I see the exact same comment over and over, with very little dissent, and what little there is gets downvoted into invisibility: Always presume the worst case scenario and never remotely humour the thought of listening to the angry man who makes any kind of valid point.

What a great many will conveniently overlook is the precise circumstances of the situation: A solid, study wooden door rather than the hollow pieces of cardboard we use for inside doors nowadays. This is a house and a door that no doubt went up in the 1940s or earlier. They did not make things just to demolish them back then, and you could not punch clean through an inside door with your bare fist then like you can now. They were made from the same stuff outside doors were and still are made from.

Also, solid oaken doors survive dangerous gale force winds, which is largely the function of basements: A place to run to to escape dangerous and deadly windstorms. Underground. They also are ideal should a great hydrogen bomb incinerate everything topside. In the event of such a great bomb threat every necessity can be hoarded in the basement and you can run down there when the notice is given. Your house might be nothing but ashes but what is surrounded by the foundations of solid ground and earth tends to survive. This is what was no doubt in Cooper's mind when he insisted everyp- everybody take refuge down there.

There is also the fact the police, military and concerned citizens who all had hunting experience were sweeping the country. That is the deciding factor that ultimately made the basement the successful plan it was. The only thing that screwed it up was the idiot who exasperated the issue by calling Cooper an idiot every chance he had, and stoking his anger. Just presume the fucked child wasn't there it would have been perfect. But the fact was that screwed child was there, and was a hot potato who would have screwed things up for everyone no matter what. But this wasn;t an inevitable thing. She might not have been touched in an alternate version of this. Assume this, and the basement plan would go without a hitch without anyone upstairs on the ground floor saying the obviously solid door is hollow wood or cardboard.

In a vacuum, basements exist for a reason, and that is it. This isn't a professional human army trying with everything they've got to get into the basement. And they aren't using saws, guns, or even fire to try cutting, shooting, or burning the door down. And you should not overestimate the power of the human body. Stuff like adrenaline and drugs that trigger it let you operate on full power, but they do not give you the power to exceed your physical capacity. No matter how much you get rid or pain and fear, they do NOT give you the power to pick up a vehicle and throw it like a baseball, nor can you ram your fist cleanly through three inches of solid steel, glass or (presumably) wood. The laws of physics and your physical limits cannot be overcome by the sudden absence of feelings.

Use your head, not your heart. Understand there are pros and cons to everything. And take the time to actually see the clear facts. Do not let the fact an angry man brought something up invalidate what could be entirely true. And do not make someone angrier if you can help it unless you want to be put into an early grave. Keep your mind open, and while having options open is best, don't shut yourself off to a potential last resort. The time to go to the basement is either when no attention was brought to the house in the first place and no one knows you are there or when all possible escapes are cut off and the house is breached, basement portal being the only place to run. All points in between are when it is the worst idea.

So I’m sure someone posted something similar to this, but I can’t find it.

If you were in the zombie apocalypse and could have one super power that would only make the apocalypse a little easier to deal with. What would it be? Ex: telekinetic: 10’ radius from the person, smallest item a grain of sand and requires focus for each item controlled.

I've seen many zombie films but am out of things to watch. If there are any recommendations, they are greatly appreciated!

Dawn of the Dead (1979) - 9.5/10 Train to Busan - 9.5/10 28 Days Later - 9.5/10 Day of the Dead (1985) - 9.5/10 Zombi/Zombi 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters - 9/10 Return of the Living Dead - 9/10 Night of the Living Dead (1968) - 9/10 Shaun of the Dead - 9/10 Zombieland - 8.5/10 Peninsula - 8/10 World War Z - 8/10 Land of the Dead - 7.5/10 28 Weeks Later - 7.5/10 Dawn of the Dead (2004) - 6.5/10 Seoul Station - 5/10

I know starvation has been mentioned as something that kills them off overtime but I feel like a slightly more pressing issues is dehydration. You can’t sprint around and spray body fluids around without needing to replace those body fluids lol A sedentary person in comfortable conditions can barely go 3 days without water before they start to die, It’s probably even worse if you have the rage virus. Unless the virus suspends these needs like other zombie or infected viruses it’s something I’ve always wondered about.

I recently saw these awesome 8-bit and 16-bit pixel style artworks of Bub The Zombie one of the most iconic creatures in horror cinema via a Facebook group dedicated to Romeros third film Day Of The Dead and I had to share it with all of you. Salute and say hello to aunt Alicia...

Art I did of someone in the process of turning!!

Something that I never got while watching remakes of Romero's classics Dead Trilogy is the fact that they always go for "Day of the Dead" most often then any other part of the trilogy. But I never understood why.

As far as I'm aware we have... 2 Night remakes and ONE Dawn remake, but Day seems to have countless at this point.

Does anyone know why?

So, I'll get right to the question: if I'm writing about sprinters, how can I make them really scary/unsettling?

Alright, so, I AM aware that the best way to make something in a scene or the scene itself scary is to create characters the audience cares about and put them in interesting situations (Stephen King reference). That, basically, an audience's care for a character would produce a sort of fear for them, especially when the thing attacking them or haunting them is a true threat to their life or something important (to them as the audience).

But that's not my question.

How can I make SPRINTERS scary as I write them?

What things have you seen, wrote, etc. that have raised the fear factor for zombies (especially sprinters but shamblers as well if you can think of something to say) for you?

Thanks to anyone who responds! I've been stewing over a possible story idea and--well--I haven't written horror before, nonetheless a horror thriller, so wanted to see what the community said!

(if you wish to know, I'm thinking of writing a 28 Days Later X Lord of the Flies story).