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Mine are:

Braindead
Undead
The Return of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Well, I AM trying to see a lot more than that. Any thoughts?

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At this point, mentioning the Holy Trinity is, I would like to think, an exercise in futility, so:
The Dead Hate the Living is a fun fanletter to the genre, with loads and loads of nod-and-wink references to other movies.
Zombi 2, while slow as frozen molasses in places, is still a must-see for any zombie completist.
City of the Walking Dead is unintentionally hiliarious.
City of the Living Dead, which is something of a misnomer because there aren't really that many zombies (it's more of a supernatural "Oops, we done opened the gates to Hell again" thing), is my absolute favorite Fulci flick.  Rent or buy immediately.
Shaun of the Dead is perhaps the best zombie movie ever, period.

Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE (A.K.A. ZOMBI 2; ZOMBIE: FLESHEATER; GLI ULTIMI ZOMBI; ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD; just to mention a few).

ZEDER (A.K.A. REVENGE OF THE DEAD) Although released in the states as a zombie flick, it is more appropriately a story of a quest for immortality, even at the expense of one's soul.

Although I like DOCTOR BUTHER M.D./ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST, the zombies in it are more appropriately automatons (Frankensteins monsters). But it is absolutely funny and a lot of fun.

These are movies I will rewatch more frequently than others. It has been a long time since I have seen I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, but I would like to see it again. I also really like WHITE ZOMBIE with Bela Lugosi.

I am also one of the few, apparently, who likes Bruno Mattei's NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES (A.K.A. ZOMBIE: CREEPING FLESH).

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and BRAINDEAD/DEAD ALIVE are absolutely hilarious.

*The reason I list BRAINDEAD like that is because it was released in the states as DEAD ALIVE. There was already a movie (non zombie) called BRAINDEAD in the states.

Some good movies there, Menard.

Why don't you watch the fantastic, low-budget Aussie zombie flick Undead. It should come out in the US a bit later on this year.

I am presently having this scenario idea about zombies munching on Jack 'can't have enough blank space' Corbett (heh..heh..heh).

Zombies eating my BRAINS?! Oh, yeah!

Oh sure, my list is chopped liver.  Pfft.  ;)

Brother Ragnarok wrote:

> Oh sure, my list is chopped liver.  Pfft.  ;)
>


Edible liver...edible liver (:

I'm sorry, guys. I've just had a rough week, thats all.

Plus, I tend to be annoying from time to time.

Jack Corbett wrote:

>
>  I tend to be annoying from time to time.


Gee..I hadn't noticed (:


And like you really expected me not to comment on that.

No, I'm serious.

I get like that if I'm tired or stressed. (Unfortunately, I'm tired A LOT.)

By the way, two more things.

Sorry about the big gaps, and

What do you think of Headless on the "Let's make a Horror Flick!!! PART II" thread?

Oh yeah, by the way:

I didn't include The Evil Dead or 28 Days Later, despite them being two ofmy favourite films, because they technically aren't zombie flicks.


By the way, whats your favourite Evil Dead flick. I can't really choose; I love them too much. (I even watch them to go to sleep at night - mainly No. 1 - but not anymore, because school is back on)

I agree on "Evil Dead" but I do count "28 Days Later" as a zombie flick.

Am I the only person who thought "Undead" was pretty crappy? Granted, I did see it on a clearly pirated DVD that was rather grainy but I could still follow it and thought it was completely unspectacular. Why the rave reviews from so many? What am I missing?

My faves are:

Dawn of the Dead (original)
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Night of the Living Dead
Day of the Dead
28 Days Later
Resident Evil
Zombie

I tried to think of some but hell, I like em all. I even sat through Oasis of the Zombies.

I don't count 28 Days Lateras a zombie flick because it's an Infected person flick.

By the way, if Undead was grainy you should have seen it on a real video or at the movies. The way the titles come up are mad...

I like it because it was the first zombie flick I ever saw. I am now trying to watch Shaun of the Dead.

Oh yeah, Hugomarink, You're not the only person who hates it. Go to IMDb.com.

So did I. And I was in tears for the pointless waste of 90 minutes of my life.

Hugomarink wrote:

> Am I the only person who thought "Undead" was pretty crappy?
> Granted, I did see it on a clearly pirated DVD that was rather
> grainy but I could still follow it and thought it was
> completely unspectacular. Why the rave reviews from so many?
> What am I missing?


How does Jack Corbett count as so many people?

Who else has given rave reviews for UNDEAD?

I like it because it was the first "real"zombie flick I ever saw.

By the way, it's 104 minutes.

And I say fantastic in the way of how they did it. Okay, not the best zombie flick, but I like. Thats just my opinion.


Oh, and unless you're talking about my alter-ego Sendich, I don't count as many people at all.

It was just remarked about a lot of people raving about the movie UNDEAD. The only one that I recall mentioning the movie was you. Perhaps they felt that you were several people.

I was referring to Hugomarink.

If you want to know who Sendich is, go to my "Day of the Dead remake" thread. I think it's on Older Posts somewhere. He is a pyscho, but is just a character in the movie.

One I kind of liked was Night Life.

What is Night Life about?

Night of the Living Dead , White Zombie , I Walked with a Zombie , King of the Zombie (for that goofy part where Mantan Moreland is hypnotised into acting like a zombie)  and, I don't know if they count, Carnival of Souls and Last Man on Earth .

Least favorite is Scared Stiff with Martin and Lewis.

>What is Night Life about?

A teenager is working at a funeral home when several of the town's popular kids are killed in a car accident. While they're in the freezer drawers, lightning strikes and they come back to life. The teenager and a local girl that he likes then have to deal with the zombies and with a zombie girl who seems to be attracted to him.

It's been called a horror comedy, but I don't recall there being much humor in it.

Night Life (1989) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0097972/combined)

Ohh, Okay. Thanks, JohnL.

Wait, forgot to ask...


Who is going to see Perts 4 and 5?

As a teen I liked zombie films, like Return of... 1-3.

I don´t like them anymore, and,if you want ta reason not to like them anymore, too then watch ORGASMO NERO 2 aka PORNO HOLOCAUST.
( I often mentioned this "production")
The first time it´s fun but I recommend to watch this mess not a second time.

"Porno Holocaust"
They made something like THAT?!

That's hilarious!


Oh, yeah:

-No. 4 is supposed to be the only good one,
-I am going to remake The Return of the Living Dead.

Always a favorite topic on the board. Here are the ones that I'v seen.

Night of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead I, II
Last Man On Earth
Zombie
Blind Dead I, II, III
Psychomania
Omega Man
Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
Evil Dead I, II (this isn't really a zombie film. Seems more like possession, but I guess they rise from the dead.)
Army of Darkness
Shawn of the Dead
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocolypse
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Day of the Dead
White Zombie
I Walked with a Zombie
The Beyond (Seven Doors of Death)
Demons
Rainbow and the Serpent
The Believers
Re-Animator
Dead Alive
28 Days
Dead Men Walk
Revolt of the Zombies
King of the Zombies
Kung Fu Zombie
The Dead Hate the Living
Bad Taste
Redneck Zombies
Bikerchicks from Zombie Town

It's been argued that the Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, Mummies, and other such returns from the dead are forms of Zombalism.



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I really didn't like Gigli, it was way too scary for me. That guy that they got to play the lead zombie and that girl! My god! They were just too much to stomach!...what? Oh, it's NOT a zombie movie? Nevermind.

Zombalism???  I have seen some guides that also list the FRIDAY THE 13TH movies from part VI on. And one guide included the comedy movie which I believe is called DEATH BECOMES HER. Shouldn't there be some kind of guidelines that draws the line at Voodoo and Flesheating? But, then again, there will always be a film that is on the fringe like THE EVIL DEAD or 28 DAYS LATER.

Well, from what I've read, Gigli IS a zombie flick.


Or maybe it's just the acting.

>It's been argued that the Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, Mummies, and other
>such returns from the dead are forms of Zombalism.

I still think that the Universal Soldier films qualify, since they're about re-animated dead guys.

I also like The Plague of the Zombies because it is a nice transition from the poverty row voodoo movies of the 40s and the NOTD style.  Also the fact Hammer could have a Cornish mining community as the setting with voodoo practices and NOTD style make up.

Uni Sol doesn't count in my opinion. They are sort-of zombies, but not real ones.

They do like raw meat and attract flies though.

I really didn't like Uiversal Soldier. I'm going to remake it.

As usual.

I actually enjoyed that movie. It was pretty funny.

I remake anything I see and like/don't like. ANYTHING. Maybe even Godzilla...




Heh heh heh heh heh...

Jack Corbett,

you wondered about "Porno Holocaust"(OrgasmoNero), so I give you a short description of the s**t happening in that movie:

A group of Italians have a visit to an caribean island and get attacked by Zombies that have sexual desires.
- Man, you see Zombies that have sex with their victims... what a crap!
Often there are sensless scenes showing gang-bangs an other stuff like that.

I would not have a problem with that movie - if there weren´t zombies in it...

Yea, PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES is ok, but wasn't one of the better ones. Hammer used this same sets/location in RETILE. I was hoping a little more from PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES. Maybe that why i'm not as enthusiastic about it. Not a bad film though.

PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES is an effectively creepy film. For a lot of us though, we saw it after we saw zombie films like DAWN OF THE DEAD, ZOMBIE and others probably conditioning us to expect more from it.

That being said, I did find PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES to be a little disappointing when compared to other Hammer films of the same era. The zombies as foes are not as menacing as I would have hoped.

One of my favorite atmospheric zombie films that from the pre-Romero era is WHITE ZOMBIE.

Even though I have only seen part of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, what I saw was quite effective and I do, sometime, want to watch the full movie.

Even though I was not entirely satisfied with PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, it is an interesting take on the genre done in the Hammer style. That reason alone makes it recommendable.

I caught I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE on TCM or AMC a couple years ago. I'm sure it will play again one day and your right Menard about which Zombie films a person may have seen first. Always liked the title of this film PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES.

WHITE ZOMBIE is the first good zombie film. Perhaps the first period. I'll have to look up when I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES, and KING OF THE ZOMBIES were made. They may all have been made in the 40's.

Err...


Zombie porn... right...?

THATS FUGGIN' DIZGUZTEN!!!

I've read many raves about it on other message boards. Check out the forums on www.allthingszombie.com. Another horror movie review site (I cannot which site it was -- sorry) gave it such a rave they said it was one of the best zombie movies ever. Believe me, it's nowhere close. It's boring and bad.

If "28 Days Later" isn't a zombie flick then the "Dawn of the Dead" remake isn't either. The creatures are quite similar in those two movies.

The ones in 28 DAYS LATER are not dead. Because of the disease and lack of food they are dying off by the end of the movie.

I forgot to add "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie." A very worthy zombie pic.

Hugomarink wrote:

> I forgot to add "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie." A very worthy zombie pic.


Although it does drag a little in places, and what a depressing ending, overall it is a pretty entertaining zombie movie. The special make-up effects were done by Giannetto de Rossi who also did the effects for ZOMBIE, CANNIBAL FEROX, and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST among others. It has a look and feel of what one might expect if Fulci did a zombie film for Hammer Studios, even though it preceeded Fulci's zombie cycle.

I think LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE is one of the more underrated zombie films--The story is a lot stronger than in most Eurohorror zombie flicks and it has some good gore scenes.  

My top 10 list, off the top of my head, helicopter-zombie style....

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD [1968]
DAWN OF THE DEAD [1978]
LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE
HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD [I know everyone hates it, but it's one of my favorite zombie films for the cheese factor]
ZOMBIE
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
THE BEYOND
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
DAWN OF THE DEAD [2004]
probably BURIAL GROUND....or maybe one of the BLIND DEAD series.

Nope, no DAY OF THE DEAD or DEAD ALIVE.  Don't like 'em much.  I consider 28 DAYS LATER more of a plague picture a la THE STAND or WARNING SIGN--doesn't matter much, though, since I didn't like the movie to begin with.  

ZOMBIE 3 is truly fun entertainment, but I only have so much room for zombie comedy, and SHAUN, ROTLD, and the funnier moments of HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD fill that spot nicely.

The DAWN remake blew me away when I first saw it but hasn't stood up well to repeated viewings.  Still good enough to make the lower rungs of the top 10, though.

Resident Evil was my favorite.  Kinda crummy movie, but man, it had style!  There was an old movie as well, maybe called Curse of the Zombies or something.  Had a father-daughter team that were always bickering with each other.  The zombies didn't show up until the last few minutes.  

I'm really not too interested in zombie movies I'm afraid.

I have never really enjoyed movies about Zombies. I just saw "Dawn of the Dead" . I liked it. A few things like the legless zombie in the parking garage was a stretch. I predicted the baby thing. But all in all it was entertaining. A thumbs up!

House of the Dead and George Romano's Dawn of the Death.

The problem I had with the first Resident Evil was that the zombies just seemed like extras...they got their one big sequence and popped up a  few times after that but weren't really a big part of the movie.  

The second movie was much better as far as zombies went.

I just remembered "Night if the Comet". Good flick.

Heh heh...

Dawn of the Dead is inspiring my latest Lego-zombie extravaganza:

MALL OF THE DEAD

As soon as I get the preview clip online, you can see waht I am trying to achieve.

Ahh... Zombie films done in Lego... I have a great life.

First thing I'll do as a filmmaker (Well, probably fourth, but who cares) is remake Resident Evil. Trust me, I want to make a freaky movie, not a p**sy-s**t wuss one thta has no good scenes apart from the laser room an the director made AVP and...

Ah... Forget that. Anyways:

I'd do it with zombies just like the ones in the video game. Y'know, with white, dry, peeling skin, rotting, to the point where they are ugly suckers. ANd I wouldn't use Marilen Manson music, either. Or that type of rock used in the movie. (Hard to belive: I'm fourteen going on fifteen and I DON'T LIKE MUSIC.)
What do you think?


"Smile you son of a b***h!"

Oh yeah, forgot to ad, I might do it in Lego. Tyrant would be cool.


"Smile you son of a b***h!"

I am not sure if someone has posted the url for Zombie Movie DataBase, but here it is anyway:

http://www.zmdb.org

Uh, yeah, I found a thread on the ZMDb on the older posts. Thanks, Esa.

I have just read through this entire thread, waiting for someone to mention Dellamorte Dellamore - aka Cemetery Man.  Has everyone thought of this one but not considered it highly enough to bring up, or have you all not seen it, or worse still, forgotten it????  

I mean, despite Peter Jackson being God, I am having some seriously blasphemous debate with myself about the possibility that this may be a better movie than Braindead. This is heavy stuff, folks!





Maybe I just need to get a life.

Well, I did like it better than Braindead, but still not enough to be on my top list of zombie flicks.  Been way too long since I've seen it---I think Anna Falchi made more of an impression [well, maybe twin impressions] than anything else in the movie.

Now I have to add WILD ZERO and VERSUS to my Zombie list.

Yeah, but the second movie was just silly. No suspense or anything to keep me involved. At least the first one made sense and had some decent drama and suspense. I thought the zombies in it were just fine.

I haven't seen "Dellamorte Dellamore." I don't believe it's available on DVD, is it? I picked up a bootleg DVD at a comic book convention last year but the picture was so grainy and the sound so bad I turned it off about 10 minutes into the flick. No way was I going to sit through that. When it's released as a quality legitimate DVD release here in the US then I'll definitely check it out.