White Zombie, the first feature-length "zombie" horror film, popularized Haitian voodoo zombies. Bela Lugosi played a witch doctor.
Trashy and brutal, with no regard for decency or taste, is what you can expect from the upcoming Troma film Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Its sociological criticism of commercial society is also somewhat brilliant.
Sam Raimi created The Dead Next Door, a low-budget zombie action-drama filmed completely on SUPER 8, with a blend of cringe-worthy amateur acting and surprising elements of professionalism, utilizing a part of the earnings from Evil Dead II to enable his buddy J. R. Bookwalter to direct the picture.
Zeder is a bizarre horror-drama with a unique twist on zombie flicks. It is about a young author who is striving to unravel the riddle of the K-Zones.
In the movie Warm Bodies, two zombies meet their father. One of the best parts of the movie is the funny relationship between the two main characters.
Students have taken refuge in a remote cabin in Norway, where they are reanimating Nazi zombies and stealing their money. The horror-comedy aspect of the film is just OK, but the special effects and action sequences are fantastic.
The Serpent and the Rainbow is an unexpected rebirth of the voodoo-style Haitian zombie, and a reminder that crafting a voodoo zombie movie that takes itself semi-seriously and aims to shock is still achievable.
Juan of the Dead mixes politics with zombie movies by having Juan start a business that gets out of hand.
A nurse suspected of having the zombie virus is drawn into the mystery of a voodoo cult she treats in the Caribbean.
Dennis Hopper plays the villainous plutocrat who rules a walled-off Pittsburgh in Romero's last film, which depicts the zombies' development into sentient creatures. Although it lacks the subtlety of Romero's earlier works, this picture nonetheless looks great and has enough of his signature rebellious spirit to satisfy.
A comet approaches close to Earth, vaporizing almost all inhabitants and reducing them to dust. Those few who had partial exposure become zombies, yet this film is remarkable on a list of zombie films for having the least amount of zombies.
Planet Terror is a silly zombie movie made by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. It's about destructive zombies and mutants made by a biological weapon and sent to terrorize the southwestern countryside. It does a great job of being that kind of movie, and it should have done much better at the box office.
In Rammbock, infection doesn't always equal death and zombification, but intense emotions can. Surprisingly, there's no gore.
28 Weeks Later is a thrilling, terrifying, dramatic, and frustrating zombie/horror film, but it breaks one of the unwritten laws of zombie filmmaking by including a "main zombie" who escapes, denying the other infected the opportunity to be considered significant dangers.
A rash of murders breaks out in a small New England coastal town, and people who look just like the murdered visitors are walking the streets as permanent residents. The zombies here are different in their autonomy and ability to act on their own.
One Cut of the Dead is a cute zombie movie about performers making a zombie short film live.
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 news source corpses.
Zombieland shifts the action to the United States and brings strangers together instead of friends. It combines terrifying zombies with comedic violence and story-driven entertainment.
Train to Busan is a film that delivers both popcorn entertainment and heartfelt drama in equal measure. It comes to an exciting conclusion with action and makeup effects that I've never seen before.
At the zombie movie Demons, a variety of oddball characters—from yuppie youth to bickering couples to a pimp and his prostitutes—congregate in a movie theater.