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A zombie (Haitian French: zombi) is a mythological undead corporeal creature created through the reanimation of a corpse. In Haitian folklore, voodoo is used to reanimate the dead whereas modern methods depicted in horror and fantasy genre works do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as carriers, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, pathogens, parasites, scientific accidents, etc. The recent outbreak of covid-19 reveals that there is a deep fear of getting infected and losing control, which is the root of the zombie horror.
In 1968 director George Romero released the independent black-and-white zombie film Night of the Living Dead. The story, which was cited as groundbreaking, was the first modern zombie film. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead was the predecessor of many films with the same plot. Pre-1968 zombies were something entirely … Read more
The 1940s brought some new things to zombie films. Unlike other undead, zombies required a human agent to bring them back, an agent who, of course, was evil. During WWII, the ultimate evil was the Adolph Hitler, hence the production of a few nazi zombies movies for propaganda. Borrowing voodoo for their own heinous ends, … Read more
In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, a horror film starring Bela Lugosi that relies on atmosphere and expressionistic sets and is often regarded as the first legitimate zombie film ever made. Bella was never better than he was as Murder Legendre, a cruel landlord who can turn people into zombies with the power of … Read more
The stories usually follow a single group of survivors, caught up in the sudden rush of the crisis. The narrative generally progresses from the onset of the zombie plague, then initial attempts to seek the aid of authorities, the failure of those authorities, through to the sudden catastrophic collapse of all large-scale organization and the … Read more
According to the Oxford English, zombie is a word of West African origin that comes from the words nzambi (god) or nzumbi (fetish) in the Kikongo language, which is spoken in Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and surrounding areas. . Some authors also compare it to the Kongo word vumbi (mvumbi) (ghost, revenant, corpse … Read more
Why Don’t Zombies Attack Each Other? Zombies are firstly motivated by their hunger for flesh of living humans. They don’t like the rotten flesh of their siblings. Zombies can both smell the unpleasant flesh of other zombies, but also smell the fresh flesh of living humans. How do you kill a zombie? To kill a … Read more
Origin: science Description: a non-conscious system physically different from but functionally isomorphic to a normal human (absent qualia). For example, a system with silicon chips instead of neurons like the robot of Terminator (1985). Some researchers use the logical possibility of such a functional zombie to argue against functionalist theories of consciousness, which postulate that … Read more
A philosophical zombie, p-zombie or p-zed is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience or subjective consciousness, qualia, or sentience. In this sense zombies are mere automaton, completely ‘mindless’ in the conscious sense. If you shoot a p-zombie, he cries out as if he feels … Read more