In celebration of the fourth season premiere of the wildly popular AMC series "The Walking Dead," the Mythbuster gang is tackling the concept of the zombie. Since zombies are a fictional creation (at least, that's what I'm told!) the Mythbusters will follow the well-accepted "zombie rules" that have emerged since the modern zombie genre began with George Romero's 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead." Those rules include the following: zombies, being reanimated corpses, are slow-moving (take that, Zack Snyder), zombies can only be dispatched when their brains are destroyed (meaning heads shots and strikes are crucial) and the zombie "virus" can be contracted through contact with zombie fluids, a scratch that breaks the skin, or a bite.
Here's the preview of the Mythbusters Zombie Special, which will feature special guest Michael Rooker, best known to fans of "The Walking Dead" as badass redneck Merle Dixon. The special airs on Discovery at 9 PM on Thursday, October 17th. "The Walking Dead" returns to AMC Sunday, October 13th, at 8 PM.
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