We'll be f**ed in the Zombie Apocalypse, Science says

[indianasmith]

My undertaker friends tell me that rigor wears off after a few hours.
Interesting point.  I'd guess the solanum virus acts on the body in a number of ways to ensure mobility.

[ER]

I don't handle evidence of death well at all, and one of the hardest things I had to do for a 300-level Anatomy and Physiology class in college was go to the cadaver lab at a medical school. The instructor kept saying, "When we get there you'll all see it really isn't gross, it's just exposed human anatomy."

Well that was a whopping lie up there with "this won't hurt a bit" or "I am into you for your mind, honey."

Something I remember only too well from that appetite-suppressing field trip is that absent the broadcasting mechanism of a pumping heart, fluids within a body take gravity's path of least resistance and pool at the lowest points in a corpse (the feet or the back) in a process called hypostasis, which is why the recently dead seem to have flattened facial features and bulging dorsal sides.

So unless these walking dead have a beating heart (and they may, I don't know) I keep thinking wouldn't they be shambling around on over-sized feet, with their lower legs all sloshy and swollen out like internal bell bottoms? Thoughts like that occur to me unbidden and ruin my enjoyment of zombie shows.

I guess the only answer is, zombies "just are" the way they are, and disbelief should be suspended in the name of simple enjoyment.