Character History
Zombies - a character of modern mass culture. Dead body, lively due to magic, a new dangerous virus or at all for an unknown reason. The uprising usually turns around to the apocalypse, when people who survive are forced to seek refuge, arm and think about survival.History of character creation
Inhabitants of the Islands of the Caribbean Sea (Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica) practiced magic Voodoo, from where they came to the modern culture of the idea of these characters. In religious cult, Voodoo believed that the powerful sorcerer could resurrect the dead man and turn into his own slave.
Similar creatures are found in Japanese mythology. These are the grouse spirits in which people who died from hunger turn. Such a spirit can attack a person in the city at night and try it to devour it. Buso is deprived of intelligence and do not remember the human language. Externally, these perfume look like a corpses that have just begun to decompose, they are able to think exclusively about food, and they prefer human flesh.
The first splash of the popularity of the USA in the United States occurred in the 30s of the twentieth century, when one famous reporter released a book about life on the island of Haiti, where he visited himself, and about Voodoo magic.
In real life, such a phenomenon, of course, is not found. Although some doctors consider circumstances when an outbreak of rabies epidemic can occur, on external manifestations similar to the epidemic of the revived corpses.
Zombies in films
The modern idea of the flesh's eaters arose in the Kinolent "Night of the Living Deads" of 1968. Pictures-images of dead people with a half-jammed body and dilapidated clothes became a classic. In general, movies with similar themes mass.In 2004, comedy horror "Zombies named Sean" came to the screens. When the city covers a strange epidemic, picked the flu virus People begin to disconnect in the middle of the street. The chief hero Sean does not pay attention to this and how no one happens to work. Only closer to the final, the hero is aware of what is happening and thinking about how to survive.
Another horror comedy film came out in 2014 called Bobra Zombie. A group of young people and girls stops in a cozy house on the lake to having fun. But it was not there, because the colony of dangerous animals was found nearby.
In 2016, a melodramatic fighter "Pride and prejudice and zombies" came out with elements of horror film. The film was removed according to the Mashap-novel of the American Writer and the Scheta Scheta Smith Scenario. Roman and film paroding the classic work of Jane Austin "Pride and Prejudice". Mr. Darcy here turned into a cruel killer of the Dem, and Elizabeth Bennet - in a skillful arrow and a specialist in martial arts.
In 2015, the horror comedy Christopher Bo Landon's "Scouts against Zombie" was published, in which the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger played one of the roles, Patrick. The place from where the apocalypse begins, this time the scientific laboratory becomes, where the negligent cleaner accidentally revives the corpse, and then transfers the "infection" further.
The film "My Girl - Zombies" came out in 2014. Cinema begins with the romantic history of one in love with a couple. Evelin's girl dies due to an accident before the protagonist Max has time to inform the one of the parting, because the joint life was not set. After some time, Max starts a new novel, but his former, as it was called, rebels from the dead.
"The Walking Dead" is the most long-playing series of horrors, which began to broadcast in October 2010 and continues to go out so far. Removed for ten seasons. The series The Walking Dead Comic Serial was based on, where the main character of Rick Gilims is trying to survive in the world of post-apocalypse and at the same time maintain a group of people whose leader. The series for confrontation is used by a different weapon, including katana - Japanese swords, which masterfully owns the heroine Mishon.
In addition to movies, animated paintings are removed on this topic. In 2012, the Spanish cartoon "How to Train Zombies" came out. Main heroine, Dixie girl, hardests the divorce of parents and cruelty of children in school. Once the heroine runs away into the forest, dreaming there to die, a tree falls on her, and Dixie really dies. Once a girl wakes up and discovers herself buried in a cemetery.
The topic is well developed in Japanese animation. In Anime "School of Dead" (2010), the world, as usual happens in similar plots, covered the epidemic of an unknown disease, due to which people began to turn into something semi-middle-term. The main characters are students of the private academy who are trying to survive in the harsh new world and find relatives.
In 2013, the British dramatic series "In the flesh" came out. Here the epidemic has already seen, people came up with how to cure the rebels of the dead and turn monsters who dream of eating a person in adapted members of society. Former corpses take medicines every day and enjoy a special grima, so as not to frighten people to the dead.
In 2019, Sequel "Zombilend: Control Shot" came out. The same cast that in the first part is fighting back with the hungry forces. The magnificent Four faces not only with the problem of the lives of the dead, but also with internal conflicts. And at least in the damifiers of the flesh, as they say, "dead brain", they are becoming more cunning and unpredictable.
Zombies in books
Mystical character is also operated in literary works. The bestseller in this subject is "World War Z", written by the American writer Max Brooks in 2006. The plot is based on the description of people's stories from different parts of the world about the struggle of living and the dead. Based on the book, the eponymous militant with actor Brad Pitt was removed in the lead role.
Another book, which was subsequently shielded, is "the warmth of our bodies" Aizeka Marion. The increhensive story story describes the history of love between the girl and those who have already lost the human appearance.
Russian writer Andrei Cruz became famous for the "Epoch of the Dead" cycle. In the work, the moment is registered in detail, which became the point of reference to the apocalypse. In secret laboratories, the virus was able to synthesize, which is capable not only to heal, but also raise the dead. Moreover, the only animals on the planet who are immune to it are cats.
Zombies in computer games
Zombies become both actors of computer games. The hostile character is in the game "Minecraft". There, the forces appear with a low level of lighting by groups from one to four. They are aggressive and go to the attack, seeing a player or other peaceful mob. However, zombies have a low speed of movement, and to defeat them is easy.In the shooter "Call Zombie", the hero turns out to be in a small thrown inhabitants, where there is not a single living being, except for him. At the initial stage, it is necessary to straighten with the revived dead with the help of a gun and a knife. Later, the hero expands the arsenal and can buy a rifle or machine.
Mobile game "Zombie Tsunami" is a Ranner, where the player has to manage the whole group of living corpses at once. The player's goal is to bite as many people as possible and thus make the crowd of controlled more. The greater the group, the more effective you can act, and additional possibilities allow you to turn zombies into a ninja and even dragons.
Bibliography
- 1974 - "Night of the Living Deads"
- 2005 - "Blessed Dead"
- 2006 - "World War Z"
- 2008 - "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
- 2009-2011 - "The Epoch of the Dead"
- 2010 - "Food"
- 2011 - "The warmth of our bodies"
- 2011 - "Epoch Zombies"
- 2013 - "Private Apocalypse"
- 2013 - "Under the sign z"
- 2014 - "Gifts Pandora"
- 2014 - "On a visit to the dead"
- 2015 - "This is my earth!"
- 2018 - "Cenozoa"
Filmography
- 1968 - "Night of the Living Dead"
- 1978 - "Dawn of the Dead"
- 1978 - "Zombie"
- 1979 - Zombie 2
- 1984 - "Return of the Living Dead"
- 1985 - "Day of the Dead"
- 1992 - "Live Deadichkin"
- 1988 - Zombie 3
- 2002 - "28 days later"
- 2002 - "Resident Evil"
- 2004 - "Zombies named Sean"
- 2007 - "Report"
- 2007 - "I am Legend"
- 2008 - "Quarantine"
- 2009 - "Operation" Dead Snow ""
- 2010 - Present - "The Walking Dead"
- 2009 - Welcome to Zombilend "
- 2016 - "Train to Busan"
- 2019 - "Zombilend: Check Shot"
Computer games
- 1996 - Resident Evil
- 1997 - House of the Dead
- 1998 - Resident Evil 2
- 1999 - Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
- 2005 - Deadhunt
- 2005 - Cold Fear
- 2005 - Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
- 2006 - You are Empty
- 2007 - Zombie Shooter
- 2007 - Zombie Panic! Source
- 2008 - Left 4 Dead
- 2009 - Zombie Shooter 2
- 2009 - Left 4 Dead 2
- 2009 - Call Of Duty: World At War - Zombies
- 2009 - Nation Red
- 2013 - Project ZomBoid
- 2013 - State of Decay
- 2013 - 7 Days to Die
- 2013 - How to Survive
- 2015 - Dying Light
- 2015 - Resident Evil 7
- 2016 - How To Survive 2
- 2018 - State of Decay 2
- 2019 - State Of Decay 2: Heartland