Book of the Dead

"One of cinema's most enduring monsters, the zombie has been terrifying audiences around the world for decades. Book of the Dead charts the ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from the creature's origins in Haitian voodoo and its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie, right up to recent blockbuster hits like 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and Land of the Dead." "Covering hundreds of movies from America, Europe and Asia, this exhaustive history chronicles the zombie's on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Along the way, Book of the Dead takes in Bela Lugosi B-movies, Italian gore films, blind monk zombies, shot-on-video backyard epics, all-time classics such as I Walked with a Zombie, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, and the videogame phenomenon of Resident Evil." "Complete with hundreds of stills and artwork including 64 pages of colour illustrations, and an exhaustive filmography, Book of the Dead explains why we continue to be so fascinated by these fugitives from the undertaker."--BOOK JACKET.