The Nuances of Zombie Eating Habits

1. Scenario 1 - zombie attacks victim. Victim does not escape. But zombie (who may at this point have been joined by many others) stops eating - for no apparent reason - relatively quickly, so the victim comes back as a zombie in relatively coherent & recognisable physical form. Victim is most likely a hero or sympathetic character who must - logically? - have died very quickly indeed for the zombies to lose interest.

2. Scenario 2 - zombie attacks victim. Victim does not escape. Zombies do not stop eating until victim has been wholly consumed, with victim offering commentary on own disembowelment, dismemberment etc across an extended period of time. This victim is probably a villain.

So it must be that - if you're evil - you taste better to zombies than you do if you're good.

I don't think that zombie eating habits are consistent throughout the films that chronicle them. However, on a related note, at what point of dismemberment does a victim not come back? I've seen zombie movies where the victim is minus limbs, intestines, half of a face, the lower half of the body ... what is the point of no return, sans head shot?

yeah, there was that bad guy in "Day of the Dead" who told his zombie killers to "choke on 'em" as they were ripping his legs from his body...

actually, now that I think about it, most of the good guy zombie victims are either: bitten once before the zombie is dispatched or distracted, or totally ripped to shreds and never seen again.