Shake

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


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

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Dieselboy

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. ><

duga

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.

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Shake

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.

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Dieselboy

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. ><

Mr.Eman

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!

Dr_Rez

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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Guybrush

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.



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.



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!

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NSW

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:

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.

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abdullah424

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.



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