A bit of Zombie History. Enjoy!

Ethereal1 ( 4 minutes ago ) - Zombie History That would depend on what you mean by ''zombie.'' A 1929 article in a popular magazine first used the term, in an article on ''voodoo'' in Haiti. Both the words ''voodoo'' and ''zombie'' were phonetic simplifications of Haitian words. The article emphasised that ''zombies'' were the revived, mindless bodies of the recently buried, with the speculation that a toxin from shellfish was used to create the zombies by putting victims into a state which resembled death and which made the zombies the mental slaves of zombie masters. There was great interest in the article, and when prohibition was lifted, bartenders were quick to create a rum drink called ''the zombie.'' The cocktails were a great hit with the general public. The Halprin brothers made the first movie which used the word ''zombie'', as others have detailed, and during World War II several other movies about zombies were used, the best of which is the lyrically photographed ''I Walked with a Zombie.'' The term is now used to describe a fictional being, a reanimated body which has no goal other than the need to eat the flesh of the living. The first zombies of that variety appeared in George Romero's 1969 movie, ''The Night of the Living Dead.'' The flesh eating corpses were invented by Romero and another comic book fan who took the visual details of animated corpses from various comic book published by EC comics. The movie was a hit, and served as the spark which produced several other movies featuring such creatures, which Romero called ''zombies'' and which critics and horror movie magazines also called ''zombies.'' Chances are the second type of zombies are the ones you are thinking of when you asked about the ''first zombie movie,'' since very few movie fans of the past fourty years are aware that there is another variety of fictional creatures which appeared in much earlier movies.