Guybrush

I personally don't feel the Evil Dead series quite qualifiy as zombie movies. The possessed in those films have so many abilities that zombies generally don't and are also in control of an intelligence with a motive whereas zombies mostly just mindlessly hunger for human flesh.

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jackhammer

Made in 1966 from the masterful Hammer studio this was meant as a stop gap film between bigger films (it was shot back to back with The Reptile) but such was the positive reception it has far over shadowed The Reptile and has since become one of the jewels in Hammer's crown outside of their Frankenstein and Dracula films.

For a film made in 1966 it of course looks dated in terms of FX but it more than makes up for it in atmosphere and imagery. Because it was made before Romero really ignited the Zombie genre in 1969 with Night Of The Living Dead, the film relied on folklore and therefore had barely nothing on which to base itself upon yet it is full of socio political subtext even though the films setting was the late 19th century.

Don't expect flesh eating and gore but do expect lashings of atmosphere and creepiness. For a B movie it has survived the test of time superbly and is one of the finest Zombie movies ever made.

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mettalmag

Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland of course

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Dead Snow (this is hilarious, who wouldn't love nazi zombies?)
23 Days Later


28 Days Later 2002 Trailer - YouTube


Dead Snow - Official Trailer! - YouTube

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**** quality, but y'know..

powerwilliams1

These are the best Zombie movies. hope you like these Horror movies like:-
Day of the Dead
28 Days Later
Bio Zombie
Cemetery Man
Re-Animator

Guybrush

They are the best? This is how I feel about them in very crude terms.

Boring
Boring
Never heard of
Boring, but vague appeal from being artsy
Classic!

Sorry if that seems a little condescending, although I do like your last pick a lot. Your list just makes me wonder, though. Out of Romero's movies, why would anyone pick Day of the Dead over Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead in such a list? The only fascinating thing about it for me was Bub and some great gore at the very end, but the rest was an 80s borefest compared to the two previous ones which had classic written all over them ..

I also firmly believe those who do not have Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (aka Braindead) on their lists simply have not seen it yet

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Howard the Duck

^^that pretty much reflects what I feel about those five, though i have slightly higher regard for Day of the Dead and Cemetery Man (well, the Italian original voice, anyway - Dellamorte Dellamore)

never heard of Bio Zombie either, is that Japanese?

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Unknown Soldier

I'm making a list of all these films so in the next couple of months I can really go on a zombie binge, seeing both new and old stuff. Jack mentioned Plague of Zombies which is one of the classic Hammer films of its time, highlighted by a great performance from John Carson as the Squire (a very underrated actor whose always shone when I've seen him)

jackhammer

Bio Zombie is Chinese and worth a watch for sure.

Here are some curios worth checking out:


Director Jean Rollin is an infamous 'Eurotrash' director with over 50 films to his name with many of them actually trash TBH but he always worked on low budgets and occasionally made a gem or two and this atmospheric French tale is definitely one of them.


AKA Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. One of a small bunch of films made by Italian director Jorge Grau but shot in England, this is a gorgeously photographed (and for it's time 1974) very brutal film.

The plot is basic but there are some superb set pieces and classic gut munching scenes and it looks and feels a lot different to the usual Zombie films due to it's location shooting and use of soundtrack.

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