I think slow zombies make more sense.
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It's really interesting, the book I Am Legend where most of the zombie tropes are from was ina short story collection. It's the big one, but not the scariest. Also, it was about vampires.
They moved fast and slow, but a lot of it was mental not reality. They thought they were evil things from legends, so they acted like them.
So, I like the mentality of how it happens, whether they move fast or slow doesn't seem to matter as much.
In the Vincent Price movie "The Last Man on Earth", which is an adaptation of "I Am Legend", the vampires are very much like zombies. They mostly are slow moving and lumbering. It's their taunting that really affects Neville.
You are right, the zombies are never the true existential threat.
You should see Omega Man. That was some insane weirdness.
I prefer the Wil Smith version.
My wife loves watching Walking Dead, but there's a point where I don't want to imagine humanity that way. In the same way, I don't want to imagine the Purge, even though I saw a lot of it during the George Floyd riots.
During a history class, there was a discussion about Soviet war strategies and zombies. There would be 10 men in a building, and each one could take down a thousand enemies, so the soviets sent 11,000. Human Waves in the Korean war. They had to create machine guns that could continue firing for long periods of time because they just kept coming, and using their own comrades as walls to run up.
Zombies themselves are just the next orc. I don't really fear them. I fear the Morgoth that sends them, or the Saladeen that inspires them.
And now I want to see a zombie movie featuring a quad .50 halftrack mowing down a swarm.
A military vs the undead movie would be awesome.
I've seen The Omega Man. I enjoy it but it has the weakest ending. I don't understand why his girlfriend turned on him. It's not like the infected people became mindless. They make the family and go out of their way to show they are all choosing to follow, is it Mathius? The one henchman even defies him. But the girl gets fully infected and is instantly zombified and brainwashed?
One of the tragedies of the 20th century is how little people really appreciate the scope of The Korean War. The Chinese almost overnight sent in 300,000 people. Or at one point South Korea was almost completely overrun. Even today most people aren't aware that the Korean War isn't technically a done deal.
The Admiral at the time said the war wouldn't be over till China is taken over, but he was released from duty.