Zombie sub-genre Fenetta

A zombie is a dead body that is not entirely dead. Zombies usually are not completely dead. They have been bought back from the dead and have taken monstrous form. In some cases, zombies are human beings that have infected with a deadly virus or a pandemic illness.

Sometimes in cases like this, they are called ‘Zombie Apocolyses’. In some cases, zombies try to eat or infect unharmed zombies with a virus in which evolves them into a zombie too. Being a zombie can happen from a single bite or from the pandemic illness that has spread. In mainstream media, the use of Zombies is very wide-spread. You have our serious films about zombies, for example, Dawn of the dead, and then you have your mock films, such as ‘Shaun of The Dead’. Films about Zombies have been popularised in the last couple of years and I think this is because of the whole 2012 “world ending” thing. The thought of a deadly pandemic spreading across the world has been in several films such as ’28 Days Later’ and ‘I Am Legend’.

The usual conventions of a Zombie is that the Zzombie has very pale almost grey looking skin. Their eyes are usually white with tiny black pupils and they're most likely to have blood around their mouth to conote the eating of human flesh. They sometimes also have limbs moving, to make them more scary and missing items of clothing, usually torn or tatterd. They have decaying body parts, and the only way to kill them is to aim directly for their brain or chest area. Another typpical convention of a Zombie is that they walk with their arms stretched in front of them, ready to grab whatever is in front of them. They are very disruptive, runing things and they're very clumsy and have almost no control over their bodies.

Zombie's and Vampires could be put into the same monster catergory as they both feed off of humans. The vampire feeds off of human blood and the Zombie feeds off of human flesh.

Zombies were usually only read about in books and folk tales. One of the most popular and recognised Zombie movies is ‘Night of The living Dead’ by George A. Romero in 1968. This film paved a way for many zombie films in years to come.

The Zombie still takes some of it’s characteristics from the 1968 film ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and if it wasn’t for that movie, the whole concept of being a zombie wouldn’t be the same. Romero then released a more popular and widely watched Zombie movie in 2005 called ‘Dawn of the Dead’ or as some may call it ‘Return of the Living Dead’. He used some of the concepts from his old movie and merged them into a more modern-day horror movie.