Origins -- The 1930s: the zombie film's beginnings -- The 1940s: laughing at the zombies ... and an early end? -- The 1950s: the drive-in, the atom bomb, and the radioactive zombie -- The 1960s: The weird, wild psychedelic era and the reinvention of the zombie -- Know your monsters! -- The 1970s: Spanish zombies, satire, and blaxploitation -- Some of the weirdest/funniest/most disturbing things I've seen in zombie films -- The 1980s: Italy reigns and the horror boom explodes ... and fizzles -- Interviews : Antonella Fulci ; Greg Nicotero -- The 1990s: the end of the zombie -- and the resurrection in video games and on DVD -- Interviews : Tom Savini ; Stuart Conran -- The new millennium: Japan takes center stage, and the big-budget zombie arises -- Interviews : Colin Geddes ; John Migliore ; Jennifer Baxter ; Adventures undercover as a zombie on Land of the dead! ; Interviews: Andrew Currie ; Gaslight Studios ; The highest-grossing zombie films of all time -- Hope for the future, or the beginning of the end ... again? -- The greatest zombie films ever made -- Appendix : Zombieless zombie movies.