Before watching the movie:

I have a fairly clear memory of this movie’s promotion as being the point where it seemed that any big zombie movie needs to have a thing that you’ve never seen zombies do before. They were talking about how after Fast Zombies, the new innovation of this movie is climbing/swarming zombies. I don’t know what else can be done to make zombies more threatening now that they can be fast and crash over you like a tide and still be nonsapient enough to be playing the trope straight, but if somebody figures it out, they’ll probably have the next blockbuster zombie movie, or at least that was the impression the marketing for WWZ gave me.

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