The most important zombie film, produced by George Romero in 1968, is Night of the Living Dead, but is it the best?A group of stranded boaters find themselves on a mystery island where a Nazi experiment involving a submerged SS submarine and its crew of zombies has been released. Peter Cushing plays a horribly miscast SS commander with a confused appearance.
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.
A soldier who has become a zombie convinces some lethargic pals that they are amazing fighters. Like Colin, the movie is narrated from the zombie's point of view, but with a creative and amusing twist.
In Deadgirl, teenage boys fight over who gets to attack the zombie girl. The movie made the list because it used zombies in a way that hadn't been done in 40 years.
A group of college students are camping out in a cabin in the woods of Norway when they steal some Nazi treasure and unintentionally reanimate a whole regiment of zombie Nazis. Although the plot and characters are fairly ordinary for a horror comedy, the film's special effects and action sequences are excellent.
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.
As a comet approaches closer to Earth, it will evaporate and dust everyone. Even though this is one of the movies with the fewest zombies, people who witness part of it become zombies.
Rammbock is a 63-minute German independent feature-length film. Michael, a deluded schmuck, enters his girlfriend's apartment just as a zombie outbreak breaks out.In Rammbock, infection does not always imply death and zombification, and powerful emotions might set off the whole metamorphosis. The film is also remarkably devoid of gore.
The post-apocalyptic zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead has style, since it is scary without being dreary, artistic without coming across as pretentious, and violent without emulating Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
One Cut of the Dead is a funny zombie movie about putting on a live performance of a short film.
The film portrays updated the inventiveness and flexibility of low-budget directors like George Romero via its focus on these themes (the film is also about a shoestring budget and DIY mentality).
Invasion by parasitic alien slugs transforms humanity into super-powered zombies. It's a risky, tawdry horror picture set in college, with a lot of similarities to Animal House.
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, brutal modern zombie movie that pays a lot of homage to 28 Days Later. It boasts one of the best beginning moments in zombie film history.
The events of Zombieland take place in the United States of America and include the participation of complete strangers. It combines terrifying zombies with humorously violent scenes and entertainment centered on characters.
Train to Busan is a South Korean zombie movie that is equal parts suspenseful popcorn entertainment and genuinely affecting family drama. It concludes with several action elements that I've never seen before, and some top-notch makeup FX.
Pontypool is an intellectual and ethereal reimagining of what the term zombie may entail. It's a film that I admire for taking the difficult path, and it's a critique of 21st-century humanity's incapacity to actually connect and debate relevant, truly vital matters.
Demons is a zombie movie about a movie theater full of unusual individuals, such a pimp, a blind guy, and a lot of groovy adolescents.
Romero's picture defined the conventions of the zombie genre and has impacted every zombie film since. It's the horror counterpart of Tolkien's effect on high fantasy races, and you can't talk about zombies without mentioning Romero's film.
Day of the Dead is my favorite of George Romero's zombie flicks because it adds science.
Re-Animator revels in the science behind reanimated corpses. Jeffrey Combs plays mad scientist Herbert West, who revives the dead using green ooze syringes.
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.