Why aren't there more flies in Zombie movies?

Hard to keep them still for the camera. Also a gross out factor would take effect.

They’d have to be CG added. Too much work.

You’re asking for logic in a movie about zombies? Funny.

Better question…why are they still making zombie movies?

It’s not like they’re dead! Merely “almost”. The flesh isn’t rotting.

Better question would be, is why do zombies walk at all? They are dead. No brain function or heart pumping blood to keep the muscles moving. No brain function, there are no nerves firing, vision is lost as well. Why would they eat people? They are dead and don’t feel a thing, so they wouldn’t feel hungry either. If they eat people, how do they digest or even poop? The whole concept is silly. At least vampires drink blood to get the oxygen and nutrition their body needs to function. Just don’t get the dead heart part.

That’s one of the reasons I like RE4. At least in that the zombies weren’t actually dead but affected with a mind-controlling parasite.

@talljasperman “Also a gross out factor would take effect.”

The walking dead aren’t gross enough?

@zenvelo The flesh isn’t rotting anymore? Is that the way zombies are now?

Better question still, why aren’t there more zombies in movies about flies and flying?

I have no real answer, other than that, it’s probably hard to get flies to do what you want around actors. Of course, they could add them by computer. I mean, they had an army of flies up in that Amityville remake. I often wondered why this is never done, or that it doesn’t show at least one scene with a zombie with flies hanging around him.
When I was a teen, I drew a picture of a zombie, and I added tons of maggots in his wounds and all, and made some tumbling down to the ground. Only seems logical…unless they were ever to specify that a virus or curse emits something that flies prefer to keep away from. But I’ve never seen that specified anywhere…for sprinter zombies, it would be understandable why flies don’t go near them, since they’re fast and hyper…but shambling zombies need flies. I’d love to see it.

One of my guesses is, a lot of zombie flicks were low budget, so that explains the absence of flies…and then zombie movies got all big, and the magic was forgotten. So no flies.

Unless flies can sense danger. I mean, vultures or other carrion feeding animals would never attack zombies, because they can feel vibes and all, and know that the zombie is not for them, at least until it stops moving, like after it gets its head blown off. Animals are very sensitive to this kind of stuff…I would assume, even without the living dead…but are insects like that? Admittedly, I know fuck all about flies, really. But insects are pretty much the epitome of survival.

Also, during a zombie apocalypse, there is bound to be rotting food everywhere, dead people pieces and all sorts of garbage and filth all over…the flies would most likely take what is easier to get if it’s available.

That said, I always wondered what kind of crazy fly would come after you, if you buried a dead one in the pet semetary haha.

As I say, I drew a zombie with maggots all over him once, so my guess is that it must be some production/budget thing, since I can’t possibly have been the first one to think that flies would enjoy zombies.

@uberbatman I happen to wonder the same thing about super hero movies. :D

Thank goodness – the resident zombie expert has arrived. Interesting question @filmfann.

Live flesh can get flyblown. So there should be maggots and flies. Do we have a review for the latest zombie movie yet @Symbeline?

Something I heard in one zombie movie I think, basically with the same question is that whatever had infected the zombies stopped flies and other parasites from going after them.

@Bellatrix Those who believe in evolution should really be attentive to that.

Right you are; cows get flyblown, animals with infections get it too…but as I point out, in a zombie apocalypse, there will be trash and filth all over the place, so I think the flies will swarm to that before they swarm the zombies. As I say again, I don’t know anything about flies, so someone correct me if my theory doesn’t match their actual, real life behavior.

And yes I have a bit of a review up, just don’t know where on Fluther I’d put it lol.

FB will be good for the review :D I want to see it this weekend. I didn’t get to it last week.

I think flies would take the easiest option. That’s very likely. You would think some zombies would get flyblown though. Where there aren’t many humans normally, say the woods, and if there isn’t a lot of carrion around. I’ve also wondered why animals don’t become zombies too. Perhaps they’re impervious to whatever it is that causes zombification. Perhaps we’re overthinking the whole thing :-) I like them anyway!

Yeah, animals should become zombies too, or at least mammals. But there are a lot of instances where animals do become zombies. Resident Evil has zombie dogs, and I’ve seen a zombie movie where there’s a zombie cow. can’t remember the title though Plus I saw a movie that was all about zombie sheep.

As far as slow shambling zombies go, that would be easy enough to explain though. Slow zombies will never be able to catch anything like a cat or dog, and animals are WAAAY better at escaping from anything than people are, which explains why people always end up getting busted by zombies. Also, it’s often specified that zombies are only interested in the flesh of humans, so something in the virus or curse dictates that human meat is all they can go after. Not that I’ve ever seen this really specified anywhere, but it is a suggestion. (that their instinct does not consider anything else but humans) There are a lot of exceptions…in Survival of the Dead, some zombies eventually eat a horse…but this only occurred when, I assume, those zombies’ survival instinct finally saw the need for a last resort.

Where there aren’t many humans normally, say the woods, and if there isn’t a lot of carrion around.

I agree with this, only thing is, I’m pretty sure insects wouldn’t stay in a place where there isn’t much for them to survive on to begin with. So they wouldn’t be in the sticks if there wasn’t anything there that they could sustain off of already, long before any zombies came. but yeah, over thinking…but I like over thinking zombies! :D

Hmmm… I think the zombies in Walking Dead ate a horse too. What happens if zombies don’t eat?

We need an entomologist. I think you could be right about the woods… there would still be some around though. There are flies in the desert here. We were in the middle of nowhere and there were flies everywhere. Horrid things.

Another glaring hole in the zombie franchise, where are all the frustrated undertakers chasing them around with a big axe because they’re families insisted on a refund?

@Bellatrix Yeah…flies suck. I don’t like em, they suck shit lol. And I agree. You go in some remote wild place and get swarmed by mosquitoes…why are they hanging around there if barely anyone ever goes there? In reality, because any warm blooded mammal will do, I suppose…but yeah, we need an entomologist.

What happens if zombies don’t eat?

Traditionally, nothing. It is merely a drive they have. Eating does not alter the decomposition process, nor does it reverse it. A zombie could have had its stomach blown out, but it will still seek to eat. But eating does not benefit them, nor does not eating do anything.
Whether they eat or not, they eventually fall and rot, unless the brain is destroyed before said process can occur. They’ll go on until their body can no longer support them, so it’s safe to say that a zombie probably expires faster than a normal corpse, due to movement which uses up rotting limbs even faster. In fact, a zombie could be nothing but a skeleton walking around, that is, if the part of their brain which holds the virus didn’t decompose before the bones did. At least, to my understanding.

I’m of the Romero school here, understand. :)

Also, this; ’‘Those who believe in evolution should really be attentive to that.’’.

Sorry bout this, that’s obviously not what you said, it comes from another thread. It appears I did not copy hard enough. Lol. Sorry if it was confusing, I fucked up lol.

If flies did swarm around them, they’d be the evil kind like those in Amityville…”get out!!”
Or maybe fucked up wasps/hornets would be better like those flying outta Candyman’s gob.

I did wonder about where I suggested we be attentive to evolution… I didn’t challenge it because heck, it sounds good! Zombie evolution of course.

Damn all that means they didn’t need to eat that horse! I didn’t like that part at all.

:-) yes @ucme. It would be even less pretty.

@ucme
their families

@Bellatrix A good visual though, picturing hordes of zombies holding fly swatters…bless.
@ragingloli Brainfart, zhose viz poor grammar vill be shot…heil Hitler!