Are zombies becoming alive?

[Ted C]

There are a lot of interpretations.

In Romero films, the infected die and then return to unlife.

In Russo films, the infected can transition from living to unliving without any "dead time". The chemical hazard that creates the zombies can animate dead bodies, but it can also transform a living human directly into a zombie.

In the Zombieland movies, the zombies are alive, but they're effectively mindless cannibals.

In White Zombie, the zombies are living humans who are entranced and controlled by a drug.

And of course you get the occasional fantasy movie in which zombies are corpses animated by magic.

So the zombie genre is all over the map about the details of the "infection".

[RCMerchant]

In White Zombie, the zombies are living humans who are entranced and controlled by a drug.

I dunno- the lead zombie gets shot and the bullet leaves a hole- but no blood is shown and it doen't affect him whatsoever.