Somebody must have asked this here already, but I can’t find it. Sorry.
Anyhow, so the stereotypical zombie in the US craves brains and therefore will shamble around saying 'braaaaiiinnns." What do zombies in foreign films say?
In Japanese, the transliterated ‘burein’ exists, so they’d probably say that. But, what about languages where no such thing occurs? Do they say whatever brains is in their home language, do they say it in English, or do they say something different entirely? Perhaps they say nothing?
What about a zombie world traveler? Do you think a zombie traveling to the US would pick up the whole brains thing from all his foreign kin?
Zombies even in the US have only been saying “Brains” since the 1985 movie Return of the Living Dead. They’ve only been eating people since George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead. Before 1968 zombies didn’t try to attack people unless ordered by their controller (zombies were re-animated dead raised by some individual who had power over them) – which they did do in some films. Until Return they didn’t talk.
