Best Zombie Films!!!
Subject to opinion as you might like crap movies, but then you might think everything here is crap, which some admittedly is, but it's still a better zombie movie than World War Z!
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- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.A lot of people can't sit through this film these days but it's important because it revolutionised the zombie subgenre. Before this, zombie movies weren't really a genre of any kind!
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.The definitive zombie movie, its effects and visuals might be dated but it has a bit of a Kubrick vibe to its cinematography and it's just the most fun serious zombie horror!
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.Romero's last original trilogy film, it's dark, creepy, gory as hell and its actors are the most credible for an 80's zombie film!
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.Lucio Fulci's original and best, don't bother with the rest unless you can enjoy really low standards of filmmaking!
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.Romero's former filmmaking partner on Night... John Russo took the rights to the title Living Dead and this is his own effort. It's dark, bloody, funny, punky and has some very nice effects!
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.The best Romero tribute ever comes in the form of a comedy by the makers and performers of Spaced. Pegg and Frost are an unbeatable team!
- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsJesse EisenbergEmma StoneWoody HarrelsonA shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America.This is how credible actors and bankable rising stars combine to make a zombie movie fun. Mr's Woodrow Tracy Harrelson and Bill Murray really steal the show though, and they make a point to balance comedy and drama with awesome zombie carnage, unlike WWZ, which just lacked all of that!
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.Don't bother with the sequels, they're ridicuous. So is this, but it puts its absurdity to very good use and has some exceptional gore!
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.The grossest but funniest zombie film of its time, people still can't relate it to Peter Jackson!
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsSarah PolleyVing RhamesMekhi PhiferA nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.I'm not a fan of runner zombies really but Zack Snyder provided great atmosphere, good characters and interation, and the action was also pretty good. It was just rushed and didn't seem to know where else to go, outside of George Romero's classic!
- DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsRose McGowanFreddy RodríguezJosh BrolinAfter an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.Robert Rodriguez's grindhouse zombie tribute is wacky, funny and just as gory and tacky as Fulci's efforts, but obviously better made. The cast and cameos are also great, with the exception of Tarantino, who I think has become a total prick since Kill Bill!
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsRupert EverettFrançois Hadji-LazaroAnna FalchiA cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.Such a strange but enjoyable paranormal take on the zombie subgenre, Cemetery Man is remeniscent of the Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro movies of the 90's!
- DirectorJaume BalagueróPaco PlazaStarsManuela VelascoFerran TerrazaJorge-Yamam SerranoA television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.The original and best, I liked the subtext of demons possibly being to blame, and the second one was better for action, but the ending let it down. The third was even better, but its ending was even worse!
- DirectorYannick DahanBenjamin RocherStarsClaude PerronJean-Pierre MartinsEriq EbouaneyAn end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.French take on Night of the Living Dead with hints of Danny Boyle and Peter Jackson. It's in a *beep* tenement block in a bad area of France, which you never realised looked so awful until you see this. the suspense is fantastic and the brutal fistfights with the zombies will make you laugh in disbelief!
- DirectorSteve BarkerStarsRay StevensonJulian WadhamRichard BrakeIn war-torn Eastern Europe, a mysterious businessman hires a group of mercenaries on a routine mission to protect him not knowing of the long-hidden secret that lies there.Despite having some awfullyu cheap visual effects come the end of the film, Outpost has a great cast and relies on the old ghost story conventions like Deathwatch. Zombie Nazis. Zombie Nasties. Indiana Jones would have *beep* himself!
- DirectorAlejandro BruguésStarsAlexis Díaz de VillegasJorge MolinaAndros PerugorríaA group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government.Personally I love this Cuban horror comedy. It has the ability to be scary but it's just too funny. Vulgar comedy and inventive deaths and near death escapes make this "Juan up" (loooooooool hahahahahaaaa) from Shaun of the Dead!
- DirectorTom SaviniStarsTony ToddPatricia TallmanTom TowlesWhen the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.Maybe the best remake, Tom Savini's directorial debut had revolutionary zombie effects, a great little acting ensemble and some effin awesome deaths (human and zombie)!
- DirectorFred DekkerStarsJason LivelyTom AtkinsSteve MarshallAlien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.It's kind of sci-fi but mostly a classic styled zombie college horror comedy, just with more seriousness than most!
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMarilyn ChambersFrank MooreTerry SchonblumA young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.I still can't tell, are they zombies or vampires? Vambies? An unsuspecting vampire is spreading a mutated rabies virus, making Canadians want to bite each other. Cronenberg's best early work!
- DirectorCarl BessaiStarsPaul CampbellSarah LindJulian ChristopherA group of young environmental activists become infected, ravenous, unstoppable zombies when a forestry company's genetic experimentation goes disastrously wrong.Low budget but very well made zombie film with an ecological message on genetically modifying nature. Credible acting, credible camera-work, credible story for a zombie film, it looks good and it is good!
- DirectorMarc PriceStarsAlastair KirtonDaisy AitkensLeanne PammenOur hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.Superb art direction, effects and atmosphere. It took half a century for someone to finally think of this?