Urban Gothic

Urban Gothic

Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, horror and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain and the United States and developed in British novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). In the twentieth century, urban Gothic helped influence the creation of the sub-genres of Southern Gothic and suburban Gothic. From the 1980s, interest in the urban Gothic revived with books like Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and a number of graphic novels that drew on dark city landscapes, leading to adaptations in film including Batman (1989), The Crow (1994) and From Hell (2001), as well as influencing films like Seven (1995).

This is a list of zombie films. Zombies are creatures usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings. While zombie films generally fall into the horror genre, some cross over into other genres, such as comedy, science fiction, thriller, or romance. Distinct sub-genres have evolved, such as the "zombie comedy" or the "zombie apocalypse". Zombies are distinct from ghosts, mummies, or vampires, so this list does not include films devoted to these types of undead.

Victor Halperin's White Zombie was released in 1932 and is often cited to be the first zombie film.However, arguments have been made that the 'somnambulism' in the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) was an earlier example, involving a character in a state similar to that exhibited by zombies.And of course, the 1910 film Frankenstein features a reanimated corpse.