Comments on: I Am Legend – Zombie Movie or Not?

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:43:46 +0000

They are vampires in I Am Legend. They can’t enter the sunlight and they don’t eat people.

In 28 Days Later, they are not zombies. At all. They are alive (tend to die via starvation) and they merely kill people, NOT eat them.

Zombies aren’t particularly difficult to figure out, even if “altered.” Neither creatures from 28 Days Later or I Am Legend strike me as having zombie qualities – perhaps in appearance, at best.

I don’t get why that’s so hard to understand.

By: steven

steven — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:08:12 +0000

The creatures in I Am Legend were clearly vampire from the get-go, every trait they had showed reflected that. Sensitive to light, drawn to blood, highly intelligent (took out helicopter with multiple host, reversed vehicle trap on Smith, etc.)

Running zombies, as (I dearly hope) many of you know, are referred to as the Rage form. This was the type many people were getting confused over, as they represented well enough, the vampires seen in I Am Legend. And for those saying “how does a corpse run that fast?” remember that Rage forms are not dead, but infected. They still have the strenght and flexibility of a living organism, yet the ability to ignore pain and limitations, therefore they can run as fast as they do.

I won’t go into discussion on the other two forms, since you should already know them. I simply wanted to clear the reasoning behind what/why running zombies are/exist.

By: saul

saul — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:18:17 +0000

Well zombies in 28 days later can run because they never died.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:41:12 +0000

I think a mix of slow, rotting zombies as well as new, fresh and fast zombies is good. As well as crawling almost completly decomposed zombies.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:57:45 +0000

Come on do you really consider that the monsters in 28 days later and I am legend ZOMBIES? I just want a yes or no.

By: cyberdaemon

cyberdaemon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:36:08 +0000

These things were called Darkseekers, DVD subtitles refers to them as hemocytes.They are nothing to do with zombies.If you want to return to original zombies, let me remind you – original zombies were nothing to do with Romero style flesh eating rotten “un”dead either.Stories of zombies originated in the West African spiritual belief system of voodoo, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful wizard.Sounds more like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, than Romero.Check-mate.
In fact, every “undead” creature in movies is modern invention, that differs from the original ancient beliefts.At least as much as cow differs from the car. And saying that “Wow, Spud…you’re so right…and we’re all so wrong…WE’RE NOT WORTHY!” is bullshit.If you are wrong, it doesnt render you worthless.It just means you are wrong.Why to turn into such an absolutes.Either im 100% right and worthy and you are there force 0% right and absolutely worthless or the opposite.No gray tones in the middle.
Last of all, there is no such thig as “right” conspect of zombie.There is as many different ideas and variations to this thing, as there is different views.Everyone has different conspect.Anything, that even remotely reminds Romero version of zombies, doesn’t have to be turned into these.
I personally hate most zombie movies, Romero or not.Thats because living people often act more stupid, than theyr rotting enemies.And military is always incompetent idiots.

By: tehother

tehother — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:22:43 +0000

wow you people are so dumb its definitely a vampire movie because of there tremendous speed and they cant go into the light wow

By: jujubee

jujubee — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:24:52 +0000

but i like genre criss-crossing, plus-the creatures in I Am Legend scared the bejesus out of me, so it did its job!

By: McCulley is legend

McCulley is legend — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:55:13 +0000

Agree with Dr. Spud…these things were humans with their adrenal glands stuck in the open position (check out the Wiki page on the movie for my source on this…from the director and screenwriter). So they had tons of energy, always hyperventilated, and were allergic to the sun (that must have been a gimick to keep Will Smith safe in the daylight so he could drive his Mustang around). Nope, not zombies. Thank goodness…zombie movies tend to suck anyway.

By: Zombie Money

Zombie Money — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:59:55 +0000

I liked the movie :)