best zombie movies ?

[nicklord1]

ok this is my choices , for me zombie movies need to be a bit budgety and crusty but at the same time gory and scary.

Dawn of the Dead is prob no 1
zombie flesh eaters no 2
The beyond
City of the living dead
house by the cemetery
dellamorte dellamore
premutos
brain dead


One movie which could have been so so so better is zombie holocaust

[paws the great]

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

[sarah p]

Demons - An Italian Classic

[nicklord1]

demons is that argentos movie where they are in a german cinema .

[Roderick Usher]

The only one out of those movies that i have seen is dawn of the dead. I found this movie rather hilarious!! ecspecially the scene on the bus where that guy chainsaws that chick in half accidently. hehe

That's the remake. Watch the original!!!

And Night of the Living Dead is the original the scariest and the best of them all!

[VampiricClown]

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

You're kidding right?

Night Of The Living Dead
Day Of The Dead
Feeding The Masses (Just because it tried being different.)
Dawn Of The Dead (Sorry, I just don't like this one as much as the others.)

[nicklord1]

zombie creeping flesh and oasis zombies were rubbish but did anyone you catch the 4 blind dead movies

[nicklord1]

Zombie nights of terror anyone see that

[$loth]

Night of the living dead would be my favourite, Dawn of the Dead (remake) would be a close second.

I was let down by the original Dawn, and Day of the Dead, they took a turn into complete cheese-fests lacking atmosphere.

[onewhosighs]

Dawn Of The Dead (original)

[swiss tony]

the beyond and demons 1&2. also, the remake of night of the living dead with tony todd was half decent

[Disease]

Any one see Zombie Town, I watched it earlier this year, it's pretty cool for low budget.... good script.

[paws the great]

Day of the Dead

[mordrid]

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Savini's NOLTD '90
Day of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead

[runchuckrun]

There are still quite a few well-regarded zombie flicks that I've yet to see, but so far I've enjoyed the following:

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Zombi 2

[The Vault of Horror]

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Day of the Dead
Zombi 2
Dead Alive

[DEATHH DREAMS author]

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

[AmericanManiac]

Many already pointed these out but:
Night of the Living Dead (Original)
Dawn of the Dead (Original)
Zombi 2
Return of the Living Dead
I don't know if this one counts or not but CHUD
and for a comdey zombie film. . . . . wait for it . . . . . . . Shaun of the Dead !
Undead wasnt to bad, but the ending was pointless.

[GorePhobia]

Dead and Breakfast is a good zombedy.

[God hates you]

Night of the Living Dead...original and still the best

The rest in no particular order...

Planet Terror (ooooooh boy this just might be my new fav zombie flick of all time)
Day of the Dead
Return of the living dead (my fav zombies...they just never stop)
Return of the living dead 3 (hottest fuckin girl ever when she inflicts her "pain")
Dawn of the Dead remake (fun ride never stops)
Brain Dead (zombe seckz dun rite)

Honorable mentions:

28 Days Later (very cool concept)
Resident Evil (Manson's music blasting in the theaters pales in comparison to the TV unless you got a sweet system)

Yes I know I left a lot of classics off, but these are the ones I enjoy the most. I own over 70 zombie films, always enjoy seeing something new, and have never watched one I hated (I own House of the Dead AND sequal and love em both :D ).

I am saving my Night of the Living Dead 3D for when I go to visit my friends...cant wait for that one!

Oh...and I never understood why everyone loves Zombi. I found it rather boring. I DONT want to turn this into a debate, but for those of you who love it I would just like to know why. The eyeball scene was pretty nasty, but I found myself more bored then entertained.

[Despare]

Oh...and I never understood why everyone loves Zombi.

Shark


Vs.



Zombie

[ZombieChick21]

My faves:

Dawn of the Dead (remake)
28 Days Later
Resident Evil
Return of the Living Dead

[The Vault of Horror]

The reason everyone loves Zombi so much is just the balls to the wall gore. That's it.

[unspeakablemag]

28 weeks later!!!!

[The Mothman]

The reason everyone loves Zombi so much is just the balls to the wall gore. That's it.

idk i liked a lot of aspects to it.

[Disease]

The reason everyone loves Zombi so much is just the balls to the wall gore. That's it.


There are many reasons, maybe that is yours....

[DEATHH DREAMS author]

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

No love at all for this flick...? This is one of the all time best!

[Despare]

Cemetary Man

[newb]

FIDO


Every kid needs a pet zombie.

http://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/fido.jpg

[deathrider]

Zombie Flesh Eaters

Damn, that brings back so many memories.

[paws the great]

Return of the Living Dead 3

Night of the Creeps

Re-Animator

Dead & Buried

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Zombi 2

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Return of the Living Dead 3
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead

[Posher778]

1. Planet Terror
2. Return of the Living Dead
3. Dead Alive

[The Mothman]

i bought Evil a while ago. not reccomended.

[_____V_____]

i bought Evil a while ago. not reccomended.

The greek one? I was sorta disappointed with that one too...decent gore though.

Apart from the usual, I suggest two good ones I have seen recently - Dead Heat and The Dead Next Door.

While the former is an action flick with large doses of black humor thrown in, the latter is a low-budget, cheesy little flick. Mindless entertainment stuff.

[The Mothman]

The greek one? I was sorta disappointed with that one too...decent gore though.



yeah thats the one. awesome cover threw me off.
http://www.zombiemart.net/wp-content/1_e3f16fa16075d23144bb42dfec3f336e.jpg

[_____V_____]

yeah thats the one. awesome cover threw me off.

For the first effort into a zombie flick from Greece, I thought it was decent/watchable.

At least it beats a lot of zombie crap which gets piled out of Hollywood in recent times anyway.:rolleyes:

[The Mothman]

I went into it expecting sort of Plaga-Zombie-ish fun, but it took itself too seriously, i think thats whats wrong with it.

[_____V_____]

The ending was quite cool. I liked it.

The story was the same stuff though, with locations changed.

[parusa619]

Night of the Living dead and Dawn of the dead. :D

But the best zombie movie for me is...

Shawn of the dead

[ChronoGrl]

But the best zombie movie for me is...

Shawn of the dead

Yes. Definitely yes.

And, honestly, I absolutely adored 28 Weeks Later. Liked it better than the first one, in fact. It's post-apocalyptic and creates another chapter in the zombie mythos. I was really impressed.



And I know it's been said, but Planet Terror was brilliant.

[parusa619]

Yes. Definitely yes.

And, honestly, I absolutely adored 28 Weeks Later. Liked it better than the first one, in fact. It's post-apocalyptic and creates another chapter in the zombie mythos. I was really impressed.



And I know it's been said, but Planet Terror was brilliant.

Hmmm, 28 weeks later is the sequel, right? I haven't watched that film yet. :D

[knife_fight]

No love at all for this flick...? This is one of the all time best!
"Let Sleeping Corpses Lie"
I like it ok. not one of my favorites though.

and the original poster said he didn't like Zombie Holocaust. well, I love it. how can you beat a movie that is a mix of three different sub-genres! it's a mad scientist, a cannibal, and a zombie movie all rolled into one! you'd be foolish not to love it!

[yourlastmistake]

Not to piss anybody off but the people in 28 days/weeks were infected, not living dead. Therefore they are not zombie movies.

[Posher778]

Not to piss anybody off but the people in 28 days/weeks were infected, not living dead. Therefore they are not zombie movies.

We debated this time after time.... I think most people just accept it as zombie because the way they act as "infected" is almost identical to how your definition of "zombies" act, but I can understand where you're coming from.

[Tim Rhoades]

The original Dawn of the Dead is awesome, I also really like Zombie 2 by Lucio Fulci... those are My 2 favorite Zombie films.:)

[Bathori]

wow we are on a horror forum and listed as best is "dawn of the dead". I can agree with that in a way the thing that floored me was when "Crazyme" thought he was talking about the remake. lmao. Plz Crazyme, tell me you were joking. If not, watch more horror movies you noob. :p

[The Vault of Horror]

[QUOTE=ChronoGrl;645616]Yes. Definitely yes.

And, honestly, I absolutely adored 28 Weeks Later. Liked it better than the first one, in fact. It's post-apocalyptic and creates another chapter in the zombie mythos. I was really impressed.

Best horror movie I've seen this decade thus far.

[yourlastmistake]

Some that I think deserve a mention are ...

The Plague of Zombies

Shatter Dead

Living Dead Girl

Bio Zombie

Deathdream

The Stink of Flesh

and parts 1 and 2 of the Blind Dead series...

Tombs of the Blind Dead and Return of the Evil Dead.

[ChronoGrl]

Not to piss anybody off but the people in 28 days/weeks were infected, not living dead. Therefore they are not zombie movies.

Oh, yes, definitely hyper aware of this particular critique... However, I feel as though 28 Days/Weeks later use enough of the zombie archetype (in both the zombie-inspired spread of the infection as well as the common themes of consumerism, consumption, and societal commentary) that it goes along as more of a zombie movie than the general branding of "monster."

Not to mention, if you take a look at the second one, 28 Weeks, the Infected begin to take more of a zombie-esque type of shape (i.e. lost limbs and the ability to persevere while the body seems to be realistically dead), so it's clear that the director meant for at least that film to mutate even closer into the zombie mythos. Take a peek if you haven't seen it already.

...

Now, not to piss anybody off (i.e. those who do NOT consider 28 Days/Weeks Later to be zombie movies), there was a recent film that I saw that uses the same theme of spreading Disease/Infection (bodily fluids - no cure) medium to create monsters from people that I DEFINITELY recommend:

Mulberry Street (http://www.horrorfestonline.com/film_mulberry-street.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/mulberry.jpg

If you're willing to explore beyond conventional zombies and consider Infection to fall under the same category - Check this one out. It's in select theaters now. Low budget, but uses every penny INCREDIBLY well.

[yourlastmistake]

While I'm well aware of the similarities the fact remains... zombies are living dead,the undead, animated corpses. The people in 28 were the living, infected with rage... too much of a technicality for me to catagorize them as zombie movies. But hey, no sweat, it's just my opinion.

[DEATHH DREAMS author]

But the best zombie movie for me is...

Shawn of the dead

No way. Here is the problem with Shaun: the 1st half to 3 quarters is good, but then when they get to the Winchester it takes a bad turn. IT GETS SILLIER. It should have gone the other way and turned into more serious of a film, and then lightened up and had a light ending like it did. You cannot successfully build tension and simultaneously have the characters taking the plot developments less and less seriously. It made me not care about the film or characters, which I had previously during the first portion of the film.

I've argued this to some of my friends, and those of them that love British comedy tend to say something like "that's British humor man...". Then I say "well OK, if I just don't like British humor then why did I love the first half of the film?".

[ChronoGrl]

No way. Here is the problem with Shaun: the 1st half to 3 quarters is good, but then when they get to the Winchester it takes a bad turn. IT GETS SILLIER. It should have gone the other way and turned into more serious of a film, and then lightened up and had a light ending like it did. You cannot successfully build tension and simultaneously have the characters taking the plot developments less and less seriously. It made me not care about the film or characters, which I had previously during the first portion of the film.

I've argued this to some of my friends, and those of them that love British comedy tend to say something like "that's British humor man...". Then I say "well OK, if I just don't like British humor then why did I love the first half of the film?".

Oh, come ON! It's a choreographed zombie beating - TO QUEEN (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DR-iRZexssY)!

- Kill the Queen!
- The what?!
- The jukebox!!

hee hee... I can see your point, but honestly I feel that, despite the silliness, there are some true gory parts... And at the end, I really DO feel for the buddy tension.

[Posher778]

I dunno why.... but I never liked Shaun OTD. It was just.... way overdone and it didn't make me laugh much.

[Jax]

My top 32

1. Dawn of the Dead (1978).
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968).
3. Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead).
4. Re-Animator
5. Cemetery Man (a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore)
6. Day of the Dead
7. The Return of the Living Dead
8. The Evil Dead
9. Evil Dead 2
10. Zombie (a.k.a. Zombi 2, Zombie Flesh-Eaters)
11. Grindhouse
12. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (a.k.a. Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue).
13. City of the Living Dead (a.k.a. Gates of Hell).
14. House By The Cemetery.
15. The Beyond (a.k.a. 7 Doors of Death).
16. Shaun of the Dead
17. Land of the Dead
18. Versus
19. Dawn of the Dead (2004).
20. NIghtmare City (a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead).
21. Hell of the Living Dead (a.k.a. Night of the Zombies, Zombie Creeping Flesh).
22. Return of the Living Dead 3
23. The Stuff
24. Night of the Creeps
25. Lifeforce
26. Night of the Comet
27. Night of the Living Dead (1990).
28. Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror
29. Pet Semetary
30. The Serpent and The Rainbow
31. Slither
32. Bio-Zombie

[Red1332]

Despite not being technically "zombies", I'm gonna say 28 Days Later is most definitely one of my faves. Same reasons already mentioned, same post-apocalyptic themes, same commentary on humanity and how people really aren't civilized when put under stress, or will find a way to justify doing something to someone else for their personal needs. Zombie movies aren't really about the zombies so much as showcasing the stress they put on society and what a thin veneer it is.
I liked Sean of the Dead a LOT...but it's more of a humor thing for me than a zombie movie.
Original Night of the Living Dead is also on the top of my list. It set the entire atmosphere for zombie movies afterwards...being overwhelmed by hordes of undead and having to hole up and hope that help comes while your numbers are being whittled away.

[ChronoGrl]

31. Slither

While I would make the argument that the 28 Days/Weeks movies can be construed as zombie films (though I definitely understand why people would argue), I am not sure that I would consider Slither a zombie movie.

It's one of my all time favorite monster movies, however. I would say that it's closer to John Carpenter's The Thing then the conventional (or even non-conventional) zombie mythos, and The Thing is definitely more Monster than Zombie.

Though I'm willing to hear justification - What makes Slither a zombie movie?

[Yellow Jacket]

My top 5 zombie movies:

1. Dawn of the Dead (original)
2. Dead Alive
3. Night of the Living Dead (original)
4. Return of the Living Dead
5. Shaun of the Dead

[Chef]

The greek one? I was sorta disappointed with that one too...decent gore though.

Apart from the usual, I suggest two good ones I have seen recently - Dead Heat and The Dead Next Door.

While the former is an action flick with large doses of black humor thrown in, the latter is a low-budget, cheesy little flick. Mindless entertainment stuff.

Fuck me I haven't seen dead heat since it came out (straight to video - obviously). Are we talking about the same one with Joe Piscopo and Treat Williams? Plus I think it had Vincent Price in it as well (I think times were hard) I remember loving that film, but even then knowing it was a very guilty pleasure. How well does it hold up today?

Dead next door, good choice. Shit script. No production value but an entertaining indie nonetheless.

I'd have to say personally:
Return of the living dead - Horror and comedy at it's finest.
Day of the dead - just for re-watchability value. It's my Sunday afternoon horror
Dawn of the dead - both versions are great in their own right
Dead and buried
Dellamorte Dellamore
House (borderline zombi flick) but fucking great blend of horro/comedy
The beyond -incoherent rubbish. But great nonetheless
Re-animator. The uncut version is the bee's knees
Children shouldn't play with dead things - long, talky and gore-less. Not really sure why I like it
Zombi flesh eaters - Uncut on video in the early 80's. The eye scene was worth the other 80 or so minutes.

Some you might not be aware of which are ultimately poor but have some stand-out moments
Night of the comet - The general atmosphere
Videodead - The zombie looking through the TV at the wiewer. Creepy.
Night of the demons - Linnea Quigley and the lipstick. That has rewind value alone.
City of the living dead - Head drilling and throwing up guts.
House by the cemetary - Dr Freudstein chasing that aggrivating kid up the stairs
Zombi holocaust - the 'groaning' sound creeped me out
Lifeforce - That birds tits. Hells teeth

[fortunato]

30. The Serpent and The Rainbow


i really enjoy this film. it always seems to get lost among the shuffle of other zombie films (maybe because it took a turn back to the "voodoo zombie" thing).
but it's really genuinely creepy at times and the performances are well done.
definitely an engrossing movie.