Low Budget Zombie Movies
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1. Frankenstein Island (1981)
PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Christopher
Votes: 1,302
2. Zombie Nightmare (1987)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
A mother resorts to voodoo to get back at those who killed her son.
Directors: Jack Bravman, John Fasano | Stars: Adam West, Jon Mikl Thor, Tia Carrere, Manuska Rigaud
Votes: 3,796
3. I Eat Your Skin (1971)
GP | 92 min | Horror
A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies.
Director: Del Tenney | Stars: William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy, Dan Stapleton
Votes: 1,660
4. The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
PG | 88 min | Horror
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Harrison | Stars: John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine, Carole Wells
Votes: 1,591
5. Frozen Scream (1975)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
Mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc and kill people.
Director: Frank Roach | Stars: Renee Harmon, Lynne Yeaman, Wolf Muser, Thomas McGowan
Votes: 627
6. The Day It Came to Earth (1977)
PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. Students from the local college use the pond for a swimming hole. Then the fun begins.
Director: Harry Thomason | Stars: Wink Roberts, Roger Manning, Robert Ginnaven, Delight De Bruine
Votes: 283
7. The Brain Leeches (1978)
55 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Paul Jones, Marcia Scott, John Ray, Jennifer Knight
Votes: 104
8. Fiend (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
An evil spirit Possesses the corpse of a diseased man. It must absorb the life energy of the living, in order for the corpse to not rot away. It moves to the suburbs, where, a neighbor begins to suspect something isn't right.
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Don Leifert, Richard Nelson, Elaine White, George Stover
Votes: 533
9. Killing Spree (1987)
88 min | Horror
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
Director: Tim Ritter | Stars: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette
Votes: 1,014
10. Cemetery of Terror (1985)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
On Halloween, a group of medical students steal the corpse a serial killer from a morgue and raise him from the dead, inadvertently putting themselves and a group of young neighborhood children in danger.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Usi Velasco, Erika Buenfil, Edna Bolkan
Votes: 1,363
11. Spellcaster (1988)
R | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A group of contestants travel to a castle in Italy to participate in a million dollar treasure hunt hidden on the premises. Little did they know, the lord of the castle hides a deadly secret.
Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard Blade, Gail O'Grady, Harold Pruett
Votes: 1,100
12. Legion of the Night (1995)
Unrated | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant scientist experiments with dead tissue regeneration, leading to organized crime making use of the creations as Ultimate Killing Machines! The doctor is blackmailed into creating... See full summary »
Director: Matt Jaissle | Stars: Tim Lovelace, Ron Asheton, Jeff Rector, Heather Fine
Votes: 142
13. Zombie Brigade (1989)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When an amusement park is built on the grounds of an old cemetery, the dead rise to take revenge.
Directors: Carmelo Musca, Barrie Pattison | Stars: John Moore, Khym Lam, Geoffrey Gibbs, Leslie Wright
Votes: 239
14. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
During a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 5,648
15. One Dark Night (1982)
PG | 89 min | Horror
As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.
Directors: Tom McLoughlin, Michael Schroeder | Stars: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights
Votes: 3,752
16. Shock Waves (1977)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Clarence Thomas, Brooke Adams, Luke Halpin, John Carradine
Votes: 6,288
17. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby
Votes: 5,023
18. The Midnight Hour (1985 TV Movie)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?
Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Jonelle Allen, Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise
Votes: 2,233
19. Messiah of Evil (1974)
R | 90 min | Horror
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Directors: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz | Stars: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford
Votes: 5,825
20. Return of the Evil Dead (1973)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror
In this second startling film in the BLIND DEAD series, writer/director Amando de Ossorio returns to the horrific origin of the depraved Templar:
Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Tony Kendall, Fernando Sancho, Esperanza Roy, Frank Braña
Votes: 2,952
21. The Boneyard (1991)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Director: James Cummins | Stars: Ed Nelson, Deborah Rose, Norman Fell, James Eustermann
Votes: 1,708
22. Laughing Dead (1998)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror
When Hunter wakes up from a fever dream, he's in a world he never envisioned; one filled with monstrous beasts and humans who appear to be melting at the seams.
Director: Patrick Gleason | Stars: Fern Finer, Patrick Gleason, Nancy Rhee, Rico Cymone
Votes: 110
23. Mutant (1984)
R | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.
Directors: John 'Bud' Cardos, Mark Rosman | Stars: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Jody Medford, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 2,858
24. Spookies (1986)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A wicked sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive.
Directors: Genie Joseph, Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner | Stars: Felix Ward, Maria Pechukas, Dan Scott, Alec Nemser
Votes: 4,176
25. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,496
26. The Child (1977)
R | 82 min | Horror
A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.
Director: Robert Voskanian | Stars: Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Richard Hanners
Votes: 1,440
27. Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
A gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave, and those still alive in the town.
Director: Dan Hoskins | Stars: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff, Vicki Frederick
Votes: 2,087
28. C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
Director: David Irving | Stars: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 4,034
29. Evil Altar (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror
In the small town of Red Rock, a devil-worshipping cult, in league with the local sheriff, kidnaps victims for sacrifice.
Director: James Winburn | Stars: William Smith, Pepper Martin, Tal Armstrong, Theresa Cooney
Votes: 178
30. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh
Votes: 5,305
31. Ax 'Em (1992)
Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods for a group of childhood pals turns into a terrifying fight for survival, as a former friend whose family was killed years earlier comes along looking for revenge.
Director: Michael Mfume | Stars: Michael Mfume, Sandra Pulley, Joe Clair, Racquel Price
Votes: 2,111
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