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The term zombie refers to a dead person whose body has been revived. Zombie, originates from the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodoun (otherwise known as Voo-Doo in America). These folkloric zombies are humans who have had their "Ti Bon Ange" or soul stolen by supernatural means and shamanic medicine, and are forced to work for their "zombie master" as uncomplaining slaves on isolated plantations. Other more macabre versions of zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in human cannibalism.

ZOMBIES ON FILM

Although the depiction of zombies in film has recently become much more varied, they were originally presented in White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932) as mindless, unthinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician/overlord. This depiction continued through the 1930s until they started to move around more of their own accord, as in I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943). There was often a strong sexual component in the depiction of zombies of this era.

In 1968, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead premiered. Critics initially reacted negatively to its depiction of cannibalism and gore and the movie's pessimistic tone, but the film soon developed a strong following and is now considered a modern classic. Although cannibalism in horror was nothing new at the time, the movie standardised the depiction of zombies eating human flesh, and created new rules still in use in films, such as a severe head injury being the only way to kill a zombie. Zombies being shown staggering around slowly, moaning and in various states of decomposition, can also be traced back to Romero's films. The 1978 sequel, Dawn of the Dead, can be regarded as the precursor to the modern zombie movie subgenre. The third entry in the series was Day of the Dead (1985), followed two decades later by the fourth, Land of the Dead (2005). The original movie made no reference to the creatures as "zombies," but rather as "ghouls", although the word was used once in the sequel. It is quite likely that the term "zombie" was coined in reference to the trance-like stupor of the creatures, not their cannibalistic tendencies. By 2005, the term was accepted by Romero, with the Land of the Dead character Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) exorting "Zombies, man. They creep me out." [1]

Internationally, Dawn of the Dead was released under the name Zombi, just months before Lucio Fulci's Zombi II (1979), which was in fact filmed at the same time as Romero's 'Dawn', despite the popular belief that it was made in order to cash in on the success of 'Dawn'. The only reference to 'Dawn' was the title change to Zombi II. In America, Dan O'Bannon's 1985 movie, Return of the Living Dead, took a more comedic approach to distinguish his movie from George Romero's; it had the zombies hunger specifically for brains instead of all human flesh. 1981's Night of the Zombies was the first film to reference a mutagenic gas as a source of zombie contagion, later echoed by Trioxin in Return of the Living Dead.

After the mid-1980s, the subgenre was mostly relegated to the underground. Although director Peter Jackson made a notable entry with the ultra-gory Braindead (1992) (released as Dead Alive in the US), Bob Balan's comic 1993 film My Boyfriend's Back where a very self aware high school boy returns to profess his love for a girl and his love for human flesh, and Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) (released as Cemetery Man in the US), it was not until the next decade's box office successes (the Resident Evil movies (2002, 2004), the Dawn of the Dead remake (2004), and the homage/parody Shaun of the Dead (2004) that the zombie subgenre experienced a resurgence. The new interest allowed Romero to create the fourth entry in his zombie series. In 2006 filmmaker Dean Lachiusa made a cinematic sampling of the 1968 Night of the Living Dead called "Neo-Cine." Although critically acclaimed, this redux-version is a source of debate among film purists. Another zomedy is Canadian film Fido.

Around the turn of this century, there have been numerous direct-to-video (or DVD) zombie movies made by extremely low-budget filmmakers using digital video. These can usually be found for sale online from the distributors themselves, rented in video rental stores or released internationally in such places as Thailand.