The contaminated of Nightmare City
Lenzi's irradiated attackers overrun a European city at a run. They are living, contaminated people rather than corpses, and the director rejected the word zombie for them. Reviews were poor, but the film is often cited as a precursor of the fast-zombie trend.1
- destroying the brain
- starved of blood they die
When did it first appear?
1980Released 1980
What the sources say
Lenzi preferred to call them infected or contaminated rather than zombies1
They cannot regenerate red blood cells and need blood to survive1
Often cited as a forerunner of the fast zombie1
A major influence on Planet Terror (2007); Quentin Tarantino has praised it1
Released in the US in 1983 as City of the Walking Dead, cut by four minutes1
Could you outrun it?
Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.
Sources
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Ghouls of Night of the Living Dead
Thriller zombies
Zombies of Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Bub
Deadites
Jiangshi of Mr. Vampire