Zombies!!
With hundreds of zombie films out there - many of them low-budget & low-quality - I'm documenting some of the best. It covers Voodoo zombies of the 30's and 40's, Alien enslaved zombies of the 50's, Romero style Living Dead and the Infected zombies of the 21st century. Most films have 5 or more stars, with a few campy ones thrown in that are fun to laugh at, a few for their historical significance, plus some documentaries on Zombie films.
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- DirectorVictor HalperinStarsBela LugosiMadge BellamyJoseph CawthornA young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.Arguably the first zombie film (unless you count the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). It's solidly in the white folks afraid of black folks, voodoo hysteria tradition.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsFrances DeeTom ConwayJames EllisonA nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohn AgarJean ByronPhilip TongeInvisible aliens from the Moon invade the Earth by occupying the bodies of recently deceased humans but a scientist, his daughter and an army Major, try to fight them.One of two films with essentially identical plots released in 1959 - aliens come to earth and turn humans into their zombie slaves.
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsGregory WalcottTom KeeneMona McKinnonEvil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.The more well known of two films with essentially identical plots released in 1959 - aliens come to earth and turn humans into their zombie slaves.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.The film that changed zombies forever... despite the word not being used. Romero referred to the living dead as 'ghouls'. This is THE film to watch if you want to understand all the references in Shaun of the Dead.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.Romero's follow-up to Night of the Living Dead, and an excellent comment on 1980's consumerism.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.Lucio Fulci creates one of the greatest zombie film scenes ever that's worth watching the film to see it alone. Zombie shark underwater fight. Need I say more?
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
- DirectorThom EberhardtStarsCatherine Mary StewartKelli MaroneyRobert BeltranA comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.Solidly 80's, the zombies in this flick result from a comet passing the earth. Remember Haley's comet?
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.A zombie film where you sympathize with the zombies... another Romero classic, this one with an epic helicopter scalping scene courtesy of horror makeup genius Tom Savini.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.Punk rock zombies... and (if memory serves) the film that first featured zombies moaning "Braiiinns", establishing yet another zombie truth.
- DirectorFred DekkerStarsJason LivelyTom AtkinsSteve MarshallAlien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsBill PullmanCathy TysonZakes MokaeAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.One of the few voodoo zombie films made after 1950. There's a scene with a chair and a spike and... ouch!
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsJames KarenThom MathewsMichael KenworthyCurious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
- DirectorMary LambertStarsDale MidkiffDenise CrosbyFred GwynneAfter tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.The Ramones lend their music to this film about a pet cemetary where the buried return from the grave, a little bit worse for wear (and homicidal).
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
- DirectorBrian YuznaStarsJ. Trevor EdmondMelinda ClarkeKent McCordHaving recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.One of my personal favorites - boy crashes motorcycle, boy's girlfriend dies in crash, boy takes body to his dad's secret government lab, girl becomes zombie, girl loves boy so much she doesn't want to eat him, girl piercers her body with glass, chains... anything she can find, to distract herself from the craving for brains. The perfect zombie for the era of body modification.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsAndré MorellDiane ClareBrook WilliamsDuring a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.Perhaps the first film of the 'infected' zombie genre, and one of the few to embrace fast zombies.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskeyA special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.Milla Jovavich as an ass-kicking experiment battling zombie experiments gone wrong.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.The first film I heard referred to as a ZomRomCom, Simon Pegg's love of zombie films is evident from this great movie. The coy nods to the genre (as when he's on the phone with his mother, Barbra, telling her they're coming to get her) are gems for zombie film fans.
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsSarah PolleyVing RhamesMekhi PhiferA nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.A very successful remake of Dawn of the Dead, with Modern Family's Ty Burrell playing a complete *beep*
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon BakerThe living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.A recent Romero offering, with (correct me if I'm wrong) zombies walking along the bottom of the sea, and a great zombie bite scene I didn't see coming.
- DirectorEllory ElkayemStarsPeter CoyoteAimee-Lynn ChadwickCory HardrictA college student creates a drug called "Z" and sells it on campus, inadvertently resurrecting the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.Not the best of the franchise, but I love the unique concept of kids turning the zombie-inducing agent into a party drug, resulting in an outdoor rave going very wrong.