Corrected entry: In the grave yard scene. It doesn't seem possible for a virus contracted through bodily fluids (blood, saliva) to get 6 feet down into sealed coffins, infect a half decomposed corpse filled to the eyeballs with formaldehyde and methanol (typically), and make a zombie that could break out of its casket and dig up six feet with naught but bare hands, a seemingly impossible task for even the fittest, healthiest and craziest human.
Bishop73
11th Mar 2013
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
29th Mar 2012
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jill and Angie are crawling around on the floor and are being attacked by dogs, a woman zombie crawls toward Jill and attacks her. Jill grabs the woman zombie by the neck and twists it, breaking it and "killing" the zombie. Jill then checks the zombie's neck for a pulse to make sure it is "dead". Zombies are already dead and wouldn't have a pulse in the first place.
Correction: Zombies have to have a pulse. It is stated in Resident Evil, as well as many other zombie movies, that the zombies are reduced to primal instincts, and only have one objective: To feed. Also, for a human body to move as extensively as they do, (i.e. walking, biting, running) they would have to have, at the very least, a functioning brain stem. None of what they do is possible without some form of blood flow to the brain. Ergo, pulse.
This explication contradicts directly the one given for the cemetery. The buried dead do not have blood due to preservation and brain matter doesn't last long. Ergo one of those two explanations, resurrection or primal instincts is false as the two facts cannot coexist.
It should also be noted to have some form of blood flow to the brain stem means zombies have beating hearts and therefore any shot to the heart, or any shock that stops the heart, would stop the blood flow to the brain. By your logic, that would stop the zombie. Most zombie lore is only a headshot, or otherwise destroying the brain stem, can stop a zombie. Most of what zombies do is impossible to begin with.
Almost all zombies only have brain activity and nervous system, making the body move. Destroying the brain stops the nervous system and thus the zombie. Almost never do they have a working blood circulation. The zombies in resident evil don't have one either.
Actually, watching the scene (so important to do before commenting) she is not checking the pulse at all, she just has her hand under the neck.
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Correction: This is the explanation given on IMDB: This occurrence is explained in the first film where the Red Queen (Michaela Dicker) reveals that the T-virus goes from the transition process of liquid to gas in a matter of hours. The virus was vented out through the ground after Umbrella reopened (The Hive was located under Raccoon City). As for them being able to break out of their casket, lots of zombie movies do that.
lartaker1975
The brain liquefies when we die unless a there's a preservative. The cells are dead as well. I don't understand how a virus infects a dead cell.
Regardless of the transmission method or movie explanation, it's standard zombie lore that when the dead turn into zombies, they have minimal brain function and motor control, despite it being impossible in real life. The virus basically has supernatural powers, which isn't a valid movie mistake.
Bishop73