Artist Jillian McDonald has made several works of video art involving zombies and exhibited them in her 2006 show "Horror Make-Up", which debuted on 8 September 2006 at Art Moving Projects, a gallery in, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. One of the most famous and enduring low-budget independent films ever made, Night of the Living Dead also rightly earned Romero a place as one of the most important filmmakers of the American Civil Rights period. Initial contacts with zombies are extremely dangerous and traumatic, causing shock, panic, disbelief and possibly denial, hampering survivors' ability to deal with hostile encounters. Over a year later, the developers of the mod created a standalone version of the same game, which was in early access on Steam, and so far has sold 3 million copies since its release in December 2013.

Martin's Press stated: "In the world of traditional horror, nothing is more popular right now than zombies. In Martinique and Haiti it could be a general term for spirit or ghost, any disturbing presence at night that could take myriad forms. By 1985, America was in the grip of Cold War fever and had just resoundingly re-elected the conservative Ronald Reagan in a landslide victory, setting the scene for Romero’s vision of a notably different United States to that he explored in his previous zombie films. The Resident Evil films, 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake all set box office records for the zombie genre, reaching levels of commercial success not seen since the original Dawn of the Dead in 1978. Seth Grahame-Smith's mashup novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) combines the full text of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) with a story about a zombie epidemic within the novel's British Regency period setting.A more decisive shift towards scientific themes came with the Resident Evil video game series in the late 1990s, which gave more realistic scientific explanations for zombie origins while drawing on modern science and technology, such as biological weaponry, genetic manipulation and parasitic symbiosis.

McIntosh, Shawn and Leverette, Marc (editors) (2008) Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, ISBN 0-8108-6043-0. Ben Woodard found this to be an expression of the "seemingly endless morphology of fungal creep and toxicological capacity" within the game. English professor Amy Wilentz has written that the modern concept of Zombies was strongly influenced by Haitian slavery. The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi", actually referring to the Afro-Brazilian rebel leader named Zumbi and the etymology of his name in "nzambi". By painting the people’s indigenous beliefs – Vodou – as fundamentally corrupt, the colonial powers found a way to turn attention away from the real story about oppressed people seeking liberation.

As the scientists work desperately to find a way to either cure or retrain the zombies with the intention of somehow reversing the catastrophic infestation which has seemingly taken over the world, the zombie test specimen ‘Bub’ reveals that the essence of his humanity might in fact lay dormant within. unilateralis take full control of the ants’ muscle fibers, forcing them to move as it “wants” them to.

ACMI acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, on whose land we meet, share and work. Davis, Wade (1988), Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, University of North Carolina Press, pp.

Re-named Haiti from the French Saint-Domingue, the nation became the first independent black republic following a long revolutionary war in 1804. But Fernandez-Fournier and team noticed that members of this species infected with Zatypota larva exhibited bizarre behavior, leaving their colony to weave tightly-spun, cocoon-like webs in remote locations.

Nevertheless, the historical trauma of slavery underpins this terrible condition of being emptied out of the self, a woman without attachments left shuffling through a living death. This was the first time that zombies went from being creatures whose horror stemmed from them being controlled by others – again, a throw-back to its colonial origins – to being monsters in their own right, driven by their own desire to eat human flesh. Resident Evil in particular sparked a revival of the zombie genre in popular culture, leading to a renewed global interest in zombie films during the early 2000s.Romero said that it was the video games Resident Evil and House of the Dead "more than anything else" that popularised zombies in early 21st century popular culture. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) is considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. In the films that followed, Romero would take the political core of that original film and reimagine it anew, each film tapping into its zeitgeist and revealing just how regenerative a form the zombie film could be.