In fiction, a zombie animal is a non-human creature that becomes a zombie. Numerous types of animals have been portrayed as zombies - a zombie dog appeared in the film The Last Man on Earth in 1964,[1] and an infected dog is the source of the zombie virus in REC (2007). Night of the Zombies (1981) features a scare from a zombie cat,[2] as does Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. A jump scare scene featuring zombie dogs in the first Resident Evil is considered to be a seminal horror scene in video game history.[3][4][5]
In real life
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While predominantly a fictional concept when applied to larger mammals, there have been instances of insects, 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
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edit- ^ Shawn McIntosh, Marc Leverette Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead 2008 page 58
- ^ John Kenneth Muir Horror Films of the 1980s 2010 p 403 ".. The “cat jolt” scare is given an upgrade, when the SWAT team witnesses a zombie cat burrow out of a corpse's chest."
- ^ "Resident Evil's Window Dogs Set The Standard For Video Game Scares". Kotaku. 4 April 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ "The Memory Card .07: Attack of the zombie dog!". Destructoid. 15 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ Stuart, Keith; MacDonald, Keza (October 31, 2018). "The 13 scariest video game moments ever". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.