Zombie movies I own, in order of much I recommend them!
I love zombie cinema.
The very thought of the walking, hungry undead has terrorized me since I was a child. I believe it all started when I saw a zombie movie when I was too young to process it as morbid entertainment. Intense nightmares about the shuffling cannibalistic corpses granted me night terrors for years to come. Weekly, and sometimes more often than that, a vivid and gruesome zombie nightmare would demolish a good night's sleep.
Now that I'm older, I go nuts for zombie movies. Perhaps it is a coping mechanism, a response to terror nestled in childhood. For years I avoided zombie movies, now I host parties to showcase them.
I will go ahead and say that my favorite type of zombie movies include the "shufflers", that is, zombies that move very slowly. These movies seem to have a lot more tension, it doesn't matter that you move more quickly than the plodding undead, they are going to get you in any case.
Then, I enjoy the "shambler" zombies. These are the type found in The Walking Dead. They don't walk, they don't run, it's something in-between. In some cases it even appears to be bursts of speed or vigor.
Last, there are the "sprinter" undead. These zombies run. Although I find them terrifying (because I'm not the best runner in any competition) something about their quickness sets them apart from other zombie cinema. There's a lack of tension. There's a lack of suspense and overwhelming odds, you are denied the opportunity to board up your windows and flip a table over to bar the door. The survivors must only outrun these undead, and something about that is less entertaining to me. However, I love 28 Days Later and even its less grand sequel 28 Weeks Later*, perhaps because they present a zombie movie wish a breath of fresh air, a breath utilized to sprint at Olympian speed.
The very thought of the walking, hungry undead has terrorized me since I was a child. I believe it all started when I saw a zombie movie when I was too young to process it as morbid entertainment. Intense nightmares about the shuffling cannibalistic corpses granted me night terrors for years to come. Weekly, and sometimes more often than that, a vivid and gruesome zombie nightmare would demolish a good night's sleep.
Now that I'm older, I go nuts for zombie movies. Perhaps it is a coping mechanism, a response to terror nestled in childhood. For years I avoided zombie movies, now I host parties to showcase them.
I will go ahead and say that my favorite type of zombie movies include the "shufflers", that is, zombies that move very slowly. These movies seem to have a lot more tension, it doesn't matter that you move more quickly than the plodding undead, they are going to get you in any case.
Then, I enjoy the "shambler" zombies. These are the type found in The Walking Dead. They don't walk, they don't run, it's something in-between. In some cases it even appears to be bursts of speed or vigor.
Last, there are the "sprinter" undead. These zombies run. Although I find them terrifying (because I'm not the best runner in any competition) something about their quickness sets them apart from other zombie cinema. There's a lack of tension. There's a lack of suspense and overwhelming odds, you are denied the opportunity to board up your windows and flip a table over to bar the door. The survivors must only outrun these undead, and something about that is less entertaining to me. However, I love 28 Days Later and even its less grand sequel 28 Weeks Later*, perhaps because they present a zombie movie wish a breath of fresh air, a breath utilized to sprint at Olympian speed.
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- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
- DirectorTom SaviniStarsTony ToddPatricia TallmanTom TowlesWhen the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsStephen McHattieLisa HouleGeorgina ReillyA radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsSarah PolleyVing RhamesMekhi PhiferA nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsJames KarenThom MathewsMichael KenworthyCurious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert CarlyleSix months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon BakerThe living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsJeppe Beck LaursenCharlotte FrognerJenny SkavlanA ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
- DirectorYannick DahanBenjamin RocherStarsClaude PerronJean-Pierre MartinsEriq EbouaneyAn end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.
- DirectorMarvin KrenStarsMichael FuithTheo TrebsAnka GraczykJust when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much to Michael's concern, Gabi's not home; instead, he meets Harper, a teenage plumber's apprentice at work in her apartment block. Together, they manage to barricade themselves when raging hordes of infected people swarm the building. Surrounded by these thirsty zombies, Michael and Harper have their hands full to survive - and it will take all of their ingenuity to make their way out to try and find Gabi.
- DirectorMichael G. BartlettKevin GatesStarsScott AinslieToby BowmanVictoria SummerAn unknown virus begins spreading and within weeks it engulfs the entire planet. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon, the planet was infested with the undead.
- DirectorMichael G. BartlettKevin GatesStarsPhilip BrodieAlix Wilton ReganRob OldfieldThree months have passed since a viral outbreak turned its victims into flesh-eating living dead. A band of survivors have taken refuge at a military barracks. A message comes telling of a "sanctuary" somewhere in Europe. But is it a trap?
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsMichelle MorganJoshua CloseShawn RobertsA group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsAlan Van SprangKenneth WelshKathleen MunroeOn an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
- DirectorHoward J. FordJonathan FordStarsRob FreemanPrince David OseiDavid DontohAn American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
- DirectorSteve BarkerStarsCatherine SteadmanRichard CoyleAli CraigThe year is 1945, the closing stages of WW2, and a German scientist by the name of Klausener is working on a frightening new technology that has the power to create an immortal Nazi army. Flash forward to present day, and a NATO task force is hurriedly deployed to Eastern Europe, where a sinister enemy appears to be mercilessly killing everything in its path. But this is no ordinary foe. Only Helena, a gutsy investigator on the trail of the notorious war-criminal Klausener, accepts the reality of that they are facing a battalion of Nazi Storm-Troopers, a veritable zombie army on the march. With the help of Wallace, a man who's been chasing Nazi secrets for years, the two of them team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep behind enemy lines. Their mission to fight their way back to the source of this evil army and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskeyA special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.Are these zombie movies? They have zombies IN them...
I suppose they don't count as zombie cinema. Perhaps zombies have to be the only undead featured in the movie. The Resident Evils tend to have a slew of undead beasts and creatures. - DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsMargie NewtonFranco GarofaloSelan KarayAfter an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.The wildlife footage is so tacky and out of place. I love it.
- DirectorJ.R. BookwalterStarsPete FerryBogdan PecicMichael GrossiAn elite anti-Zombie team is assembled by the Government to cope with an ever-growing undead infection and the religious cult zealots who fanatically protect the festering foes.
- DirectorAlexander WittStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryEric MabiusAlice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.The overrun city does have a cool zombie atmosphere.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterWentworth MillerWhile still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterOded FehrSurvivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
- DirectorJeff BroadstreetStarsBrianna BrownJoshua DesRochesSid HaigBoth an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!Just because Romero missed out on copyrighting his masterpiece
*beep* you whoever allowed this to happen. - DirectorNick LyonStarsVing RhamesTaryn ManningJohnny PacarMonths after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryMichelle RodriguezAlice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
- DirectorSteven C. MillerStarsGarrett JonesJuliet Reeves LondonWilliam HowardThree teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
- DirectorLogan McMillanStarsMorgan WilliamsRobert FaithAshleigh SouthamA contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.
- DirectorHoward J. FordJonathan FordStarsJoseph MillsonMeenu MishraAnand Krishna GoyalAn infectious epidemic spreads through India as an American turbine engineer learns that his pregnant girlfriend is trapped near the slums of Mumbai. Now he must battle his way across a 300mile wasteland of the ravenous undead.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsGeir Vegar HoelØrjan GamstMartin StarrStill on the run from a group of Nazi zombies, a man seeks the aid of a group of American zombie enthusiasts, and discovers new techniques for fighting the zombies.