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Zombies of Zombieland

Also called: Homers, Hawkings, Ninjas, T-800s
FilmOtherRuns2000 to 2009

Zombieland is a road comedy set two months after a mutated mad cow disease has turned most Americans into zombies. Its lasting contribution is the rulebook: a list of survival rules that became the film's signature. It followed Shaun of the Dead's success and got a sequel, Double Tap, ten years later.123

Battle it
First appeared
2009
Released 2009
Source work
Zombieland (2009)
Ruben Fleischer
Age rating
R
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
A strain of mad cow disease mutates and infects humans.
How it moves
Runs
Erratic and highly energetic rather than lumbering.
Weak spots
  • a second shot to make sure (the double tap rule)
  • destroying the head

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2009

Released 2009

field notes

What the sources say

1

The narrator's survival rules appear on screen as 3D text; the list reaches 33123

2

Tony Gardner designed the zombies, mostly with physical prosthetics123

3

The 2019 sequel names types: slow, stupid Homers, partly intelligent Hawkings, silent Ninjas and T-800s123

4

T-800s can only be killed by completely destroying the head123

5

Briefly the top-grossing zombie film, with 60.8 million dollars in 17 days123

6

Bill Murray's cameo was first meant for Patrick Swayze123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
Zombies of Zombieland about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Zombieland - Wikipedia
  2. Zombieland: Double Tap - Wikipedia
  3. Zombieland - Rotten Tomatoes

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