Different ways to raise the living dead
According to popular cultural, there are several tried & true methods of raising the living dead, i.e. create zombies.
It's interesting how over time, these explanations of where zombies came from changed between (voodoo) magic, evil scientists, demonic curses, nuclear weapons, chemicals and pesticides, aliens, bioweapons, virusses and sicknesses, with the odd case of crashed meteorites or even sheer force of will.
There are also those films who don't supply an explanation at all; i.e. the explanation you get is that people become zombies by getting bitten by zombies (duh) without explaining where the first zombies came from, although these examples are harder to find than you might expect in the zombie genre.
Additions are welcome. I am trying to limit the number of movies with identical explanations and limit it as much as possible to cases that are at least marginally different from other films in some small way.
It's interesting how over time, these explanations of where zombies came from changed between (voodoo) magic, evil scientists, demonic curses, nuclear weapons, chemicals and pesticides, aliens, bioweapons, virusses and sicknesses, with the odd case of crashed meteorites or even sheer force of will.
There are also those films who don't supply an explanation at all; i.e. the explanation you get is that people become zombies by getting bitten by zombies (duh) without explaining where the first zombies came from, although these examples are harder to find than you might expect in the zombie genre.
Additions are welcome. I am trying to limit the number of movies with identical explanations and limit it as much as possible to cases that are at least marginally different from other films in some small way.
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- DirectorJames WhaleEstrellasColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris KarloffUn científico obsesivo crea una criatura viva con partes de cadáveres exhumados.Method: a mad scientist combining different dead body parts to build a new man, bringing it to life with lightning.
Granted, it is arguable whether Frankenstein is a real zombie. He is reanimated of course, and he is also slow, hulky, very strong, and he makes zombie-like noises instead of speaking. But we aren't lead to believe that he is especially hard to kill in the way most zombies are, and he is also more misunderstood than he is malevolent. He doesn't attack people to eat them, and we aren't lead to believe that if he would bite people, that this would have some sort of contaminating effect.
On the other hand he may just be different than modern zombies because this is the oldest film in this list, and it does make sense to see him as a proto-zombie, or the ancestor of all modern zombie stories. - DirectorVictor HalperinEstrellasBela LugosiMadge BellamyJoseph CawthornUn joven recurre a un médico brujo para alejar a la mujer que ama de su prometido, pero en cambio la convierte en una esclava zombie.Method: a failed attempt to use magic to win another one's love
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesEstrellasRaymond MasseyEdward ChapmanRalph RichardsonLa Segunda Guerra Mundial deja la peste y la anarquía, pero luego un estado racional reconstruye la civilización e intenta incursionar en los viajes espaciales.Method: the 'wandering sickness' causes people to walk slowly and insensibly
- DirectorJacques TourneurEstrellasFrances DeeTom ConwayJames EllisonUna enfermera es contratada para cuidar de la esposa del dueño de una plantación de azúcar, quien ha estado actuando de manera extraña.Method: Voodoo magic
- DirectorJames P. HoganEstrellasDavid BruceEvelyn AnkersGeorge ZuccoA university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.Method: a chemistry professor experimenting with an ancient Mayan gas.
Ehm... 'an ancient Mayan gas', what the heck is that? Sounds like the writers had chemistry and the occult mixed up. :) - DirectorLambert HillyerEstrellasLewis WilsonDouglas CroftJ. Carrol NaishEl maestro de espías, el Príncipe Daka, opera una organización de espionaje encubierta ubicada en el ahora abandonado Little Tokyo de Gotham City, que convierte a los científicos estadounidenses en zombis.A Japanese mad scientist turns people into 'electronic zombies'.
How...? Not really an explanation. - DirectorDel TenneyEstrellasWilliam JoyceHeather HewittWalter CoyA playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies.Method: snake venom
- DirectoresUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowEstrellasVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma DanieliCuando una enfermedad convierte a toda la humanidad en muertos vivientes, el último hombre sobre la Tierra se convierte en un cazador de vampiros reacio.Method: a bacteroid disease (plague)
- DirectorJerry WarrenEstrellasDon SullivanKatherine VictorSteve ConteA crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.Method: nerve gas
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.EstrellasGregory WalcottTom KeeneMona McKinnonLos malvados alienígenas atacan la Tierra y ponen en marcha su terrible "Plan 9". Mientras los alienígenas resucitan a los muertos de la Tierra, las vidas de los vivos están en peligro.Method: aliens executing 'Plan 9' to prevent humanity from creating a doomsday weapon
- DirectoresHans AlbinPeter BerneisEstrellasMaria PerschyUwe FriedrichsenRobert CunninghamAliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.Method: possession by aliens
- DirectorTed V. MikelsEstrellasWendell CoreyJohn CarradineTom PaceThe Plan - to build a super human. How? By murdering innocent, convenient victims, and using various bits of them. The result? Creatures on the rampage.Method: a failed attempt to build superhumans from body parts
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroEstrellasDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanUn grupo irregular de residentes de Pensilvania se atrinchera en una antigua granja para mantenerse a salvo de una raza de monstruos sedientos de sangre y carne que están devastando la costa este de los Estados Unidos.Method: radiation from a fallen meteorite
- DirectorEugenio MartínEstrellasChristopher LeePeter CushingAlberto de MendozaEn 1906, un antropólogo británico descubre en China una criatura prehistórica congelada y debe transportarla a Europa en tren.Method: an ancient man found frozen in ice is host to an extragalactic evil presence, that sucks peoples learning and memories out of their brains through their eyes.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioEstrellasLone FlemingCésar BurnerMaría Elena ArpónMedieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.Method: presumably drinking human blood and making sacrifices to the gods.
Knights templar who drank human blood and made sacrifices in the 13th century questing for eternal life were subsequently punished to death for their crimes, and are now ressurected. It is a bit unclear whether in the end it was their blood drinking and sacrificing that was succesful after all, or the punishment that they got for that, or another factor altogether that brought about their resurrection. - DirectorArmando CrispinoEstrellasAlex CordSamantha EggarJohn MarleyA photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.Method: presumably people getting burried underneath ancient ruins
In other words: no real explanation is given. - DirectorDon SharpEstrellasGeorge SandersBeryl ReidNicky HensonUn amable y psicópata líder de una violenta banda de motociclistas adolescentes es incitado por su madre, una médium espiritual adoradora de Satanás, a suicidarse y volver a la vida como un «muerto viviente».Method: a pact with the devil to return yourself as a living dead
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyEstrellasPaul NaschyRomyMirta MillerUn místico indio usa cantos mágicos para resucitar a las mujeres de entre los muertos y luego las envía a ejecutarlo por venganza.Method: an Indian mystic reciting magical chants
- DirectorJorge GrauEstrellasCristina GalbóRay LovelockArthur KennedyUn policía persigue a dos hippies sospechosos de una serie de asesinatos; sin embargo, los verdaderos culpables son los muertos vivientes, traídos a la vida por los pesticidas químicos que utilizan los agricultores de la zona.Method: pesticides used by local farmers
- DirectorJean RollinEstrellasMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge MarquandA young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.Method: pesticides
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroEstrellasDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDos agentes de Filadelfia, un reportero de tráfico y su novia ejecutiva de televisión toman refugio en unos grandes almacenes cuando una pandemia zombi se desata.Method: no explanation at all, i.e. the zombies were just there to begin with.
Arguably, this is a sequel to the Night of The Living Dead, so the explanation is still the crashed meteorite from that film, although it recieves no mention in this film. - DirectorLucio FulciEstrellasChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoUn periodista y una psíquica intentan cerrar las puertas del infierno después de que el suicidio de un clérigo las abriera, lo que hizo que los muertos se alzaran de sus tumbas.Method: opening the gates of hell
- DirectorCharles McCrannEstrellasCharles McCrannBeverly ShapiroDennis HelfendMarijuana growers deep in the woods are hit with a new toxic herbicide, and they turn into mindless cannibals killing everyone they come into contact with.Method: weed-killing chemicals
- DirectorSam RaimiEstrellasBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincorCinco amigos viajan a una cabaña en el bosque, donde sin saberlo liberan demonios poseedores de carne.Method: demonic possession
- DirectorShan HuaEstrellasBilly ChongLau ChanChung-You ChangUn criminal busca venganza contra Billy Chong usando zombis creados por un hechicero. Cuando el plan falla, su espíritu regresa buscando reencarnarse. Mientras tanto, Billy debe usar su kung fu para enfrentar amenazas sobrenaturales.Method: Tao magic
