10 Zombie Movies That Broke All The Genre Rules, Including 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
via screenrant.com
Short excerpt below. Read at the original source.
Zombie movies started as a Haitian voodoo horror trope, where village priests would hypnotize victims and then bury them until their brains were dead enough to simply serve their new master. However, things changed in the 1960s when George A. Romero decided he wanted to reinvent the entire genre.