In the movie, Lugosi transforms his love interest into a zombie. Rob Zombie's band, music, and aesthetic was influenced by this great picture.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a Troma movie that promises to be trashy, violent, and have no boundaries or sense of good taste. It's also a little bit clever in its social satire of consumer culture.
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.
A group of visitors investigates the abandoned ruins of a wicked Templar monastery, stirring the blind dead, who can detect your pulse and track you down. They are pursued by a swarm of Templar zombie knights wielding swords and riding zombie horses across a field.
The young lads in Deadgirl argue over who gets to rape the "deadgirl" next as they delve into the sexuality of the dead. The picture is successfully horrifying and icky, and it made the cut only because it proposes a use for zombies that hasn't been fully explored in the previous 40 years.
Jeff Barnaby's Blood Quantum is a zombie film that aspires to the genre's sarcastic, political edge and that delves deeply into the banal miseries of colonialism.
Slither was a B-movie zombie/alien mashup by James Gunn. Because of the similarities to Night of the Creeps, it lacks originality, but it's still a wonderful film.
In this zombie film, which is an odd blend of American zombie cliches and hard-to-place foreignness, the repercussions of killing insects aren't entirely as planned.
Juan of the Dead, Cuba's first feature-length zombie film, is a strong piece of work by filmmaker Alejandro Brugués.
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.
Dennis Hopper portrays a vicious plutocrat governing a walled-off Pittsburgh in Romero's penultimate film. It's not as subtle as his previous works, but it looks great and has Romero's rebellious flare.
Independently produced in Germany, the "feature film" Rammbock clocks in at a mere 63 minutes. The plot centers on a pathetic, self-deluded man called Michael who goes to see his lover shortly before a zombie outbreak takes place in her flat.Cemetery Man is an offbeat horror art-comedy about a cemetery caretaker who wanders through life without purpose and wonders why he continues with his job. It features characteristics that are similar to American Psycho in terms of the protagonist's despondency and loss of identity.
The version of Night of the Living Dead that Tom Savini created in 1990 is a decent copy. It would be a classic if not for the name.
Robert Englund plays a possibly zombie-infected villager, while Jack Albertson plays the town's eccentric coroner/mortician.
The film portrays the inventiveness and flexibility of low-budget directors like George Romero via its focus on these themes (the film is also about a shoestring budget and DIY mentality).
Hammer Horror created Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, living dead plus Plague of the Zombies. Their zombies are decrepit and terrible, like Night of the Living Dead.
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.
Pontypool's zombies are intellectual and otherworldly. I applaud it for taking the hard route and criticizing 21st century humanity's incapacity to connect and address important concerns.
The remake of the original Evil Dead film, Evil Dead 2, is one of the best and most tightly paced horror comedies ever filmed. It's also representative of the film industry's developing attitude on zombies, as seen in this film.
28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead established precedents for modern zombie films, indicating that the cultural zeitgeist of zombies could be used for enormous laughs as well.
Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero is a major leap forward in terms of presentation, professionalism, thematic intricacy, and innovative visual effects. It is set in a garish mall overrun by zombies and has classic visuals that subsequent zombie films have sought to replicate or ridicule.