In Murder, Bela Lugosi plays a Svengali-like character who is responsible for turning a bride-to-be into a zombie. The music of Rob Zombie was inspired by elements that were dry and woody.
A soldier who has become a zombie convinces some lazy friends that they are great warriors. Like Colin, the movie is told from the zombie's point of view, but with a clever and funny twist.
Nicholas Hoult plays a zombie who lives with a lot of other zombies in a lonely airport until he meets Julie.
The romantic comedy Warm Bodies is about two zombies who meet their strict father. The characters' funny camaraderie is one of the film's highlights.
On a field trip to a farm/petting zoo, Lupita Nyong'o portrays a kindergarten teacher who defends her students from a zombie epidemic.
The film showcases Nyong'o's musical skill and Josh Gad's annoyingness.
Nightmare City is a ridiculous European horror film about radioactive zombies that can use knives, axes, and machine guns. The movie has a crazy English dub with a laugh-out-loud ending.
Jeff Barnaby's Blood Quantum is a zombie thriller with a satirical, political bent that delves deeply into the prosaic sorrows of colonialism.
Whites are admitted as refugees, and some of them adopt the worst characteristics of colonialism.
Slither was a B-movie zombie/alien mashup by James Gunn. Because of the similarities to Night of the Creeps, it lacks originality, but it's still a wonderful film.
In Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, an acoustic radiation machine raises the dead from the grave.
In this combination of American zombie tropes and foreignness, killing insects has unintended consequences.
The Serpent and the Rainbow is an unexpected rebirth of the voodoo-style Haitian zombie, and a reminder that crafting a voodoo zombie movie that takes itself semi-seriously and aims to shock is still achievable.
Juan of the Dead, Cuba's first feature-length zombie film, is a strong piece of work by filmmaker Alejandro Brugués.
Juan of the Dead blends politics with zombie flicks by having Juan launch a company that goes out of control.
A nurse suspected of having the zombie virus is drawn into the mystery of a voodoo cult she treats in the Caribbean.
In the next-to-last picture directed by George A. Romero, Dennis Hopper plays a ruthless plutocrat who rules over a walled-off Pittsburgh. It lacks the nuance of some of his other works, but it has Romero's signature rebellious spirit and looks amazing.
Planet Terror is a comical zombie film made by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino about destructive zombie/mutants who invade the southwestern countryside. It excels at being that kind of film, and it deserved to perform a lot more at the box office.
The German "feature film" Rammbock is only 63 minutes long and was made by a small company. It's about a sad sack named Michael who goes to see his girlfriend just as a zombie outbreak starts.
Cemetery Man is an experimental horror art-comedy about a cemetery caretaker who drifts through life without purpose and questions why he bothers carrying out his duty. It's almost like American Psycho because the main character has no hope and doesn't know who he or she is.
In order to apprehend the drug traffickers who were responsible for the death of one of their own cops, a gang of law enforcement agents conduct a search warrant in an empty apartment building, where they find... zombies.
For fans of the zombie/horror subgenre, 28 Weeks Later is an often intriguing, sometimes frightening, often powerful, and often frustrating film, but it violates one of the unwritten rules of zombie filmmaking by having a "main zombie" who escapes and prevents the other infected from being viewed as serious threats.
Tom Savini, a master of special effects, made a remake of Night of the Living Dead in 1990. It is a faithful remake that doesn't try to change anything about the original movie. It's good, and if it weren't called "Night of the Living Dead," it would be called a classic.
In a New England seaside village, a string of fatalities happens, with individuals resembling the victims. These zombies are self-contained and self-sufficient.
Robert Englund portrays a possibly zombiefied villager, whilst Jack Albertson represents the eccentric local coroner/mortician.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, a young Australian director's post-apocalyptic zombie film with plenty of style, is frightful without being depressing, emotional without sounding pompous, and horrific without falling into the violent comedy of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
One Cut of the Dead is a cute zombie film about actors trying to broadcast a zombie short film live on television.
One Cut of the Dead is a movie about working with a limited budget and having a do-it-yourself attitude. The movie well reflects the inventiveness and flexibility that are demonstrated by low-budget directors like as George Romero.
Hammer Horror made numerous iconic monster movies, like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, but they also made a wonderful zombie picture, Plague of the Zombies. Their zombies are decrepit and extremely terrifying, and its aesthetic effect on Night of the Living Dead is clear.
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.
In the zombie comedy Zombieland, the action is relocated to the United States, and the survivors are not pals but rather strangers. It strikes an almost ideal mix between humorous violence and character-driven comedy and has zombies that are really scary.
The Beyond, directed by Lucio Fulci, is one of the most elegant Italian zombie horror films, combining a haunted house aesthetic with demonic possession, the living dead, and haunting apparitions.
In 2007, found-footage horror movies like the first Paranormal Activity and Romero's own Diary of the Dead broke new ground. With its combination of classic zombie legend and religious mysticism, the Spanish film REC stands out as the genre's greatest example of found-footage storytelling in the zombie subgenre.
Pontypool is a cerebral and ethereal re-imagining of what the word "zombie" might be taken to mean. It's a movie that I really respect for taking the hard way, and it's a criticism of how people in the 21st century can't really connect and talk about important issues.
Demons is a zombie film set at a movie theater filled with odd characters such as preppy teenagers, feuding couples, a pimp and his prostitutes, and even a blind man.
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's also indicative of the changing attitude toward zombies in film, as seen in this film.
Although Dawn has more esteem, Day of the Dead is my personal favorite of George Romero's zombie films, and it reintroduces the science back into zombie flicks.
Day of the Dead reimagines the characteristics of the traditional Romero ghoul and gives us "Bub," who is maybe the single most famous zombie in Romero's body of work. He (new updates) has a distinct degree of personality and even a sense of humor, and he is introduced in this film.
When 28 Days Later came out in 2002, the classic zombie film was practically dead, but the film resurrected the notion and made zombies a serious danger. It also gave rise to the notion of the serious zombie film in the twenty-first century.
Re-Animator takes great pleasure in the scientific rationale for reanimating dead bodies, which Day of the Dead also explored. In his role as the crazed scientist Herbert West, Jeffrey Combs impresses as the comically campy mad scientist who uses needles of flashing green goo to bring the dead back to life.
Dawn of the Dead advances in presentation, professionalism, thematic complexity, and visual effects. It's set in a gaudy mall overrun by zombies and features legendary aesthetics that later zombie flicks copied or mocked.