we should be normalizing “pantless zombies” as most likely they were fully clothed at the time of infection. threw decomposition, there pants would fall off first. in every zombie movie there should be one or two zombies who are all tripped up with pants around their ankles IMO. i think we would just need to wait it out.
I remember the movie Jason and the Argonauts, and the heroes were having to battle against skeletons. So I think most people would be pretty annoyed at waiting it out to then find they still keep coming.
If zombies decomposed into skeletons, I would just murder the hell out of them with my diamond sword.
I mean, I think they would be eaten as well so it would be a pretty fast apocalypse. There’s a lot of scavenger animals that would have a field day. Different types of vultures, mammals etc. If the rot didn’t get them first, they’d most likely get dragged off by animals as they weakened.
What if skeletons were the real zombies all along? Zombies walk and operate while missing muscle required to move their limbs, let alone the amount of blown out organs they sometimes have.
It’s only the brain that will kill them, or is it the skull?
A zombie bites you and you turn into one or get infected at least. What if it’s the bones that are animated and not the whole body? Rather than an infection or diseases it maybe closer to a hybrid of voo doo.
Now imagine after 28 days of decomposition that you are left with a fully functional skeleton zombie. Screaming rather than groaning now that their flesh no longer holds them back and since the teeth used to be the thing to infect you, now the touch of bone on skin is enough. It would be so much scarier and deadlier.