Return of the Living Dead (1985)
I've always liked zombie movies, but for whatever reason this movie always eluded me. Mostly for a lack of trying on my part, I always assumed it was some updated version of Romero's movies and therefore wanted no part in it (I still haven't seen Zack Synder's 2004 remake of
Dawn of the Dead). While this movie wasn't perfect, it did do things a lot differently that really made it standout without the need of gimmicks like "what if the zombies were strippers" or "hey! Nazi zombies are popular, lets make a movie about them!" I even liked how the film had fun with the punk culture while not overtly making fun of it.\