Real, Russian zombies? You be the judge!

Posted by Cory Casciato On July - 28 - 2009

Update: My knowledgeable commenters have informed me this is a viral video for the PC shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but it is still fun and worth a watch. Nicely played, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. producers. Nicely played, indeed.

The video embedded above has been making the rounds of the Internets for a while now, and this is by no means the first zombie site to have featured it. But it’s pretty interesting and I’d be remiss in not putting it out there for my audience of zombie aficionados. The video purports to be footage of a man being chased and attacked by … something. Real-life zombies? Sure, why not! It’s shot from a helicopter, it would fit right into any zombie apocalypse movie you care to name and it’s well worth the forty-some seconds it will take to watch it. Is it real? Eh, Occam’s razor tells me it probably is some kind of promo for a Russian zombie movie or TV show, but who knows? It looks fairly convincing to my untrained eye. If it is real, I think I need to step up my zombie apocalypse plans to Defcon 3. What do you all think?

19 Responses to “Real, Russian zombies? You be the judge!”

  1. Gunn says:

    If they’re zombies, why do they have heat signatures?

  2. Cory Casciato says:

    Who’s to say how zombie physiology would work? Maybe they are the more modern, 28 Days Later, Infected-type zombies? Or maybe Russia is just that fucked up that this is what punk teenagers do for fun?

  3. CrzyDJM says:

    That was badass dude…

  4. Lionman says:

    It’s a viral for a PC shooter called S.t.a.l.k.e.r. Shadow of Chernobyl.

    Don’t know if it’s any good or not but that’s the original source for this clip. Annoyingly I can’t seem to find any copies of the original advert anywhere only edited versions on youtube claiming to be an actual zombie attack or a teaser for 28 months later.

  5. SeanN says:

    sadly, super-fake; the individual drops of blood wouldn’t show up on a FLIR. i’m a former infantryman who’s spent a lot of time looking through IR, and it’s just not that good at picking up details.

  6. skeptic says:

    I’m less concerned about the warm blooded zombies and more concerned about the dude in a cape with an assault rifle. I always figured zombies would go after the helpless ones first.

  7. jordan says:

    Apparently, it’s from the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

  8. Cory Casciato says:

    Thanks for the knowledge, commenters! I figured it had to be something like a viral video ad campaign, and now I know.

  9. zed says:

    these zombies are running fast.i mean think of it like an animated robot ,it would be imposible for these things to move so fast and swiftly without falling over.im a hobbie geek that means i study this stuff and thats not real.gunn your right because of the fact zombies have been reanimated they would not show up with a cour temp ecspechaly on a flir. if they did have a cour temp it would be much easer to find a way to cure the solanum virus .but since zombies are phisicaly dead its not posible there for that video is fake.

  10. Borderman says:

    Unless youv seen a zombie, survived a zombie apocolypse and studied the after math, you dnt know shit……..sorry but come one!!!

  11. Shawn says:

    if it were real why would any goverenment let it be put on the net for this long?

  12. Surviver says:

    well the goverenments thinks that the ginral publik is so simpl minded that thay would argue thus not think thay are real but i say thay are. so what are good survivl idas? not unresonael relplys

  13. grishnakt says:

    Looks real to me.

  14. chez says:

    maybe they are just really hungry russians

  15. Rad says:

    they remind me of the fast clawed zombies ive dreamt of

  16. jett says:

    its fake thats bullshit its fake effects like in holly wood

  17. guillermo says:

    Lies
    Thay recored it in thermal so only the guy would have appeared
    Zombies are dead so thay cat emmit body heat

  18. logan says:

    i was readin like a month agao, and there was research in the 50′s tht they were doing super soldier testing, and it went horribally wrong.

  19. douglas says:

    There many forms of zombies.the most feared are the dead reanimated ones.who would be slow cause there bodies are breaking down cause of no blood circulation who will eventually be unable to move from total deteriation.then there’s the super virus/bacteria/possibly fungi infected humans now these ones should be able to run jump do pretty much everything we do.that’s a scary thought.and we know rabies is a genius virus which is why in all human history its only been beat one time.and it makes the host bite anything and everything to pass itself on to stay alive.and then there’s zombies who can be made by other people.itshappens all the time.there’s an exotic plant in jamiaca that grows there that has the ability to erase a persons entire memory and then put in there feeble mind what ever you want them to believe.now say u mix that with a drug that makes a person totally aggresive and insane!home made zombie!

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