History Main / VoodooZombie

* In ''ComicBook/{{Arrowsmith}}'', voodoo zombies are seen as part of the Gallian colonial troops; where their role is presumably to serve as cannon fodder.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Creator/CarlBarks wrote a ComicBook/DonaldDuck comic, "Voodoo Hoodoo", where a zombie [[RhymingNames named Bombie]] from DarkestAfrica wants to give Donald a cursed doll to shrink him. The shaman who originally placed the curse was an enemy of Donald's uncle Scrooge, who stole his tribe's land during the Scramble for Africa. ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' by Creator/DonRosa shows the original events: Scrooge, who strongly resembled his future nephew Donald when his beard is tucked back, changed his appearance back to confuse Bombie. However, the curse caused Bombie to keep tracking down Scrooge over the years until a different shaman in the Pacific Islands trapped Bombie there before he showed up in Duckburg.
* The hordes of undead raised by the Zombie Priest from ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' are fairly standard, although a few are capable of speech and performing complex tasks. The Zombie Priest himself isn't actually a zombie, but rather a demon in disguise. There's also Willie Nagel, a friendly and intelligent zombie.
* Papa Midnite from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' employs Zombies as a labor force, since he is a Voodoo magician they fit this trope.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', combined with FleshEatingZombie.
** [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]] ''Zuvembies'', on the other hand, are straight voodoo. Used because MediaNotes/TheComicsCode at the time prohibited "walking dead" monsters lacking a literary pedigree. The "zuvembie" name originated in Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Pigeons from Hell". (In Howard's story, the zuvembie was actually something unique-- see below.)
** Not to be confused with ''Marvel Zombies'' or Marvel's Zuvembies is Marvel's ''The Zombie''! The 1970s Marvel anthology ''Menace'' and larger magazine-format comic ''Tales of the Zombie'' brought you the misadventures of the late Simon Garth, cursed by a voodoo cult to shamble under the control of whoever came across the [[ArtifactDomination Amulet of Damballah]].
* The Rock Zombies in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. Although they turn out to be not actually undead, but rather people deformed and mind controlled by Magic. And then there's Dead George Pellham from the 1907 arc.
* [[Characters/GreenLantern1941Solomon Grundy]], from the Franchise/TheDCU and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, was a mobster who was killed and thrown in a cursed swamp. The curse caused him to reanimate decades later as a soulless, grey monster. Fortunately he doesn't reek due to being a ComicBook/GreenLantern1941 foe and thus [[WeaksauceWeakness made largely of plant matter]].
* In ''ComicBook/StrangeAcademy'', student Zoe Laveau turns out to be one of these underneath a magical appearance of a normal teenage girl given by an amulet, having died after carelessly using magic (which comes with a cost in the Marvel Universe) and needing to have been reanimated by her ancestor Marie Laveau.
* Such zombies sometime show up in ''ComicBook/TexWiller''. Differently from most occasions, they ''can'' be killed with ease by taking away or destroying the charm they wear as a necklace, as it's the thing keeping them reanimated.

** [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]] ''Zuvembies'', on the other hand, are straight voodoo. Used because UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode at the time prohibited "walking dead" monsters lacking a literary pedigree. The "zuvembie" name originated in Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Pigeons from Hell". (In Howard's story, the zuvembie was actually something unique-- see below.)

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/TheScarletCitadel", Pelias resurrects a jailer who was killed by Conan so that the two can be let out of their prison. This move ''creeps Conan the fuck out''.

The concept and word ''zombi'' originated in UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} beliefs in Haiti, though the etymological roots date back to West Africa. It referred to those enslaved by sorcerers (who were known as ''bokors'') who have not allowed them a peaceful death or have put them in trances to make them think they are dead.

Can be interpreted as a PrimalFear for enslaved people -- the enslaver who has taken everything from you even finding a way to deny you [[IDieFree the freedom of death]] and continue exploiting you forever.

Zombies based on this ancient tradition are typically slaves to a {{necromancer}} or other EvilSorcerer. If [[TechnicallyLivingZombie living]], they have been {{Brainwashed}} using drugs and/or MoreThanMindControl. If undead, they have been [[AnimateDead reanimated]] with {{blood|Magic}}, [[BlackMagic evil, or some other form of unholy magic]]. As such, they may be vulnerable to ReviveKillsZombie. In either case, one can easily see zombies of this breed as a WoobieSpecies for [[SlaveRace obvious reasons]]. {{Salt|Solution}}, of all things, can often break the spell, freeing the living and allowing the dead to rest...or to go after their master in a vengeful rage.

In zombie-related {{horror}}, the idea of a [[UndeadLaborers zombie slave]] has been [[OurZombiesAreDifferent largely replaced]] by [[FleshEatingZombie masterless monsters out to kill and eat the living]], as introduced by Creator/GeorgeARomero in ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|1978}}''. However, Voodoo Zombies still show up a lot in {{fantasy}}--and in horror about BlackMagic instead of a ZombieApocalypse--as a villainous necromancer's standard {{mooks}}, albeit often revived through other varieties of TheDarkArts besides HollywoodVoodoo. Related is the concept of undead villains like [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]], {{mumm|y}}ies, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] reanimating other dead people (often including their victims) [[ReforgedIntoAMinion as minions]]; such minions are often referred to as [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]] if a vampire reanimated them.

In zombie-related {{horror}}, the idea of a [[UndeadLaborers zombie slave]] has been [[OurZombiesAreDifferent largely replaced]] by [[FleshEatingZombie masterless monsters out to kill and eat the living]], as introduced by Creator/GeorgeARomero in ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''. However, Voodoo Zombies still show up a lot in {{fantasy}}--and in horror about BlackMagic instead of a ZombieApocalypse--as a villainous necromancer's standard {{mooks}}, albeit often revived through other varieties of TheDarkArts besides HollywoodVoodoo. Related is the concept of undead villains like [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]], {{mumm|y}}ies, and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] reanimating other dead people (often including their victims) [[ReforgedIntoAMinion as minions]]; such minions are often referred to as [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]] if a vampire reanimated them.

** [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] ''Zuvembies'', on the other hand, are straight voodoo. Used because UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode at the time prohibited "walking dead" monsters lacking a literary pedigree. The "zuvembie" name originated in Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Pigeons from Hell". (In Howard's story, the zuvembie was actually something unique-- see below.)

* [=ReDeads=] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' games sometimes have shades of these. While they are shambling corpses like traditional zombies, in their first appearance, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', they drop magic bottles whenever defeated, suggesting that they're animated by a spell (and may even be made of clay), and their ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' design is more tribal, with large pointy ears and earrings, and tall screaming heads like tiki faces.

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* The Zombie Master in Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series creates voodoo zombies. Neither the zombies nor their creator are threatening. Xanth zombies are mostly benign, although when called on to fight they make fearsome opponents. They are not contagious, although they deteriorate, and many suffer from brain-damage as their grey matter decomposes. They result either from the occasional person with unfinished business or from a corpse reanimated by the Zombie Master. Or, in one rather depressing case, [[spoiler:the Zombie Master himself after he suicides.]]
* Micah E. F. Martin's ''Literature/TheCanticle'' gives us ghouls, which are distressingly fast, hungry, and hard to kill. Still not very smart, though.
* Jim Butcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/DeadBeat'' pretty much skewers the idea of the Hollywood horror movie zombie, with Harry Dresden himself asking why someone would go to the trouble of working intricate dark magics just to get something that shuffles like an arthritic grandmother and thinks of nothing but brains (not to mention that, say, a [[spoiler:zombie dinosaur]] may well be a much better choice for the discerning wizard). The zombies of the Dresdenverse are pumped full of dark magic to the point that they're stronger and faster than the average human, as well as completely pliant to the will of the necromancer that raised them... provided they maintain the spell (by supplying a "heartbeat", usually via drumming), of course.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', when the malevolent Others kill someone, it reanimates as a "wight," a freezing cold zombie with glowing blue eyes. They are resistant to normal weapons but highly susceptible to fire. Hacked-off limbs continue to move for many days afterwards, but will eventually crumble apart.

* The Lifeless of ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' are pretty much treated like robots that happen to be made from reanimated corpses instead of metal. Once created they are perfectly obedient (though most have passwords built into them so that only certain people can command them) and will follow any instruction to the letter, though like real-world computers this often needs to be very specific to avoid LiteralGenie moments. They absolutely will ''not'' rampage or eat brains unless someone is stupid enough to tell them to. In the nation of Hallandren they are a widely accepted part of society, though in other parts of the world they are regarded as abominations.

* The T'lan Imass of ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' by Steven Erikson are several tribes of undead Neanderthals who underwent a ritual many thousands of years ago to make themselves undead so that they'd be able to carry out the full extermination of the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Jaghut]], their former masters, making them closer to the "Voodoo" sort of zombie than the others. In the present day, they've mostly lost their way, with many tribes having been wiped out completely and others simply losing their will to exist, turning them to dust.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/TheScarletCitadel", Pelias resurrects a jailer who was killed by Conan so that the two can be let out of their prison. This move ''creeps Conan the fuck out''.
* In ''Iron Dawn'', chryseids are leathery-skinned, sentient zombie minions animated by Simi-Ascalon's corrupted Egyptian magic.
* In ''Literature/BrownGirlInTheRing'' the gang lord Rudy controls several zombies using a process taught to him by a Ioa. [[spoiler: one of which is his own daughter, Mi-Jeanne]]
* ''The Boy Who Couldn't Die'': Has a mix of "voodoo magic" mixed with toxins used in real life hoodoo practices, who apparently did not have all the ingredients.
* In ''Cold Kiss'', Wren, who has PsychicPowers, brings back her boyfriend Danny using BlackMagic. [[spoiler: Unfortunately he has a DamagedSoul.]]

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'' there's a discussion of voodoo practices when the wizards get distracted from "Why is Windle Poons a zombie?" by the more interesting question "''Is'' Windle Poons ''technically'' a zombie?"
** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', Mrs Googol is a voodoo priestess who says she only raises zombies when there ain't no alternative, like when the house needs repainting. She is accompanied by Saturday: "He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs." [[spoiler: He's also the late Baron of Genua - yes, Baron Saturday.]] It's mentioned that Discworld voodoo can't bring someone back from the dead unless they have serious UnfinishedBusiness they want to come back for.
* ''Literature/SevenStars'': In the chapter "The Trouble With Barrymore", the villain is a sorcerer who has travelled around the world studying different magical traditions. It's revealed that his unusually stoic bodyguards are both zombies, mementoes of his study trip to Haiti.
* ''Literature/WorldsOfShadow'': Fetches, who were dead people raised by Shadow with magic. They can't talk well, will mindlessly obey orders, are completely emotionless and have a slight smell to them, but that's it. None eats people, nor anything else. They thus have more in common with the original Haitian mythology.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (infected with a Kryptonian virus).
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium Millennium]]" has corpses brought back to life using necromancy. They attack anyone in the vicinity who is not protected by a ring of blood or salt. They can be killed by a bullet to the head, but those injured by zombies don't turn into zombies unless actually killed (whereupon the spirits used to animate the corpses infect them).
* ''Series/TheCape'' had a group of people turned into the rough equivalent of voodoo zombies through TTX poisoning - a rare (for the show) case of ShownTheirWork.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E04ChildrenShouldntPlayWithDeadThings Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]", in which a girl killed in a car crash is brought back as a zombie by [[spoiler:a guy who had a crush on her]] using an ancient spell. She's actually pretty normal, [[spoiler:apart from being completely psychotic]].

* Literal Voodoo zombies appear in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'', summoned by Marie Laveau. The first time to deal with racists who had killed the son of one of her employees in the 70s, the second time [[spoiler: to attack the witches school]]. Less literal but still cases of resurrection by magic are [[spoiler: Kyle and Madison]].
* The "drugged into a deathlike trance and mind-controlled" version appears in the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Walking Dead". The bad guy attempts to do this to [=MacGyver=], but he is able to shake off the effects.
* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS02E14TheThinDeadLine The Thin Dead Line]]" has a KnightTemplar police captain raise murdered cops as Voodoo Zombies to continue patrolling the streets, which causes problems due to their tendency to unprovoked PoliceBrutality.
* Zombies in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty Dead Man's Party]]" are magically revived by a Nigerian demon. As Giles explains it, Zombies actually do not eat human flesh and there's no indication that they can be killed by hitting the head.
* In the ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' the Wesen known as Baron Samedi (a ghede from Haitian folklore, mind you) can turn people into living zombies by affecting them with his own toxin (as he is a pufferfish Wesen).
* The Wights in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' are undead slaves under the control of the Night's King.
* ''Series/BrandNewCherryFlavor'' has these in the form of the witch Boro's undead servants. They still possess enough rudimentary intelligence to perform tasks and maintain a slight vestige of their old selves.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', children of the Loa (both heroic and villainous) can create or recruit zombie servants.
** So can, in fact, all Scions with access to a birthright that grants the Death domain.

* In ''TabletopGame/UnhallowedMetropolis'', what reports have come back of the state of Central Africa have invariably come from people driven insane from what they witnessed there, but they tend to include references to unholy empires where zombie and human alike answer to witch doctors who demand living sacrifices to placate their dark gods. If there's any truth to these stories, it seems ''very'' likely that the zombies there are voodoo, or something akin to it.

* In ''TabletopGame/HeroesUnlimited'', evil magic users can animate the dead to serve as loyal zombie thralls. Zombies are dim-witted but quite tough, as they possess superhuman strength and cannot be harmed by any weapon that is not holy, magical, or made of silver. And if a zombie is killed, it will reanimate within two days unless it gets exorcised or has its head removed and buried separately from the rest of its body.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Which also have aspects of flesh-eating (as they can feed on humanoids) and plague-bearing (as they were created by a plague).
** The undead really fit into all these categories. The trolls have voodoo zombies, which seem to have free will. Abominations and Flesh Golems are constructs, ghouls eat flesh, and there's a plague going around... though it's not infectious in the traditional manner. WMG seems to point to a fungal agent that has to be eaten, or straight necromancy (voodoo go!) which can have some strange results.
** There are also creatures literally named Revenants who are undead creatures bonded to elemental spirits.
* [=LeChuck=] from ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' is resurrected using voodoo magic involving his still-living beard from when he was a ghost.
** Later on in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', [[spoiler: Guybrush comes back as a zombie using the locket's [[HourOfPower Hour of Voodoo Power]] which, when almost used up, may cause [[ImHavingSoulPains Soul Pains]] and ResurrectionSickness, resulting in a dispossession; that power can be made permanent if he finds the [[PowerUpFood Spirit Gum]].]]
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has the Banished Pantheon, a voodoo cult who's lowest ranking minions are zombies. They even have Adamastor, a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever zombie as tall as a skyscraper]]
* The zombies in ''VideoGame/GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland'' are cheap laborers. They are basically harmless, but tend to turn against each other.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has corpses reanimated by the magic of the Ancients. Note that the player can also command zombies with the right spell.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' initially appears to follow the classic Romero rules: all dead bodies are reanimated at the time of the curse, the zombie plague can be spread through biting, and only headshots kill. An addition not found in Romero films is that holy water kills them as well. However, returning the cursed Aztec mask causes all zombies who haven't been headshot to return to normal life and intelligence.
* ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'''s various undead are often of this kind, with powerful undead such as the Skeleton King being a result of Diablo's direct influence. The ZombieApocalypse that goes down in the first act of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', however, is a result of [[spoiler:Tyrael renouncing his angelic title and Justice leaving the High Heavens, resulting in all those who died unjustly being brought back from their graves]].
* The zombies in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series are invariably decribed as fresh corpses reanimated by black magic.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'': [[spoiler: Due to Ende's success in [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil devouring away his goodness]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil amplifying his ambition]], Celric, post death, became Ende's proudest backup vessel, and would to be used as Ende's new body once Ende's current form is of no use]]. Good thing X-Cross prevented this from happening before it's too late.

* Zombies in ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' approximate this trope, as they are non-[[FleshEatingZombie cannibalistic]] and sometimes, though not always, allies of a {{necromancer}}.

* The "plods" of ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' are dead bodies, reanimated by magic to do manual labor.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', "[[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=267 mass mind control magic]]" is mentioned as one of the possible ways "zombies" could be created.

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* [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] ''Zuvembies'', on the other hand, are straight voodoo. Used because UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode at the time prohibited "walking dead" monsters lacking a literary pedigree. The "zuvembie" name originated in Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Pigeons from Hell". (In Howard's story, the zuvembie was actually something unique-- see below.)
* Not to be confused with ''Marvel Zombies'' or Marvel's Zuvembies is Marvel's ''The Zombie''! The 1970s Marvel anthology ''Menace'' and larger magazine-format comic ''Tales of the Zombie'' brought you the misadventures of the late Simon Garth, cursed by a voodoo cult to shamble under the control of whoever came across the [[ArtifactDomination Amulet of Damballah]].
* Solomon Grundy, from the Franchise/TheDCU and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, was a mobster who was killed and thrown in a cursed swamp. The curse caused him to reanimate decades later as a soulless, grey monster. Fortunately he doesn't reek due to being a Golden Age GL foe and thus [[WeaksauceWeakness made largely of plant matter]].
* The hordes of undead raised by the Zombie Priest from ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' are fairly standard, although a few are capable of speech and performing complex tasks. The Zombie Priest himself isn't actually a zombie, but rather a demon in disguise. There's also Willie Nagel, a friendly and intelligent zombie.
* Papa Midnite from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' employs Zombies as a labor force, since he is a Voodoo magician they fit this trope.
* Creator/CarlBarks wrote a ComicBook/DonaldDuck comic, "Voodoo Hoodoo", where a zombie [[RhymingNames named Bombie]] from DarkestAfrica wants to give Donald a cursed doll to shrink him. The shaman who originally placed the curse was an enemy of Donald's uncle Scrooge, who stole his tribe's land during the Scramble for Africa. ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' by Creator/DonRosa shows the original events: Scrooge, who strongly resembled his future nephew Donald when his beard is tucked back, changed his appearance back to confuse Bombie. However, the curse caused Bombie to keep tracking down Scrooge over the years until a different shaman in the Pacific Islands trapped Bombie there before he showed up in Duckburg.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Arrowsmith}}'', voodoo zombies are seen as part of the Gallian colonial troops; where their role is presumably to serve as cannon fodder.
* In ''ComicBook/StrangeAcademy'', student Zoe Laveau turns out to be one of these underneath a magical appearance of a normal teenage girl given by an amulet, having died after carelessly using magic (which comes with a cost in the Marvel Universe) and needing to have been reanimated by her ancestor Marie Laveau.

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* Most of the movies featuring zombies prior to ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}'' fall under this category. ''Film/WhiteZombie,'' (1932), arguably the first zombie movie, has zombie mill workers created by voodoo. The comedy ''King of the Zombies'' (1941), Creator/ValLewton's dark horror film ''Film/IWalkedWithAZombie'' (1943), the dreadful movie ''I Eat Your Skin'' (1964), and the Film/HammerHorror movie ''Film/ThePlagueOfTheZombies'' (1966) all feature this type prominently.
* While the ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' is known for its [[FleshEatingZombie Flesh-Eating Zombies]], the zombies in question are very much undead, suggesting that they may have a supernatural origin. More specifically, Peter from ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|1978}}'' brings up voodoo when explaining his theory about the zombies.
-->'''Peter:''' Something my granddaddy used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo. Granddad was a priest in Trinidad. Used to tell us, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth."

* The title of the early Creator/{{Troma}} film ''Zombie Island Massacre'' refers to this type of zombie, although the film turns out to be a slasher and not a zombie movie.
* ''Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things'' is the result of someone playing with a black magic ritual-- that said, the zombies otherwise behave like Romero-style flesh eaters.
* ''Psychomania'' has gained some notoriety as "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombies on motorcycles]]", but are really zombies only in retrospect. More accurately, they're willing participants in a ritual that grants eternal life. The ritual requires that they first die. On revival, they carry on as before; they are essentially their own creator.

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', Blackbeard is a proficient voodoo practitioner. One of his abilities is resurrecting the dead men he kills, being his own crewmen or his enemies, and turning them into servant zombie warriors on his ship.
* ''Film/BigTitsZombie'' feature zombies summoned by the Necronomicon. They are also of the running variety (as well as sword fighting variety).
* In ''Film/CastADeadlySpell'', zombies are used as cheap labor or as enforcers and bodyguards. Crime boss Harry Bordon in particular has an ever-present ScaryBlackMan zombie bodyguard.
-->'''Lovecraft''': [''indicating the zombie''] What happened to your regular legbreakers?\\
'''Bordon''': Progress.\\
'''Tugwell''': Zombies don't eat, don't complain...\\
'''Bordon''': ...don't get ideas.
* Bernie of ''[[Film/WeekendAtBernies Weekend At Bernie's 2]]'' was murdered in the first film, and in the second was partially revived by a voodoo curse. Only partially because the two bad guys who were sent to perform the ritual screwed it up, and as a result, Bernie is only ambulatory when music is playing.
* ''Film/SugarHill1974'' is what happens when {{Blaxploitation}} meets voodoo zombies. What's particularly unusual is that it's the heroine who leads a zombie army - the title character sells her soul to Baron Samedi in return for him raising an undead army for her, which she then uses to avenge her boyfriend who was murdered by gangsters.
* In ''Film/KingOfTheZombies'', Dr. Sangre is a Nazi agent running a voodoo. He has his high priestess Tahama raise a group of zombies to act as servants and muscle. Lacking the ability to raise the dead himself, he hypnotises Jeff and Mac into believing they are zombies.
* ''Film/HocusPocus'' has [[Creator/BetteMidler Winifred Sanderson's]] zombified ex-boyfriend [[Creator/DougJones Billy Butcherson]]. The BlackMagic in this context is {{Salem|IsWitchCountry}} witchcraft, not HollywoodVoodoo. But historically, the girls whose accusations spurred the Salem witch trials may have been exposed to the occult through a UsefulNotes/{{Barbad|os}}ian slave named Tituba. So there is a connection between Caribbean mysticism (albeit not specifically UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}}) and Salem, whether or not the movie's creators knew this.

[[caption-width-right:350: As a classy zombie, his pipe contains only the most high-grade [[BrainFood grey matter]].]]

* Solomon Grundy, from the Franchise/TheDCU and the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, was a mobster who was killed and thrown in a cursed swamp. The curse caused him to reanimate decades later as a soulless, grey monster. Fortunately he doesn't reek due to being a Golden Age GL foe and thus [[WeaksauceWeakness made largely of plant matter]].

* Most of the movies featuring zombies prior to ''Night of the Living Dead'' fall under this category. ''Film/WhiteZombie,'' (1932), arguably the first zombie movie, has zombie mill workers caused by voodoo. The comedy ''King of the Zombies'' (1941), Creator/ValLewton's dark horror film ''Film/IWalkedWithAZombie'' (1943), the dreadful movie ''I Eat Your Skin'' (1964) and the Film/HammerHorror movie ''Film/ThePlagueOfTheZombies'' (1966) all feature this type prominently.

* In the VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses fanfic [[Fanfic/TheSaviorKingTheMasterTacticianAndTheQueenOfLiberation The Savior King, the Master Tactician, and the Queen Of Liberation]], [[spoiler:Fodlan's ancient heroes, the Ten Elites, are revived in this state by the Agarthans. They retain their memories and personalities from life and are revulsed by the Agarthans and [[ObliviouslyEvil where they realized too late that their Crests and weapons actually came from]], but they are kept under a {{Geas}} that forces them to fight their own descendants.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', the respective {{Big Bad}}s Grima and Anankos use resurrected corpses as foot soldiers. The rank and file show no particular higher thought processes beyond killing, but Anankos' commanders seem to have some degree of sentience, retain some of their personality traits from when they were still alive, and usually manage DyingAsYourself. ''Fates: Conquest'''s [[spoiler:Takumi]] occupies a strange middle ground: he shows more sentience than the {{mooks}}, but is only capable of expressing one thought ([[spoiler:murdering Corrin and Nohr]]); he is also far more powerful than any of Anankos' other minions.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium Millenium]]" has corpses brought back to life using necromancy. They attack anyone in the vicinity who is not protected by a ring of blood or salt. They can be killed by a bullet to the head, but those injured by zombies don't turn into zombies unless actually killed (whereupon the spirits used to animate the corpses infect them).

* ''Series/TheXFiles''[=/=]''Series/Millennium1996'' crossover episode had corpses brought back to life using necromancy. They would attack anyone in the vicinity who was not protected by a ring of blood or salt. They could be killed by a bullet to the head, but those injured by zombies didn't turn into zombies unless actually killed (whereupon the spirits used to animate the corpses would infect them).

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things", where a girl killed in a car crash is brought back as a zombie by [[spoiler: a guy who had a crush on her]] using an ancient spell. She's actually pretty normal, [[spoiler: apart from being completely psychotic]].

* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "The Thin Dead Line" had a KnightTemplar police captain raise murdered cops as Voodoo Zombies to continue patrolling the streets, which caused problems due to their tendency to unprovoked PoliceBrutality.
* Zombies in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Dead Man's Party" are magically revived by a Nigerian demon. As Giles explains it, Zombies actually do not eat human flesh and there's no indication that they can be killed by hitting the head.

* Creator/CarlBarks wrote a ComicBook/DonaldDuck comic, "Voodoo Hoodoo", where a zombie [[RhymesOnADime named Bombie]] from DarkestAfrica wants to give Donald a cursed doll to shrink him. The shaman who originally placed the curse was an enemy of Donald's uncle Scrooge, who stole his tribe's land during the Scramble for Africa. ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' by Creator/DonRosa shows the original events: Scrooge, who strongly resembled his future nephew Donald when his beard is tucked back, changed his appearance back to confuse Bombie. However, the curse caused Bombie to keep tracking down Scrooge over the years until a different shaman in the Pacific Islands trapped Bombie there before he showed up in Duckburg.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' features zombies brought back by magic that is implied to be of voodoo origin. Here, however, zombies are revealed to be the good guys.

* [[WickedWasps Wasps]] are infamous for practicing this in one form or another. The most infamous being the parasitoid wasp, which is known to lobotomize their prey by injecting a special venom that puts them in a mindless state straight into their brain before pulling a FaceFullOfAlienWong into them. The brainwashed arthropod [[MamaBear will then]] [[PapaWolf proceed to]] protect the young with their lives [[EnfantTerrible even though they're literally, or already has killed them from the inside]].

Zombies based on this tradition are typically slaves to a {{necromancer}} or other EvilSorcerer. If [[TechnicallyLivingZombie living]], they have been {{Brainwashed}} using drugs and/or MoreThanMindControl. If undead, they have been [[AnimateDead reanimated]] with {{blood|Magic}}, [[BlackMagic evil, or some other form of unholy magic]]. As such, they may be vulnerable to ReviveKillsZombie. {{Salt|Solution}}, of all things, can often break the spell, freeing the living and allowing the dead to rest...or to go after their master in a vengeful rage.

** GURPS Warriors'' has an American marine who was betrayed and killed by his squad-mates while stationed in Haiti. Currently looking for revenge, he has a number of tricks up his sleeve, including burying himself over night to heal. It's not clear what brought him back, but his own belief is it was voodoo magic.