3. Quislings
If Im being honest, I can see why they didnt add quislings into the film their very existence could probably ramp the rating up to an 18 if their obligatory devoured-by-zombies death scenes didnt. But it doesnt stop me from being sad about it. To refresh your memory, a quisling named after a Nazi-puppet Norweigan president during World War II is a human whose mental faculties have broken down. Unlike most people in World War Z, they werent able to engage the fight or flight choice when faced with danger. They simply shut down and try to act like zombies, feeling no pain and attempting to bite you on sight. Furthermore, while zombies devour them, they dont even react pretty grim stuff. Again, I can see why they didnt put them in, but I still think they wouldve made a worthy addition to the film. World War Z is primarily a horror tale and a lot of that horror comes from what people do, not the zombies themselves. It was George A. Romero who once said that all zombies are is an instrument for change in man as such, if the book was simply about zombies devouring humans it wouldnt be a genre classic. But its not just about that, its about different human reactions to that change some people become good, some people become bad and some people become quislings. Yet when the film was given the same chance to implement this more nuanced approach encompassing all human emotions, it spurned it. There were no quislings, and to be honest, the man who tried to rape Gerrys wife apart, there werent even many bad people. Frankly, thats a colossal misstep in what couldve been the definitive film about zombies.