User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Alien: The Horror God, and if You've Been Influenced/@comment-5632489-20150227025946/@comment-27007772-20150227034422

Actually, Night of the Living Dead was the first modern zombie film. Only things before it were movies like White Zombie, were they DID eat people, but were really mind controlled humans.

The Thing was another major point, but you know it wasn't necessarily large on release.