Good Zombie Movies?

Daniel2oo9

Can anyone tell me the names of Good "Modern" Zombie Movies:D

Zombienosh

"Modern"?

[Rec]
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Dead Snow

Thats just some of the top of my head for now

ScumLord

Dead girl, pretty messed up film but a very unique angle on the Zombie film.
Pontypool, not exactly Zombies but still pretty interesting.
There's some free Zombie films on blinkbox.com (all legal and above board) going right back to the night of the living dead. You'll find dead snow on there too but you have to pay for that one. Wasn't to impressed with dead snow, it's basically more of a straight horror film to me.

But that's just me, I don't like when Zombies start running around, making coordinated attacks and being 10 times stronger than they where when they where living I just lose interest. To me a Zombie film is about the people who have to survive through it not so much the Zombies themselves. Most Zombie films these days are just your typical Hollywood gore fest with little to no thought put into them.

Mahatma coat

I'd Recoment 'Graveyard Alive
I watched it last night and was impressed by their new take on the Genre and Concept, may not be a 'Traditional' Zombie film in the Eyes of the Shambler Purists but Hey I thought it was great

Zombienosh

I assumed thats what the op meant by "Modern" as the modern zombie is more of an infected human than a living dead.

ScumLord

Don't get me wrong, the 28 series was great because it was well done and well thought out but a lot of films now put no thought into the plot they just stick Zombies in the title and expect profit.

Cullen82

AlcoholicA wrote: »

"Modern"?

[Rec]
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Dead Snow

Thats just some of the top of my head for now

Second this, Absolutely loved how 28 days/weeks were made - Exactly how they should be IMO.

DakotaYoda

COMPLETELY backing ScumLord on Pontypool - that movie is freakin' amazing to me. Fell in love w/ it the first time I saw it. Its minimal and not a million set locations but its just done so well...

Also off the top of m'head:

Fido - 2006
Planet Terror - 2007
Carriers - 2009 - not zombie but postapo.

GoldCobra

DakotaYoda wrote: »

COMPLETELY backing ScumLord on Pontypool - that movie is freakin' amazing to me. Fell in love w/ it the first time I saw it. Its minimal and not a million set locations but its just done so well...

i've heard good things about this film, i must check it out.

.SONIC.

land of the dead-2005

just watched it, its pretty epic!! :L:L

Junco Partner

the problem i have with your post op is the word modern all i can think of is the 2 28 films and rec that one had me shakin every thing else is just "oh look loads of blood it MUST be scay" instead of making any effort to build any atmoshere. in he old films what you didnt see was scariest

Mahatma coat

there was a copy of that Pontypool DVD for sale in the Servo at lunchtime, $9, I'll tell ye what I thought of it tomorrow

Kersmash

Loved the tv movie Dead Set. You can watch it on 4OD as far as i know.

Mahatma coat

Yeah, Dead set was fair cool

Mahatma coat

Pontypool, Its not teh end of the world, just the end of the day

Good film, for something with a max cast of 25 includin the 'crowd':D and basicly a single room set it felt BIG, it was good, very atmospheric but not in a moody way, interestin humour unexpected character develpoments and a very very very very very very interestin take on the dispersal method of the 'virus'

well worth a look

DakotaYoda

Mahatma coat wrote: »

Pontypool, Its not teh end of the world, just the end of the day

Good film, for something with a max cast of 25 includin the 'crowd':D and basicly a single room set it felt BIG, it was good, very atmospheric but not in a moody way, interestin humour unexpected character develpoments and a very very very very very very interestin take on the dispersal method of the 'virus'

well worth a look

Yup - completely agree Mahatma. It didn't take thousands of swarming Z's to impress you as you watch it. The method of disease transmission is a neat idea. The poor bastard in the sunshine traffic copter.... those bits were great. Just really well done.

The dj, Mazzy - that man is awesome in that role. To me he was damn near perfect.

ScumLord

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Yup - completely agree Mahatma. It didn't take thousands of swarming Z's to impress you as you watch it. The method of disease transmission is a neat idea. The poor bastard in the sunshine traffic copter.... those bits were great. Just really well done.

The dj, Mazzy - that man is awesome in that role. To me he was damn near perfect.

The infection way was cool, it almost made you (the viewer) feel like you might be infected at times.

Junco Partner

zombie bashers on storyland is fairly class

BaconZombie

[REC]2 destroys the "Zombie" element of [REC].

AlcoholicA wrote: »

"Modern"?

[Rec]
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Dead Snow

Thats just some of the top of my head for now

Mahatma coat

Watched a Movie Called DogHouse

Funny little ZomCom, if a bit formulaic

guitarfan

I liked "Diary of the Dead".

"Day of the Dead" is still my fav zombie flick though

Sticky_Fingers

Mutants is also a pretty decent modern zombie movie. Its French and thus has subtitles but its got some good scenes and a fair amount of gore. While the "zombies" are more mutants than anything else they have striking similarities to the infected in 28 days/months.
It had a small budget though not so small that it shows on screen and suffers from the ubiquitous steady cam Parkinsons that seems to afflict all modern zombie movies but its a valiant effort none the less and well worth a rental or a buy if its cheap.

Alter-Ego

Zombieland is a decent ZomCom.

ScumLord

Watched Undead the other day, it's Australian and I was hoping it was along the same lines as braindead and it does it's best to try and copy the feel but it doesn't pull it off in my mind.

It's got the same over the top (old school) special effects which look ok but it's just scene after scene of look at this cool effect, now look at this one isn't it funny and so on.

Overall I just don't think the film meshes together and becomes pretty boring, it's a bit all over the place as there's meteors and aliens involved too but nothing can really save it.

Sticky_Fingers

ScumLord wrote: »

Watched Undead the other day, it's Australian and I was hoping it was along the same lines as braindead and it does it's best to try and copy the feel but it doesn't pull it off in my mind.

It's got the same over the top (old school) special effects which look ok but it's just scene after scene of look at this cool effect, now look at this one isn't it funny and so on.

Overall I just don't think the film meshes together and becomes pretty boring, it's a bit all over the place as there's meteors and aliens involved too but nothing can really save it.

Yeah I felt it definitely jumped the shark half way through, plus if you follow what the characters did in this movie you are dead for sure, you have to kill them, there is no other option or hope of a cure

.SONIC.

guitarfan wrote: »

"Day of the Dead" is still my fav zombie flick though

have to agree lots of gore and gunfights, nick cannon is my idol after that movie!