Some of My Favorite Zombie Features, Shows, and Shorts
This is a list of zombie feature films, TV series, shorts, and web series that are worth a viewing. This list is almost a historical look at the great (and some not-so-great) zombie moments.
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- DirectorVictor HalperinStarsBela LugosiMadge BellamyJoseph CawthornA young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.The original zombie movie, AND Bela Lugosi. A must for any self-respecting zombie enthusiast.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsFrances DeeTom ConwayJames EllisonA nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.Another great classic zombie movie (from the pre-Romero) days.
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsGregory WalcottTom KeeneMona McKinnonEvil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.Not a great movie, and not necessarily a classic. It IS an infamous Ed Wood movie, however, and Bela Lugosi's last moments of screen time. He may have appeared in later productions with earlier footage, but the last footage Lugosi ever shot was in THIS film.
- DirectorUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma DanieliWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.This is a great film, though, I'm sure many people would not consider it a zombie movie. In many ways, this is a vampire film, even going so far as to use the garlic and mirror devices. However, the vampires act very much like zombies, and this film supposedly influenced Romero in the creation of "Night of the Living Dead."
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.This is the one that started the modern zombie craze. It still holds up today as a scary, creepy horror film. Always worth watching.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsAlan OrmsbyValerie MamchesJeff GillenSix friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.A group of quirky stage performers travel to a remote graveyard to perform a ritual that will make the dead rise from their graves. This film, released after George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," is almost a bridge between earlier VooDoo zombie films and Romero zombie films.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsClarence ThomasBrooke AdamsLuke HalpinVisitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.This is a really fun zombie film, pairing zombies with Nazis, and featuring legendary horror greats John Carradine, and Peter Cushing.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.Romero's classic follow-up to "Night of the Living Dead." This film is a masterpiece all its own. Why do we associate zombies with shopping malls? Here is your answer.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.Lucio Fulci's sequel to Romero's "Dawn of the Dead." This film has attained legendary status in it's own right. Fluke's dirty, wormy zombies certainly make an impression.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsAdrienne BarbeauJamie Lee CurtisJanet LeighAn unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.John Carpenter's masterpiece of lighthouses and zombies (called ghosts, but I beg to differ.) Another creepy one, not to be missed.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincorFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.Another fringe zombie film. This one is actually deadites (demons), and possessed people. This film is so legendary, it has spawned two sequels, a remake, and a sequel television series, all almost equally as legendary.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.Romero's third film, considered part of the classic trilogy. Even though he made several more zombie movies, they're not considered as epic as the first three.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.This adaptation of a Lovecraft short story is beloved by many. It's campiness might be what makes people love this film so much.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.This pseudo-sequel to the original "The Night of the Living Dead," takes a comic turn on the zombie genre. This is a must see film among zombie lovers. BRAIIINS!
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan HicksAsh Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.The follow up to "Evil Dead" takes the series in a decidedly comedic direction, turning the franchise into the beloved series it is today.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsBill PullmanCathy TysonZakes MokaeAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.Wes Craven's return to the traditional zombies provides for an absolutely creepy, and scary film.
- DirectorMary LambertStarsDale MidkiffDenise CrosbyFred GwynneAfter tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.This is an adaptation of a particularly intense Stephen King book. Well worth taking a look.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEmbeth DavidtzMarcus GilbertWhen Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.The third film in Raimi's original Evil Dead trilogy. Campy, campy, campy, and absolutely worth it.
- DirectorJim StenstrumStarsScott InnesBilly WestMary Kay BergmanThe Mystery Gang reunite and visit Moonscar Island, a remote island with a dark secret. Daphne wants more than just a villain in a costume, and they get more than they ever expected.This is the film that brought Scooby-Doo out of television obscurity, and back into the spotlight. At the same time, it features some pretty sweet animated zombies.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.The controversy over whether these were to be called zombies or not was very strong with this film. This film helped usher in the era of fast zombies, which adds another level of scary to an already scary thing.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskeyA special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.The film which took the video game from gaming platform to silver screen. It's a very good film, and ultimate classic in the world of zombie cinema.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.One of the greatest, funniest zombie films of all time, while remaining dramatic. For a zombie film, this one pretty much has it all. You have a bit of red.
- DirectorGeoffrey HendersonChaia HendersonStarsIvan HerranAn interesting zombie short by Geoffrey Henderson.
- DirectorFrank SudolStarsFrank SudolDesperately losing his mind while searching for a new pair of shoes, an old man and his trusty Walker wander the City of Rott, saturated with thousands of rotting zombies, driven to feed the blood-hungry worms residing in their skulls.Not a classic as far as I know, but it should be. This film is funny, with a great storyline, and some really fun animation. Too bad about the sequel.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.This zombie film is absolutely great. A great new spin on zombies. A beautifully shot anachronistic 1950s film. It's a must-see without having yet achieved cult status.