It's the age old debate in the zombie genre: will the undead be the shambling, mindless corpses that Romero depicted or will they be faster than an Olympic sprinter, a la Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead zombies? What do you think and why? All of this is purely speculative. At least for now.....
Me personally, I think the slow zombies would be the reality. Decay sets in and rigor mortis isn't going to allow you to run a 100 yard dash in 6 seconds flat. Besides, I think the fast zombies take away a lot of the intensity in a film because you realize that, regardless of what you do, they are faster than you and more than willing to kill you. If there was an outbreak and the zombies were like that, well, humanity is pretty well screwed.
On the other hand, the slow, shambling zombies of the original NOTLD are, in my humble opinion, much scarier. They never stop. They never think. They just. keep. coming. You can escape them, if you only stop and control your own fear. That's what they have over you: the psychological advantage. No one expects to see their dear departed get up and come after them. We freeze or run. Fight or flight. Once you realize, though, that instead of making a Rambo-like final stand, you can simply run out of sight and regroup, then your chances of survival increase tenfold. Take away the fear factor, and the zombies are just like mindless herds of cattle that roam wherever their next meal beckons to them.
Slow is the way to go.
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