idea may seem fun, but I doubt it would be as fun in real life. If that happens I want to move to Fiddler Green and be Dennis Hopper's secretary. Ah, I miss him.
Haven't you noticed that there's a mass production of lousy zombie movies these days? And I wonder what George A. Romero is doing, because Survival of the Dead sucked big time. Is he beginning to become senile?
Wanna survive the zombie apocalypse with me? <3