A dull villain and precursor to the slasher genre, portrayed most cliched by Lon Chaney Jr in the Universal monster series.

An undead creature of the night that sucks blood from the living.

A mindless re-animated corpse. Originally voodoo based slaves in 1931's White Zombie, George Romero later solidified their status as infected flesh-eaters in 1968's Night of the Living Dead.