The film War World Z is based on the novel World War: and oral history of the zombie war by Max Brooks. The film was released in 2013 with Marc Forster as the director. The film stars Brad Pitt as the main character, Gary Lane.
The term zombie originates from Afro-Caribbean mystical arts from Haiti. This term was known as “zonbi”. The Haitian zonbi is known to be believed by slaves as a return of the body. “A person bodily raised from the grave and turned into a slave worker (McAlister, 2012, pg. 2). The body and soul are separated and are compelled to work. The CDC defines ancient zombie as “a duel identity of zonbis. One form of zonbis is an ambulatory body without a living soul, and the other, lesser-known form is a soul wandering without the body” (Narisruddin, Halabi, Dao, Chen and Brown, 2013). Through time, the US pop culture of the zombie in film has evolved in many ways. This is because the zombies today do not resemble being dead and coming back to life like the Haitian zonbis. The zombies as we know it are infected by a virus as opposed to being awakened by spiritual, voodoo magic. The dead are still alive and have turned into a creature that eats its own kind. The zombies in film today are hungry for human flesh, pale, disgusting, and have lost all personal autonomy. Today, zombies are a very popular pop-culture. They appear in films, TV shows, video games, graphic novels, comic books, and songs. “What nearly all understandings and depictions of popular culture zombies have in common is a flexible creature designed to evoke our macabre and natural disasters, conflicts and wars, and crime and violence” ( Todd, 2013). The best part about it is that the zombie is portrayed differently every time and has evolved drastically. Every literature about the figure of the zombie is always different from one another. Therefore there is really no singular definition of the zombie because of the inconsistent representation of zombie characteristics.
Haiti Zombi VS World War Z Zombies
The Zombie War 