The definitive guide to zombie films

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.

A number of tourists go into the deserted remains of a satanic Templar abbey, which results in the reawakening of the blind dead who are able to find you based on the sound of your heartbeat. They are being followed across a field by a group of zombie Templar knights riding zombie horses and holding swords as they make their way toward them.

After a military private who has also been zombified turns them, a group of lazy buddies think they have become "super soliders." The film follows Colin's framework of "told from the perspective of a zombie," but with a creative, comic twist.

Nicholas Hoult plays a zombie who lives with a lot of other zombies in a lonely airport until he meets Julie.

Slither, James Gunn's debut picture, was a B-movie zombie/alien homage. It lacks originality due to similarities to another film on our list, 1986's Night of the Creeps, but it's still an enjoyable picture in its own right.

In this mix of American zombie stereotypes and a foreign setting, killing insects leads to unintended results.

Juan of the Dead injects political fervor into zombie films, with Juan attempting to profit from the fear and uncertainty by launching a tiny company that quickly spirals 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, getting sick doesn't always mean dying and turning into a zombie, and strong emotions will cause the full change. The movie also has surprisingly little blood and gore.

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, a post-apocalyptic zombie picture with panache, is scary without being depressing, expressive without coming off as pretentious, and gruesome without becoming Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.

One Cut of the Dead is a charming zombie comedy about performers attempting to live-stream a zombie short film.

One Cut of the Dead is a film on a shoestring budget and the do-it-yourself mentality that illustrates the inventiveness and adaptability of low-budget filmmakers like as George Romero.

Dead Alive, a horror comedy directed by Peter Jackson, features zombies and a lawnmower that continues to run after being strangled with 1,000 gallons of blood.

Dawn of the Dead by Zack Snyder is a leaner, more violent, and action-packed modern zombie thriller that owes a great deal to 28 Days Later. It boasts one of the best beginning moments in zombie film history.

Lucio Fulci's film The Beyond blends a haunted home aesthetic with demonic possession, the living dead, and eerie apparitions.

In 2007, both the first Paranormal Activity film and Romero's own Diary of the Dead were released. REC, a Spanish film that mixes traditional zombie folklore with Catholic spirituality, is still the best found-footage zombie film.

Demons is a zombie movie that takes place in a cinema palace that is populated by a variety of strange characters, such as posh teenagers, bickering couples, a pimp, and a blind guy.

The showing of a scary movie and the subsequent appearance of zombies and demons in the audience are both part of a sinister plan, which ultimately results in brutality and the fight for survival.

Zombi 2 is the greatest of its type, with more lunacy and violence. It features terrifying sequences that have become legendary.

Night of the Living Dead (blog post) by George Romero is the most important zombie movie ever made. It also had a huge impact as an independent movie.

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.

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 on the verge of extinction, but the film revived the concept and made zombies a genuine threat. In the twenty-first century, it also spawned the concept of the serious zombie film.

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.