I have to wonder....

[SuperMappy]

..when they are arguing on how to defend themselves from the zombies, why not just go upstairs and then destroy the stair case. Unless the zombies slowly rebuild it or if the bathroom is downstairs.

Something else that strikes me as strange, I've read somewhere that most people agree that the most shocking scene is when the zombies are eating the body parts of the people that were killed when the truck exploded, to me the most shocking part is when the girl stabs her mother to death with the trowel. Guess it depends on your shock level tollerance.

[Bob]

..when they are arguing on how to defend themselves from the zombies, why not just go upstairs and then destroy the stair case. Unless the zombies slowly rebuild it or if the bathroom is downstairs.

Huh, never thought of that before.   Thank you for the tip should i ever need it.

[RVR II]

..when they are arguing on how to defend themselves from the zombies, why not just go upstairs and then destroy the stair case. Unless the zombies slowly rebuild it or if the bathroom is downstairs.

Something else that strikes me as strange, I've read somewhere that most people agree that the most shocking scene is when the zombies are eating the body parts of the people that were killed when the truck exploded, to me the most shocking part is when the girl stabs her mother to death with the trowel. Guess it depends on your shock level tollerance.

[Minnesota]

kudos Supermappy,
you have just made one of my all time favorite films look rather pointless
... ah well who needs film logic when you've got a film this great, certainly not me

[gbeenie]

A couple problems with this idea:

1) How would you "destroy" the staircase? Those things are pretty sturdy. Not to mention, if time is a factor, then the problem becomes even more intractable.

2) Food & water?

[Junkyard]

Plus, if you missed something that the Zombies didn't, you'd be trapped like rats.

[Bob]

A couple problems with this idea:

1) How would you "destroy" the staircase? Those things are pretty sturdy. Not to mention, if time is a factor, then the problem becomes even more intractable.

2) Food & water?

I guess if you had enough time, you could take out the first ten feet of the staircase, so unless you have Zombie Dr. J, you should be okay.   I helped a friend take out a massive wooden front porch on his house (as we were going to replace it with brick) with recipricating saws.   Man, was THAT fun!    I guess they would have had to do it by hand.

For water, I would hope the upstairs had plumbing.   If not, filling up buckets and taking them upstairs would hold you for awhile.

Of course, this assumes you are all calm and not being attached.

This also assumes you are not nerdy enough like I am to think about the logic in this.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

..when they are arguing on how to defend themselves from the zombies, why not just go upstairs and then destroy the stair case. Unless the zombies slowly rebuild it or if the bathroom is downstairs.

Huh, never thought of that before.   Thank you for the tip should i ever need it.

I'm still working on why when Ben found the rifle and the box full of shells he didn't just go "Okay, there's X number of them and this many bullets...." and start shooting them down so they could get at the gas pump.  He could have picked them off easily from the windows upstairs.  One each, in the head.  I mean, it's not like they're bobbing and weaving to avoid it...

I think the movie is just a diatribe against television.  They were relatively okay until they turned that damn TV on.  Then nobody's watching what's going on outside....