Zombies: A Living History [DVD]

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A related, but also often incorporeal, undead being is the jumbee of the English-speaking Caribbean, considered to be of the same etymology; [32] in the French West Indies also, local "zombies" are recognized, but these are of a more general spirit nature. [33] South Africa The two types of zombie reflect soul dualism, a belief of Bakongo religion and Haitian voodoo. [19] [20] Each type of legendary zombie is therefore missing one half of its soul (the flesh or the spirit). [21] Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro, ed. (2011). Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. Fordham University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-8232-3447-9, 9780823234479. On 18 May 2011, the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a graphic novel entitled Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse, providing tips to survive a zombie invasion as a "fun new way of teaching the importance of emergency preparedness". [124] The CDC used the metaphor of a zombie apocalypse to illustrate the value of laying in water, food, medical supplies, and other necessities in preparation for any and all potential disasters, be they hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or hordes of zombies. [124] [125]

The turn of the millennium coincided with a decade of box office successes in which the zombie subgenre experienced a resurgence: the Resident Evil movies (2002–2016), the British films 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later (2007), [81] [82] the Dawn of the Dead remake (2004), [1] and the comedies Shaun of the Dead and Dance of the Dead (2008). The new interest allowed Romero to create the fourth entry in his zombie series: Land of the Dead, released in the summer of 2005. Romero returned to the series with the films Diary of the Dead (2008) and Survival of the Dead (2010). [1] Generally, the zombies in these shows are the slow, lumbering and unintelligent kind, first made popular in Night of the Living Dead. [83] The Resident Evil films, 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake all set box office records for the zombie genre, reaching levels of commercial success not seen since the original Dawn of the Dead in 1978. [71]

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Grebey, James (3 June 2019). "How Dungeons and Dragons reimagines and customizes iconic folklore monsters". SyfyWire . Retrieved 14 January 2022. Clute, John; Grant, John, eds. (1999). "Zombie Movies". The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p.1048. ISBN 978-0-312-19869-5. Films featuring zombies have been a part of cinema since the 1930s. White Zombie (directed by Victor Halperin in 1932) and I Walked with a Zombie (directed by Jacques Tourneur; 1943) were early examples. [59] [60] [61] With George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), the zombie trope began to be increasingly linked to consumerism and consumer culture. [62] Today, zombie films are released with such regularity (at least 55 films were released in 2014 alone) [63] that they constitute a separate subgenre of horror film. [64] The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying. The zombie revival, which began in the Far East, eventually went global, following the worldwide success of the Japanese zombie games Resident Evil and The House of the Dead. [74] Resident Evil in particular sparked a revival of the zombie genre in popular culture, leading to a renewed global interest in zombie films during the early 2000s. [77] In addition to being adapted into the Resident Evil and House of the Dead films from 2002 onwards, the original video games themselves also inspired zombie films such as 28 Days Later (2002) [78] and Shaun of the Dead (2004). [79] This led to the revival of zombie films in global popular culture. [77] [78] [80]

Wilentz, Amy (December 2011). "Response to "I Walked with a Zombie" ". amywilentz.com . Retrieved 2 February 2018.In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village. A family claimed that she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative, who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. The woman was examined by a doctor; X-rays indicated that she did not have a leg fracture that Felix-Mentor was known to have had. [29] Hurston pursued rumors that affected persons were given a powerful psychoactive drug, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote: "What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Vodou in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony." [30] Kongo a b c Szanter, Ashley; Richards, Jessica K. (24 August 2017). Romancing the Zombie: Essays on the Undead as Significant 'Other' . McFarland. ISBN 9781476667423. How the creatures in contemporary zombie films came to be called "zombies" is not fully clear. The film Night of the Living Dead made no spoken reference to its undead antagonists as "zombies", describing them instead as " ghouls" (though ghouls, which derive from Arabic folklore, are demons, not undead). Although George A. Romero used the term "ghoul" in his original scripts, in later interviews he used the term "zombie". The word "zombie" is used exclusively by Romero in his script for his sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978), [16] including once in dialog. According to Romero, film critics were influential in associating the term "zombie" to his creatures, and especially the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He eventually accepted this linkage, even though he remained convinced at the time that "zombies" corresponded to the undead slaves of Haitian voodoo as depicted in White Zombie with Bela Lugosi. [17] Folk beliefs Haiti A depiction of a zombie at twilight in a field of sugar cane Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream (usually through a wound). The first, French: coup de poudre ("powder strike"), includes tetrodotoxin (TTX), a powerful and frequently fatal neurotoxin found in the flesh of the pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae). The second powder consists of deliriant drugs such as datura. Together these powders were said to induce a deathlike state, in which the will of the victim would be entirely subjected to that of the bokor. Davis also popularized the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was claimed to have succumbed to this practice. The most ethically questioned and least scientifically explored ingredient of the powders is part of a recently buried child's brain. [38] [39] [40] [ verification needed]

Organized zombie walks have been staged, either as performance art or as part of protests that parody political extremism or apathy. [130] [131] [132] [133] [134] Jason Thompson (9 January 2014). "House of 1000 Manga – 10 Great Zombie Manga". Anime News Network . Retrieved 11 January 2014. Writing for Scientific American, Kyle Hill praised the 2013 game The Last of Us for its plausibility, basing its zombification process on a fictional strain of the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, a real-world genus whose members control the behavior of their arthropod hosts in "zombielike" ways to reproduce. [120] Despite the plausibility of this mechanism (also explored in the novel The Girl with All the Gifts and the film of the same name), to date there have been no documented cases of humans infected by Cordyceps. [121] [ bettersourceneeded] Another speaks of a 65-year-old man who had developed a belief that his organs — including his brain — had stopped working, and that even the house in which he lived was slowly but steadily falling apart.The word zombie — originally spelled as zombi — first came into the English language in the 1800s, when poet Robert Southey mentioned it in his History of Brazil.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word comes from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole word zonbi, and it is akin to the Kimbundu term nzúmbe, which means ghost. I was expecting something way more silly and unrealistic. Somehow the approach to the theme historically is done in a smooth enough way (although with some sketches where they teach you how to fight a Zombie, just in case :P ) When the larva has gained full control of its host, it turns it into a zombie-like creature that is compelled to stray away from its mates and spin the cocoon-like nest that will allow the larva to grow into the adult wasp.

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Dein, Simon (January 2006). "Interview with Roland Littlewood on 5th December 2005" (PDF). World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review. 1 (1): 57–59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2016. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times chided theater owners and parents who allowed children access to the film. "I don't think the younger kids really knew what hit them", complained Ebert, "They were used to going to movies, sure, and they'd seen some horror movies before, sure, but this was something else." According to Ebert, the film affected the audience immediately: [69] Ring 0/Orochi's Tsuruta Directs Live-Action Film of Zombie Manga Z". Anime News Network. 9 April 2014 . Retrieved 30 July 2014. We found that a high percentage of the cells in a host were fungal cells,” notes David Hughes, who is associate professor of entomology and biology at Penn State. Zombies never quite attained the same high profile as mummies and vampires did during horror’s Hollywood boom period in the 1930s, and the zombie films that were released during this era differed in keyways from what we think of as a typical zombie movie today. For starters, before Romero the thing that made zombies scary was their mindless susceptibility which was amplified through their critical mass. Crucially, zombies didn’t really become cannibals until Night of the Living Dead. What did pre-date Romero, however, was the image of the staggering, rotting living-dead corpse. This appeared a few years earlier in films like John Gilling’s Hammer Horror classic, The Plague of the Zombies (1966). Until then, zombies looked largely blank and shabby and, well, just sort of depressed. And in The Plague of the Zombies we once again discover a zombie film with a strong political core. Here, a man who runs a tin mine uses zombies as slave labour – this not only echoes the colonial roots of the zombie in Haiti and in White Zombie, but at the time it also drew strong parallels between the fictional story and the plight of Welsh coal miners in the mid-1960s. The film was released only months before the devastating Aberfan disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults where slurry from a collapsed coal mine wiped out a school and nearby houses.