What I do like, is the idea that puberty is what saves you from becoming a zombie. There’s a great sexual awakening story to be told there, where the process that changes us into child-bearing “adults” is also what prevents us from becoming corrupted, child-zombies (Chombies? Too much like a shit pun?).

On the flip side of that, you’ve got the idea that these kids will now never be able to mature and properly procreate which perfectly explains away the idea that we’re running out of humans for two reasons:

1. we can’t breed (oh noes, no more sex – for maximum risky and darkness, a small foray into the very real frustrations no sex brings to an entire population could be good. And I mean rape as much as masturbation)
2. those humans that are left are either turned (the kids) or eaten (the adults who can’t be turned because they’re too old – some pun on old age being a good thing is due at some point during the script).

This can have some science fiction attached to it where a certain hormone needs to be present that indicates whether kids are vulnerable to the virus. Specifically pubescent teens though, where the idea that clinics have been set up to screen every child of a certain age range (say 9 – 14) to test for it. Those that do have it are safe and can be squirrelled away 200 floors below sea-level, in a bunker. Kudos to whosoever gets that reference.

Mean time, you’ve also got the frankly horrifying mid-movie sequence of a kindergarten or primary school class turning on their teacher, slowly stalking this poor, fairly pretty looking young woman – who in real life at least, would more likely be a model or an actress or something to do with environmental, social or language studies; just not a teacher in a zombie horror movie – across the school, trapping her in a class room and approaching her with great inquistive menace on their faces.

I mean seriously – these are young kids who have never really had to face any real emotions before, and now they’re filled with the traditional zombie greats of anger, rage and hunger. They don’t really know why they’re doing what they’re doing. They just know they want to get to her and aren’t quite sure how to facially communicate it, so they look questioningly at their new quarry as their viral instincts take over and slowly, almost politely, they tear the poor woman to shreds. I want to see that scene in this movie – music fades out, all we hear are the footsteps of the kids approaching, the frantic motions of their prey trying locked doors, her hurried panting, her final scream. Her actual death should be off camera, leaving us instead to look upon the face of a young girl, pretty but still undead, looking quizically on at the scene before her before she moves forward past the camera to join her feasting classmates. Fade to black.

Did I think too much about it?

Albeit yours is a better example, mine is somewhat more disturbing…

http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2008/zombieplayground.jpg

*Does the Generation X Dance*

@Hammer
I was thinking of an Alien like effect with the Zombie fetus’s… Making being pregenant a fatal STD would really make you want to use birth control…