Zombies are regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed fiction and entertainment. They are typically depicted as mindless, shambling, decaying corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and in some cases, human brains in particular.They have become increasingly popular in western culture during the 20th century thanks to hit horror films like "Night of The Living Dead" which set the standard for the Zombie Stereotype and Michael Jackson's music video, "Thriller" which featured choreographed Zombie dancers, is still to this day the most successful music video of all time.
While zombie films generally fall into the horror genre, some cross over into other genres, such as comedy, science fiction, thriller, or romance and even animated films. There have even been developments in zombie-specific sub-genres, such as the "zombie comedy" (for films such as “Shaun of the Dead”) or the "zombie apocalypse".
The zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic fiction that has become a contemporary sub-genre of horror and science fiction films.
In such sitations (as focused upon in films like “28 Days Later” or “I Am Legend”) a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization. Victims of zombies either perish or become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to become an exponentially growing crisis: the spreading "zombie plague" swamps normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked collapse of civilian society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain, scavenging for food and supplies in a world reduced to a pre-industrial hostile wilderness.
The scenario was first used in the original novel of “I am Legend” where it is taken to the extreme that the protagonist character has became the only man left on Earth.
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