Interview with a Zombie*
I never tire of zombies
From haiku to classic literature, zombies have been documented in every kind of genre and from almost every perspective. The zombie movie I won’t write would tell the tragedy of zombification from the first-person narrative of one of the walking dead.
The film would pose the most horrifying zombie scenario yet − what if you were still conscious after you became a zombie? Imagine the horror and dramatic implications of knowing the “real” person is still alive behind the zombie’s eyes, watching as their own body tears into living flesh; unable to even scream.
Ummmm...no.
The film would open on a sound meter redlining. In a voice over a clinical woman’s voice would explain that following the end of the undead uprising, scientists began experimenting on captured zombies. CT Scans revealed almost no change in brainwave patterns, leading scientists to theorize that while the virus took control of a person’s behavior, the victim was aware of everything going on around them, if unable to experience it. The brain registered sight but not touch, smell, or sound.
She explains a recent breakthrough wherein researchers were able to translate the speech signals sent from the brain into sound waves.
The voiceover ends with screaming coming from a speaker. We see a zombie strapped to a chair, emotionlessly pushing to free itself. From the speakers a terrified woman shouts to be let free and to be told where she is.
A man in a white lab coat stands impassively before her with a white board sign that reads: “Who are you?”
Eventually the woman tells us her story, we see it in flashback as she’s bitten by a zombie but escapes only to die on her own later. The film has her narrating as she feasts on friends, members of her family, and others before eventually being captured.
In the meantime we see experiments being conducted on zombies in other rooms. As the narrator comes to grips with the fact that she’s not dreaming the conflict shifts to the scientist who must decide whether or not to kill the subject as she requests in the end.
If you want to make this a good movie, he should totally not kill her.
*It’s come to my attention this title is already taken. Whomever makes this movie will have to think up another one. I know how you’d hate to plagiarize.
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