Although folklore is rift with tales of the undead, the modern zombies in cinema owe their genesis to Direc- tor George A. Romero, who crossed a zombie with a vampire to create a new kind of horrific, flesh-eating monster for the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. The zombies in that film and many since were ghoulish creatures, often slow moving, mindless, decaying corpses that shamble toward their victims. Over time, the zombie rigor mortis has softened a bit, allowing evil creatures to move in more human ways, sometimes even greater than human. And then there are the zombies of Paramount Pictures' World War Z, directed by Marc Forster.
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