American filmmaker George A. Romero is widely associated with shaping the modern fictional zombie through Night of the Living Dead (1968). His creatures were flesh-eating walking dead rather than the controlled figures of Haitian Vodou tradition. Although the film itself did not call them “zombies,” audiences later adopted the term, and Romero’s later films helped establish the familiar modern form.
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