Zombies in All Levels

 

There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies. But moviegoers may never have seen the likes of the latest breed of the undead, coming at you in “World War Z” on Friday: the swarming zombie.

In the Brad Pitt-produced adaptation of Max Brooks’ best selling novel, Pitt plays Gerry, an ex-United Nations investigator and family man who finds his world upended when an epidemic begins turning people into the walking — and running and massing — dead.

“When they are not provoked, they are stagnant, slow and wandering,” says the film’s director, Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace”). “When the feeding frenzy starts, it’s almost like a shark that smells blood. In the moment they sense that there’s something to attack, they will just go for it. It’s the way flocks of birds or fish or ants move together. There is almost a ‘swarm intelligence’ to it.”

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