Description of Zombies

Broadly say, zombies have the appearance of the living but their lack of free will and souls give them the appearance of mechanical robots. Some display visible signs of desiccation, decay and emaciation on their face and body. They have blank, expressionless faces that become more animated when they get hungry and engage in a … Read more

Alpha zombies

In Army of the Dead‘s Zeus is the Patient zero and Alpha Zombie. He is a monster from an unknown origin who was being transported by the army but escaped during an accident near Area 51. He was then able to contaminate more people and invaded with several other zombies nearby Las Vegas, turning it … Read more

Zombie Walks

A zombie walk (also known as a zombie mob, zombie march, zombie horde, zombie lurch, zombie shamble, zombie shuffle or zombie pub crawl) is an organized public gathering of people who dress up in zombie costumes. Zombie walks have become relatively common in large cities, especially in North America, often becoming annual traditions, though some … Read more

Zombie Games

Zombies are a popular theme for video games, particularly of the first-person shooter and role-playing genre. Some important titles in this area include the Resident Evil series, Dead Rising, Half-Life 2, House of the Dead and Left 4 Dead. Commonly in these games, zombies are impervious to most attacks, except trauma to the head (which … Read more

Zombie Music

Zombies and horror have become so popular that many songs and bands have been based on these flesh-eating ghouls; most notably, the musician Rob Zombie has incorporated zombie aesthetics and references into virtually all of his work.   Zombie references crop up in every genre from pop to death metal and some subgenres such as … Read more

Zombie Books

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, while not a zombie novel proper, prefigures many 20th century ideas about zombies in that the resurrection of the dead is portrayed as a scientific process rather than a mystical one, and that the resurrected dead are degraded and more violent than their living selves. Later notable 19th century stories about … Read more

Zombie Comics

Avenging zombies are featured prominently in the early 1950s EC Comics such as Tales from the Crypt, which George A. Romero would later claim as an influence. The comics, including Tales, Vault of Horror and Weird Science, featured avenging undead in the Gothic tradition quite regularly, including adaptations of Lovecraft’s stories which included In the … Read more

Zombie Boredom: 1980-1990

The early 1980s was notable for the introduction of zombies into Chinese and other Asian films, often martial arts/horror crossover films, that featured zombies as thralls animated by magic for purposes of battle. Though the idea never had large enough appeal to become a sub-genre, zombies are still used as martial-arts villains in some films … Read more