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That's Zombietainment

  • 04-02-2012 2:04pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭


    Okay, so. I figured that some of the very best (in your opinion) zombie films, books and games should get a mention for reference.

    I'm bound to miss a tonne of them so any help adding to this would be great! I'll keep it updated too.
    In no particular order as everyones idea of the best is going to differ.
    I've started us off with some of the ones that most people would know.


    Film & Televison:

    Open Grave (2013) - Gonzalo López-Gallego
    Night of the living dead (1968) - George Romero
    Dawn of the Dead (1978) - George Romero
    Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Zack Snyder
    Day of the Dead (1985) - George Romero
    Day of the Dead (2008) - Steve Miner
    Dead Set (2008 TV mini-series) - Yann Demange
    Dead Girl (2008) - (Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel)
    Death Valley (2011 - present. TV series)
    28 Days Later (2002) - Danny Boyle
    28 Weeks Later (2007) - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
    I walked with a Zombie (1943) - Jacques Tourneur
    Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Edgar Wright
    The Walking Dead (2010 - present. TV series)
    Zombieland (2009) - Ruben Fleischer
    La horde (2009) - Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
    Planet Terror (2007) - Robert Rodriguez
    [rec] (2007) - Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
    [rec]2 (2009) - Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
    Quarantine (2008) - John Erick Dowdle (hollywood remake of Rec)
    Land of the Dead (2005) - George Romero
    Fido (2006) - Andrew Currie
    Dead Snow/Død snø (2009) - Tommy Wirkola
    The Crazies (1973) - George Romero
    The Crazies (2010) - Breck Eisner
    The Omega Man (1971) - Boris Sagal
    I am Legend (2007) - Francis Lawrence
    Carriers (2009) - David Pastor & Àlex Pastor
    Highschool of the Dead (2010 - 12 episode anime series)
    Zombie Flesh Eaters 1 to 3
    House by the Cemetery
    City of the Living Dead
    The Beyond
    Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
    Dr Butcher M.D
    Evil Dead (1981) - Sam Raimi
    Evil Dead II (1987) - Sam raimi
    Army of Darkness (aka Evil Dead 3, or The Medievil Dead) (1992) - Sam Raimi
    The Stink of Flesh
    Bone Sickness
    Return of the Living Dead 1 to 3
    Cemetery Man
    Versus
    White Zombie
    Braindead
    Re-Animator
    Hell of the Living Dead
    Premutos
    City of Rott
    The Dead (2010) - Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford
    Devils Playground (2010) - Mark McQueen
    Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010) - Marvin Kren
    Wasting away - (2007) - Matthew Kohnen
    Zombies of war
    Dance of the dead (2008) - Gregg Bishop
    Wasting Away (2007 aka Aaah Zombies) - Matthew Kohnen
    Colin (2008) - Marc Price
    Resident Evil (2002)
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
    Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
    Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
    Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)



    Books/Comics/Literature:

    The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
    World War Z - Max Brooks
    The Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard
    The Enemy - The Dead - The Fear. - Charlie Higson
    Zombie - An Anthology of the Dead
    The walking dead the Governors story
    Dr dales A to Z of Zombies
    Patient zero - Johnaton Maberry
    Zombies (the year of infection)
    Day By Day Armageddon- J.L. Bourne
    Beyond Exile: Day By Day Armageddon - J.L. Bourne
    The New Dead - Various Authors (Max Brooks & Joe Hill among them)
    Dead City - Joe McKinney
    Apocalypse of the Dead - Joe McKinney
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen & Seth Grahame Smith
    Zombie Haiku - Ryan Mecum
    The Zen of Zombie - Scott Kenemore
    It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Zombies! - Michael P. Spradlin
    Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime - Michael P. Spradlin
    Jack and Jill Went Up to Kill - Michael P. Spradlin
    The Zombie Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore & H. Parker Kelley
    How To Speak Zombie: A Guide For the Living - Steve Mockus
    Zombie Penpal (Choose Your Own Adventure) - Ken McMurtry
    Night of the Living Mad Libs
    Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! - various authors, edited by Otto Penzler
    Closure Limited - Max brooks
    Ex-Heroes - Peter Cline
    Ex-Patriots - Peter Cline
    Tooth and nail - Craig DiLouie
    Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies - Matt Mogk
    Mountain Man & Safari(Mountain Man Book 2) by Keith C. Blackmore

    Games:

    Left4Dead - 2008
    Left4Dead 2 - 2009
    Resident Evil (1996 - present) too many to list, 23 titles on various platforms since 1996 see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_evil for more info.
    Dead Frontier
    Dead Rising
    Dead Rising 2
    Urban Dead
    Plants vs zombies
    Zombie highway
    Zombie gunship
    Outbreak: Undead (pen & paper)
    Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993?)

    Internet:
    The Zombie Hunters
    Dead Winter
    Mallville
    We're Alive http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/WereAliveEpisodes.html
    Zombie Bashers http://www.rte.ie/storyland-2010/zombiebashers/index.html

    Board games:

    Oh No Zombies
    Last Night On Earth
    The Walking Dead
    Zombies!!!
    Zombie Survival
    The last stand & TLS2 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/375622


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Film: Dead Girl. Must see zombie film, if you haven't seen it don't even bother reading up on it. Just watch it.

    TV: Death Valley, that show surprised me and has a good use of zombies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭Zomg Okay


    Books: The Enemy, The Dead and The Fear by Charlie Higson.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Film: Dead Girl. Must see zombie film, if you haven't seen it don't even bother reading up on it. Just watch it.

    TV: Death Valley, that show surprised me and has a good use of zombies.

    Whats Dead Girl? never heard of it before and i'm getting loads of differennt titles when i search for it. anyone famous in it or any idea what year it was released?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 659 ✭✭✭ToadVine


    Films:
    28 days later
    28 weeks later
    I walked with a zombie
    Shaun of the dead

    Podcast:
    We're Alive

    TV:
    The walking dead


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Whats Dead Girl? never heard of it before and i'm getting loads of differennt titles when i search for it. anyone famous in it or any idea what year it was released?
    N one famous in it, very low budget.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896534/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    must keep an eye out for that so :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,131 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Zombieland

    Le horde

    Planet terror


  • Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Books:

    Zombie - An Anthology of the Dead

    It's a good book if you give it a chance, but the zombies aren't what one would be used to. It's a collection of short stories, so what the rules are with regards to zombies changes a lot. For example, one story could involve the supernatural and another could be about zombies who can think. It's not really scary, but some of the stories are still really good. Others are a bit bad, but you can skip them.

    I've also heard that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is quite good too, but I haven't read it myself.

    Movies:

    Film-wise, there was one called infection or infected or something that was good, I'll find the name of it for you guys later. It focused a lot more on what life was like in a zombie apocalypse and features fewer zombies. It's not the best movie ever, but it's good for a night.

    [rec] and it's sequel are brilliant too, I'd recommend them to everyone. It's in Spanish and subbed in English, but it won't bother you that much. It's good for scares.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭Zomg Okay


    Game: Dead Frontier

    MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game). You pick a background (e.g: army, police officer, chef, lawyer, etc.) which affects your starting stats and inventory, then you leave get to go wandering the Inner City and its undead filled streets.

    Only been playing it since yesterday but enjoying it so far. Its free to play, too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Speaking of online games, Urban Dead is a text-based zombie game.

    It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you like levelling up your skills and don't mind the lack of graphics, you'll enjoy it.

    You can even turn into a zombie and turn back again, each form has it's own skill set.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    sweet :) keep it up!


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    Film: Fido
    Dead Snow
    Crazies
    I am Legend

    TV: Dead Set

    Books: Warm Bodies
    The walking dead the Governors story
    Dr dales A to Z of Zombies
    Patient zero
    Zombies (the year of infection)


    All awesome! (except the animation in I am Legend) also im not sure if its really a zombie movie but its so darn close it could be!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭dots03


    Books

    "Day By Day Armageddon"- J.L. Bourne
    "Beyond Exile: Day By Day Armageddon" - J.L. Bourne


  • Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Day by day was an absolutely brilliant book.

    By the way, that film I was talking about earlier on was called Carriers(2009).


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    actually i seen that just recently its not a bad watch at all :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭ChaseThisLight


    Love this thread. :)

    Here's some to add from my library:

    The New Dead - Various Authors (Max Brooks & Joe Hill among them)
    Dead City - Joe McKinney
    Apocalypse of the Dead - Joe McKinney
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen & Seth Grahame Smith (haven't read the prequel or sequel: Dawn of the Dreadfuls and Dreadfully Ever After)
    Patient Zero - Jonathan Maberry (saw that on the list, just giving an author in case anyone wants to find it)

    And just for fun I have these:

    Zombie Haiku - Ryan Mecum
    The Zen of Zombie - Scott Kenemore
    It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Zombies! - Michael P. Spradlin
    Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime - Michael P. Spradlin
    Jack and Jill Went Up to Kill - Michael P. Spradlin
    The Zombie Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore & H. Parker Kelley
    How To Speak Zombie: A Guide For the Living - Steve Mockus
    Zombie Penpal (Choose Your Own Adventure) - Ken McMurtry
    Night of the Living Mad Libs

    There are a few board games out there, too...
    Oh No Zombies
    Last Night On Earth
    The Walking Dead
    Zombies!!!
    Zombie Survival


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    updated :) cheers CtL!

    Decided to perfom my first action as a mod here and sticky the thread,
    should be handy to find now and if you're looking for some zombietainment, should be a decent point to start from :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭Nervosa


    Games/apps

    Plants vs zombies
    Zombie highway
    Zombie gunship


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭Nervosa


    Books

    Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! The most complete collections of zombie stories ever published.
    Not too sure if this is the same book as previously mentioned. Its got about 56 short stories including stories by Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P.Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Robert Block, Mort Castle, Theodore Sturgeon, and many more! Edited by Otto Penzler.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Got High School of the Dead last night. This brilliant, mental anime. Absolutely loved it, sat and watched the whole series in one go, great craic, highly recommend it if you havent seen it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭Zomg Okay


    There's an absolute ton of zombie games on Newgrounds.com.

    The first Rebuild game and The Last Stand series are quite good. Haven't played many of the others.


  • Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Closure Limited is another book by Max Brooks. It's pretty short (124 pages), but it IS Max Brooks, so it's still pretty good! The first story is already in World War Z, so if that bothers you then don't get it.

    There's also a traditional pen-and-paper RPG game out there called "Outbreak: Undead" which I'm sure you'd all love. It's the only game I've seen that recaptures that desperate "survival horror" feeling in quite a while. It's really in-depth and it's something like 500 pages long. It's only out in the USA so far, but hopefully we'll get it over here at some point.

    Also, this thread is great degrass!


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    Updated again, cheers! keep 'em coming :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    All movies:

    Zombie Flesh Eaters 1 to 3
    House by the Cemetery
    City of the Living Dead
    The Beyond
    Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
    Dr Butcher M.D
    Evil Dead
    The Stink of Flesh
    Bone Sickness
    Return of the Living Dead 1 to 3
    Cemetery Man
    Versus
    White Zombie
    Braindead
    Re-Animator
    Hell of the Living Dead
    Premutos
    City of Rott


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    Books:
    Ex-Heroes by Peter Cline
    Ex-Patriots by Peter Cline


  • Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭steveLFC24


    Here's a some more recent ones that I haven't seen mentioned.

    The Dead (2010) http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1386925/ Not a bad zombie flick. Set in Africa and goes back to the original ultraslow zombies which I liked.

    Devils Playground (2010) http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1453245/ Stars Danny Dyer :rolleyes: but if you're a zombie fan then its worth the watch.

    Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010) http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1583356/ Its only an hour long but I enjoyed it. Dunno if you can get it on dvd, I managed to watch it online.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭batm!ke


    Anyone remember the Sega MegaDrive game "Zombies Ate My Neighbours" I think it was called. Started a lifelong love of all things undead. Great game :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    Here's some rubbish movies in my collection *****in my opinion*****

    Brain dead : Peter Jacksons directorial début ( I know this has a major cult following but in my opinion it was trash!!)

    Wasting away ( fantastic premise badly executed)

    Zombies of war ( awful awful awful I got about twenty minutes in and turned it off!!!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    Just read back and Dance of the dead isnt on the list yet......Its a bit of a silly movie but its still good.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    Just watched Aaah! Zombies!! on US Netflix, interesting slant on the whole Zombie genre. Don't want to give too much away but in a nutshell looks at zombies from the viewpoint of zombies. No real blood and gore rather a comedy style Zombie flick.

    Another movie from the Zombie perspective is Colin a low budget british film I caught on the horror channel and I have seen it repeated there. The channel's website might give a repreat date for those interested. It is also available on the US Netflix.


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