Murder is a film about a Svengali-like Lugosi who zombifies a young bride-to-be with medications and powders. Despite the fact that the material is quite dry and wooden, it influenced Rob Zombie's musical attempt.Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a Troma film that promises to be offensive, violent, and devoid of any sense of decency or propriety. It is also rather brilliant in its critique of consumer society.
A group of slacker friends believe that they've become "super soliders" after a military private who's also become zombified transforms them. The film uses a similar "told from the zombie's point of view" structure to Colin, but with a clever, comedic twist.
Pupi Avati's Zeder is a weird horror-drama that takes a fresh look at the zombie genre, telling the story of a young novelist trying to figure out what the K-Zones are and how they work.
The movie showcases Nyong'o's vocal prowess, while Josh Gad's annoying abilities are put to good use.
As refugees, some white people embrace the worst features of colonialism.
The live dead are pulled up from the earth by a sonic radiation machine in Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
Unforeseen repercussions arise when American zombie stereotypes meet cultural differences while trying to eradicate insects.
The 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wes Craven is an unexpected resurgence of the voodoo-style Haitian zombie, and a reminder that it's definitely still feasible to produce a "voodoo zombie" picture that takes itself semi-seriously and seeks to frighten.
A nurse goes to the Caribbean to treat a patient who may or may not be afflicted with zombieism and gets entangled in a mystery involving a local voodoo cult.
A comet is heading toward Earth and will soon vaporize and dust everyone. Despite being one of the flicks with the fewest zombies in it, individuals who have been partially exposed to the virus become zombies.
In Rammbock, infection does not always result in death and zombification, and only intense emotions may cause the entire transition into a zombie. The film is also remarkably devoid of gore.
Cemetery Man is a terrifying art comedy about a cemetery caretaker who wanders aimlessly through life. Its protagonist's despondency and sense of loss of identity are reminiscent to American Psycho.
A team of cops raids a mostly abandoned apartment high-rise to catch a group of drug dealers who killed one of their own, and then... a swarm of zombies appears!
The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead by Tom Savini is a faithful remake that doesn't try to reinvent anything from the original film. It's fantastic, and it would be a classic if the title hadn't been Night of the Living Dead.
A string of killings breaks out in a tiny New England seaside village, and individuals who resemble the slain guests are now permanent inhabitants. The zombies here are distinct in their autonomy and capacity to behave independently.
Robert Englund portrays a presumably zombified village resident, while Jack Albertson portrays the quirky town coroner/mortician.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, a post-apocalyptic zombie film with flare, is frightful without being dour, expressive without sounding pompous, and gory without becoming Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
One Cut of the Dead is a cute zombie movie about performers making a zombie short film live.
One Cut of the Dead is a film about a shoestring budget and the DIY attitude that depicts the creative energy and flexibility of low-budget filmmakers like George Romero.
After the zombie apocalypse, a former baseball pitcher and catcher travel across the country together in a low-budget zombie flick. The zombies are still there, but they serve as a constant hindrance and a painful reminder of all these men have lost.
The plot of the movie is on an extraterrestrial invasion carried out by parasitic slugs from another world that give their victims the ability to transform into superpowered zombies. It is a risqué and very tawdry horror film that takes place at a college and frequently seems like some sort of zombied-up version on Animal (posted) House. The film's setting is at a college.
Hammer Horror created Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Plague of the Zombies. Like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead, theirs are ancient and terrifying.
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, grisly modern zombie tale that is extremely indebted to 28 Days Later. It features one of the best opening sequences in zombie film history.
The Beyond, directed by Lucio Fulci, is a zombie film that blends a haunted home aesthetic with demonic possession, the living dead, and ghostly apparitions, and is one of the most stylish of the Italian zombie horror films.
In 2007, both the first Paranormal Activity film and Romero's own Diary of the Dead were released. The best found-footage zombie film is still REC, a Spanish film that blends traditional zombie myth with Catholic spirituality.A zombie epidemic might spread via digital phones. This movie does a good job of depicting the situation.
Pontypool's zombies are intellectual and otherworldly. I applaud it for taking the hard route and criticizing 21st century humanity's incapacity to connect and address important concerns.
Demons is a zombie film featuring preppy youngsters, warring lovers, a pimp with prostitutes, and a blind guy.
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead is the most important zombie film ever made, and hugely influential as an independent film as well.
Every zombie movie that came after Romero's had something to do with it. If you want to talk about zombies, you have to talk about Romero's movie.
When it comes to horror comedy, Evil Dead 2 is up there with the greatest of them. It exemplifies how Hollywood has changed its mind towards zombies throughout the years.
In Day of the Dead, the conventional Romero zombie is rethought, and a comical zombie dubbed Bub is included.
By the time 28 Days Later was released in 2002, the traditional zombie film was practically dead, but the film reanimated the notion and legitimized zombies as a danger. It also gave rise to the notion of the serious zombie film of the twenty-first century.
Dawn of the Dead is superior in terms of how it looks, how professional it is, how intricate its ideas are, and how it displays them. It takes place in a gaudy mall that is overrun by zombies and has iconic visuals that other zombie movies have copied or made fun of.