Four individuals who strangely find themselves not affected
by zombification must utilize day - to - day items as weapons to fight off zombie hordes in intense, gruesome melee combat in order to survive.
Not exact matches
Perhaps that's why rather than reaching
zombification through magic or rampant consumerism, the undead in this film series have been infected
by a man - made virus called «rage.»
«The Serpent and the Rainbow» was inspired
by a book
by Wade Davis, a Harvard scientist who investigated the voodoo society of Haiti and identified two of the drugs used for «
zombification» - drugs that lower the metabolic rate of their victims so much that they appear dead, and are buried, only to be dug up later and revived.
That can take the shape of home invasion (Funny Games), or slowly going nuts (The Shining), or
zombification (Night of the Living Dead), or being literally consumed
by someone else (The Silence of the Lambs).
The normally fine Bill Pullman is none - too - convincing as Dennis Alan, a Harvard anthropologist who's tasked
by an American pharmaceutical company to travel to Haiti and learn the mystery behind a powder believed to cause
zombification (the pharmaceutical conglomerate claims that it wants the formula for humanitarian reasons; ha!).