Top 10 Zombie Movies
Whether they’re infected through bites, curses or breathing air, walk or run at Olympic speeds, zombies are everywhere. Well, at least in movies. Watch your fingers and check out our crash course in the walking undead below in our top 10 list.
- “Night of the Living Dead” (1968): George A. Romero’s first-ever zombie flick comes across like a salvaged first-person video of the incident, with a group of strangers holed up in a random farmhouse to fend off the creatures that in low-budget, black and white.
- “Dead Alive” (1992) Known as “Braindead” in its native New Zealand, this Peter Jackson movie has oceans-worth of fake blood left for mama’s boy Lionel to clean up after combat scenes to stave off zombies from his love, whom his mother hates. However, it is only after a monkey bites his mother at the zoo, she dies from the bite and comes back as a zombie that all the other townspeople are infected.
- “Dawn of the Dead” (1978): This other Romero flick serves as social commentary about mindless, mass consumerism when a few survivors during an epidemic seek shelter in a secluded shopping mall. But the walking dead still manage to find them.
- “28 Days Later” (2002): A man awakens from a coma to find England deserted, save for zombies and a handful of survivors after a rage virus epidemic. He joins together with others to survive the outbreak and the military troops that are stationed there to suppress it.
- “Evil Dead 2″ (1987): The second in the trilogy (preceded by “Evil Dead” and followed by “Army of Darkness”) by Sam Raimi, who would go onto direct the current “Spider-Man” series, teamed up with his brother to make this campy B horror alternate telling of the first installment. A college student takes his girlfriend to a secluded cabin, only to accidentally conjure up an evil from the surrounding woods that possesses her and turns her into a zombie-demon called a deadite.
- “28 Weeks Later” (2007): Two children return to England after the country has been cleared of zombies after an outbreak and reunite with their father. They think their mother dead until they come across her alive and apparently immune to the virus in their old family home, and a reunion with her husband, whom is not immune, leads to a second outbreak.
- “Shaun of the Dead” (2004): This zombie parody is filled to the brim with inside jokes from preceding sub-genre flicks and features a fight scene in a pub with pool sticks and a jukebox that will never make Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” sound the same again.
- “Dead Snow” (2009): The only thing worse than zombies is fast-moving Nazi ones in a remote ski area. In this German flick, a group of friends head to a remote cabin (of course) on holiday and start to worry when one friend who was skiing over the mountains, rather than driving with them, never shows.
- “Planet Terror” (2007): In Robert Rodriguez’s half of his “Grindhouse” double feature with Quentin Tarantino, an experimental bio-weapon is leaked, resulting in a group of survivors fighting off the zombies and military members whom are guarding the weapon.
- “Fido” (2006): Young Timmy finds himself cleaning up after his best friend Fido, but instead of a dog that broke an expensive vase, his friend is a zombie that ate his neighbor. After a zombie outbreak, the living take advantage of the new resource and invent electronic collars to keep zombies from acting out of line while they serve as household servants, cooking and cleaning for suburban families.