![]() Are they by all appearances mindless creatures of the undead? Check yet again. The monsters in Rec are close enough to zombies to qualify the film for our best zombies movies list. Why some are smarter than others is anyone’s guess-it may be that some of the Darkseekers are also subject to lazy screenwriter’s syndrome. But Darkseekers aren’t actually undead (since they can be treated), and their disease can transfer through animals. While Richard Matheson’s original novel for I Am Legend featured what are pretty clearly vampires, the film instead has “Darkseekers.” These are creatures who combine pretty much the worst qualities of both vampires and zombies, unable to come out during the daytime yet also prone to travelling in mindless hordes. Probably the most important thing to know when facing a Necromorph is to ignore the head and go for the limbs instead, though why that works so well we have no idea. That being said, the size and strength of Necromorphs still make them formidable opponents, even when compared with your modern strain of fast zombies. ![]() Most important to know when facing them is that a bite won’t infect a living creature. They’re fairly intelligent alien creatures who just happen to be born from the corpses of infected bodies. Whatever impression you may have from the games, Dead Space’s Necromorphs are much more than just zombies in space. ![]() Suffice it to say, should you wind up in a cabin in the woods inhabited by Deadites, you’re in a lot worse shape than if there were just a few zombies knocking at your door. Even their method of possession is a little bit unclear. Not only that, but according to the movies’ mythology, Deadites can never truly be killed. Not your usual mindless, shambling corpses, though, Deadites are possessed by evil spirits and as such as remarkably intelligent. ![]() Probably the most commonly misrepresented member of the undead, which frequently results in labeling Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy as zombie flicks. That being said, a shot through the head is still a pretty good idea if you find yourself face-to-face with any of them. But of course, just because something seems kind of zombie-like doesn’t make it an actual zombies, so all the usual rules about your standard Romero-style undead don’t apply. Zombies are so ubiquitous in pop culture these days that other monsters (dead and undead) are frequently mistaken for them. ![]()
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