Zombies, zombies, and more zombies!
 

I am a huge fan of anything and eveything zombie. Books, movies, and yes, even music (although, I'm not sure I know any songs about zombies.... except maybe that old Cranberries song LOL)

Anyway, share anything zimbie related that you love.

Right now, I'm reading The Living Dead
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It's a compilation of short stories about, you guessed it, the living dead. There have been a couple really good ones, including one about a teacher so caught up in her profession that she keeps teaching even after all the kids in the class are dead.

I am a frim believer in the "zombies don't run" school of thought, although I truly enjoyed the 28 Days/Weeks later films, since they got around the rules by using a virus ;)

What is/are your favourite zombie stories and movies :)

Single File - Zombies At My Neighbors


Pretty freakin catchy too.


For movies...I like the 28 Days ones as well. As far as older ones, I really liked the Living Dead one with that gang of teenagers in the cemetery. I think it was Return of the Living Dead 2. That one gave me wicked nightmares when I saw it at a sleepover as a kid. ><

really? that one was more like a comedy...cracked me the **** up. i love the original night of the living dead...it's damn old yet incredibly gruesome for a black and white movie.

It really was. Return of the Living Dead was the Evil Dead 2 of zombie films...... But there was still some gruesome **** in there LOL.

Yep, really. ><

As I said I was just a kid...maybe 5th grade? We watched that just lying in our sleeping bags in the dark, and it scared the crap outta me.
I actually watched it again recently and like you said, realized it was pretty much a comedy, and nothing near as scary as I remembered. Was a bit disappointed.


Haha yeah. The part that stayed in my mind most as a kid was when they had that dog that was chopped in half for medical schools...and it came to life and started whining and moaning. Then the dude freaks out and starts beating the sh*t outta it with a crutch as the dog just barks and cries pathetically. As a kid that just f*cked me up, but when I watched it much later I was almost crying with laughter. ><

Dawn of the dead (1978 version) is probably my favorite zombie film. Something about a shopping mall infested with zombies, has a certain ring of truth to it.
The return of the living dead is my second favorite choice. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen!

What I love about zombie movies are that the rules for zombie infections, deaths, and weaknesses are consistent in every movie I have ever watched. Other creatures are constantly changing in movies but zombie's and there rules stay the same.

My new favorite Zombie movie has to be From Dusk Till Dawn. Quentin Tarantino pretty much wrote the entire screenplay and played George Clooneys brother. Not to mention Cheech playing 5 different characters throughout the film.

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My favourite zombie flick I guess must be Braindead or Dead Alive to you guys in the states. My guess is it's gotten quite popular post Lord of the Rings since it's a Peter Jackson flick, but my relationship with it goes back to the early 90s.

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It's a horribly gory film - by far the goriest I've ever seen, but it's also a comedy and that makes the gore more tolerable. However, when I watched it as a kid in 1993, it was absolutely gruesome. I didn't get the humour, all I could see was an orgy of bloodspill with bodies being chopped up and torn apart, cannibalism and other typical zombie stuffs. I guess you'd just have to imagine what that film can do to a kid who's first language is not english .. I guess that's part why I didn't understand it was a comedy. Either way, it really stripped my soul of quite a lot of innocence. I remember I could feel something had changed in me after seeing it.

Anyways, later in the 90s I picked it up again and I did get the jokes and I'd also seen Frighteners which I liked and Bad Taste of course and I became a bit of a Peter Jackson fan or at least appreciator. Braindead is one of the sickest and most twisted popular movies out there and it's brilliant fun, but don't show it to your kids.


I've seen a lot of other zombie films - I too have been a bit of a zombie buff and since then, I've finally concluded that most zombie flicks by far are formulaic, predictable and often overrated. Still, there's something about the first two Re-animator flicks that I like quite a lot. They are based on Lovecraft characters and stories about doctor Herbert West who has found a cure against death .. but he needs to do more research which includes fresh bodies to test his serum on.

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Although Dr. West is the only character which appears in all films, the main character in the two first films is West's assistant who, although he feels what they do is morally wrong and horrific, somehow gets talked into it - over and over and over again ..

The zombies are a little original as they are reawakened humans rather than zombies. Depending on how long the brain was dead for, the stupider they are as zombies. One in particular, the head on the cover, is quite clever.

All in all, the cure, the setting, the motives, the zombies - everything about these makes at least the first Re-animator film more original than many other zombie flicks out there like 28 days later, Return of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead or the Dead Next Door. Also more entertaining, I'd say!

That actually looks quite good...I'll have to check that out sometime.

I read World War Z not to long ago, I'd recommend you check it out if you haven't already.

Also read this a while back:
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It's a book of haiku poems written from the POV of a guy whose been bitten by a zombie. It's good for a laugh anyhow.

Favorite zombie movie is the original Night of the Living Dead. I never could get over the ending.

Great thread, I've been obsessing over zombie stuff the last decade or so for some reason. If you haven't read The Zombie Survival Guide that's definitely a read I recommend.

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If you're into comics the Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is also a great series.

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A fun blend of cheesy B grade horror and surf punk. A decent album but I only bothered finding it because Snowman went on to record The Horse, The Rat and The Swan.

Well I just watched Zombieland with my flatmates earlier on (we rearranged half the lounge and set up the projector for it) and it's no Shaun of the Dead but it's a fun piece of mindless entertainment. 90 mins well spent.

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This really is essential reading.

As for movies well I just have to pick the original Day Of The Dead but I like so many.

Zombi AKA Dawn Of The Dead pt2 (Lucio Fulci classic, splintered eyeballs, Zombie Vs Shark face off which is a great piece of cinema)
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (still going to review this in my horror corner)
City Of The Living Dead (early 80's Eurotrash yay)
The Beyond
Zombie Holocaust
All Romero's Zombie films
Re-Animator
Grapes Of Death ( little known atmospheric film set in the French countryside)
The Plague Of The Zombies (absolute classic Hammer Horror from 1964).

Thats where your Avatar's from isn't it? (Never seen it before btw)

I'm a zombie/movie noob. But I've seen

it's like a rip of of, Dawn of the Dead, which I've also seen.
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Does this count?
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Have you played Left4Dead at all? Its pretty much a video game version of Dawn of the Dead. In L4D2, you can play a whole campaign at a shopping mall. Something about running around a mall with an axe attacking zombies makes you feel relaxed...

"Last Man on Earth", starring Vincent Price, is worth watching if you want a good suspenseful movie without much gore. It was released in 1964, and appears to have been a major influence on George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" movie.
It was based on the Richard Matheson novel "I am Legend."

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Of course. It is the basic civilian survival manual for zombie attacks.

I thought "I am Legend" was rather overrated. I think it's just those of us who have seen a decent amount of zombie horror films expect real zombies and by that I mean played by actors with make up and pig's entrails on them. Those stupid CG zombies did nothing for me. :(

I Am Legend was a bore.

i loved 28 Days Later. the second one - not so much.
Resident Evil series is great. all the new Romero remakes are great.
Quarantine was fun. i've yet to see the original (REC)
Zombieland - oh yeah! really enjoyed that, it had some good energy.

Left4Dead 2 is a blast. decapitating flaming zombies with a chainsaw is quite entertaining.

zombies are great, but really i'm a fan of the whole "survival fiction" genre. Mist, Cloverfield, Tremors, Pitch Black - yeah :D

What about Rob Zombie? LOL :laughing:

The second one wasn't anywhere near as good as the first. But the opening scene in it was probably one of the best ever.

qft

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Hard to go wrong with this.

The balance has been redressed:

I didn't care for Resident Evil the first time I saw it, but it seems like a series that is starting to get more recognition in hindsight, so maybe I'll check it out again. Quarantine was fantastic, the ending was seriously creepy and Zombieland was just good zombie fun :)

I prefer White Zombie to Rob Zombie, but he has a new album coming out so maybe he can redeem himself. I do like his films though. His Halloween remake was much better than most of the remakes that have come out recently. House of 1,000 Corpses was pretty good, even if the ending blew.

I don't know. I like both the movies quite a bit, but in the first one, I pretty much hated everything from the point where they get to the army base onwards. To each their own, I suppose.

^ This. Plus the film kinda tailed off into lameness after a promising first half for me.

This one here's probably my favourite zombie movie...

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^ The remake in case anyone's wondering.

I liked the second movie too.

It's just that the opening scene was so great that I felt the movie set a pace and intensity weren't reached again until you were well into the movie. I understand that they wanted to develop the plot but I could have done without the first 40 minutes or so of the movies after the opening and up until the action starts again.

I'm with Bulldog in that I Am Legend seemed actually pretty thrilling and exciting for the first hour or so. And theeennnnn the new characters (who added nothing to the movie were introduced) and the ending was awful.

Anyone else played Nazi Zombies on call of duty: world at war?

^ Nope, but I've seen this;

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^ Best Nazi zombie flick ever :D Classic burgers-and-beer stuff.

^Great, awesome, amazing movie! :D good call!

Plants Vs Zombies!!! A surprisingly fun game.

I have Dead & Buried and have been thinking about watching it one of these days, but I'm a little sceptical. I worry that it might be just another one of those cheesy 80s horror flicks.

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Not asking for spoilers here, but have anyone seen it and if so, can they recommend it?

Wow all the good zombie movies and books have already been listed but you guys missed the song Re your brains by Jonathon Coultan from the game left for dead 2 which btw sucks in comparison to left for dead 1