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Zombie
Zombie: reanimated corpse or virus-infected human in horror fiction, Haitian Creole zonbi, Haitian French zombi. Word recorded 1819 by Robert Southey; raised by a bokor in Haitian folklore; remade as flesh-eater by Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead.
Zombie (album)
Zombie is a 1976 album by Fela Kuti & Africa '70 whose title track mocked blind military obedience; the army banned it and burned Fela's compound in 1977.
Zombie (cocktail)
Zombie cocktail: 1934 tiki drink by Donn Beach at Don the Beachcomber's, Hollywood; three-rum punch with Don's Mix, falernum, and Pernod; secret coded recipe lost until Jeff Beachbum Berry decoded it in 2007; two-per-customer limit.
Zombie (The Cranberries song)
Zombie (The Cranberries song): 1994 protest anthem by Dolores O'Riordan, written after the 1993 Warrington IRA bombing that killed two children; number 1 across Europe and Australia, UK peak 14.
Zombie (Yungblud song)
Zombie is a 2025 ballad by Yungblud (Dominic Harrison), third single from Idols, written about his grandmother and nurses, with a Florence Pugh video, a Smashing Pumpkins rework, and a Best Rock Song Grammy nomination.
Zombie apocalypse
Zombie apocalypse: fictional horror scenario where contagion turns humanity into infectious zombies and civilization collapses; rooted in Haitian Vodou, defined by Romero's Living Dead films, spread via Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead.
Zombie Army Trilogy
Zombie Army Trilogy is a 2015 third-person zombie shooter by Rebellion for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, remastering the Nazi Zombie Army games with a new third chapter.
Zombie cookie
A zombie cookie is a tracking cookie that is automatically recreated after a user deletes it, restored from backups such as Flash cookies, ETags, or HTML5 storage.
Zombie film
Zombie film: horror subgenre featuring undead or infected hordes. Began with White Zombie (1932) from Haitian folklore; reinvented by Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968); revived by fast zombies in 28 Days Later (2002).
Zombie Land Saga (ゾンビランドサガ)
Zombie Land Saga (ゾンビランドサガ) is a Japanese original anime by Cygames, MAPPA, and Avex Pictures about seven girls resurrected as zombies forming the Saga idol group Franchouchou; two TV seasons (2018, 2021) and the 2025 film Yumeginga Paradise, plus Saga Prefecture tourism tie-ins.
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (ゾンビランドサガ ゆめぎんがパラダイス) is a 2025 MAPPA anime film sequel to the Zombie Land Saga TV series, in which zombie idols Franchouchou face an alien invasion at the Saga Expo; released in Japan October 24, 2025 and North America January 19, 2026.
Zombie Plane
Zombie Plane is an Australian action-comedy horror film (completed 2023, released 2025-2026) directed by Lav Bodnaruk and Michael Mier, starring Vanilla Ice, Sophie Monk, and Chuck Norris as celebrity secret agents fighting a zombie outbreak on a Sydney-to-LA flight; it is Chuck Norris's final film.
Zombie process
A zombie process, also called a defunct process, is a terminated Unix process that keeps its process-table entry until the parent reads its exit status.
Zombie Reddy (జోంబీ రెడ్డి)
Zombie Reddy (జోంబీ రెడ్డి), 2021 Telugu horror comedy by Prasanth Varma, Telugu cinema's first zombie film, starring Teja Sajja, set amid a Rayalaseema faction rivalry; sequel Nxt Lvl planned for 2027.
Zombieboy
Zombieboy is a Lady Gaga song from her 2025 album MAYHEM, track 7, a disco-funk tribute to Rick Genest (Zombie Boy) of the Born This Way video; written with Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and James Fauntleroy, it debuted at No. 76 on the Billboard Global 200.
Zombieland
Zombieland (2009) is an American zombie comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin; it began as a 2005 CBS TV pilot, grossed $102 million, and spawned Double Tap (2019).
Zombieland: Double Tap
Zombieland: Double Tap, also known as Zombieland 2, is a 2019 American zombie comedy sequel directed by Ruben Fleischer, reuniting Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.
Zombiepowder.
Zombiepowder. (ゾンビパウダー) is Tite Kubo’s four-volume manga, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1999–2000, about criminals hunting the 12 Rings of the Dead.
Zombies (2018 film)
Zombies (Z-O-M-B-I-E-S) is a 2018 Disney Channel Original Movie musical directed by Paul Hoen, starring Milo Manheim as zombie Zed and Meg Donnelly as cheerleader Addison in Seabrook, 50 years after a zombie apocalypse; it premiered February 16, 2018 and spawned a multi-film franchise.
Zombies 2
Zombies 2 (Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2) is a 2020 Disney Channel Original Movie musical sequel directed by Paul Hoen, starring Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, in which werewolves arrive in Seabrook and threaten Zed and Addison's romance; it premiered February 14, 2020.
Zombies 3
Zombies 3 (2022) is the third Disney Zombies musical film, premiering July 15, 2022 on Disney+. Directed by Paul Hoen, starring Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, it follows Zed and Addison's final Seabrook year disrupted by aliens.
Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires
Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4) is a 2025 Disney Channel Original Movie, fourth in the ZOMBIES musical franchise, pitting Daywalkers against Vampires at Camp Rayburn; premiered July 10, 2025, directed by Paul Hoen, starring Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly, Freya Skye, and Malachi Barton.
Zombies 5: Secrets of the Sea
Zombies 5: Secrets of the Sea (Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 5) is the fifth Disney Channel Zombies musical, a sequel to Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, directed by Paul Hoen, starring Malachi Barton and Freya Skye, introducing mermaids in Rayburn, releasing summer 2027 on Disney+ and Disney Channel.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (ZAMN) is a 1993 LucasArts top-down comedy-horror shooter published by Konami for SNES and Sega Genesis, where Zeke and Julie rescue ten neighbors per level from B-movie monsters across 55 levels, with SNES purple-blood censorship versus Genesis red blood.
Zombies: The Re-Animated Series
Zombies: The Re-Animated Series (Z-O-M-B-I-E-S: The Re-Animated Series) is Disney Television Animation's 2024 animated musical comedy spinoff of the ZOMBIES films, created by Jack Ferraiolo and Aliki Theofilopoulos, in which Zed and Addison redo their senior year using alien time-warp tech.
Zombieverse (좀비버스)
Zombieverse (좀비버스) is a Netflix South Korean comedy-horror reality-variety series created by Park Jin-kyung and Moon Sang-don, premiering August 8, 2023, where celebrities survive zombie-quest scenarios in Seoul; Season 2, New Blood, arrived November 19, 2024.
ZombiU
ZombiU is a first-person survival horror game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and released in 2012 as a launch title for the Wii U, set in a zombie-infested London.
Zombo.com
Zombo.com, also called Zombocom, is a single-serving parody website launched in 1999 mocking Flash intro pages with a looping voiceover promising 'you can do anything'; the domain changed hands in 2026, with the classic version preserved at html5zombo.com.
Zomby
Zomby is the pseudonym of a British electronic musician from London whose releases for Hyperdub, 4AD, and XL have mutated hardcore techno, grime, and dubstep since 2007.
Zomepirac
Zomepirac (Zomax), a pyrrole-acetic acid NSAID related to tolmetin, was an oral nonopioid analgesic for mild to severe pain, comparable to IM morphine, withdrawn worldwide in March 1983 after fatal anaphylactoid reactions.