World War Z

[Watchman]

True, Watchman, not everyone who falls to a zombie becomes a zombie; sometimes, there's just not enough left. But zombies tend to leave their fallen prey after a short lunch if there is some other distraction around, keeping the 'fresh is best' axiom in their...uh...minds.

A staple of the "zombie horror" genre (and a major building block in the visceralness of the horror sought to generate) is that the things pretty much eat you alive - it's not like they're actually terribly good or skilled at killing people anyway, and their primary interest is eating after all.

Meat doesn't come much fresher than kicking and screaming when you munch on it, now does it ? And aren't the about biggest concentrations of what might be termed "flesh", and thus what are going to get the most attention from the zombies, things like thighs and haunches and similar concentrations of muscle mass - which it just so happens are also pretty central to animals' ability to move around...?

And there's quite a few key muscles and tendons whose mangling will pretty much cripple entire limbs or parts thereof too...

See what I mean with logic flaw ? If zombies want to eat the flesh of the living, there's no reason why they'd just gnaw around the edges a bit. And that'll result in the new recruits to their shambling horde being, well, kind of ambulatorily challenged, and thus little threat to anything which can move.

The fact that the critters can't coordinate their actions worth a jack (being functionally brainless tends to do that) also means they're not going to wait for their more mobility-challenged comrades. Which means that if they've chased you around for any lenght of time they're no longer a shambling horde but a long line of stragglers all over the place, and anyone who has found a defensible position and has something decent to kill them with thus can deal with them piecemeal as they arrive...

Betcha the army search-and-destroy squads, no doubt mechanized, will make use of that little detail too.