<Tr> <Th> Type </Th> <Td> Undead (influenced by Haitian Zombie), Vampire, Ghoul </Td> </Tr> <P> The modern conception of the zombie owes itself almost entirely to George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead . In his films, Romero "bred the zombie with the vampire, and what he got was the hybrid vigour of a ghoulish plague monster". This entailed an apocalyptic vision of monsters that have come to be known as Romero zombies . </P> <P> Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun - Times chided theater owners and parents who allowed children access to the film . "I don't think the younger kids really knew what hit them," complained Ebert . "They were used to going to movies, sure, and they'd seen some horror movies before, sure, but this was something else ." According to Ebert, the film affected the audience immediately: </P> <P> "The kids in the audience were stunned . There was almost complete silence . The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying . There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying ." </P>

Where did the idea of zombies come from