Do zombie movies exist in zombie movies?

[TheFeen]

I just checked out the 'shoot them in the head' message and was curious to find out why someone wouldnt shoot a zombie in the head if they knew that would kill the beast.
In a similar situation i would destroy the brain of a zombie because i've seen it done in zombie films, BUT do zombie films (the source of my zombie destroying knowledge) actually exist in zombie films. For example: had the characters in 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' seen 'Night of the Living Dead' before deciding that the head shot was the only true stopper?

[Mr_Vindictive]

Return Of The Living Dead is an amazing example.  They mention NOTLD many times throughout the flick, and even decided to kill one of the zombies by destroying the head.

This naturally does not work....it would be too easy.

[devil clown]

intresting question  (am liynig agian)
How else would they know how to kill a zombie unless they read the how to kill a zombie in 10 easy steps.

[The Burgomaster]

I think the same can be said about vampire movies (especially, Dracula movies).

A guy named Count Dracula moves into the neighborhood. He brings crates full of dirt from "the old country." He lives in a creepy castle and lurks around after dark. Nobody seems to know he's a vampire.

What's the matter, don't these people read or go to movies or watch television or anything?????

[wickednick]

You know Ive often wondered this.I think the more appropriate question would be do horror movies in any form exist in horror movies.But I suppose there would be zombie movies in a zombie movie.I think I once saw one were they were actually watching a zombie in a zombie movie.

[raj]

If those movies do exist, are they documentaries?

[AndyC]

Can't think of more than one example of a zombie movie within a zombie movie.

I think the more estabished the monster, the more likely people in movies will have seen a movie about them. In many modern tales of werewolves and vampires, the characters seem to get their knowledge from movies. Vampires, and the rules they follow, are just so well known from years of books and movies and TV, it just wouldn't be realistic to pretent that the characters didn't know anything about them.

I loved the scene in From Dusk Til Dawn, when Harvey Keitel asks if anybody has actually read a book about vampires, and Tom Savini asks if a Time-Life book counts.

With zombies, being a bit farther out of the mainstream, it's not really a given that people will know anything about them, and it makes for a better movie if they don't.



Post Edited (10-28-03 16:49)

[Conrad]

I think the audience in the Italian flick "Zombies" start by watching a film about zombies.

Given that the pop culture knowledge about the weak points of vampires, zombies, werewolves, et al, is widespread, perhaps the challenge for film-makers is to camouflage these threats so that the victims and audience aren't able to respond with a knee-jerk "Use the holy water/silver bullet/head shot"?  "28 Days Later" being an example.