Zombies

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Zombies
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Zombie Traits

• Re Animated Corpse
• Physically Dead
• Capable of Human Activity

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Origins

• Voodoo
• African in Origin
• Brought to Americas
• Popular in Caribbean Islands
• Voodoo Sorcerer

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Folklore

• Ghost Like
• Rises from the Dead
• Avenge a Crime
• Usually Found in Graveyards

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Zombies in Literature

• W.B. Seabrook The Magic Island (1929)
• H.P. Lovecraft Cool Air In the Vault The
  Thing on the Doorstep The Outsider Pickmans
  Model Herbert West-Reanimator (1921)
• Does not become popular until the 1990s
• John Skipp and Craig Spector Book of the Dead
  (1990)
• Brian Keene The Rising (2005) City of the Dead
  (2006)
• Stephen King Home Delivery (1990) Cell (2006)
• Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) World
  War Z (2006)
• Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead (2006)
• John Maberry Zombie CSU The Forensics of the
  Living Dead (2008)

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Zombies in Film

• White Zombie (1936)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• Diary of the Dead (2008)
• Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• Reanimator (1985)
• The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Wes Craven
• Brain Dead (1992) Peter Jackson
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• 28 Weeks Later (2008)

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The Modern Zombie

• Mindless
• Numb
• Hungers for Brains
• Can Take Heavy Damage
• Can Create More Zombies
• Can only be killed by a gunshot to the head
• Move slowly, attack in waves
• Exhibit signs of physical decomposition
• Incapable of Communication
• No personality or rationality

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Zombie Video Games

• Zombies ate my Neighbors (1993)
• Resident Evil (1996)
• Dead Rising (2006)
• House of the Dead (1996)
• Left 4 Dead (2008)
• Urban Dead (2005)
• Call of Duty 4 (2008)

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Zombie Humor