Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a Troma movie that promises to be trashy, violent, and have no boundaries or sense of good taste. It's also a little bit clever in its social satire of consumer culture.
A group of stranded boaters encounter themselves on an isolated island where a Nazi experiment involving a sinking SS submarine has abandoned its zombie crew. Peter Cushing is miscast as an SS Commander who seems mad.
Blood Quantum, directed by Jeff Barnaby, is a satirical, political zombie thriller that sinks its teeth deep into the banalities of colonialism.
As refugees, some white people accept the worst parts of colonialism.
The live dead are pulled up from the earth by a sonic radiation machine in Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
Unforeseen repercussions arise when American zombie stereotypes meet cultural differences while trying to eradicate insects.
Juan of the Dead, by Alejandro Brugués, is Cuba's first zombie movie.
Juan of the Dead injects political zeal into zombie flicks, with Juan starting a firm that spirals out of control.
A nurse goes to the Caribbean to take care of a patient who may or may not be a zombie. While there, she gets caught up in a mystery involving a voodoo cult.
The last film directed by George A. Romero depicts the progression of the zombies into sentient creatures and stars Dennis Hopper as an evil plutocrat who rules a walled-off version of Pittsburgh. Although it is not nearly as subtle as his earlier films, it nonetheless looks nice and possesses just enough of Romero's rebellious spark to make it enjoyable to see.
As a comet approaches Earth, it vaporizes almost everyone and turns them into dust. Even though this film is notable on a zombie list for being one of the least zombie-heavy, those who had partial exposure turn into zombies.
63-minute German film Rammbock. Michael, a deluded sad-sack, enters his girlfriend's apartment during a zombie outbreak.In Rammbock, infection doesn't usually cause zombie transformation, but intense emotions can. The movie lacks gore.
Cemetery Man is a terrifying art comedy about a man who works at a cemetery and travels through life without a goal. It's similar American Psycho in that the main character is depressed and doesn't know who they are.
A team of cops raids a mostly abandoned apartment high-rise to catch a group of drug dealers who killed one of their own, and then... a swarm of zombies appears!
For zombie/horror genre aficionados, 28 Weeks Later is an often intriguing, sometimes terrifying, often powerful, and often frustrating picture, but it breaks one of the unwritten laws of zombie filmmaking by having a'main zombie' who escapes and deprives the other infected of being viewed as serious threats.
The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead by Tom Savini is a faithful remake that doesn't try to reinvent anything from the original film. It's fantastic, and it would be a classic if the title hadn't been Night of the Living Dead.
People that look like the slain guests are strolling the streets of a tiny New England seaside town. The undead here may behave independently.
One Cut of the Dead is a funny zombie film about performing a short film live.
One Cut of the Dead shows how creative and flexible filmmakers like George Romero can be when they don't have a lot of money.
A low-budget zombie drama about a former baseball pitcher and catcher traveling across the country together in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. The zombies are there, but they're more of a constant roadblock and painful reminder of everything these men have lost.
Invasion by parasitic alien slugs transforms humanity into super-powered zombies. It's a risky, tawdry horror picture set in college, with a lot of similarities to Animal House.
Hammer Horror created Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, plus Plague of the Zombies. Their zombies are decrepit and terrible, like Night of the Living Dead.
The lawnmower in Peter Jackson's horror comedy Dead Alive continues running despite being drenched in a thousand gallons of blood.
Dawn of the Dead by Zack Snyder is a leaner, action-packed, gruesome contemporary zombie thriller that owes a lot to 28 Days Later. It has one of the finest opening scenes in the history of zombie films.
2007 saw the release of Paranormal Activity and Romero's Diary of the Dead. REC is the best found-footage zombie film, combining zombie folklore with Catholic spirituality.In the (Source) modern age, a zombie plague would be caught on everyone's smartphone. This film is an amazing depiction of what it may be like.
The screening of a horror film, followed by the introduction of zombies and demons into the audience, all in the name of some unknown plan that results in brutality and survival.
The Italian horror film Zombi 2 is the genre's crown gem, considerably increasing the craziness level and pushing gore to new heights. It has memorable scenes that have transcended the horror genre.
One of the finest horror comedy ever made is Evil Dead 2. It reveals how the movie industry's attitudes about zombies are evolving.
Together, 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead set norms for the "modern" zombie picture and demonstrated that the cultural zeitgeist of zombies could also be exploited for laughter.
By the time 28 Days Later was released in 2002, the traditional zombie film was on the verge of extinction, but the film revived the concept and made zombies a genuine threat. In the twenty-first century, it also spawned the concept of the serious zombie film.
Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero is a major leap forward in terms of presentation, professionalism, thematic intricacy, and innovative visual effects. It is set in a garish mall overrun by zombies and has classic visuals that subsequent zombie films have sought to replicate or ridicule.