When did the concept of "zombie" begin to appear?

Zombie, in English, comes from the name of the dead who was resurrected by a wizard in voodoo. Although voodoo has an ancient voodoo culture and ancestor worship, its actual age is very young, and it originated from the slave movement in the era of great navigation. The living dead is an important legend in voodoo, and it is a means used by voodoo to solve hatred. Locals will look for wizards to frame their enemies. Voodoo wizards will poison their victims, bury them after death, then dig up the bodies and turn them into living dead to be slaves. In Haitian society at that time, such a thing was circulated everywhere, and was later made into the movie night of the living dead as inspiration.

1968 The movie night of the living dead directed by Joe George A. Romero was the earliest zombie movie. The director once said in the documentary "The Birth of the Living Dead" released in 20 13 that his zombie movies are the product of a lot of anger, because the reform in the 1960s did not bring any progress. The people in his movies were besieged by zombies, which was actually a metaphor for the current situation of American society at that time. It is a metaphor for the American government that was mired in the Vietnam War and the American people who were gradually decadent because of various social problems. An American website once made a statistic to find out the relationship between zombie movies and current events, and found a very interesting conclusion: the mass production of zombie movies is always accompanied by social unrest. So zombies just represent the sense of crisis in people's hearts. Just a symbolic symbol. Zombies just hit some image representatives of people's fears: virus, infection, aggression, irrationality, chaos and death.

According to legend, in A.D. 19 10, this word was sent back to the United States by the United States Marine Corps fighting in Haiti, so it is well known to the world. Later, this concept was borrowed by George A. Romero, a film director, and introduced into the early black-and-white version of night of the living dead, which made the image of zombies widely circulated, and many movies with zombies as the theme appeared in later generations.