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A zombie animal is an animal that becomes a
A zombie animal is an animal that becomes a zombie
A zombie ( Haitian French: , ht, zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in w ...
as depicted in the zombie fiction genre. Numerous types of animals have been portrayed as zombies - a zombie dog appeared in '' The Last Man on Earth'' in 1964, and an infected dog is the source of the zombie virus in ''REC
REC or Rec is a shortening of Recording, the process of capturing data onto a storage medium.
REC may also refer to:
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'' (2007). ''Night of the Zombies
''Night of the Zombies'' (alternate title: ''Battalion of the Living Dead'') is a 1981 American zombie horror war film directed by Joel M. Reed. The film was produced by Lorin E. Price. The film was distributed on VHS by InterGlobal Video Prom ...
'' (1984) features a scare from a zombie cat, as does ''Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
''Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse'' is a 2015 American zombie comedy film directed by Christopher Landon and written by Landon, Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki and Lona Williams. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sar ...
''. A jump scare
A jump scare (often shortened to jumpscare) is a technique often used in horror films and video games, intended to scare the audience by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually co-occurring with a loud, jarring sound. The j ...
scene featuring zombie dogs in the first ''Resident Evil
''Resident Evil'', known in Japan as is a Japanese horror game series and media franchise created by Capcom. It consists of survival horror, third-person shooter and first-person shooter games, with players typically surviving in environments ...
'' is considered to be a seminal horror scene in video game history
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While predominantly a fictional concept when applied to larger mammals, there have been instances of insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three ...
s, such as ants and wasps, becoming "zombies" from a real world perspective. For example, the Cordyceps fungus is known to infect insects and change their behavior before their eventual death.
See also
*Zombie apocalypse
Zombie apocalypse is a genre of fiction in which society collapses due to overwhelming swarms of zombies. Typically only a few individuals or small bands of survivors are left living. In some versions, the reason the dead rise and attack huma ...
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