A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo, where they are essentially a dead body re-animated by unnatural means. 1932’s “White Zombie” was the first film to feature Zombies, typically of pre 1950s, zombies in films, the one zombie was presented as a mindless thrall controlled by a mystical master (in this case a voodoo priest), they were never independently malevolent.
The modern conception of the zombie owes itself almost entirely to both George A. Romero's 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” and again the 1954 novel “I Am Legend”.
The novel is actually classed as "the first modern vampire novel" with the infected showings signs of vampirism such as blood sucking and sever sensistivty to sunlight. However it was the first major form of media to depict a disease capable of re-animating dead bodies and infecting live hosts to both transform into a race with a hunger for human flesh, leading to the breakdown of human civilization.
This explanation of monsters like vampires through science rather than supernatural legends is a concept which has been repeated relentlessly ever since as well as these monsters causing the downfall of civilization forming the basis of the apocalypse sub-genre.
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