ParaNorman (2012)
By this point, zombies were no longer the slow, lumbering force they used to be. It seemed that every depiction of the iconic creatures would be sprinting with insane speed to get their next meal. But directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell wanted to give kids an authentic experience with what they feel zombies really are: slow. So they paired with an animation team that shared their thoughts and created ParaNorman’s decaying and sluggish claymation zombies.
Their design almost feels right at home and a pretty accurate depiction to my views on how zombies should look and act. They did plenty of walking tests with testers wearing casts and sandbags around their ankles to accurately depict how a corpse would walk. They had skin melting and missing from the bone and even played with the idea of headless corpses still being able to move. Even rotting and missing teeth can be seen and they constantly wanted to make each zombie look unique to one another and it really creates an iconic look to the film.
