The zombie movie underwent some fascinating changes during the 1980s. Ever since George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" established the zombie as we know it today way back in 1968, the general concept of the zombie hasn't wavered much — they're the re-animated dead who hunger for flesh and/or brains, and so on — but there have been numerous permutations regarding the origins, behavior, and rules of zombies. Romero's "Night" and "Dawn of the Dead" presented the advent of a zombie outbreak as something supernaturally mysterious, and many subsequent films followed suit, especially Lucio Fulci's zombie flicks. Yet others took a more direct approach to the creatures' origins, with the likes of David Cronenberg's "Rabid" (1977) and Umberto Lenzi's "Nightmare City" (1980) adapting the

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