Skip to content

Top Navigation

EW.com EW.com
    • All TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • Recaps
    • What to Watch
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Family
    • Horror
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
    • All Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
    • All Music
    • Music Reviews
    • All What to Watch
    • What to Watch Podcast Episodes
    • TV Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
    • All BINGE
    • EW's Binge Podcast Episodes
    • Recaps
    • Survivor
    • This is Us
    • RuPaul's Drag Race
    • Stranger Things
    • The Boys
    • The Blacklist
    • The Walking Dead
    • Better Call Saul
    • All The Awardist
    • The Awardist Podcast Episodes
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
    • All Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
    • All Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
    • All Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe

Explore EW.com

EW.com EW.com
  • Explore

    Explore

    • Comic-Con 2022: Stars strike a pose in EW's photo studio

      Comic-Con 2022: Stars strike a pose in EW's photo studio

      From the casts of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever  and The Walking Dead  to Chris Pine and Regé Jean-Page, see who dropped by EW's Comic-Con headquarters at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. Read More
    • Power players: Inside The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

      Power players: Inside The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

      Go behind the scenes of Amazon Prime Video’s ambitious fantasy epic, which hopes to introduce J.R.R. Tolkien to a new generation. Read More
    • Biggest bombshells in unsealed Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard court docs: Erectile dysfunction, nude photos, and Marilyn Manson

      Biggest bombshells in unsealed Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard court docs: Erectile dysfunction, nude photos, and Marilyn Manson

      Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be more to learn about the high-profile defamation trial, more than 6,000 pages of court docs were released over the weekend. Read More
  • TV

    TV

    See All TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • Recaps
    • What to Watch
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Family
    • Horror
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
  • Movies

    Movies

    See All Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
  • Music

    Music

    See All Music
    • Music Reviews
  • What to Watch

    What to Watch

    See All What to Watch
    • What to Watch Podcast Episodes
    • TV Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
  • BINGE

    BINGE

    See All BINGE
    • EW's Binge Podcast Episodes
    • Recaps
    • Survivor
    • This is Us
    • RuPaul's Drag Race
    • Stranger Things
    • The Boys
    • The Blacklist
    • The Walking Dead
    • Better Call Saul
  • The Awardist

    The Awardist

    See All The Awardist
    • The Awardist Podcast Episodes
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
  • Books

    Books

    See All Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
  • Theater

    Theater

    See All Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
  • Events

    Events

    See All Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home
  2. Gallery
  3. Zombies A-Z: An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Dead

Zombies A-Z: An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Dead

Thanks to ''Zombieland,'' what was once an entrail-strewn footnote to the horror genre is now mainstream. Whether it's your first juicy taste of zombie mayhem or your hundredth, you'll want to devour our encyclopedia of all things undead.
By Clark Collis and Chris Nashawaty Updated October 09, 2009 at 02:00 AM EDT
Skip gallery slides
FB

1 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

1

George Romero, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Credit: Michael Gibson

1 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

2

The Return of the Living Dead | B IS FOR BRAINS While your average zombie will happily nosh on arms, legs, or intestines (be they upper or lower), 1985's Return of the…

B IS FOR BRAINS While your average zombie will happily nosh on arms, legs, or intestines (be they upper or lower), 1985's Return of the Living Dead singled out this sweetmeat as their repast of choice.

2 of 26

3 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

3

Marvel | C IS FOR COMIC BOOKS AMC is developing a show based on the comic The Walking Dead . The giddy, gory Marvel Zombies has proven…
Credit: Marvel Entertainment

C IS FOR COMIC BOOKS AMC is developing a show based on the comic The Walking Dead. The giddy, gory Marvel Zombies has proven that even superheroes get cravings. Hulk...eat...brains!

3 of 26

Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

4 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

4

Shaun of the Dead | D IS FOR DEAD If it's a zombie movie, there's a good chance it has this word in the title. See: Dawn of the Dead,…

D IS FOR DEAD If it's a zombie movie, there's a good chance it has this word in the title. See: Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and...

4 of 26

Advertisement

5 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

5

Erotic Nights of the Dead | E IS FOR EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD Think you can't mix '80s soft-core porn and zombies? Think again.

E IS FOR EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD Think you can't mix '80s soft-core porn and zombies? Think again.

5 of 26

6 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

6

Zombie | F IS FOR FULCI As in Lucio Fulci, Italian gore-teur whose infamous 1980 epic Zombie , a.k.a. Zombie Flesh Eaters , a.k.a. Zombi 2 ,…

F IS FOR FULCI As in Lucio Fulci, Italian gore-teur whose infamous 1980 epic Zombie, a.k.a. Zombie Flesh Eaters, a.k.a. Zombi 2, featured an unforgettably awesome underwater smackdown between a pasty-faced zombie and a real live shark.

6 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

7 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

7

Dawn of the Dead (Movie - 1978) | G IS FOR GOBLIN , the colorfully named prog-rock band who performed the doom-drenched soundtrack to the European version of the 1978 classic Dawn of…

G IS FOR GOBLIN, the colorfully named prog-rock band who performed the doom-drenched soundtrack to the European version of the 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead.

7 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

8 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

8

Dawn of the Dead (Movie - 1978) | H IS FOR HEAD SHOT How do you kill a zombie? Well, you can try kindness. But we'd suggest shooting it in the head.

H IS FOR HEAD SHOT How do you kill a zombie? Well, you can try kindness. But we'd suggest shooting it in the head.

8 of 26

Advertisement

9 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

9

Apple | I IS FOR iPHONE Can you really put a price on preparedness for the inevitable zombie apocalypse? Of course not! So why not cough up…

I IS FOR iPHONE Can you really put a price on preparedness for the inevitable zombie apocalypse? Of course not! So why not cough up 99 cents for the Zombie Survival Kit iPhone app?

9 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

10 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

10

Peter Jackson, Bad Taste | J IS FOR JACKSON, PETER Sure, we all think of the hirsute Kiwi director as the visionary behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But…
Credit: Everett Collection

J IS FOR JACKSON, PETER Sure, we all think of the hirsute Kiwi director as the visionary behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But before he got rich and respectable, he was a zombie nerd. Exhibit A: his gooey 1993 cheapie Dead Alive, a.k.a. Braindead.

10 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

11 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

11

K IS FOR KARO SYRUP, the key ingredient in fake movie blood for any makeup F/X artist (see ''S is for Savini''). Essential for splatter…

K IS FOR KARO SYRUP, the key ingredient in fake movie blood for any makeup F/X artist (see ''S is for Savini''). Essential for splatter and viscosity.

11 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

12 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

12

Dennis Hopper, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead | L IS FOR LAND OF THE DEAD Usually a ghetto for no-name actors, the zombie genre got a dose of A-list (okay, maybe B-list) cachet…
Credit: Michael Gibson

L IS FOR LAND OF THE DEAD Usually a ghetto for no-name actors, the zombie genre got a dose of A-list (okay, maybe B-list) cachet with 2005's Land of the Dead, which starred Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, and the dude from The Mentalist.

12 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

13 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

13

Dawn of the Dead (Movie - 1978) | M IS FOR MONROEVILLE MALL If you take Exit 57 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you'll find yourself at the most hallowed landmark in zombie-movie lore…
Credit: Everett Collection

M IS FOR MONROEVILLE MALL If you take Exit 57 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you'll find yourself at the most hallowed landmark in zombie-movie lore — the shopping center from George A. Romero's consumerist satire Dawn of the Dead. Come for the Auntie Anne's Pretzels, stay to photograph yourself eating fake guts. But please don't tell them we sent you.

13 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

14 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

14

Dead Snow | Vacationing medical students are terrorized by German ghouls in the best of the Nazi zombie subgenre (see also 1977's Shock Waves and 2008's Outpost ).
Credit: Sveinung Svendsen

N IS FOR NAZIS What could possibly be nastier than zombies? How about zombies that sport jackboots, swastika armbands, and iron crosses? Remarkably, there have been at least three Nazi-zombie films: 1977's Shock Waves, 2008's Outpost, and 2009's Dead Snow (pictured).

14 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

15 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

15

O IS FOR ORANGE UNIFORMS Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'' video brought zombie choreography to the masses — which ultimately included Day-Glo-clad Filipino prison inmates, who re-created…
Credit: Bullit Marquez/AP Images

O IS FOR ORANGE UNIFORMS Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'' video brought zombie choreography to the masses — which ultimately included Day-Glo-clad Filipino prison inmates, who re-created MJ's moves in a 2007 viral hit.

15 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

16 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

16

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES , by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith , and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE on Blu-Ray Feast on Grahame-Smith's marriage of Austen…

P IS FOR PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES ''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'' So begins this year's unlikeliest publishing sensation, a tea-drinking, flesh-eating riff on Jane Austen's romantic literary classic.

16 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

17 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

17

Jennifer Carpenter, Quarantine
Credit: John Bramley

Q IS FOR QUARANTINE, a Hollywood remake of the terrifying 2007 Spanish POV chiller [REC], in which a TV journalist is trapped in an apartment complex full of infected cannibals. Also: the only zombie movie we can think of that begins with Q.

17 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

18 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

18

28 Days Later | R IS FOR RUNNING ZOMBIES Zombie geeks are a pretty peaceful lot. Except when it comes to the heated debate over fast- versus slow-moving zombies.…
Credit: Peter Mountain

R IS FOR RUNNING ZOMBIES Zombie geeks are a pretty peaceful lot. Except when it comes to the heated debate over fast- versus slow-moving zombies. While Romero's old-school series espouses the lumbering-undead model, younger directors such as Zack Snyder (2004's Dawn of the Dead remake) and Danny Boyle (2002's 28 Days Later, pictured) feature zombies that make Usain Bolt look like a slowpoke.

18 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

19 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

19

Tom Savini | S IS FOR SAVINI Ever felt queasy watching a zombie film? You can probably thank Tom Savini, the makeup F/X legend whose credits include 1978's…
Credit: Carolyn M. Bauman/AP Images

S IS FOR SAVINI Ever felt queasy watching a zombie film? You can probably thank Tom Savini, the makeup F/X legend whose credits include 1978's Dawn of the Dead and 1985's Day of the Dead.

19 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

20 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

20

Night of the Living Dead (Movie - 1968) | T IS FOR ''THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBRA!'' The most famous line in zombie-movie history is uttered by Russell Streiner, who's attempting to creep…
Credit: Everett Collection

T IS FOR ''THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBRA!'' The most famous line in zombie-movie history is uttered by Russell Streiner, who's attempting to creep out his scaredy-cat sister (played by Judith O'Dea) in 1968's Night of the Living Dead. In a deliciously sick, ironic twist toward the end of the film, it's Streiner who comes for Sis, after being turned into one of...them.

20 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

21 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

21

Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil | Saved mostly by Milla Jovovich's lithe performance as Alice, this combustive zombie flick had two sequels — Apocalypse (2004) and Extinction (2007) — and a…
Credit: Everett Collection

U IS FOR UMBRELLA CORPORATION, the nefarious bioengineering firm responsible for the zombie plague in the Resident Evil videogames and the Milla Jovovich-starring big-screen spin-offs.

21 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

22 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

22

Twilight, Robert Pattinson | EDWARD CULLEN (Robert Pattinson) Twilight (2008) Judging by the sustained mass hysteria around The Twilight Saga , Edward will be in the hearts, minds, and…
Credit: Peter Sorel

V IS FOR VAMPIRES Yes, they're also undead, but in a dreamy, come-hither, mooning-over-sulky-chicks sort of way (see Robert Pattinson, pictured). We'll side with the zombies in a street fight, thanks.

22 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

23 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

23

Woody Harrelson, Zombieland | W IS FOR WOODY HARRELSON We all remember his cold-blooded shooting spree in Natural Born Killers , and now we're never going to forget seeing…
Credit: Glen Wilson

W IS FOR WOODY HARRELSON We all remember his cold-blooded shooting spree in Natural Born Killers, and now we're never going to forget seeing the country bumpkin barkeep from Cheers blasting away at the undead in Zombieland.

Woody Harrelson talks Zombieland and more in the Oct. 16 issue of Entertainment Weekly, on sale now.

23 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement

24 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

24

The X-Files, David Duchovny, ... | X IS FOR X-FILES, THE Given the hit show's monster-of-the-week nature, it was only a matter of time before Mulder and Scully wanted to believe…
Credit: David Gray

X IS FOR X-FILES, THE Given the hit show's monster-of-the-week nature, it was only a matter of time before Mulder and Scully wanted to believe in zombies. The episode in question: a doozy from 1999 in which they investigated a (possibly) zombie-related conspiracy with the assistance of Lance Henriksen's Frank Black.

24 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

25 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

25

Night of the Living Dead (Movie - 1968) | Y IS FOR YOUNG ZOMBIES Kids. They won't just eat you out of house and home in zombie movies — they'll eat you, too! One…

Y IS FOR YOUNG ZOMBIES Kids. They won't just eat you out of house and home in zombie movies — they'll eat you, too! One of the many taboo-trashing scenes in Night of the Living Dead had a young girl in a flowered dress taking a chomp out of her father's arm as a snack.

25 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

26 of 26

FB
Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message

26

The Zombie Survival Guide | Z IS FOR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, THE If you want to tie a sheepshank knot, the Boy Scout Handbook is your best bet. If zombies…

Z IS FOR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, THE If you want to tie a sheepshank knot, the Boy Scout Handbook is your best bet. If zombies are attacking, try Max (son of Mel) Brooks' tongue-in-cheek guide to making it through World War Z.

26 of 26

Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

  • By Clark Collis @clarkcollis
  • By Chris Nashawaty

    Share the Gallery

    Pinterest Facebook
    Trending Videos
    Advertisement
    Skip slide summaries

    Everything in This Slideshow

    Advertisement

    View All

    1 of 26 1
    2 of 26 2
    3 of 26 3
    4 of 26 4
    5 of 26 5
    6 of 26 6
    7 of 26 7
    8 of 26 8
    9 of 26 9
    10 of 26 10
    11 of 26 11
    12 of 26 12
    13 of 26 13
    14 of 26 14
    15 of 26 15
    16 of 26 16
    17 of 26 17
    18 of 26 18
    19 of 26 19
    20 of 26 20
    21 of 26 21
    22 of 26 22
    23 of 26 23
    24 of 26 24
    25 of 26 25
    26 of 26 26

    Share & More

    Tweet Pinterest Email Send Text Message
    EW.com

    Magazines & More

    Learn More

    • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
    • Advertise this link opens in a new tab
    • Content Licensing this link opens in a new tab
    • Accolades this link opens in a new tab

    Connect

    Subscribe to Our Newsletter
    Meredith© Copyright 2022 Meredith Corporation. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
    © Copyright EW.com. All rights reserved. Printed from https://ew.com

    View image

    Zombies A-Z: An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Dead
    this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.