The Return of the Living Dead is known for introducing the popular concept of zombies eating brains, as opposed to just eating human flesh, like previous zombie iterations, as well as its soundtrack, which features several noted deathrock and punk rock bands of the era.

Based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook, White Zombie tells the story of a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master played by Bela Lugosi.

Gypsy moth caterpillars can be infected by a baculovirus that hypnotizes them into climbing to the top of trees where they die, liquefy, and rain viral particles on the foliage below to infect other caterpillars.

The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, which is besieged by a large and growing group of "living dead" monsters.

In The Walking Dead, Grimes reunites with his family and becomes the leader of a group of other survivors. Together, they struggle to adapt to a post-apocalyptic world filled with walkers and opposing groups of survivors, who are often more dangerous than the walkers themselves.

The reason for the frequency of Dobermans being infected with the t-Virus was Chief Brian Irons' suggestion to the K9 unit that the breed be used as the police dog for the Raccoon City Police Department.

"Monster Mash" was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart October 20-27, 1962, and has been a perennial Halloween favorite ever since.

Mix light and dark rum and brandy in a cocktail shaker, add lime juice and grenadine. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with cracked ice. Fill glass with orange juice but leave enough room to float the 151 on top. Garnish with a cherry and orange slice.

In Thriller, Michael Jackson and his girlfriend (played by Ola Ray) are confronted by zombies while walking home from a movie theater. Jackson becomes a zombie and performs a dance routine with a horde of the undead.

Davis presented a pharmacological case for zombies in a 1983 paper in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, in which he suggested that a powerful neurotoxin found in the flesh of the pufferfish, combined with various deliriant drugs, could produce a deathlike state in which the will of the victim would be entirely subjected to that of its "voodoo" master.