Zombie and Vampire Films

Martyn27

I got a suddern urge to watch some good Zombie/Vampire films. Not both in the same film but you know what i mean. I prefer the more moddern stuff really but some of the old classics are still good. If anyone can reccomend me anything would be great, cheers

Kill two birds with one stone, Mutant Vampire Zombies From The 'Hood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Pms5ft034

Black Swan

Martyn27 wrote: »

I got a suddern urge to watch some good ... Vampire films... I prefer the more moddern stuff really

See "Let the Right One In." Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

Nevyn

Have a look in the horror forum They have a top 100 movies in there.

Professey Chin

First person to mention Twilight or any associated works of said travesty gets shot

Klingon Hamlet

My picks would be:

Zombie-films:

28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Vampire-films:

Blade I and II
Vampires (love James Woods in this)
From Dusk til Dawn

Everything else is sh1t.

If anyone suggests Underworld I will stake them in the face:).

rednik

Salems Lot the original tv movie with David Soul and if you like Dracula try the made for tv movie Count Dracula made by the BBC starring Louis Jourdan which is the closest version to the book I have seen. These films are most certainly dated but are pure class.

Hank_Jones

Near Dark: A must for any fan of vampire movies. Directed by oscar winner Katryn Bigelow.

And then there's always The Lost Boys or Interview With the Vampire.
But you've probably seen them.

Dawn of the Dead would be a definite for me regarding zombie movies.

matrim

zombieland is a good zombie comedy. Dead snow is good too.

Also for pure B movieness there is Zombie Strippers or zombies, zombies, zombies

For vampires the most recent movie I've seen is daywalkers. There is also the TV show True Blood

matrim

matrim wrote: »

For vampires the most recent movie I've seen is daywalkers. There is also the TV show True Blood

Take it you mean Daybreakers.

Marchandire

IF you're looking for something beyond the usual 'Braaains', etc, then 'Pontypool' is an excellent, smart zombie movie. Everyone I've recommended it to has given it excellent reviews.

You could also try 'The Signal' - it's not strictly a zombie move but pretty close, and excellent for an independent movie.

'Dead Snow' is good too, more comedic than serious imo, but it has Nazi zombies :eek:

Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is a superb vampire movie if you haven't already seen it

Otis Driftwood

Martyn27 wrote: »

I got a suddern urge to watch some good Zombie/Vampire films. Not both in the same film but you know what i mean. I prefer the more moddern stuff really but some of the old classics are still good. If anyone can reccomend me anything would be great, cheers

By and large,"new" zombie movies suck ass.Romero has become a cliche,remakes(Dawn/Day) make me cry,28 days/weeks arent zombie movies so do yourself and revisit or visit the classics of the genre - Romeros "of the Dead" original trilogy,Zombie Flesh Eaters,The Beyond,White Zombie,or for a more contemporary low budget zombie gorefest try Bone Sickness.You wont get it in a retailer over here but the horror channel have shown it a few times over the last month or so,usually late at night.

With Nick Palumbos "Corpse" seemingly put on hold (raging) the only zombie movie Im looking forward to is Brian Paulin's Bloodpigs.

More info on it is available on both Bone Sickness and Bloodpigs if you click the link to morbidvisionfilms in my sig.

liah

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

My picks would be:

Zombie-films:

28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Vampire-films:

Blade I and II
Vampires (love James Woods in this)
From Dusk til Dawn

Everything else is sh1t.

If anyone suggests Underworld I will stake them in the face:).

...:rolleyes:

Let The Right One In
[REC.] (first only, and NOT Quarantine!)
Interview with the Vampire (simply 'cuz it's a classic)
Cronos
Dead Snow (for a laugh)

Maybe 30 Days of Night, I wasn't a fan but a lot of people liked it.

baaaa

Quite liked the Underworld trilogy and 30 Days of Night also,very dependent on my mood though.
Might give Cronos a look,looks alright.

tman

"Thirst" if you fancy something a little different (Korean film directed by the same guy as Oldboy)

indough

nedtheshed wrote: »

28 days/weeks arent zombie movies so do yourself and revisit or visit the classics of the genre

they are zombie movies though, if you want to go down the road of being proper strict in your definition then even romeros movies arent really zombie movies

Otis Driftwood

indough wrote: »

they are zombie movies though, if you want to go down the road of being proper strict in your definition then even romeros movies arent really zombie movies

I realize its a bit redundant arguing about something that doesnt exist but zombies are re-animated dead flesh,the "zombies" in 28 days/weeks were alive,just infected with a virus.

ScumLord

Pontypool and dead girl are sort of Zombie related.

Martyn27

Thanks for all the replies! Ill give these a look through when i get a chance and get to the watching. Please if you think of any more add them as i'll always be wanting more to watch ^^

Klingon Hamlet

nedtheshed wrote: »

I realize its a bit redundant arguing about something that doesnt exist but zombies are re-animated dead flesh,the "zombies" in 28 days/weeks were alive,just infected with a virus.

Are they? Wikipedia disagrees;):

A zombie is a creature that appears in books and popular culture typically as a reanimated dead or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the African Caribbean spiritual belief system of Voodoo, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful wizard.

Voodoo spoke of people being put under a spell to imitate death, only to re-awaken as walking talking mindless servants. Apparently there is sufficient evidence to indicate this actually happened!

So when people saw someone they believed to be dead, walking/shambling along quite aimlessly, they believed them to be the "un-dead", or the "walking dead."

In a sense, the victims of the Rage Virus too fell under a form of spell, only there was no intervening coma---just sudden, shocking transformation into roaring killing machine. Their ferocity and velocity was the main difference between Romero zombies and the Boyle/post-Boyle counterparts. I always understodd this to be A Comment on Modern Society Mark II.

Mark I: Romero commenting on the apathetic, the shambling consumer zombies and those who went along with whatever propoganda posioned them with.

Mark II: The new culture of mindless, sudden and disturbing violence of modern society.

indough

as klingon has already said, a zombie in the proper definition of the term is not actually the reanimated dead, that is a relatively new aspect of the term which was invented by cinema as far as i know

my understanding of a zombie is that it is a human stripped of all emotion and operating as a mindless souless killing machine with only the most basic of human instincts surviving, the survival of those base instincts are what romero utilised for his social commentary (for example, zombies returning to the mall was a comment on consumerism)

the infected in 28 days later would qualify under the criteria i gave above

Hank_Jones

How could I forget?

Also have a look at Bad Taste and Braindead.
Two of Peter Jackson's early films. Braindead is an amazing film for prosthetic effects, like nothing I have ever seen before.

indough

i really liked braindead

Valmont

Dawn of the Dead (1979) is the best zombie film ever made. Here is a review of it by Roger Ebert.

Interview with a Vampire is the only decent vampire film I've ever seen. Not that I've seen many, mind you.

edit: Please don't start the running versus slow zombie debate!

Snake Plisken

Salems Lot (best Vampire movie Ever)
30 Days of Night
Blade

On the Zombie front only like 28 Days Later and it's sequel

Auvers

saw this years ago by chance on RTE one christmas night and loved it, very funny and original

Mr Vampire

*Mr. Vampire is quite possibly the seminal entry in HK’s famous horror-comedy genre. The late Lam Ching-Ying is Kou, a ghostbusting Taoist priest who’s under duress when a variety of supernatural shtick occurs. He’s assigned to tend to the reburial of a long-deceased fellow (Yuen Wah), but the guy was buried in a place with bad Feng Shui.

He comes back as a hopping terror who first takes out his own son and then eyes the pretty neck of his granddaughter (Moon Lee). Kou charges in to save the day, but must contend with the infection of his student (Ricky Hui), who was wounded by the vampire. Kou’s other student (Chin Siu-Ho) helps, but he becomes haunted by a female ghost (Pauline Wong). Kou must exorcise her while tending to the encroaching danger of the vampires. All this and a cameo by Anthony Chan as another Taoist priest who brings with him an army of vampires.

Credit should go to director Ricky Lau, who manages to balance the film’s elements well. The first 1/2 hour is relatively slow, but the film picks up after that when the shtick takes a rest and the main vampire rears its ugly head. This is a fun movie that showcases Lam Ching-Ying at his best.

*reviewed by Kozo in 1998

candy-gal1

Bram Stokers Dracula

Blood and chocolate

Interview with the vampire

Lesbian vampire killers :rolleyes:;)

Paddy Samurai

Martyn27 wrote: »

I got a suddern urge to watch some good Zombie/Vampire films. Not both in the same film but you know what i mean. I prefer the more moddern stuff really but some of the old classics are still good. If anyone can reccomend me anything would be great, cheers

From Dusk Till Dawn is great,some mad stuff in this one.Takes a while for the Vamps to appear.

As for the some oldies, Vamp , Lost Boys, Frightnight, Return of the living dead, Dead and Buried,Evil Dead 2..........are all worth a look.

Brendog

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

My picks would be:

Zombie-films:

28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Vampire-films:

Blade I and II
Vampires (love James Woods in this)
From Dusk til Dawn

Everything else is sh1t.

If anyone suggests Underworld I will stake them in the face:).

I totally agree with your zombie movies (recommend you watch Dead Snow) but for your vampire movies Dracula just cannot be beaten.

and what if i told you Twilight is way better than all of them?.....HAHAHAHA I would've shot myself long ago

Paddy Samurai

Also a couple of the Resident Evil films are well worth a look.

Brendog

Van Helsing isn't too bad either. more for 12 year olds but the fight scenes are very well done aswell as the graphics for the monsters and the action!

sxt

Shadow of the Vampire (2000) was a great movie. William Dafoe was excellent in the role of Nosferatu! The film was about the making of the original film with the directer presuading an actual vampire to play the leading role in exchange...

for the leading lady at the end of filming!

Galvasean

Brendog wrote: »

Van Helsing isn't too bad either. more for 12 year olds but the fight scenes are very well done aswell as the graphics for the monsters and the action!

Blergh. Have to disagree with you. The CGI has dated horribly and the action scenes were fairly cluttered IMO.

jaykhunter

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

First person to mention Twilight or any associated works of said travesty gets shot

I went into this thread to post this sentiment!

ZOMBIE films :
Day of the Dead (08) - It's a pants film but I enjoyed it! Zombies are my fav genre of horror.
Zombieland
Land of the Dead (2004)

--the other films i've watched i can't recommend--

Vampire films :
30 Days of Night (2008)
Let The Right One In (2008)
REC 1

Other Horror films :
Dark Water (2005)
Fragiles 2005
The Mist
The Strangers
Suicide Club (2001)
The Thing (1982)

indough

surely rec is more of a zombie flick than a vampire one though?

i just watched the us remake and it did have a couple of bits that would have been nice in the original but by and large it was well inferior

jaykhunter

you're right, i put it under the wrong heading; definitely a zombie (well, "infected") flick

Can I move to name the "new Zombies" aka the 28 Days Later-style zombies "The Infected"?

indough

thats what theyre commonly referred to as i think

i would also second the thing and the mist, 2 of my favourite horror films, actually i would rate the thing probably as my number one of the genre

Galvasean

The Mist and the Thing don't fall under vampires or zoombies.... they're... uh..... THINGS!

I'd be inclined to clasify Rec, 28 Days Later etc. under the 'Infected' subgenre of teh zombie genre.

jaykhunter

jaykhunter wrote: »

Other Horror films :
Dark Water (2005)
Fragiles 2005
The Mist
The Strangers
Suicide Club (2001)
The Thing (1982)

They're just highly recommended horror films!

Galvasean

I just wanted to call them things... Like when describing THe Thing to someone who'se never heard of it. "So there's these guys in the south pole and this... THING shows up and starts killing them"

Cantona's Collars

The Crazies-a bit of 28 Days Later vibe in a rural town in America,good movie though.Watched Land of the Dead on ITV other night,haven't gotten round to Survival of the Dead yet.

indough

Galvasean wrote: »

The Mist and the Thing don't fall under vampires or zoombies.... they're... uh..... THINGS!

I'd be inclined to clasify Rec, 28 Days Later etc. under the 'Infected' subgenre of teh zombie genre.

yeah but theyre good enough to warrant a mention in any horror related thread

i only mentioned them as jayk had anyway, so blame him haha

spacecoyote

Versus by Ryuhei Kitamura. A japanese movie, very enjoyable stuff which I would call a Zombie movie

Nervous Wreck

Not a film but Charlie Brooker's 'Dead Set' is fantastic.

To the people who said Zombieland, I couldn't agree more. That movie is perfection.

RoRoCullen

SALEM'S LOT.

or

Thirty days of night.

jaykhunter

indough wrote: »

i only mentioned them as jayk had anyway, so blame him haha

i whore out The Mist, The Thing, REC and Let the Right One In every chance I get

Daybreakers is a great idea but poorly executed. I couldn't recommend spending money on it.

Virus Undead - peeyew! German zombies speaking colloquial American-English? Boo! Some people liked it but I didn't.

LittleBook

Some classics and personal faves which I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Nosferatu (1922) - F. W. Murnau - The original
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - Werner Herzog

Dracula (1979) – John Badham - Frank Langella as Dracula, great stuff
Dracula (1958) – Terence Fisher - Gotta see a Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing Dracula ... it's da law

The Omega Man (1971) – Boris Sagal
The Last Man on Earth (1964) – Ubaldo B. Ragona
forerunners of I Am Legend, wavering between zombies and vampires.

Trouble Every Day (2001) – Claire Denis - again, difficult to categories as either/or but a stunning and disturbing modern take on flesh eating and blood drinking