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Which are your top 10 Zombie films of all time?

It's hard to determine exactly what a zombie is, so this is a list of films that we have called "Zombie Films" on this board in the past.  If your speaking of the undead then the list is much bigger from Frankenstien and Dracula. Then you have those that appear to be Zombies like the Spirit Possessed, Chemical Induced, Parasite Infested, Alien Possession, Rabid, Transformed, etc.

If your movie isn't on the list then leave a post and it will be added. Also you can change your vote if you wish.

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I went with Return of the Living Dead. I remember watching it all the time when I was a kid and when I got older bought it on dvd and it still holds ups. Thrash rocks my world. :thumbup: :teddyr:

On a side note I actually saw the band that sung "Partytime" which is 45 Grave and CBGB before it closed.
I think the movie had a influence me to start listening to Punk.

Where's Hide and Creep? Oh yeah, Redneck Zombies

Dead Alive/Braindead  :thumbup:  :thumbup:

Ok.....who is the joker who voted for Resident Evil!?!?!?!?

I mean, really!?

The original Dawn of the Dead for me.

Oppps......Forgot to put up DAWN OF THE DEAD (Remake) . It's up now if you want to change your vote.  You change vote by first removing your vote and then re-voting.

And I added HIDE AND CREEP

Just take a wild guess.  :teddyr:

And where's Jason?  :tongueout:

I may have missed them, but three entries would be Doctor Butcher M.D./Zombie Holocaust, Night of the Zombies/Hell of the Living Dead, and Joel Reed's Night of the Zombies (same name, different movie).

Menard, I put those you mentioned up with the alternate titles. The Italian Zombie films are hard to figure out the titles because as you know they each have about 5 alternate titles, but the list is getting more complete at 65 films.

Looks like the original DAWN OF THE DEAD is in the lead.

Would put up Jason in the FRIDAY THE 13TH films, but I think of that as more of a slasher film, and I would have to put all the titles up. We'll give Jason honorable verbal mention for now. Thanks Menard.

Zombie 3 and Zombie Holocaust are two different movies. Zombie 3 is a Fulci movie while Zombie Holocaust is the alternate title for Doctor Butcher M.D. To confuse matters more, Burial Ground is sometimes titled as Zombie 3.

Yea, there are about 3 films with Zombie 3 as an alternate title. Think I figure it out. Thanks

Shaun of the Dead rules!!!!

Looking over that list I am thinking that despite being a zombie fan, there's still lots of zombie films I have yet to see.  So many movies, so little time for gore!

Voted for Braindead [screw you American 'Dead Alivists', Braindeads the proper title!  :bouncegiggle: ]

Voted mainly because it is such a classicly stupid film, that worked like a charm.  If I was to vote for my favourite 'serious' zombie film, it would probably be Dawn of the Dead.  Could really go either the original and the remake interestingly enough.  Both had their positives and negatives.


Can't wait for the 28 Days Later sequel either.  Should be barrels of fun!

Believe it or not I've watched 55 out of the 65 above titles. These are my 10 favorites.

Last Man On Earth
Night of the Living Dead
Zombie (directed by Fulci)
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Nightmare City
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Dawn of the Dead (original & remake)
Shaun of the Dead

Man, this was really hard.  Zombies are my favorite!  I picked Dead Alive (sorry Dean, BRAINDEAD) but it was neck and neck with Return of the Living Dead and both Dawns.  You should have just had a button for "All." 

What about The video dead when the dog has a heart attack from the zombie so the kids stuff a tennis ball down the dogs throat so they do not get into trouble, Priceless. I mean really what better way to spread a round zombies than through a tv set. This was ahead of its time. And goes way deeper than anyone could ever comprehend .

OK Dean, I'm not deliberately being a copycat, but I agree on both counts!  (Vote for Brainded, considered DotD).

Intrigued to see Bad Taste on the list, since there aren't actually any zombies in it - that said it is still my all time favourite movie, so I won't complain!

Two others not on the list - Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man) and Guitar Wolf - Wild Zero.  Love both, would have them in my top .... few.  Lets not get picky about specific numbers  :wink:

In BAD TASTE what are they if they are not Zombies?

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Put CEMETARY MAN on the poll.

In Bad Taste, they aren't zombies, but aliens that have come to Earth trying to get enough humans for us to become the next intergalactic fast food sensation. 

nice list dude i had 2 vote for REDNECK ZOMBIES here though, its my defination for so bad its good :smile:

Scott...
I like your polls, but they're too long.
Too many choices to pick from!

Trust me, if you want a successful poll with lots of votes, you've gotta shorten it up a bit dude.

With that many choices, I don't even bother to vote.
It's like overkill on my brain.
Lengthy laundry lists of movies are NOT good.
Lengthy laundry lists of anything are not good.
(my opinion of course)

I mean, you've probably seen all of these films, which is cool, but the average visitor here has not.
Not only have they not seen many or any of them, most visitors probably have never even heard of most of them.

And you can't really get an accurate public opinion with 60+ choices to choose from. 
(66 total in this poll)
Cut your lists in half or even more and you'll not only get better, more accurate results, you'll also get more written responses.
Just some friendly advice and constructive criticism.    :smile:

And to add to Ash's dilemma, don't forget to add Zombies of Mora Tau, Macabre, and Zeder/Revenge of the Dead to the list.  :tongueout:

I think that Scott is looking to create complete lists, as much as find out favorites.  It works pretty well in that respect.  The motorcycle thread did not get too many responses, because that is a niche and people have not seen many of the films.

I had to go with Dr. Butcher...that has been a favorite of mine for quite some time now. It's just so terrible that I love it.

Also, I did not see WEEKEND AT BERNIES on the list.  Not that I miss it or anything (I voted NOTLD, but just noticed RE-ANIMATOR is on there, drats), but if a complete list is the goal ...

Dr. Butcher comes close to edging out Fulci's Zombie for me. In some ways, okay, in many ways it is a bad movie, but it is so much fun to watch.

This one was tough.  I'm not really into Zombie films, but you found some of my favorite movies overall. 
-Ed

The poll is mutli-functional. It can be used as a....................

• Favorites Poll
• Zombie Database (strickly on a need to know basis)
• Zombie Checklist (your christmas list)
• Intoduction to Zombie Films (training guide to new visitors)

Forgot BADTASTE was the result of Alien take over. And welcome to the board Sideorderofninjas.

Ulthar, WEEKEND AT BERNIES was a fun movie, but it might be stretching it when it comes to Zombies.  Bernie needed help moving about. :smile:

I believe Ulthar was referring to Weekend at Bernie's 2. And while we're at it, might as well add Death Becomes Her.

Menard, just read imdb an your correct WEEKEND AT BERNIES is a Zombie film. I only saw the first film. My apologies Ulthar.  :smile:

Hello! Outta rehab-feel GREAT!
MY top ten:
NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD (1968) CLASSIC!
ZOMBIE-The music is awesome.
BURIAL GROUND-(aka ZOMBIE3)-the weird little kid/midget zombie.....BRRRRR....!!!
DAWN of the DEAD (original
DAY of the DEAD
RETURN of the LIVING DEAD-the music in this one is the bomb!!!!Especially "the Surfin' Dead" by one of my favorite bands the
 CRAMPS!!!
WHITE ZOMBIE-the Grandaddy of all zombie flicks.
RE-ANIMATOR- Jeffery Coombs is the definitive Mad Doctor of the modern era.
GATES of HELL-I"m not sure if I saw this one on the list or not. Also known as CITY of the LIVING DEAD.
   

There are no zombies in the evil dead movies! They are Deadites! DEADITES!!! Zobies are brainless, slow, and canibalistic. Dedadites are moderatly fast, seem to have some sort of logic mind, are capable of speach, and they dont bite people because they are hungry. They do it just to be nasty little buggers.

And what makes Bad Taste a zombie flik? Them are ALIENS.

Well.......Kygotc is right. Sounds like he knows his Zombies. Anyone else here like to take EVIL DEAD and/or BAD TASTE from the Zombie List?

Well, even though I agree with everybody that Bad Taste is not a zombie film, I would argue that Evil Dead is a zombie film and so would Sam Raimi (director of Evil Dead) and Allen Bryce (publisher of The Dark Side magazine).

If someone wants to get into defintions, then let's see what Wikipedia has to say:

"The term zombie refers to a dead person whose body has been revived. Zombie, originates from the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodoun (otherwise known as Voo-Doo in America). These folkloric zombies are humans who have had their "Ti Bon Ange" or soul stolen by supernatural means and shamanic medicine, and are forced to work for their "zombie master" as uncomplaining slaves on isolated plantations. Other more macabre versions of zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in human cannibalism."


Souls stolen by supernatural means, reanimated corpses; yes, Evil Dead could well be a vampire movie with these similarites, but it fits with a zombie movie theme much better.

There are other movies on the list which fit less with a zombie movie than Evil Dead.

Is it a zombie movie in the tradition of Romero and Fulci? Of corse not, but it has more in common with a zombie movie than not. Trying to have it removed from the list because it does not fit with one's personal viewpoint is really splitting hairs.

Agree with Menard.  "Bad Taste" is a bit of a stretch.  The deadites in the Evil Dead films are bodies possessed by demons.  Not exactly what we call the stereotypical zombie, but then we do get zombies caused by everything from toxic waste to a virus to magic.

Ok, EVIL DEAD remains and BAD TASTE is out. Unless someone has more info to add. It's looking like a good list.

I think NIGHTMARE CITY is radiation induced somehow if I remember correctly.

I think Nightmare City was people just mutated by radiation. They weren't dead and then re-animated, they just got deformed, I guess that's why they were still fast. Toxic Zombies is another one that should be added on the list.

hey anyone know if this one's a zombie movie, haha, I've never seen it

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"Nightmare City" had some people walking around after being attacked by the zombies if I remember right.  Also, they could take hits anywhere to the body, requiring a brain shot to stop them.  I would call them zombies.

"My Boyfriend's Back" = Revenant or zombie, your choice.

From what I can recall of that virtual sleep inducer called Nightmare City, the initial group of attackers from the plane were not reanimated corpses, but were in an unstoppable and essentially indestructible state due to radiation exposure (or, I guess, overexposure). If I recall correctly, in a scene with Mel Ferrer (he must have been so proud), the doctor explains that the 'zombies' were not dead but rather tranformed into an almost superman state and that they could not be killed but that severing the head, or spinal cord, from the body would render them useless. In the movie, there are those who are killed and do not revive; but other victims do come back as zombies. It seems as though the plot of the movie is as confused and improvised as is Lenzi's usual incompetent direction. 

My question is, Scott, when are you going to add the Friday the 13th movies to the list? Parts 6, 7, and 8 are definitely zombie movies. In part 9, I don't know if they had Jason as a zombie at the beginning, but he is primarily a demon in the film, but does get reborn of human flesh; leading us to part 10 where he is not a zombie, but a human with incredible regenerative powers.

So; when ya goin ta add Jason to the list? Huh? Huh?  :tongueout:

Did anyone mention "Lifeforce"? This movie has legions of zombies...

the original Return of the Living Dead.

Ok. I agree that zombiesa are reanimated DEAD corpses. But dig this. When ash gets POSSESED (not infected, mutated or other such zombies causes) he was not DEAD! In fact, he was alive enough
to kick some DEADITE ass for a third
film.

 

Hell, they even call them Deadites in Army of Darkness!! Yew can't ignore that! And there are all KINDS of Deadites! not just humanoid ones. There izza bat like one, there are skeleton types, and what aboot that zaney thing that that thing turned into at the end of E.D.2? Ya know the one with the long neck and made monkey noises? Dont even TRY to tell me that THAT thing wuzza zombie.

I kinda feel the same way as Kygotic about the EVIL DEAD films as they seem spirit possessed, except the ones that rise from the grave in ARMY OF DARKNESS, but I keep them up as many strongly feel they are Zombie films.

A few films that feel more like Zombie films than others are NIGHTMARE CITY, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, and even THE CRAZIES.

Menard, maybe for Jason we can just put FRIDAY THE 13TH FILMS as a catagory or should they all be listed? If so give me a complete list of titles. I forget all the names to this series.

Anyone else like to put JASON on the list of Zombie films? Are they considered Zombie films?

NOO!!! he duzznt EAT  people! He just chops um up! Just because something is dead, does NOT make it a zombie. 

Did you mean to say that because something is the living dead that it doesn't make it a zombie? If your definition of zombies limits them to just eating people, then I guess we'll have to disclude White Zombie, King of the Zombies, I Walked With a Zombie and a whole bunch more of zombie movies which does not fit your narrow definition. There were zombies in movies before George Romero, and there have been movies with zombies which did not eat people after George Romero too.

I understand that. And my definition of a zombie in not limited to them just eating people. I mean, just look at Plan 9.
My personal insight of what a zomie is is that it doesnt even have to be dead all the time( 28 days later) but usualy they are. Zombies are phisicly aggressive, USUALY eat people, but not all the time. They often travel in groups, they don't seem to be all that bright. Most of the time they dont talk. Zombies are caused by viruses, radiation, infection, and sometimes there is no reason at all. (Shaun of the Dead, Night of the living dead, ect)

Now, just because something is a reaniated corpse does NOT make it a zombie. If Jason is a zombie based soaly on the fact that he's dead, then i guess vampires are zombies. And mummys, and Frankenstein's monster. And even Feddy. Ya see what I'm getting at?

The deliniation between vampires and zombies is quite vague. They both came out of similar legends primarily only differentiating by the locale of said legend. The primary distinction it seems which movies have provided is whether or not the being has self-awareness. That, however, has changed in the movies as of Return of the Living Dead and others where the zombie can be a fully self-aware individual; the only difference being whether they are alive or dead. 

Frankenstein's monster is an automaton in essence. It is a living being, and can be killed just like anybody else.

What Freddy would be classified as, I am not too certain; but it certainly would not be a zombie as his corporeal body is dead and he is not in possession of it.

The difference between vampires and zombies is this.
*Sunlight does not kill zombies. Also, garlic, silver, crosses, and getting impailed in the heart doesnt seem to effect zombies.
*Vampires are smarter then zombies.
*Vampires can turn into bats.
*Vampires seem to only want the blood, where as zombies find the entire human body as a nice spread.


I will admit this similarity. If a vampire bites you, you also become a vampire. same principle goes for zombies.

Everyone of those so called characteristics is movie dependent. There have been vampire movies in which the vampire neither was affected by sunlight, nor were they repelled by crosses. There have been more vampire movies where vampires did not have the ability to turn into bats than there have been where they did have the ability.

Conversely, as I mentioned before, there have been zombie films with otherwise intelligent, talking zombies.

You can make up all the lists you want of what you think makes a zombie or vampire movie, but you can't expect others to follow your lists.

Some very good arguments here.  :thumbup:

My main difference between Jason's FRIDAY THE 13TH films and Zombie films are that Jason uses a machete and his films feel more like slasher films than a zombie film in my opinion. Zombies are usually physically decrepit and decaying in some way. Must admit that some of the more recent Zombie films have them running and moving very fast, but they still don't usually carry weapons.

I'm still very open to the idea of putting all the FRIDAY THE 13TH films on the Database Zombie Poll. Anyone have a clearer definition?

Maybe Jason Vorhees broke the mold and was way ahead of its time in the realm of Zombies. If this is the case then Jason was also the strongest of all Zombies and this killing machine now travels in space. The question still remains.........What is Jason? Is Jason a Zombie? 

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Jason never became a zombie until part 6. He is not in the first movie, other than as a memory of him as a child when he drowned, or supposedly drowned. He is a human, of sorts, in parts 2 through 4; it is in part 4 when he is killed. He is not in part 5; it is an imposter. He is brought back in part 6 as a living corpse (zombie) that cannot be killed and has super strength. In parts 7 and 8 he is still a zombie. Part 9 is a little confusing as to whether he starts off as a zombie, but he gets blown to hell anyway, then begins to possess people, then is reborn of human flesh. In part 10, it is clearly stated at the outset that he has amazing regenerative powers and he is not represented as a zombie. The only parts where he is a zombie, and a rotting one at that (as they make that abundantly clear with showing that his flesh is falling off of his bones), is in parts 6, 7, and 8. And yes, they are still slasher films; it's just that the slasher happens to be a zombie as well.

I hear you Menard on the slasher zombie genre, so I'm putting up FRIDAY THE 13TH -6-7-8 for a well fought zombie victory on Jasons behalf.

To put Frankenstein, Vampires, and Mummy's is to broad a list even though they are undead and/or reanimated in some way. They deserve a seperate poll for each respected catagory.

I think that Jason doenst really need a catigory. He's just JasonIf any thing at all, I suppose he could go under the catigory of maybe "gouls" perhaps allong with pinhead, freddy, chucky, and all those other charecters that are a genre all their own, ya know?

 



And i didnt mean to offenD ya, mon. Everyone is entiteld to their own opinion, im just stating mine. Sorry for any misinterprited hostility!

-KYGOTC

I was watching a movie, "The Wicked", on Starz cable network this afternoon, staring Ron Jeremy of adult movie fame, didn't get to see the entire movie but there appears to be a zombie vampire in this movie, can't wait to see the whole thing. The part I saw was pretty interesting, voted for Shaun of the Dead but this one may make me change my mind.

Amazingly enough it looks as though DEAD ALIVE (a.k.a Braindead) is ahead of the pack. Passing all others. One of the more memorable moments of this film is when the old lady's ear falls off and into the soup and she eats it.

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dewd, i squirmed when those juices flew out of her arm and landed in that guys custard. And then he f**king ate it. Dont get me wrong, I LOVE dead alive. i own a copy. Its just that ONE  part makes me a bit squeemish.

The more I look back on DEAD ALIVE the more I remember how insane it was. Comical in its approach much like BAD TASTE, but a lot of fun to be had. Again the bloodiest film ever recorded.

Maybe we need another list, this time for all of the sub-genres of zombie movie - including those which lack zombies like Evil Dead, and those where a character is sometimes a zombie and sometimes something else (ie Friday The 13th.)

Meh, we don't need to come up with sub-genres.  Over-classification isn't what we need.  What we need is to watch more movies like them, regardless...

I mean, the moment we start coming up with the idea that zombies and vampires do the same thing and start considering them in the same genre?  Well that's taking things a tad too far.  I suppose the key defining factor in most zombie vs vampires theory is the fact that zombies are decaying dead, whereas vampires regenerate themselves [I suppose you could say].  But we all know the difference so I don't know why I worry...

Same here. That is the one part of the film that did away with my appetite. Loved every other part of the film but that one scene.

What is extra great about DEAD ALIVE and films before the computer age is that they don't use CGI. The special effects are done the hard way which adds real texture to the screen image no matter how unreal. CGI hasn't been able to do this yet.

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Thank yew so much for bringing that up, Doctor Scott! Ireally dislike as this CGI bull that people have been pulling nowadays. Whatever happened to those glory days when the movie was about how much dammage the monsters could do, not about how "good" they look? Man, it's a damn shame.


On other note, i just got myself a copy of "The Stuff". havent watched it yet. Is that a zombie movie? Is that any good? Is it supposed to be funny?

Yea, THE STUFF is a Zombie film from what I've heard and also read on Andrews Review of THE STUFF (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/thestuff/index.html). Having seen it myself yet, but I'm adding it to the Zombie Database Poll. 

Also the EVIL DEAD films are staying up as Zombie films. Though most agree that it isn't a Zombie film most feel that it is much in common with Zombie films. Interesting subject though.

Well, from what I recall, it has some things in common with a zombie film; people become infected with some kind of pathogen and then go off on others. Kind of a take on Cronenburg's Shivers, minus the entertaining parts. If you like gross, you may well like this.

BAD TASTE has to go back on the list. It just belongs there even if they are aliens who have taken human bodies.  :smile:

Bah! do what you must, but my protest still stands. aliums!!

It's actually amazing that Peter Jacksons DEAD ALIVE (Brain Dead) is favored here and yet many who are new fans of his through LORD OF THE RINGS and KING KONG have not heard of DEAD ALIVE.

While we're talking about Zombies let's not forget ZOMBIE LAKE. Many don't think this is a good film, but it's a serious story about a father and daughter divided by death and the lake he was disposed in. A fathers instinct over run his zombie instincts.

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You've got to be kidding.

Are you okay tonight? You're not running a fever or anything are you? :tongueout:

Ive never been able to apreciate serious zombie movies. I dont think they work. Waht with all the emotionalness an' all. It duzznt really seem to mix with zombies. For once, i agree with Menard.

I never said I didn't like serious zombie movies, quite the contrary. I was just astounded by the use of the terms 'serious story' and 'good' in the same sentence with Zombie Lake

You have to believe me Menard.  This is about a fathers instincts, not a mummy's.

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Ewww

I thought we left the puns behind in the other thread. :teddyr:

It would be no pun if we did.   :twirl:

Actually Mummies are the closest of the old universal monsters to be zombie like. Even more so than Frankenstein.

In the film ZOMBIE LAKE the father who is a zombie saves his daughter from the other zombies.

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Speaking of Zombie films, [well who doesn't speak about Zombie films here I suppose...]

But anyways, I was at the video store the other night and saw 'Zombie Honeymoon' and must ask if it's worth a peek?  Anyone here see this pile of potential golden crap?

I have seen Zombie Honeymoon and its a ok flim. Its about a wife dealing with her husband becoming a zombie. Problem is the I couldn't believe some of the wife actions. It is different from most Zombie flims and worth a look but don't expect alot of action or anything.

ZOMBIE HONEYMOON, now there is a comical variation of a Zombie film. Rich Andrini has been watching Zombie films without letting us know.  :smile:

Saw DEAD ALIVE for the 2nd time with my daughter recently who saw it for the first time and she really loved it. She has now seen at least a dozen Zombie films and she has had the Zombie Survival Guide for more than a year now.

Zombie Survival Guide?

If you want to get her the coolest zombie movie book, check out Zombie (http://www.lfvw.com/zombie_book.html). This book was compiled by the editors of DarkSide magazine.

Yea, THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE is a fun little book.

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/ (http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/)

Gotta go with Dead Alive/Braindead. ROTLD, Re-Animator and Evil Deads are personal favorites too.

I'm not really a fan of the Euro zombie flicks, Dr. Butcher was really enjoyable though. A great example of "so bad its good"

As for the debate over what's a zombie movie, I'd say the 28 Days Later shouldn't be on the list. The people are infected like the Crazies, not undead. I guess in evey other way it fits the zombie movie criteria so....

Zombie Lake was so boring I watched most of it on fast forward. I did like how the people in the lake were in waist deep water but the underwater shots were of people treading water in a swimming pool.

Added VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES starring Paul Naschy who plays two brothers. One a guru and the other a Satanist. Product of Spain and shot in London.

The use of a swimming pool for the underwater lake scenes in ZOMBIE LAKE was one of the more memorable moments I must admit.  :smile:

No disrespect to the Original Zombie movie Night of the Living Dead but not being one for horror movies I voted for Shaun of The Dead.

Comedy+Zombies+Fried Gold=Best Zom/Com ever

It's probably sacrilegious to say this in a place like Badmovies.org, but I'm not down with zombie movies.  While bullets and explosions and the occasional related wounds don't usually bother me, splatter-level gore actually does.  And I can trace it all back, very literally, to one movie and one scene...

Dawn of the Dead.  Barely, what, two minutes in?  There's this black guy, pretty freshly dead, who shambles up to his wife--and literally takes a big ol' bite out of the side of her neck and shoulder.  Gah.   :buggedout:

i can't understand the near-universal disdain for zombie lake.  i love that movie. 
that being said, my absolute favorite zombie flick is fulci's the beyond.  i've seen it dozens of times and it still blows my mind and i'm not even sure why.  the effects are weak in a lot of scenes, and the plot is all but non-existant, but it just conjures up the perfect atmosphere of dread.
 but yeah, i'm definitely a fan of the euro zombie movies.

I voted for Undead, mainly cause of the four shotgun contraption and the autoclub scene..

I really enjoy that movie.. may have to watch it again tonight..

Yea, I kinda liked ZOMBIE LAKE and OASIS OF ZOMBIES. Not sure what all the fuss is about.  :smile:

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"Zombie Lake" is a lot of fun, but "Oasis of the Zombies" is so slow and uneventful as to make a person cry.  I mean, look at the prior film.  You have girls going for a skinny dip the lake/pool and a whole sub-plot with the one good zombie whose daughter (daughter, right?) is in peril.  There was also a zombie knife fight if memory serves.  Just how deadly is it for zombies to stab each other with knives?

I kinda like OASIS OF ZOMBIES because of the fathers kid who decides to go to North Africa and find the Nazi Gold with his band of friends. Kinda humored me. Then you have your Zombies to top it off.

CHUD counts as a zombie flick? they were mutants, munched on humans yes, but mutants all the same. i think CHUD 2 qualifies more of a zombie flick. my vote goes to Braindead/Deadalive.

i can't handle "oasis of the zombies."  and i'm not saying that "zombie lake" is good, it's just not as god-awful as most people seem to think.

That's the impression I get of the Euro zombie flicks, very moody. Zombi 2 I don't really get into all that comes to mind is the Shark, the eye gouging and a very creepy atmosphere.

The Corpse Eaters (1974)
not cause it was any good
in fact other then the zombie attack it is damn near unwatchable
but cause it was filmed in my hometown, in the graveyard by my house, where I spend a lot of time as a younging

I voted for reanimator though
 :bluesad:

Welcome to the board Thorn Is ! ! !

I added your hometown film CORPSE EATERS to the list. :smile:

Here's imdb.com file:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0228158/ (http://imdb.com/title/tt0228158/)

I can't decide on this one.  I picked Shaun, simply because I absolutely love it, and I could whatch it over and over at any time.  But there are too many here.  And then we have a lot of classics. Reanimator, Romero's movies, Bad Taste.  White Zombie is a great movie, and one of the only true zombie movies on here.

I disliked Oasis of the Zombies, but I would enjoy seeing (or making) a remake of it.  It's got a great premise.  Just throw more adveture into the mix, more competition between the groups searching for the treasure, maybe a little more of the dangers of the desert... I don't know...  As long as it doesn't move so damn slow or come out looking too much like the Stephen Sommers  Mummy movies, it should be good.  And they would have to use the title Treasure of the Living Dead.

Been thinking maybe this Zombie post should allow our 5 top favorites. So you can all vote for your top 5 Zombie films. What do you think?

The DAWN OF THE DEAD remake is one of the best fore sure. Welcome to the forum divx712.

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I will say with out a doubt, "Zombie 4" and "Demons" both kicked a$$.  However, "Demons" was about demons, not Zombies.  Speaking of "Demons", has anyone seen "The Church"?  This is "Demons 3".  Very good movie, I still regret selling it.

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I've been curious about THE CHURCH and had it cued up on my former Netflix membership, but didn't get to it. Netflix just sent me a mailer. Maybe I'll sign up for a month.

DEMONS plays very much like a zombie film, but of course it isn't. I'll keep it up there.  :smile:

I still regret watching it. :tongueout:

I love DEMONS. It's awesome. I think DEMONS 2 is pretty cool too (I still don't get how it came out of the TV though. lol). Never seen The Church, but I've been looking for it.

I voted Return of the Living Dead, though I was torn between that and The Evil Dead (and maybe it's sequel).

Don't take it off.  It was just my opion.


I am not sure how the one Demon came out of the tv also.  Then what happened to it when it took over Jessica (?)?  I wish that the movie in Demons 2 would have been longer, I thought that it was cool.  It was the one they were playing on the tv, it was the group of people were in the city that was behind a huge wall, when the one demon came out of the televion.

John

The way the Demon on the movie shown on the TV was resurrected was actually better than the way the Demons came back in the real movie, lol

I agree.  But if it died from the I-beam and could not move it, how did it get the strength to movie it after being dead for a while????

JOHN

HUMAN BLOOOOD. WHUUaaaUAAAAAahhh!  :tongueout:

Had to add CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD.

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Put HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES on the Zombie database poll. Their is a Zombie at the end. Actually I think there are two, because I couldn't figure out how the zombie got from the grave to the house again so fast. This walking dead zombie breaths.

It isn't hard to examine what a zombie is. If, for whatever reason except vampirism, it was once dead and now shuffles around, it is a zombie. Period.
I have to go with the original NOTLD. It is not the first zomber ever made, it is the scariest . Any film that got old blowhard thumb boy Roger Ebert to write an extended diatribe in "Readers Digest" has to seal the deal. Newspapers refused to carry advertisements for it, and today it's shown in art museums. Well, I don't know about art but I sure as hell know what I like, and this is it. I ain't nothin' but a gorehound!

Welcome to the forum Batty007. It looks as though we have a three way tie for favorite Zombie film with 7 votes each:

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
SHAUN OF THE DEAD

How could I be the only one to vote for Cemetery Man?  Haha.  I wouldn't be so offended but a lot of people voted for Braindead, which I love, but it doesn't offer anything unique, per se; it just does every cliché zombie thing very, very well.

That is a very nice list though.  :)

Yeah i second "return of the living dead". Night of the comet had one of the cooler zombies (guy in the mall). As for something current: "Dawn of the dead" was a decent flick

Just added 28 WEEKS LATER (2007).

Just added WARNING SIGN (1985) to the list.

Anyone else ever seen Zombie Lake?

It's been a while since I've seen it, but if I remember correctly, it involves naked cheerleaders getting taken apart by underwater Nazi zombies.

I don't think that is ZOMBIE LAKE nor SHOCK WAVES because it's set in France during WWII, but maybe the one your thinking about isn't a zombie film. Maybe it's SURF NAZI'S MUST DIE or something else. I haven't seen Troma's SURF NAZI'S MUST DIE, but I can image cheerleaders being in that title.

Which reminds me that I never put up SHOCK WAVES. It's up now................

I have to admit that I agree with ASH about "laundry lists."  I become numb. 

I don't see MESSIAH OF EVIL (aka DEAD PEOPLE) on the list, a film not well liked on this site (perhaps nowhere) but it nonetheless has people dying and becoming flesh-eating ghouls which I think qualifies as Zombies. 

I found TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD to be dumb and paid dearly for expressing just such an opinion elsewhere. 

Being a newbie, I just read this old thread but had also missed GATES OF HELL (PAURA NELLA CITTA DEI MORTI VIVENTI) on the list.  Bela, I think it remains overlooked. 

Sadly, yes (http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/ZombieLake/).



A group of young ladies on some sort of sports team decide to strip and go swimming and then get pulled under water. It's about as terrifying as spilled milk and as titillating as a kick to the nads.

That's why I use Tide after viewing Zombie films from this list. Actually it best used as your personal zombie checklist.

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Zombies use Tide also.

I put it on the list Allhallowsday. Saw this once and it was difficult viewing, but yes I was able to finish it. It does qualify as a Zombie film.  :smile:



Yep, that's right Allhallowsday you shouldn't say bad things about those Templars. THE BLIND DEAD is one of my favorite Zombie films along with RETURN OF THE  BLIND DEAD.  :teddyr:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INMz2Tm2K58



Listed it as CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD. Thanks Allhallowsday.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DIxiurkqE

By the way I reset the voting, so everyone can now vote for your favorite top 10 Zombie films.

out of the ten I voted, Ill point out 2. Zeder and Zombie Lake. Zeder because it has a great theme by Riz Ortolani and is very creepy. I voted Zombie Lake because it is insanely bad but I love the look of the zombies. There are better zombie movies, but these are two of the ones I picked.

I've never seen ZEDER, but I'll put it on my personal zombie list. As for ZOMBIE LAKE your in good company here as we all like ZOMBIE LAKE including Menard, Andrew, Myself, and many others. Don't  forget to check out OASIS OF ZOMBIES. Another favorite.  :teddyr:  :wink:

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Thanks!  Yeh, btw, that was me voting for that dopey mess of a movie; I really like those paintings. 

No; disagreements about movies are what create the most stimulating dialogue, yet I respect any and all opinions.  I don't, however, like when I am not respected for mine.  Of course, hopefully now I'm a bit wiser.  I do have a friend who is swift to point out that opinions are like . . . hmm ...everyone's got one and they all stink . . .
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Which 10 haven't you seen?  Haha.

I have always been a huge fan of zombie movies, but I find it so hard to compare something like Zombi with Wild Zero with Dawn of the Dead.

And the humorous ones have an unfair advantage when it comes to re-watchability, or group viewings!

And C.H.U.D., my favorite bad movie of all time, is not something I've ever thought of as a zombie picture.  They are simply radioactive homeless people.  Albeit they are about as articulate as zombies...

Oh, and you could add Dead Pit to the list.  It's a great little romp about an evil doctor who is killed and buried with his experiments (in an abandoned wing of a mental hospital), only to be reawakened by an earth quake.  Jane Doe, a patient with amnesia, sees him in her dreams and subsequently runs around in her underwear for most of the movie.  And like Frankenhooker, the VHS case had a noise-box sewn in.  And better still, the ghoul's eyes blinked red!  Talk about high tech!

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Hahaha! Seems like I'm the only voter for BURIAL GROUND. How can you NOT love this crazy movie? And it's got everybodys  favorite Mommy molester...Micheal(Peter Berg)!

One of the most to- the- chase trailers Iv'e ever seen...no talk..no hype...the gore speaks for itself!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27nt1xdtUU4 ...love the music too!Sounds like a UFO is jamming tunes!

RCMerchant, I've seen the trailer to BURIAL GROUND before and it looks like great Zombie material. I'll have to get Netfix again soon to view it.

DodgingGrunge, I put DEAD PIT up for you.

Thanks!



You really need to see it.  As a movie, Burial Ground is just so-so.  It's typical Italian silliness with horrendous English dubbing and nonsensical plotlines.  But man-oh-man this has one of the greatest zombie scenes of all time!  My mammaries hurt just thinking about it.
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And RC, that trailer reminds me of the German version of Romero's Dawn of the Dead.  I looked all over YouTube and couldn't find it.  But I did find this Japanese version which is similar, though a bit more rockin':  http://youtube.com/watch?v=YhG1y3lQQEo

Any one ever seen Troma's "Wiseguys vs. Zombies"? Heehee!

Wow, now I know this is going to be a good one.  :bouncegiggle:

TCM played four zombies films this afternoon and one that wasn't on the list till now. REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES.

TCM Zombies Films Today:

King Of The Zombies
Revenge Of The Zombies
Zombies Of Mora Tau
White Zombie

How are the Friday the 13th movies zombie-ish?

Jason was a zombie in every F13 film from Part 6 on.  In parts 2-4, he was just a mentally disabled, deformed, redneck that lived in the woods.  Part 5 has an impostor, someone pretending to be Jason.  In Part 6: Jason Lives, Tommy Jarvis digs up Jason's skeleton.  He then rams a metal pole into the corpse in a fit of rage.  The pole gets hit by lightning and it brings Jason back to life as a zombie.  He stays that way from that point on.

Sorry to get a bit geekish here but the F13 films are a favorite of mine.

Could you add the new Resident Evil into the poll? I loved that one.

Just added DistantJ. My daughter went to see RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION and didn't like it. I haven't seen it yet.

 REVENGE of the ZOMBIES: I Watched these the other night. Never seen RotZ...I enjoyed it quite a bit. Yeah it was corny....but with goose-stepping zombies,John Carridine,and Mantan Moreland...what's not to love?
 ZOMBIES of MORA TAU: This may very well be the percurser to ZOMBIE LAKE and ZOMBIE-underwater zombies!!!! Cool!

I'll always have a soft spot for Return of the Living Dead pts 2 and 3.

little disappointed I was a Teenage Zombie isn't a choice on the poll

I'm surprised the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead wasn't on the list. 

Even though it's trash and I'm not surprised it wasn't on the list, I actually have a soft spot for The Alien Dead.

1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)  Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
3. Zombi 2 (1979) aka Zombie or Zombie Flesh Eaters
4. 28 Days Later (2002)
5. White Zombie (1932)
7. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
8. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
9. Train to Busan (2016)
10. Fido (2006)

When I think "zombie" I either go by Haitian folklore or the Romero standard. Anything is splitting hairs.

The 1990 remake of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is... okay.  It's not trash.  Well, maybe it is trash... 

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I went with the original Romero trilogy, Return of the Living Dead, Hell of the Living Dead, Zombi, Zombie Holocaust, Tombs of the Blind Dead, and then Redneck Zombies and Plan 9 From Outer Space as guilty pleasures.

If I was going to make a Top 13 zombie films, these would be my picks.

1. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Day of the Dead (1985)
4. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
5. Zombi (1979)
6. Junk (2000)
7. Zombie Holocaust (1980)
8. Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
9. Return of the Living Dead (1985)
10. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
11. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
12. Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
13. Zombi '90 (1990)

I'm surprised no one mentioned Rollins' LIVING DEAD GIRL or the GRAPES OF DEATH.

I can't imagine anyone voting for ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY (1945), but here it is anyway.

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