George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) is the most influential zombie film, but is it also the best?Murder is a film about a Svengali-like Lugosi who zombifies a young lady who is engaged to be married using potions and powders. It's very dry, wooden material, but it inspired Rob Zombie to work on a musical endeavor.
In the movie "Deadgirl," which examines the sexuality of the undead, a group of young men argue among themselves to see who will get the opportunity to rape the "deadgirl" next. The movie is effectively eerie and revolting, and it makes the list for the simple reason that it suggests a use for zombies that hadn't been explored in this detail in the previous 40 years.
Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy about two star-crossed zombies who meet their authoritarian father. The humorous friendship between the characters is one of the greatest aspects of the picture.
A group of teenagers camping in a secluded Norwegian cabin inadvertently resurrect a regiment of Nazi zombies by taking their Nazi riches. The picture is a fairly normal horror-comedy, but the special effects and action are excellent.
James Gunn's debut film, Slither, was a tribute to B-movie zombie and extraterrestrial films. It lacks a little of originality due to similarities to another film on our list, Night of the Creeps (1986), but it's still a great picture in its own right.
In the movie Juan of the Dead, zombie movies get a political twist when Juan tries to make money off of the panic and confusion by starting a small business that gets out of hand.
A comet hurtles toward Earth, threatening to obliterate life as we know it. This is one of the zombie flicks with the least focus on the undead, yet it still turns people into zombies if they are just exposed to the virus partially.
Planet Terror is a comical zombie film made by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino about destructive zombie/mutants. It's great at being that sort of movie and should have done more at the box office.Rammbock is a German feature film that runs for 63 minutes. It follows Michael, a deluded jerk who goes to his girlfriend's apartment just as a zombie outbreak breaks out.
In Rammbock, the change from human to zombie is more often caused by overwhelming emotions rather than infections. The movie is not very bloody.
Cemetery Man is a scary art-comedy about a cemetery caretaker who wanders through life without purpose. The protagonist's despondency and identity crisis are reminiscent of American Psycho.
After losing one of their own to drug traffickers, a gang of police officers decide to raid an empty apartment building in search of the killers.
28 Weeks Later is an often interesting, often scary, often powerful and often frustrating film for zombie/horror genre geeks, but it violates one of the unwritten rules of zombie cinema by having a 'main zombie' that escapes and robs the other infected of being perceived as legitimate threats.
The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead by Tom Savini is a faithful adaptation. It would be a classic if it weren't for the title.
People that appear just like the tourists who were killed are strolling the streets of a tiny seaside town in New England, even though they are considered to be permanent inhabitants. This leads to a string of killings. The zombies in this location have a distinct level of autonomy and are able to make decisions on their own.
A possibly zombified town view source local is played by Robert Englund, and Jack Albertson plays the eccentric town coroner/mortician.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is a post-apocalyptic zombie film with an abundance of flair from a young Australian filmmaker. It is terrifying without being dreary, emotive without being pretentious, and gruesome without entirely degenerating into the violent farce of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
One Cut of the Dead is a hilarious zombie movie about putting on a live performance of a short film.
One Cut of the Dead is a movie about working with a limited budget and having a do-it-yourself attitude. The movie well reflects the inventiveness and flexibility that are demonstrated by low-budget directors like as George Romero.
After the zombie apocalypse, a former baseball pitcher and catcher travel the country together. The undead are a constant hindrance and reminder of what these soldiers have lost.
Alien parasitic slugs invade, giving ordinary people superpowers and turning them into mindless killing machines. It's a risky schlocky horror movie about students at a university that evokes Animal House in many ways.
The horror-comedy Dead Alive by Peter Jackson features a room full of zombies and a lawnmower that continues to operate despite being choked with 1,000 gallons of blood.
Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead is a leaner, action-packed, and deadly contemporary zombie thriller. One of the most memorable zombie movie beginnings ever.
Zombieland is a comedic take on the zombie genre that relocates the action to the United States of America and groups together survivors who are strangers to one another rather than a close-knit group. It strikes an almost ideal mix between humorous violence and comedy that is driven by the characters, and it includes zombies that are capable of posing a genuine danger.
Lucio Fulci's The Beyond combines elements from the horror subgenre, such as demonic possession, the undead, and ghostly apparitions, with a haunted home setting.
Everyone's phone would record a zombie outbreak in the digital era. This film offers an idea.
28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead developed the "modern" zombie film and proved that zombie culture could be plundered for humor.
Day of the Dead reimagines the typical Romero ghoul and adds Bub, who has personality and humor.
Re-Animator revels in the science behind reanimated corpses. Jeffrey Combs plays mad scientist Herbert West, who revives the dead using green ooze syringes.
Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a giant leap forward in terms of presentation, professionalism, thematic complexity and groundbreaking special effects. It takes place in a tacky mall overrun by the walking dead, and features iconic imagery that future zombie films attempted to duplicate or subvert.