Cliches to avoid for a zombie novel ?

S

SierraRoberts

New member
Joined
Jun 25, 2011
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
Points
0
I'm writing a novel which revolves around the survival of a group of people in the aftermath of a zombie invasion. Just out of curiosity, what are some bad cliches you've come across while reading zombie-themed novels and watching zombie-themed movies ? Thanks c:
I appreciate the opinion, but I'd prefer not to have any more answers telling me that the idea is done to death. I'm trying my best to make it as original as possible, and it's not necessarily going to be sent off to a publisher. It's really just for fun c:
 
The zombies r slow and dumb
Someone trips over something we dont no and gets eaten
When the zombies fall they just get up like its nothing
They always find something out of no where to help them
The zombies avoid light? WDF THEY RNT VAMPIRES!

Check mine out
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am_q_eAP6tDxobo_Ll0Is0_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20110603001334AADxXG7
 
Avoid: the green skin
The brain eating (thats been done to death)
dont overdo the groans they are good in small to moderate amounts but dont go crazy with them..
dont give them emotions.. they are zombies.. i hate when zombies have emotions -_-'
 
Zombies have become such a cliche in and of themselves. Originally they started off as a Haitian legend touching on Voodoo - - - they adopted traits of the 'sombalistic,' called the living dead but more in the realm of hypnotized subjects slow moving, lurching when they walked, when adopted for the screen it became a cliche to create an 'empty eye effect' once that was satirized in a 1944 movie called Zombies on Broadway which despite tacky production values and a questionable cast actually works on some levels.
In the mid 1960's a director of Mexican heritage wanted to tackle the issue of racism amidst the fury of the Civil rights movement and came up with the phrase 'The Living Dead.' Director Romero kept the idea of a slow walking 'hypnotized' undead with the added touch of various forms of decay. Romero injected the notion that the only way to kill a Zombie was to destroy the stem of the brain. In later Living Dead films this allowed detached arms & legs (and in X-rated spoofs other parts) to have a life of their own.
Reinventing the Zombie notion shortly after 2001, a modern director retained the undead notion, but made the zombies hyper fast and pretty much indestructible. Most recently AMC unleashed 'The Walking Dead' which stays true to certain cliches while adding others as the writers work to keep the show viable.
In many all the cliches are 'bad;' Undead or Hypnotized, the sombalistic walk (think Cabinet of Dr Caligari) - - - can't be killed unless the writer wants the creature to die; the rotting flesh has become rather silly especially in Manja comics and on film.
Some cliches are clearly borrowed: several variations have the zombies avoiding sun light,
I did always like the Eating Brains bit, just amuses the heck out of me.
Drawing inspiration from 'Plan Nine From Outer Space,' the idea of an alien race calling upon the dead to rise out of their graves has lots of mileage to go.

Peace/////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\
 
That they:
-come out a night
-eat brains
-are green
-groaning "flesssshhh..." or "braaaiiinss..."
and that's it really. Good luck on your story by the way, it sounds really good so far! you should so have like one of them is a zombie and is killing them from the inside but the main character doesn't know and is like best friends with them and they have a showdown! or you could have it so the killer isn't even a zombie but is driven mad by hiding and wants to kill them all...heheh jokes I hope I helped! x
 
zombies moaning "braaaiiiinnnnnsss"

That gets old after a while
 
Back
Top