Zombie fear: How zombie enthusiasts think

In the film Murder, Svengali-like Lugosi uses medications and powders to turn a young bride-to-be into a zombie. Rob Zombie's musical effort was inspired by this pretty dry and woody substance.

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.

World War Z is one of the poorest adaptations of brilliant source material in the horror genre's history, but it does present an intriguing narrative of a UN investigator who travels the globe in quest of a cure or biological agent to combat the zombies.

As a party of tourists investigates the defunct Templar monastery, they end up reawakening the blind dead, who are able to detect their visitors' heartbeats. They are being pursued across a field by a horde of zombie Templar knights mounted on zombie horses.

In Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, acoustic radiation wakes the dead.

Wes Craven's 1988 movie The Serpent and the Rainbow brings back the voodoo-style Haitian zombie in a way that wasn't expected. It also shows that it's probably still possible to make a "voodoo zombie" movie that takes itself half-seriously and tries to scare people.

Juan of the Dead injects a dash of politics into the zombie film genre with its storyline about a character named Juan who tries to capitalize on the widespread fear and uncertainty by launching a modest company that quickly gets out of hand.

A comet sweeps through Earth and turns practically everyone to dust. Those exposed partially become zombies, however this picture is one of the least zombie-heavy.

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 spooky work of dark humor that tells the story of a cemetery caretaker who wanders through life without a specific destination. The protagonist's depression and sense of disorientation are similar to those shown in American Psycho.

The police assault a mostly abandoned apartment building to catch a group of drug traffickers who killed one of their own, and then... a horde of zombies attacks!

While 28 Weeks Later is a fascinating, terrifying, emotionally intense, and sometimes infuriating film for fans of the zombie/horror subgenre, it breaks one of the genre's unspoken laws by having a "primary zombie" that gets away.

A string of killings occurs in a tiny seaside town in New England, and permanent inhabitants who resemble the tourists who were slain are strolling the streets. The zombies in this area vary in their autonomy and capacity to operate independently.

Robert Englund portrays a local resident of the town who may have been turned into a zombie, while Jack Albertson plays the eccentric village coroner and mortician.

A young Australian director's post-apocalyptic zombie film with no shortage of style, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead features several welcome twists on the zombie formula and is scary without being dour, emotional without feeling pompous and gory without completely descending into the violent slapstick of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.

One Cut of the Dead is a charming zombie movie about actors attempting to produce a live broadcast of a zombie short film.

One Cut of the Dead highlights how inventive and adaptable filmmakers like George Romero can now updated be when they don't have a lot of money.

A low-budget zombie drama about a former baseball pitcher and catcher traveling across the country together in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. The zombies are there, but they're more of a constant roadblock and painful reminder of everything these men have lost.

The film is about a parasitic alien slug invasion that transforms its victims into superpowered zombies. It's a risqué, rather sleazy horror picture set in a college, and it frequently seems like Animal House with zombies.

Hammer Horror made Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Plague of the Zombies. Like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead, theirs are old and scary.

In Peter Jackson's horror-comedy Dead Alive, there are zombies and a lawnmower that remains running even after 1,000 gallons of blood are spilled on it.

Dawn of the Dead by Zack Snyder is a leaner, action-packed, gruesome contemporary zombie thriller that owes a lot to 28 Days Later. It has one of the finest opening scenes in the history of zombie films.

Zombieland is a zombie comedy that relocates the action to the United States and puts together a group of survivors who are not buddies. It has really menacing zombies and strikes a near-perfect balance between humorous violence and character-based fun.

The Train to Busan, a film from South Korea, combines popcorn entertainment with heartfelt family drama. There's some unbelievable action and makeup towards the end that I've never seen before.

Zombi 2 is the best horror movie ever made. It is the crown jewel of the horror genre because it is so crazy and has so much blood. It has many memorable scenes that aren't just from the horror genre.

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.

The film directed by Romero is credited with establishing the rules of the zombie genre, which in turn has impacted subsequent zombie films. It is the equal of Tolkien's effect on high fantasy "races," and it is almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion about zombies without first having watched Romero's picture.

Evil Dead 2 is a remake of the first Evil Dead film, and is one of the best, most tightly paced horror comedies ever. It also shows how the way people feel about zombies in movies is changing, as this movie shows.

28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead set precedents for the "contemporary" zombie film, demonstrating that the cultural zeitgeist of zombie-dom could also be tapped for big laughs.

Despite the fact that Dawn is more well-known, Day of the Dead is my personal favorite of George Romero's zombie flicks because it reintroduces science into the genre.

In 2002, 28 Days Later brought back the classic zombie movie and made them a real threat. It was the first zombie movie.

John Russo is a relative unknown when it comes to significant characters in the history of zombie films, yet his sequel to Night of the Living Dead is one of the all-time zombie classics.

Dawn of the Dead is a breakthrough in presentation, professionalism, thematic intricacy, and visual effects. It takes set in a garish mall invaded by zombies and has classic visuals.