I love Halloween. Then I get to discuss things I love!

Anyway, to answer the question, no. A zombie is nothing more than a walking pile of meat. When a person becomes a zombie, they first die, and then lose everything that makes them....alive. Zombies have virtually no reasoning skills, no distinct personality, do not feel pain and do not need to breathe. They can walk (sort of, and depending on which movie you watch), they can see just not comprehend the world around them, and feel only the most basic instinct any living creature can feel: the need to eat. Technically, they don't even NEED to eat. It doesn't sustain them. But even when we're born we have the urge to eat. It's burned deep into us and can't be shaken. Perhaps the reason they seek out live flesh is that they've regressed back to a hunter mentality. Early humans were hunters; predators. It's in our genes. Of course, as we developed empathy and the like, we suppressed our need to hunt all the time and found other ways to get food. But zombies are stripped of empathy. They feel nothing, both mentally and physically. They ARE dead. It's just that their bodies haven't gotten that message yet.

"When There's No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Walk The Earth" ~ Dawn Of The Dead