Resident Evil (2002)
Monsters cycle in and out of fashion just like everything else. They never truly go away, but they ebb and flow in popularity. A particularly clear example of this is the Buffy to Twilight -era vampire boom and bust of the late-90s to early-10s. Now that I've brought up vampires in a post about zombies, I need to include a brief aside about terminology (CAUTION: The fact that I am an academic is about to become suuuuper obvious).