Who knew the vaccine
for zombification was tryptophan all along?
Not exact matches
«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.
We're told they represent something about mass consumerism and the
zombification of western culture, but
for practical purposes they're an arsenal of zombie killing implements.
In Dead Rising, Phenotrans is responsible
for creating and distributing an incredibly expensive medicine called Zombrex, which staves off the
zombification process.
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!).
For instance, because the movie begins after Beth's death has already occurred, the audience never gets an idea of what she was like prior to her
zombification, and that would have gone a long way in providing some context to her bizarre, post-death behavior.
That the picture is born from a joke on a television show offers endless possibilities
for interpretation, best among them the tidy read that television is still the best means towards auto -
zombification.
Just like a bad case of
zombification, this thing just keeps coming back
for more.
The antiviral spray will cancel this effect if caught in time, but
zombification is so short lived you'll often just wait it out until you can resurrect them with fresh health and ammo, which incidentally is as simple as holding a button
for a few seconds — hardly a fitting punishment
for death.