White Zombie, the first feature-length "zombie" horror film, popularized Haitian voodoo zombies. Bela Lugosi played a witch doctor.
Although it presents a pretty intriguing tale of a UN investigator who traverses the globe in search of a cure or biological agent to battle the zombies, Globe War Z is one of the horror genre's worse adaptations of outstanding original material.
Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy about two star-crossed zombies who meet their authoritarian father. The humorous friendship between the characters is one of the greatest aspects of the picture.
The movie demonstrates Nyong'o's knack for musical performance, while Josh Gad's ability to be annoying is put to excellent use over the course of the movie.
White people are let in as refugees, and some of them take the worst features of colonialism and make them their own.
In Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, a sonic radiation machine raises the living dead from the earth.
Juan of the Dead is Cuba's first full-length zombie movie. It was directed by Alejandro Brugués, who did a good job with it.
A nurse who is called to the Caribbean to treat a patient who may be infected with the zombie virus gets embroiled in a mystery involving a voodoo cult while she is there.
In Rammbock, infection doesn't necessarily mean death and zombification, and strong emotions will trigger the full transformation into a zombie. The movie is also surprisingly gore-less.
28 Weeks Later is an often fascinating, often horrifying, often compelling, and sometimes frustrating film for zombie/horror fans, but it breaches one of the unwritten conventions of zombie filmmaking by having a'main zombie' more information who escapes, robbing the other infected of their status as major threats.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is a post-apocalyptic zombie movie with a lot of style made by a young Australian director. It adds some welcome twists to the zombie movie formula and is scary without being gloomy, emotional without being pretentious, and violent without going as far as Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
The story revolves on a parasitic alien slug invasion that turns its victims into super-powered zombies. It's a risqué, tawdry horror picture set at a college that often seems like a zombified version of Animal House.
Hammer Horror is responsible for such classics as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, as well as more recent offerings like Plague of the Zombies. Like in the classic horror film, Night of the Living Dead, their zombies are rotting corpses.
The Beyond, directed by Lucio Fulci, is a zombie film that blends a haunted home aesthetic with demonic possession, the living dead, and ghostly apparitions, and is one of the most elegant Italian zombie horror films.
The movies Paranormal Activity and Romero's Diary of the Dead both came out in 2007. The best found-footage zombie movie is REC, which mixes zombie legends with Catholic spirituality.
Dawn of the Dead is superior in terms of how it looks, how professional it is, how intricate its ideas are, and how it displays them. It takes place in a gaudy mall that is overrun by zombies and has iconic visuals that other zombie movies have copied or made fun of.