Favourite Zombie Film?
 

There are plenty of threads that mention Zombie films and the cult of Zombies but no definitive thread regarding your favourite Zombie film.

Please don't just post a YT vid or a movie poster and leave it at that. Explain your choice and we may find some hidden gems along the way!

I will post mine (probably more than one!) soon.

first and foremost kudos on listening to Leatherface :thumb:

i'm going to have to really give this some thought man.....i love zombies....by far one of my favorite (sub)genres from the absolute classics (Night Of the Living Dead) to the interesting take they did in ([rec]).....i'll ponder a bit and create a juicy top five :)

A couple spring to mind.

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Just because it's "the" zombie movie. It's very tame compared to stuff out today, but it's an absolute classic.

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Hilarious. If you've seen it, you know.

I also really enjoyed 28 Days Later.

Is there a film poster missing Thom? and there is absolutely nothing wrong with NOTLD at all. Fantastic film.

Bob - Leatherface are awesome but back on track a few suggestions are anticipated.

back before there was Shaun of the Dead, there was Troma's

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it's not THAT funny, but spectacularly OTT and very un-PC (it really mocks gays to no end)

My favourite zombie film is probably Peter Jackson's Braindead, also known as Dead Alive. The main character Lionel who is oppressed by his evil mother and eventually tries to do the responsible thing (like tying up zombies in his basement and feeding them custard) .. is just a brilliant character. The whole movie is utterly sick and twisted yet manages to tell a story of some kind of humanity. Plus, it's hilarious!



You can't call yourself a zombie movie connoiseur if you haven't seen this :)

I was also going to say Braindead, I mean the lawnmower scene is always the most talked about (and it is bloody brilliant [see what I did there?]) but there's other scenes like the priest who kick's ass for the lord, or my personal favourite, the baby scene in the park...

This one will always take number one in my book. Love everything about it, and the ending is so ****ed up.

Another of my faves is Dead Snow (or Død snø), a Norwegian film where Nazi zombies terrorize a group of college students staying at a cabin in the mountains. The camp in the second half of this movie just brings so much joy to my life.

This particular scene killed me (hehe):


And I gotta give props to Diary of the Dead, for some of the most epic, awesome zombie (re)kill scenes ever!

Skip to 0:45 if you don't want to watch the whole thing. I think I actually squealed with amazement and twisted glee when it happened.

I don't watch or get into many but I think Cronenberg's 'Rabid' is an underrated gem. Even if the 'experimental plastic surgery' bit is a bit campy.

There are plenty of great movies that play off the influence of zombie movies, Feast, 30 Days Of Night and a third one I'm sure I thought of a minute or so ago but that literally just slipped my mind (fucking alzheimers).

As far as bona fide zombie movies go, there's only one for me;

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Night's great, Dawn (both the original and the remake) are fantastic, Land was ok, but this pips them all to the title of best of the lot, and is as such my favourite zombie flick ever.

The story has the right tone of hopelessness required to make dystopian cinema work, and it's the best illustration of something that the other films in the ...Of the Dead franchise all said about how all it takes to screw you over is your fellow man, no matter how well-poised you might be to, say, survive a zombie apocalypse. Back this up with one of cinema's best ever dickhead characters (Captain Rhodes), some great gore, a fabulous tone-setter of an opening sequence and, of course, the mighty Bub, and you've got one of my favourite films of all time.

Check out the 2008 remake if you want to see one of the most spectacularly awful horror remakes ever made as well.

Good lord, that was some awful piece of ****.

It did prove something I'd been trying to tell people for years before hand though, that being that

There's a sequel to the remake as well, which is even worse if you could imagine such a thing.

Oh man, that's hard to imagine ..

The remake features one of the most retarded (in a bad way) weapons I've seen used against zombies. One of the characters in the film take a few seconds to tape something resembling a large bread knife (ya know, blade with teeth) to a crutch .. and then decapitates several zombies with it. Had it been a comedy, it would've been alright, but in this film it's just offensive. It's like the makers of the movie are treating you like an idiot. Maybe they figure it's a movie only morons would watch. Atrocious!

I'm not watching the sequel!

It is one of the worst remakes of all time. I agree, it was absolutely awful. I couldn't find any redeeming qualities whatsoever and I have seen my fair share of absolute garbage!

Bulldog - great call on the original Day Of The Dead. Frigging amazing film.

Personally, nothing beats Night Of The Living Dead for me. Such a classic, classic film. Just beautiful.

And I think that The Walking Dead television show is better than almost any zombie movie I've ever seen.

Fuck load of Zombies in Centurion :bonkhead:

Centurion? You mean this film?

Yeah, that Day Of the Dead remake's one of those very rare films that doesn't just make you feel like an idiot for watching it, but flat out tells you you're an idiot for watching it. I think that last jump scare says it all - almost like it knows how badly it's wasted your time, so they just throw one last zombie at the screen for no logical reason.

At least it didn't make the mistake of explaining the cause of the whole zombie apocalypse thing, unlike the sequel, according to which

My favorite is Evil Dead movie.The story of this movie are mind blowing.
All the scene in this movie are fantastic.

My favorites, in no particular order are:

Night of the Living Dead
Day of the Dead (original)
Pontypool
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (both)
The Evil Dead
Dead Snow
The Horde
Deadgirl
Dead Alive

I personally don't feel the Evil Dead series quite qualifiy as zombie movies. The possessed in those films have so many abilities that zombies generally don't and are also in control of an intelligence with a motive whereas zombies mostly just mindlessly hunger for human flesh.

Made in 1966 from the masterful Hammer studio this was meant as a stop gap film between bigger films (it was shot back to back with The Reptile) but such was the positive reception it has far over shadowed The Reptile and has since become one of the jewels in Hammer's crown outside of their Frankenstein and Dracula films.

For a film made in 1966 it of course looks dated in terms of FX but it more than makes up for it in atmosphere and imagery. Because it was made before Romero really ignited the Zombie genre in 1969 with Night Of The Living Dead, the film relied on folklore and therefore had barely nothing on which to base itself upon yet it is full of socio political subtext even though the films setting was the late 19th century.

Don't expect flesh eating and gore but do expect lashings of atmosphere and creepiness. For a B movie it has survived the test of time superbly and is one of the finest Zombie movies ever made.

Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland of course

Dead Snow (this is hilarious, who wouldn't love nazi zombies?)
23 Days Later


28 Days Later 2002 Trailer - YouTube


Dead Snow - Official Trailer! - YouTube

Shaun Of The Dead!



**** quality, but y'know..

These are the best Zombie movies. hope you like these Horror movies like:-
Day of the Dead
28 Days Later
Bio Zombie
Cemetery Man
Re-Animator

They are the best? This is how I feel about them in very crude terms.

Boring
Boring
Never heard of
Boring, but vague appeal from being artsy
Classic!

Sorry if that seems a little condescending, although I do like your last pick a lot. Your list just makes me wonder, though. Out of Romero's movies, why would anyone pick Day of the Dead over Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead in such a list? The only fascinating thing about it for me was Bub and some great gore at the very end, but the rest was an 80s borefest compared to the two previous ones which had classic written all over them ..

I also firmly believe those who do not have Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (aka Braindead) on their lists simply have not seen it yet :p:

^^that pretty much reflects what I feel about those five, though i have slightly higher regard for Day of the Dead and Cemetery Man (well, the Italian original voice, anyway - Dellamorte Dellamore)

never heard of Bio Zombie either, is that Japanese?

I'm making a list of all these films so in the next couple of months I can really go on a zombie binge, seeing both new and old stuff. Jack mentioned Plague of Zombies which is one of the classic Hammer films of its time, highlighted by a great performance from John Carson as the Squire (a very underrated actor whose always shone when I've seen him)

Bio Zombie is Chinese and worth a watch for sure.

Here are some curios worth checking out:

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Director Jean Rollin is an infamous 'Eurotrash' director with over 50 films to his name with many of them actually trash TBH but he always worked on low budgets and occasionally made a gem or two and this atmospheric French tale is definitely one of them.

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AKA Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. One of a small bunch of films made by Italian director Jorge Grau but shot in England, this is a gorgeously photographed (and for it's time 1974) very brutal film.

The plot is basic but there are some superb set pieces and classic gut munching scenes and it looks and feels a lot different to the usual Zombie films due to it's location shooting and use of soundtrack.

will check out Bio Zombie

i've seen some Jean Rollin vampire movies, what they lack in aptitude they make up for in outrageousness and comedy

I've never seen a Jean Rollin film, what do you think of them? I've actually got a collection of Paul Naschy films to watch (the Spanish master of horror) which when I get the time will watch, Paul Naschy seems to have had a fascination with the wolf-man as most of his films are werewolf related.

Shaun of the Dead was great, had some great humour and cliched a lot of the classic zombie films.

I don't watch Zombie movies, scary movies, or anything that will make me scared before I sleep.

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they're quite high camp and not very scary

and the budget is so low they used rubber bats (which is quite obvious)

- think something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show minus the songs and with vampires (usually played by a gayish looking blonde somewhere between Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi)

wow, now the rubber bats remind me of something that could be out of an Ed Wood film.

ah but Ed Wood didn't put one on a girl's vag while she is being tortured by vampires from the Spanish Inquisition

That's because Ed Wood, never had the budget for such extravagence!

^^and also the censorship requirements of those times

Well he got transvestism through the censors.

One of my favorite films of all time is 28 Days Later. The atmosphere in that film is so incredible; just a perfect melding between cinematography and score. The opening scene where Cilian Murphy is just wandering around a deserted London just gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.

Another thing I noticed was that the camera in that film (and other British productions I've seen) has this sort of lo-fi quality about it that I love. It's almost like it's more grainy than the super crisp American films from Hollywood. Idk, I might be crazy, but has anyone else noticed this?