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** A powerful necromancer has used an ancient curse to revive the dead.
** A crashed spacecraft has been infected with a strange extraterrestrial microbe, which has spread on Earth.
** [[Dawn of the Dead (
** The zombies were constructed in a laboratory, and carry a virus that it can spread.
** [[Overlord (
* '''Inverted''': [[
* '''Subverted''':
** The zombies turn out to be [[What Measure Is a Non
** Every human who ever died is coming back to life and walking around for food... they just need some food, medicine, and bedrest to heal back to their normal selves. The living are just panicking and shooting them on sight out of fear, this results in the 'zombies' attacking them out of self defense and the people who died revive shortly after. The movie stops when everyone agrees to stop killing each other.
** [[Corpse Bride
** The zombies are dispatched easily and society proceeds as normal.
* '''Doubly Subverted''':
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** The virus itself slows down decomposition and, while stripping away everything else, manages to keep its host body working enough to pose a threat to humans.
** ...Or, they decay rapidly and pose no threat... unless there's a whole mob of them.
** It's not just zombies - they sometimes turn into mutants that make [[Prototype (
** While helicopters and 50 caliber machine guns are an insurmountable obstacle for the zombie hordes, the survivors are all civilians out in the boonies who do not have access to them. While all the survivors need to do is hold out while the military prepares to move in, the zombies possess inhuman strength and an ambush predator cunning, and ammunition is scarce. The tension lies in not "can the zombies be contained?" but "[[Hold the Line|can the survivors hold out long enough for help to arrive?]]"
* '''Zig Zagged''':
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