The Cranberries "Zombie"

Fictional horror creatures can't compare to the real life monsters that The Cranberries are singing about in this 1994 hit. Infuriated by the IRA bombings of Warrington, England that took the lives of two children in 1993, singer and songwriter Dolores O'Riordan penned this protest song about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The titular creature here isn't a pile of reanimated and rotting flesh intent on eating your brains, but a human being who is mindlessly controlled by hatred -- which is just as, if not more, disturbing.