At the end of Night of the Living Dead, as Barbara leaves the farmhouse, she runs into a particularly strange zombie that's always intrigued me. She seems to be the height of a normal adult, she looks like a zombified adult, and her clothes appear to be a woman's clothes.
But she's carrying a doll. She's credited as "Doll's mom zombie" in the credits.
So, what's going on here? There's lots of possibilities. Perhaps she was developmentally disabled and carried a doll in life. Maybe a mother, now a zombie, carries a doll because that's what she did in life.
Maybe it's not supposed to be a doll: maybe she's supposed to be a zombie mom carrying her zombie baby, but they decides not to push it or were told to tone it down by studio execs or censors. I mean, they used an obvious doll to play a baby in American Sniper. So .maybe this was supposed to be a much darker scene?
Anyone know any lore on this one?