Film Buffs

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.

1. “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.
2. “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.
3. “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.
4. “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.
5. “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. Read more »