Zombies! - Dead Run - How did movie zombies get so fast? By Josh Levin

"It's not for nothing that zombies are called the walking dead. In George A. Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead (1968), a group of shut-ins sits in terror, watching television for the latest updates on the creeping undead menace. 'Are they slow-moving, chief?' asks a reporter. 'Yeah,' the cop says wearily, 'they're dead.'

Romero's canonical trilogy, which also includes Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985), emphasizes the zombie's drag-ass nature. Corpses shuffle so slowly that a potential victim can fall, brush herself off, remove her pumps, and set off again without being touched by a necrotic finger. Max Brooks' book The Zombie Survival Guide, a tongue-in-cheek tutorial for surviving the living dead, notes, 'Zombies appear to be incapable of running. The fastest have been observed to move at a rate of barely one step per 1.5 seconds.'" (more) Dead Run - How did movie zombies get so fast? By Josh Levin