Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings.
Zombies are distinct from ghosts, ghouls, mummies, Frankenstein's monsters or vampires, so this article does not include films devoted to these types of undead.
I am Legend and World War Z are the highest grossing zombies movies of all time.
Inspired by the zombie of Haitian folklore, the modern zombie emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the twentieth century, with George A. Romero's seminal film Night of the Living Dead (1968).
[12] In Japan, on the other hand, the low-budget Japanese zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead (2017) became a sleeper hit, making box office history by earning over a thousand times its budget.
Each filmmaker gives their zombies a unique set of qualities for the universe of that film.
The transformation process can take only seconds, such as in World War Z, or it can take several hours, such as in Night of the Living Dead.
In most films, zombies can only be killed by destroying the brain, often by gunshot to the head.