Resident Evil(2002) – The first movie in this series starring Milla Jovovich is arguably the best of the live-action Resident Evil adaptations.Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies(2001) – A zombie infection only affecting teenage girls which causes “Near Death Happiness” is the basis for this head-shakingly silly Japanese zombie movie.Versus(2000) – Zombie and yakuza films collide in this glorious Japanese action/horror movie.Bio-Zombie(1998) – Two small-time criminals try to stay alive in a shopping mall during a zombie outbreak in this Hong Kong zombie comedy.Return of the Living Dead 3(1993) – A young man revives his dead girlfriend, but now, self-inflicted pain is the only thing that can keep her mind off of her insatiable hunger for brains.Night of the Living Dead(1990) – Starring Tony Todd and directed by special effects master Tom Savini, this new version of George Romero’s classic updates the original characters to give the movie a welcome new feeling.The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988) – Wes Craven’s take on zombies goes for a more balanced approach than most voodoo movies, though it still contains the director’s trademark violence and nightmares.Night of the Creeps(1986) – Alien slugs burrow into the brains of people on a college campus, turning them into zombies in this horror comedy.Day of the Dead(1985) – The third of George Romero’s classic zombie movies is likely the goriest of the series.Night of the Comet(1984) – Earth flies through the tail of a comet which kills most people on the planet, and most of the survivors turn into zombies.Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror(1981) – This cheap European zombie flick has some wild ideas, including a subplot about a boy (played by an adult actor) who has a disturbingly apparent Oedipus complex.Tombs of the Blind Dead(1972) – In this Spanish movie, people are stalked by a group of ancient knights cursed to come back to life every night as zombies.Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things(1972) – Bob Clark ( A Christmas Story, Black Christmas) directs this dark comedy about a theater troupe who accidently wake the dead on a small island.The movie incorporates familiar moments and ideas seen in films like The Last Man on Earth (1964), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and 28 Days Later (2002), but it treats them in a more realistic manner. Viewers follow the man, Sam (Anders Danielsen Lie), as his days go from chaos to order while trying to stave off boredom and a complete mental breakdown. The Night Eats the World is a quiet, introspective movie about a man trying to survive alone in a Paris apartment building during a zombie invasion. Old Zombie Movies White Zombie (1932) Bela Lugosi starred as the evil voodoo master Murder Legendre just over a year after his career-defining performance in Dracula (1931). Collected here are the very best and most important zombies movies spanning the near-century of zombie cinema history. Zombie fans have been treated to films beyond just the horror genre, seeing the undead in comedies, action flicks, romances, arthouse films, blockbusters, and everything in-between. Since 2002, zombies have remained extremely popular in what could be considered a post-modern era for the monster. Modern zombie movies tend to rely on various twists to the format, like Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021) which is an action-oriented heist film with comedy and sci-fi elements… which also has zombies in it. Then, in 2002, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later opened up a path for a greater variety of zombies on film by popularizing fast zombies that may or may not be a reanimated corpse. This was the main form zombies took until George Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead (1968) changed zombies into shambling, reanimated corpses driven by a compulsion to eat flesh. In 1932, White Zombie from director Victor Halperin popularized the idea of zombies controlled by voodoo magic. It’s fairly easy to pinpoint the beginnings of major shifts within the zombie genre. King of the Zombies (1941), featuring Mantan Moreland, was typical of many early zombie movies in that it features zombies under a form of mind control. With that much history, it’s natural that the zombie film has evolved over time. Though their popularity has dipped and soared over the decades, every generation of filmmakers has its fair share of the walking dead. Zombies first came to the fore of popular cinema in the 1930s, and they are still around nearly a century later. The zombie film is a genre that will never die.
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