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Zombies of Bio Zombie

Also called: 生化壽屍, Hong Kong Zombie
FilmUndeadShamblesScience gone wrong1968 to 1999

Bio Zombie sets a zombie outbreak in a Hong Kong shopping mall and spoofs Dawn of the Dead. The outbreak starts when a bioweapon in a soft drink bottle is drunk by mistake. The page also notes its resemblance to Peter Jackson's Braindead.1

Battle it
First appeared
1998
Released 1998
Source work
Bio Zombie (1998)
Wilson Yip
Made in
Hong Kong
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A bioweapon sold on the black market, hidden in a soft drink bottle.
How you become one
Drinking the substance or being bitten.
How it moves
Shambles
Described as shambling.
Weak spots
  • decapitation

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1998

Released 1998

field notes

What the sources say

1

Set in a Hong Kong shopping mall, the New Trend Plaza1

2

A spoof of Dawn of the Dead, with two bootleg VCD sellers as heroes1

3

A zombified guard still manages to operate the mall's shutters1

4

Also released as Hong Kong Zombie1

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombies of Bio Zombie about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Bio Zombie - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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