Zombie
A tag for organizing content
The zombie myth has roots in Haitian slave plantations: they’re fairly transparently about the slaves’ fear of being forced to toil endlessly even after their death. Then this narrative got appropriated and transplanted to America, in film, TV, and fiction. Where it hybridized with white settler fear of a slave uprising. The survivors/protagonists of the zombie plague are the viewpoint the audience is intended to empathize with, but their response to the shambling horde is as brutal and violent as any plantation owner’s reaction to their slaves rising [...]
— Charles Stross, “Yet Another Novel I Will No Longer Write”, Charlie’s Diary, 2020-04-03
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- Matthew (ca. 80–90 CE entry)
- J’accuse! (1919)
- White Zombie (1932)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
- The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- “Override” (1973)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- “Within the Woods” (1978)
- Zombi 2 (1979)
- City of the Living Dead (1980)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- Night of the Comet (1984)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Lifeforce (1985)
- Re-Animator (1985)
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
- Night of the Creeps (1986)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
- Night of the Living Dead (1990)
- Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991)
- Witches Abroad (1991)
- Army of Darkness (1992)
- Braindead (1992)
- Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
- Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
- Bio-Zombie (1998)
- Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
- Wild Zero (1999)
- 28 Days Later... (2002)
- “Deadline” (2002)
- Resident Evil (2002)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Blade of the Phantom Master (2004)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004)
- Monster Island (2004)
- “Mördarzombiesarna anfaller! (på vintern)” (2004)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- “Dance of the Dead” (2005 entry)
- Hanteringen av odöda (2005)
- “Homecoming” (2005 entry)
- Land of the Dead (2005)
- “Haeckel’s Tale” (2006 entry)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)
- “Deathtic 4” (2007 entry)
- I Am Legend (2007)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
- Planet Terror (2007)
- Rec (2007)
- The Zen of Zombie (2007)
- Day of the Dead (2008)
- “I Love Sarah Jane” (2008)
- Pontypool (2008)
- Zombieland (2009)
- High School of the Dead (2010)
- “A Morning Stroll” (2011)
- Game of Thrones (2011)
- “Cargo” (2013)
- In the Flesh (2013)
- Warm Bodies (2013)
- World War Z (2013)
- The Strain (2014)
- Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)
- School-Live! (2015)
- “A Father’s Day” (2016)
- Seoul Station (2016)
- The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
- Train to Busan (2016)
- Cargo (2017)
- “Lau og Laudrup” (2017)
- Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018)
- Performance: A Red Markets Novel (2018)
- Zombieland Saga (2018)
- Black Summer (2019)
- Daybreak (2019)
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (2019)
- The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
- The Midnight Gospel (2020)
- Army of the Dead (2021)
- “Night of the Mini Dead” (2022 entry)
Other
The following make direct references to the zombie tag.
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- “The Last Smoker” (1987)
- “Identity Crisis” (1991)
- Mythbusters (2003)
- Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
- Super 8 (2011)
- “Me! Me! Me!” (2014)