Best Zombie Movies -- Ever !

Ponster

I'm just after reading "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks and will start World War Z next week and both books have given me a healthy appetite for a feast of zombie movies!

Now I know the following list are 'must-sees' but are there any that I'm missing?
Maybe even non-English zombie movies ?

Night Of The living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (both versions?)
Day of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead


Any other ones?

BTW, I'm not considering The Evil Dead series nor 28 Days Later.

Rhyme

Ponster wrote: »

...and will start World War Z

Excellent book, am reading it at the moment.

Those four you listed are well founded and worth watching, my experience with zombie movies lies mostly within the not-so-serious section so i can't really offer any more.

koneko

Let's see....

Return of the Living Dead 3
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
The Beyond & Zombie Flesh Eaters (aka Zombie/Zombi 2) (two Fulci movies)
Dead Alive / Braindead (not serious, a comedy)
Bio Zombie (again, not to be taken seriously, from Hong Kong)
Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man) - an artsy zombie film
Re-animator

I like Versus (Japanese), but it's not a strict zombie movie, and seems to be a bit marmitey (plenty of people seem to hate it). I'm still not sure if I'd recommend Stacy, it's a very odd film, really crappy in a lot of ways but I secretly enjoyed it.

I've heard good things about Flight of the Living Dead but haven't gotten round to watching it yet. For a zombie fest I wouldn't really bother with the Dawn remake, it's similar to 28 Days Later (fast zombies) and doesn't fit in (IMO) with all the zombie classics, one to watch seperately at some point. I do like the Night of the Living Dead remake though (directed by Tom Savini), Tony Todd is in it! If you're watching Romero's dead trilogy then you could add Land Of The Dead too.

Tusky

While the Dawn remake isnt your typical old fashioned zombie movie, I would still recommend it. Braindead by Peter Jackson is good for a laugh also.

Creature

koneko wrote: »

. I do like the Night of the Living Dead remake though (directed by Tom Savini), Tony Todd is in it!

Heh I thought I was the only one. I loved that film




Flight of the Living Dead isn't bad but the acting and characters are hilariously bad at times. It's worth a watch but it does feature 'fast zombies' so if you're not into 28 Days later and the like then you probably wont like it.

Running Bing

Most already mentioned.


The living dead at Manchester Morgue is a very underrated Zombie movie. Ill once again single out Lucio Fulci's Zombie flesh eaters as it is just brilliant, a slower more atmospheric Zombie movie....and it has that scene;)


If you have seen most of the obvious zombie movies and want to dig a bit further I would suggest haveing a look at Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. Its three short movies in one presented by Boris Karloff but the one of interest is the second movie "The Verdolac". Said to be a huge influence on Romero in creating night of the living dead.


Also you could check out white zombie from 1932 and also Carnival of Souls was pretty inspirational for the Zombie genre (or sub-genre if you prefer)

unreggd

Theres about 10 million zombie movies out by now, but they'll still never come close to Romero's ones

Night, Day, Dawn, Dawn Remake, Land

I loved the remake of Dawn, and think a proper remake of Day is on its way
[there was a crappy v called Day of the Dead: Contagium, but the proper one stars Mena Suvari (choir girl from American Pie)]


C'mon "Night of the Bleedin Dead Yokes"

A proper Irish zombie film! haha

TerrorFirmer

The original dead trilogy.

The re-make of both Night and Dawn of the Living Dead.

Land of the Dead.

Night of the Dead (not mis-spelling).

Return of the Living Dead 3, 4 and 5 are all quite good, the first two are watchable but more comedies. I didn't like them as zombie films, OK as general viewing.

The Italian gore flicks are worth a watch just for that - the gore. But crap films. Zombie Flesh Eaters 1/2/3. Zombie Holocaust.

Flight of the Living Dead.

The Dead next Door.

Resident Evil Trilogy. Not an overly good zombie movie, but a zombie movie nonetheless.

Re-animator.

Dead Men Walking.

Zombietown. Low budget but some good special efforts and pretty funny at times.

Gangs of the Dead.

Day of the Dead 2 (pretty crap movie, so you'd want to have seen everything else first)

Probably rakes more I'm forgetting.

Creature

unreggd wrote: »

I loved the remake of Dawn, and think a proper remake of Day is on its way
[there was a crappy v called Day of the Dead: Contagium, but the proper one stars Mena Suvari (choir girl from American Pie)]

Afraid not man, thats going straight to DVD and looks fairly crap.

bombidol

the remake of night of the living dead is god damn excellent. In fact it may be heresy but id almost take it over the original.

unreggd

bombidol wrote: »

the remake of night of the living dead is god damn excellent. In fact it may be heresy but id almost take it over the original.

I agree

Otis Driftwood

Romeros Trilogy stand up as the best examples of the genre IMHO.

Some other decent ones

Dr Butcher M.D
Bone Sickness
The Beyond(not strictly a Zombie movie but sort of)
The Stink Of Flesh-good,low budget fun.
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Stacy
City of Rott
Junk

strangesdays

I'm sure im in a (very) small minority here, but i do remember thinking that one of the generally awful 'return of the living dead' films to be quite fun. It had sort of a romeo&julitte-except-they're-zombies type thing going on in it.

and lest we forget: 28 days later...

Otis Driftwood

Says in original post 28 days later isnt admissable as the "zombies" are alive.


You probably mean return of the living dead 3.

Very good fun with some sweet goopy gore in it.

TerrorFirmer

nedtheshed wrote: »

Romeros Trilogy stand up as the best examples of the genre IMHO.

Some other decent ones

Dr Butcher M.D
Bone Sickness
The Beyond(not strictly a Zombie movie but sort of)
The Stink Of Flesh-good,low budget fun.
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Stacy
City of Rott
Junk

Bone Sickness was brilliant. Not a great movie in itself actually, now that I mention that, but the gore was very inventive and really reminiscent of an 80's Italian gore flick in the best way possible.

How do people feel in general about Return of the Living Dead? I thought 3 was by far the best, and 4 and 5 were pretty damn enjoyable too. I just don't like the comedy approach of the first 2 though, despite everyone else seeming to love them, it just doesn't feel right to class it as a horror or genuine zombie movie...After all, if someone asked for the best zombie movie out there, you wouldn't exactly recommend Shaun of the Dead, even if it is a good film...

strangesdays

Turns out it was indeed Return of the living dead 3 I was talking about. Didn't see that addendum re:28 days later (though I would still argue it is a zombie film).

The only other Return of the Living Dead film I've seen is the second, and all i remember of it was the (really, really) bad attempt at slapstick humour in it. Hmm, Fulci's City of the Living dead ranks as one of his more watchable zombie movies (along with the previous two mentioned). Has a pretty impressive gut-vomiting scene , if you like that sort of thing;)

Hammer's Plague of the zombies is worth a look too. Its not great, but its an interesting to see what movie zombies were like prior to Romero. No brain eating there, no sir-ee.

koneko

Yep, Return of the Living Dead 3 is on my list above, I love it, bit of a different take on the zombie transformation process. Mindy (Melinda) Clarke is just great in it. I wouldn't recommend the first 2 either, haven't seen 4 and 5 yet.

Otis Driftwood

HavoK wrote: »

Bone Sickness was brilliant. Not a great movie in itself actually, now that I mention that, but the gore was very inventive and really reminiscent of an 80's Italian gore flick in the best way possible.

How do people feel in general about Return of the Living Dead? I thought 3 was by far the best, and 4 and 5 were pretty damn enjoyable too. I just don't like the comedy approach of the first 2 though, despite everyone else seeming to love them, it just doesn't feel right to class it as a horror or genuine zombie movie...After all, if someone asked for the best zombie movie out there, you wouldn't exactly recommend Shaun of the Dead, even if it is a good film...

Agreed on Bone Sickness.
The Unearthed Pictures release of it has some great special features/interviews with the cast and crew.

The director Brian Paulin is hoping to release his new movie Fetus this year.

Heres a link to a trailer.

Dunno if its still available as I cant check it cos Im at work and youtube is blocked but it looks freakin sick and I cant wait to see it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq5nkMfSpJg

spooky donkey

I started playing Dead Rising on the xbox there last week. Never mind watching a zombie movie try playing one. good stuff.

My fav Zombis is the orignal night of the living dead.

Ninja_scrotum

THE BEYOND and ZOBIE FLESH EATERS are so overrated its crazy. I have them both and they are fairly shit. Terrible acting and direction and music and everything in general. The odd bit of gore i suppose. I don't know how they are so popular. These films are so shit.

The absolute WORST zombie film have ever seen is another italian one - ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH. Oh wow. So bad. The zombies are black people. So they got some stock footage of an african tribe having a party in the desert and that was supposed to be a zombie attack of some sort.


Have ye seen nightmare city? Another crappy italian zombie film. With exploding heads n stuff. Alright though. A bit more fast moving than the crappy fulci ones.

TerrorFirmer

I totally agree that they are crap films, so bad it's laughable. Re-using the same footage over and over, not to mention inconsistency. I think it's Flesh Eaters 2, where one character goes from sounding like an Indian to a South Central hoodlum in two scenes. Zombies are slow, and shuffling, and then randomly run around the place. I think also in Flesh Eaters 2, there's a part where a Zombie leaps over/out of a hedge like a ninja in front of all the characters. The best example is in Zombie Holocaust, when the professor orders the zombies to grab someone. They go from decaying, shuffling and moaning to athletes, sprinting over and firmly grabbing the main characters in a vice like grip.

The gore is great though - the part with the splinter in the eye is horrific in the first Flesh Eaters. I can't remember which scenes are from which movies but there's some great ones in there like the motorboat propeller in the face, ripping open of throats, decaying corpses in all their maggot infested glory, faces being staved in, etc. That's the only reason people recommend them! Nowadays, all that kind of extreme, gruesome and gritty violence is being replaced with violent but overwhelmingly fake CGI, or relying on copious amounts of blood rather then the way in which its actually delivered - which is a shame. That's why I liked Bone Sickness so much...

koneko

Zombie Flesh Eaters is worth is for the zombie vs shark scene alone.

Otis Driftwood

Ha ha ha,thats funny as hell alright.

Its purely for the gore that I watch and love the 70s/80s Zombie movies.

As terrorfirmer said the use of CGI is Zombie(any horror really) movies blows goats and just looks crap.

Im really looking forward to Nick Palumbos "corpse"

If murder set pieces is anything to go by this should kick ass!

Karl Hungus

Ninja_scrotum wrote: »

THE BEYOND and ZOBIE FLESH EATERS are so overrated its crazy. I have them both and they are fairly shit. Terrible acting and direction and music and everything in general. The odd bit of gore i suppose. I don't know how they are so popular. These films are so shit.

Hey! The music in The Beyond is amazing! Fabio Frizzi was a genius.

Ninja_scrotum

If you think the music is amazing well I'm happy for you. At least you have one reason to watch The Beyond.

Has anyone seen nightmare city?