Your brain smells delicious: Zombie Films

I have two free spaces for any others. This is a multiple vote poll, feel free to vote once for every choice in a poll option if you want to.

* I cheated a bit with Charlie Brooker's Dead Set miniseries, but since it can easily be watched as a movie as it runs only about 142 minutes, and has been broadcast as a TV film, I couldn't resist.


2 (2009)
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Aaah! Zombies!, aka Wasting Away (2007)
Battery, The (2012)
Beyond, The (1981)
Cemetery Man (1994)
Colin (2008)
Cooties (2014)
Dance Of The Dead (2008)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Dead Alive (aka Braindead) (1992)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Dead, The (2010)
Deadgirl (2008)
Dead Set (2008)
Dead Snow (2009)
Demons (1985)
Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016)
Horde, La (2009)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Juan of the Dead (2010)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Mulberry Street (2006)
Nightmare City (1980)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966)
Planet Terror (2007)
Pontypool (2008)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
Re-Animator (1985)
REC (2007)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Serpent and the Rainbow, The (1988)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shock Waves (1977)
Signal, The (2007)
Slither (2006)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
Train to Busan (2016)
Versus (2000)
Video Dead, The (1987)
White Zombie (1932)
World War Z (2013)
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
Zeder (1983)
Zombi 2 (1979)
Zombieland (2009)

Just remembered a couple more, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse and Zoombie.

Have added City of the Living Dead.

Edited by Logan - August 03 2018 at 07:36

`Tombs of the Blind Dead' for me. Not so much a coherent film but just full of some very creepy scenes, a cool concept and very dreamy visuals.

`Train to Busan' was a ripper of a modern flick too. Not so much particularly original but completely relentless and fast-paced. Like the best couple of scenes of `World War Z' stretched to an entire movie.

It seems multiple votes are not allowed. I would have voted for The Beyond, Evil Dead, I Walked With a Zombie and White Zombie, and from outside the list City of the Living Dead.

Icarium wrote: Do I am Legend by Will Smith count as a Zombie film?

I have seen it. Sort of, rather like the mutants in Pandorium. I think it at least loosely falls into the zombie genre as the mutants are zombieish and I'm sure it must have been inspired by zombie movies (has similarities to 28 Days Later). I won't at this moment, but I think it would be includable, but problem is, there are a number in that ilk that I would want to include. Going to save it for another poll. It's a bit of a strange one, because in the novel that it's based on, I seem to recall that they are described as vampires, as with other adaptations of the novel like Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man (will Smith has not always been in the most faithful of adaptations, such as his "I, Robot" and "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" being an adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited"*). I was thinking about doing a mutants poll, and in that case I will try to remember to include it.

*The Brideshead Revisited is a joke, but there may be some truth to it.

Edited by Logan - August 03 2018 at 07:57

Saperlipopette! wrote: As I've probably seen ca. 15% of these* and chances are I'll never gonna get passed 20% so I can't vote. Admittedly I see far less films than ever before - probably down to about 15 or so per year. Sort of afraid to get dissapointed or something... which I often am - also afraid to see old favourites over in case I won't like them as much as I used to. My couple-or trio of Herzog, Tarkovsky, Allen, Bergman, Monty Python, Lynch, Trier, Polanski, Truffaut-favorites are my movie "safe-spaces" (much against that concept in most other contexts though).  Anyway seen (ratings are mainly from memory based of the impact it had on a much younger me): [sorry, had to edit out your list from my quote as it's full of code when I try to post it] so feel free to recommend three or five among the rest that are absolutely essential.</span>

I adored The Girl With All the Gifts -- I was very moved by it (and Aussie and Vomps choices are good). Train to Busan is very good, I think. By the way, feel free to vote if you only like one (I've crammed a huge amount into the list and wouldn't expect many people to have seen many of them). Another one that I found worth watching is Rammbock: Berlin Undead. It is gory.



Edited by Logan - August 03 2018 at 13:04

Other - 

Night of the Living Dead (original)

Ya, iZombie is definitely a fun ride...bad puns abound and I love when Liv gets on some weird brain and takes on the personality of a hockey enforcer or whatever