# My Zombie Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504 "2005-01-01T01:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/61 "2005-06-28T17:46:02Z")
What about the infected in Lifeforce? > **[Lifeforce (1985) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089489/)** > > Lifeforce: Directed by Tobe Hooper. With Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May. A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/62 "2005-06-28T18:21:38Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > What about the infected in Lifeforce? > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089489/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089489/) Lifeforce gives many clear signs that it is a vampire film, not a zombie film. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/63 "2005-06-28T20:10:05Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Re Lazarus > > I can’t find the collection, but there is a story which deals with the horror aspects of Lazarus’ return. > > I can’t remember the author’s name. But I’m sure it was a man with a Russian name. “The Last Temptation of Christ” by Nikos Kazantakis has Lazarus coming back in a somewhat decomposed sate, and being mighty pissed about it, too. BTW Resurrection - sorry for the blip - I followed the other zombie thread to this link and didn’t realise how old it was when I posted the question. mm ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/64 "2005-06-28T20:53:47Z")
Forgive the lack of overly fancy formatting… XANTH Zombies **Type** : re-animated corpse **Source** : Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels **Reason for Existence** : Re-animated through the Talent of Jonathon the Zombie Master, Magician and one-time King of Xanth. **Notes** : Xanth zombies can be of any animal species. The Zombie Master is the only person able to create zombies through his own inherent talent, but since a number of inherent talents are duplicated by the operation of native plants it is not impossible that some other source of zombification exists. Jonathon is able to re-animate corpses with little regard to the length of time since the organism died, but “fresher” corpses make for better zombies. The Zombie Master exercises some measure of control over the actions of the zombies he creates. Most residents of Xanth treat zombies with benign neglect and the zombies will slowly decompose. However, attention and affection directed toward a zombie will cause its condition to improve. In one instance a zombie was restored to the state of seconds after death, to the point of its talent becoming operant. Healing potions will also improve the condition of zombies, but will not restore them to life. **Method of destruction** : Unknown. Neglected zombies deteriorate, continually losing mass but never apparently rotting completely away. One zombie was “destroyed” by the creaton by the Zombie Master of a potion which caused him to return to life. The “destroyed” zombie was in fact Jonathon himself, who killed himself and existed as a zombie for several centuries. It is possible that Jonathon could also bring zombies back to life by using reverse wood. The Zombie Master is uninterested in routinely restoring zombies to life, though, because doing so undermines his own power base. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/65 "2005-06-28T21:05:57Z")
That is nicely formatted, no matter what you think., but it appears to be just like the traditional definition, from page one. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504/66 "2005-06-28T21:24:10Z")
Well, yeah, it’s a variation on the traditional revenant but I thought it warranted its own entry because it’s a blending of various genres and one of the only examples in which zombies are integrated into society. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-zombie-collection/282504.md?page=3)