Do Zombies Reproduce?

This is a question that has been floating around my group of friends for a few months now, especially since Skippy and I can't seem to agree on this.

I grew up in a household where not only did we watch "the Westerns" every weekend, but it was okay for me to see violence and ghost rape, but not the gratuitous boob shot in European vacation. Basically, if it served my mother for me to watch horror movies Saturday morning with her, then they really weren't that damaging to a small child after all. My mother has seen all horror movies at least once, and more than likely two or three times if it was by Hitchcock or Romero. Zombies, of course, being one of her favorite genres since she was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania.

When asked this week if she wanted to see 28 Weeks Later, she wondered which movie that one was, and I said the new zombie movie that takes place in England, you know, the sequel to the one with Cillian Murphy's wang hanging out. My mother being a zombie purest simply replied, no, no, that's a VIRUS, they aren't zombies.

The woman knows her stuff.

So, I decided to ask the expert herself about zombie nookie.

"Mom, gotta question for you."

"What?"

"Can zombies procreate?"

"Huh?"

"Can zombies procreate?"

"Well, I don't know, why?"

"No reason, just answer the question."

"I have no idea, I've never met a zombie. But they're dead. But then again in that Dawn of the Dead movie the girl had a zombie baby....but she was already pregnant. Are you asking me if they can get pregnant once they're zombies?"

"Yeah. Sure."

"Well, no, not unless you count some of my relatives. They're dead Lori."


So there you go. My mother the expert weighs in on the topic. It saddens me that she doesn't see the simplicity of zombies beyond them just being dead. I know I'll find someone to agree with me. I just know it.