I personally subscribe the the theory from the movie kung fu zombie an the vamp's feet were on fire, a bad taoist summons a dark energy into a corpse by using big brass symbols if anyone knows the "rite" pls correct me.I i dont believe int he fire feet tho but i think that it is on point, a bad taoist makes a zombie just to make one.
I have seen alot of hopping vamp movies an most of them show some sort of controlling the dead if there ghosts or zombies. i have no clue but there all walking in a line looking like there being brought through "stations" i or waiting to pass on an i think from what i read on wiki that there is a soul in there making it hop now there is a reasonable explanation for this air in the corpse making sit up an just maybe a fresh corpse on wiki it says something about having moldy skin. My personal diagnosis of this madness is that vamps are real an some time bad wizards,witches,shaman,ect make zombies,golems,ect an also i think it has to do with other world energies that just feed an feed an feed an then it spreads an dies maybe there are some left IDK but i do knowlol that taoist know how too summon energy from the north star an that ability can be used to pull anything he wants if your really meditating on the northstar thats big yo! you can point that anywhere you want an thats what i think................here is a link to a story about a new orleans zombie http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/zombie/violette/[/url]
Haitians also have zombie stories that are similar to the taoist stories im sure there ia a scholar who knows all about it
i hope he stops by this post
im looking forward to watching 7 golden vampires it meshes the two worlds!