Zombies: A Living History [DVD]

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A. eximius spiders are social animals that prefer to remain in groups, never straying too far from their colonies. Moreman, Christopher M.; Rushton, Cory James (2011). Race, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition. McFarland. p.3. ISBN 978-0-7864-5911-7. Before entering its new “cocoon,” though, the wasp larva first finishes its “job” by devouring its host. I came to the conclusion that although it is unlikely that there is a single explanation for all cases where zombies are recognised by locals in Haiti, the mistaken identification of a wandering mentally ill stranger by bereaved relatives is the most likely explanation in many cases. People with a chronic schizophrenic illness, brain damage or learning disability are not uncommon in rural Haiti, and they would be particularly likely to be identified as zombies. Modern archetype evolution

a b c Booker, M. Keith (2010). Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Vol.1: A–L. ABC-CLIO. p.662. ISBN 9780313357473. Ophiocordyceps “feed” on the insects they attach to, growing into and out of their bodies until the insects die. McGlotten, Shaka; Jones, Steve (26 August 2014). Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead. McFarland. ISBN 9780786479078.A variation of the zombie walk is the zombie run. Here participants do a 5km run wearing a belt with several flag "lives". If the chasing zombies capture all of the flags, the runner becomes "infected". If he or she reaches the finish line, which may involve wide detours ahead of the zombies, then the participant is a "survivor". In either case, an appropriate participation medal is awarded. [135] Theoretical academic studies Romero would later opine that he believes that much of the 21st century obsessions with zombies can be traced more towards video games than films, noting that it was not until the 2009 film Zombieland that a zombie film was able to gross more than 100 million dollars. [118] In video games, the release of two 1996 horror games Capcom's Resident Evil and Sega's The House of the Dead sparked an international craze for zombie games. [111] [74] In 2013, George A. 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. [112] [113] The modern fast-running zombies have origins in these games, with Resident Evil 's running zombie dogs and especially House of the Dead 's running human zombies, which later became a staple of modern zombie films. [58]

They found that a previously unknown species of the Zatypota wasp can manipulate spiders from the Anelosimus eximius species to an extent that researchers have never before witnessed in nature. One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the voodoo zombie was The Magic Island (1929) by W. B. Seabrook. This is the sensationalized account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls. Time commented that the book "introduced 'zombi' into U.S. speech". [50] Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein drawing on European folklore of the undead. Victor Halperin directed White Zombie (1932), a horror film starring Bela Lugosi. Here zombies are depicted as mindless, unthinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician. Zombies, often still using this voodoo-inspired rationale, were initially uncommon in cinema, but their appearances continued sporadically through the 1930s to the 1960s, with films including I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). It remains unclear just how prevalent this condition is, but research suggests that it is a rare occurrence. Documented cases of people with Cotard’s syndrome are unsettling, nevertheless. Davis's claim has been criticized, particularly the suggestion that Haitian witch doctors can keep "zombies" in a state of pharmacologically induced trance for many years. [41] Symptoms of TTX poisoning range from numbness and nausea to paralysis— particularly of the muscles of the diaphragm— unconsciousness, and death, but do not include a stiffened gait or a deathlike trance. According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous. [40] Social DayZ, a zombie-based survival horror mod for ARMA 2, was responsible for over 300,000 unit sales of its parent game within two months of its release. [116] 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. [117]

Books: Mumble-Jumble". TIME. 9 September 1940. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007 . Retrieved 5 November 2013. Christopher T. Fong (2 December 2008). "Playing Games: Left 4 Dead". Video game review . Retrieved 3 December 2008. a b McAlister, Elizabeth (1995). "A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti". In Cosentino, Donald J. (ed.). Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. Los Angeles, California: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. pp.304–321. ISBN 978-0930741471. On 18 May 2011, the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a graphic novel entitled Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse, providing tips to survive a zombie invasion as a "fun new way of teaching the importance of emergency preparedness". [124] The CDC used the metaphor of a zombie apocalypse to illustrate the value of laying in water, food, medical supplies, and other necessities in preparation for any and all potential disasters, be they hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or hordes of zombies. [124] [125]

There has been a growth in the number of zombie mangas in the first decade of the 21st century, and in a list of "10 Great Zombie Manga", Anime News Network's Jason Thompson placed I Am a Hero at number 1, considering it "probably the greatest zombie manga ever". In second place was Living Corpse, and in third was Biomega, which he called "the greatest science-fiction virus zombie manga ever". [105] During the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were several manga and anime series that humanized zombies by presenting them as protagonists or love interests, such as Sankarea: Undying Love and Is This a Zombie? (both debuted in 2009). Davis, E. W. (1983). "The ethnobiology of the Haitian zombi". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 9 (1): 85–104. doi: 10.1016/0378-8741(83)90029-6. PMID 6668953. Zombies went on to become a popular theme for video games, particularly in the survival horror, stealth, first-person shooter and role-playing game genres. Important horror fiction media franchises in this area include Resident Evil, The House of the Dead, Silent Hill, Dead Rising, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead, Dying Light, State of Decay, The Last of Us and the Zombies game modes from the Call of Duty title series. [114] A series of games has also been released based on the widely popular TV show The Walking Dead, first aired in 2010. In the Dead Rising series, the process of infection is described with the metaphor "The wasp kills the host and takes over body motorfuctions." [ citation needed] The World of Warcraft, first released in 2004, is an early example of a video game in which an individual zombie-like creature could be chosen as a player character (a previous game in the same series, Warcraft III, allowed a player control over an undead army). [ original research?] Mars, Louis P. (1945). "Media life zombies for the world". Man. 45 (22): 38–40. doi: 10.2307/2792947. JSTOR 2792947. Pané, Fray Ramón. "The relación of Fray Ramón Pane [sic]". faculty.smu.edu. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021.Chandni Doulatramani (9 May 2013). "Walking Dead breathes life into AMC results". Reuters . Retrieved 19 May 2013.