[SteveGon]

Here's a place to discuss your favorite (and least favorite) undead (and "infected") films!

While I don't have time to write full-length reviews, I hope you'll enjoy my capsule reviews and comments. And please remember that this thread is a work in progress - those zombie flicks keep a comin' just like the living dead themselves!

Ratings range from bomb to ****

Note: some ratings may have changed from original postings

Last update: 5/11/2008

Zombie movies

The Alien Dead **
All Souls Day **
Astro-Zombies *
Automaton Transfusion **
Awaken the Dead ***
Beaver Lake Zombies *
The Beyond ***
Beyond Re-Animator **
Bio-Cops **
Biohazardous **
Bio-Zombie ***
Black Demons **
Blade of Death *
Blood of Ghastly Horror *
Blood of the Beast **
Blood of the Zombie ***
Bone Sickness *
Bowery at Midnight **
Boy Eats Girl **
Brain Blockers **
Braindead (aka Dead Alive) ***
Bride of Re-Animator **
Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror **
Buttcrack **
Cadaverella **
Cemetery Man ***
The Child ***
The Children ***
Children of the Living Dead **
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things **
The Chilling **
Choking Hazard **
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown *
City of the Living Dead **
City of Rott **
Codename: Yinyang **
Come Get Some! **
Corpses **
Corpses Are Forever **
Creatures from the Pink Lagoon ***
Creature With the Atom Brain **
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates **
Curse of the Maya *
Curse of the Sun **
Dance of the Dead ***
Dark Echoes **
Dawn of the Dead (1978 - European version) ***
Dawn of the Dead (1978 - Extended version) ***
Dawn of the Dead (1978 - U.S. Theatrical version) ****
Dawn of the Dead (2004) ***
Dawn of the Mummy **
The Day It Came to Earth **
Day of the Dead (1985) ***
Day of the Dead (2007) **
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium **
Days of Darkness ***
Dead & Breakfast *
Dead & Buried ***
Dead at the Box Office ***
Dead Clowns **
Dead Creatures **
Dead and Deader **
The Dead Don't Die ***
Dead Flesh **
Dead Fortunate *
The Dead Hate the Living! ***
The Dead Have Risen BOMB!
Dead Heat **
Dead Heist **
Deadhunter: Sevillian Zombies **
Deadlands: The Rising **
Dead Life **
Dead Meat **
Dead Men Walking ***
Dead Moon Rising **
The Dead Next Door ***
The Dead Pit **
Dead in the Water **
Dead World **
Death Metal Zombies **
Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill **
Defenceless **
Detroit Blood City **
Die and Let Live **
Distant Lights ***
Doomed ***
Doomed to Consume **
Dorm of the Dead **
The Earth Dies Screaming **
Eat the Living **
Enter... Zombie King **
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead **
Evil ***
Exhumed **
The Face of Marble **
Feeding the Masses **
Fido ***
Flesh Eater **
Flesh Freaks *
Flight of the Living Dead (aka Plane Dead) **
Forest of the Dead **
The Forever Dead **
Gangs of the Dead ***
Garden of the Dead **
The Ghost Galleon **
Ghost Zombie **
Ghoul School *
Goremet Zombie Chef from Hell BOMB!
The Grapes of Death ***
Grave Misdemeanors (aka Night Life) **
Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love **
Haeckel's Tale ***
Hard Rock Zombies **
Hell of the Living Dead **
Hey, You've Got Zombies in Your Backyard **
Hide and Creep **
Homecoming ***
Hood of the Living Dead ***
Horror Hospital ***
Horrors of War **
Hot Wax Zombies on Wheels **
The House By the Cemetery ***
House of the Dead *
House of the Dead 2 **
Hunting Creatures *
I Eat Your Skin ***
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies **
Insane in the Brain *
The Invasion of the Dead **
Invisible Invaders **
Io Zombo Tu Zombi Lei Zomba ***
I Walked With a Zombie ***
I Was a Teenage Zombie **
I Was a Zombie for the FBI **
I, Zombie: A Chronicle of Pain **
Junk ***
King of the Zombies **
Kiss Daddy Goodbye ***
(K7B) Mutation *
Kung Fu Zombie **
Land of the Dead ***
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ***
Livelihood **
The Living Dead Girl **
Living Dead Lock Up *
Living Dead Lock Up 2: March of the Dead *
The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay (aka Battle Girl) **
Living a Zombie Dream *
Lord of the Dead **
The Mad Ghoul **
Mansion of the Living Dead **
Maplewoods **
Mark of the Astro-Zombies *
Meat Market **
Meat Market 2 **
Meat Market 3 ***
Messiah of Evil ***
Mortuary *
Motocross Zombies from Hell *
Mucha Sangre **
Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker! *
Museum of the Dead **
My Boyfriend's Back **
My Dead Girlfriend **
Near Death *
Necropolis Awakened **
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand ***
Nightmare City ***
Night of the Bums **
Night of the Comet **
Night of the Dead: Leben Tod **
Night of the Living Dead (1968) ***
Night of the Living Dead (1990) ***
Night of the Living Dead 3D **
Night of the Living Dorks **
Night of the Seagulls ***
Night of the Zombies *
Nudist Colony of the Dead ***
Oasis of the Zombies **
One Dark Night ***
Ouanga **
Outpost **
Pathogen **
Pet Sematary **
Pet Sematary 2 *
Plaga Zombie ***
Plaga Zombie: Mutant Zone ***
The Plague of the Zombies ***
Planet Terror ***
Pot Zombies BOMB!
Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead **
Psychomania ***
The Quick and the Undead ***
Raiders of the Damned *
Raiders of the Living Dead *
Re-Animator ***
[Rec] ***
Redneck Zombies **
Resident Evil ***
Resident Evil: Apocalypse **
Resident Evil: Extinction ***
The Restless Dead **
Return of the Evil Dead ***
The Return of the Living Dead ***
The Return of the Living Dead Part II **
Return of the Living Dead 3 ***
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis ***
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave **
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls **
Revenge of the Zombies **
Revolt of the Zombies **
The Revolting Dead **
Rise of the Undead **
The Rising Dead **
Rome Against Rome **
The Roost ***
Route 666 **
Sabbath *
Santo Contra Los Zombies ***
SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis ***
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island ***
The Serpent and the Rainbow **
Severed: Forest of the Dead **
Shadow: Dead Riot **
Shanks ***
Shatter Dead **
Shaun of the Dead ***
Shock Waves **
Skin Crawl **
Song of the Dead **
The South Will Rise Again BOMB!
Space Zombie Bingo **
Special dEaD ***
Stacy ***
Stiff Odds *
The Stink of Flesh **
Stoned Dead **
Street Zombies (aka Ozone) *
Sugar Hill **
Swamp Zombies!!! **
Tamara **
Teenage Zombies *
Terror Creatures from the Grave **
They Came Back ***
Tokyo Zombie ***
Tombs of the Blind Dead ***
Trepanator **
Una De Zombis ***
Uncle Sam **
Undead **
Undead or Alive ***
Vampires Vs. Zombies *
Vengeance of the Zombies ***
Versus **
The Video Dead ***
Voodoo **
Voodoo Man **
Waning Solstice *
War of the Dead **
War of the Living Dead (aka Zombie Wars) ***
White Zombie ***
Wicked Little Things *
The Wickeds **
Wild Zero ***
Wiseguys Vs. Zombies **
Yakuza Zombie ***
Zombie (aka Zombie 2) ***
Zombie Bloodbath *
Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead **
Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon *
Zombie Brigade ***
Zombie Campout **
Zombie Commando ***
Zombie Cop *
Zombie Chronicles **
Zombie Cult Massacre **
Zombie Death House **
Zombie Defense Army ***
The Zombie Diaries ***
Zombie Farm **
Zombie 5: Killing Birds **
Zombie 4: After Death *
Zombiegeddon *
Zombie Genocide ***
Zombie Holocaust **
Zombie Honeymoon ***
The Zombie Hunters **
Zombiejaeger **
Zombie Lake **
Zombie Nation *
Zombie Night *
Zombie Night II (aka Awakening) ***
Zombie Nightmare **
Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence *
Zombie Outbreak *
Zombie Planet **
Zombie Planet II: Adam's Revenge ***
Zombie Rampage *
Zombie: The Resurrection *
Zombies By Design *
Zombies Gone Wild BOMB!
Zombies of Mora Tau **
Zombies On Broadway **
Zombie 3 *
Zombiez **


Supporting zombies and zombie cameos

Battlefield Baseball **
The Christmas Tale ***
Curse of the Blue Lights **
Destruction Kings *
Devil Story *
The Ghost Breakers ***
Gory Gory Hallelujah **
Graveyard Disturbance **
The Killbillies *
Midnight Skater **
Shaolin Vs. Evil Dead **
Snuffin' Zombies *
Storm of the Dead **
Voodoo Moon **
The Woman Eater **
Zeder ***
Zombie Aftermath **
Zombie Doom (aka Violent Shit III) **
Zombie Toxin **


Zombie shorts

Amid the Dead **
Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle ***
Apache Point: Zombies Gone Wild *
Better Off Undead **
Brains **
Children of the Plague **
Confederate Zombie Massacre **
Corpses of Doom ***
Cube Zombies **
Danger! 50,000 Zombies! ***
Dead Girl Walking **
Deadline ***
The Diary ***
Dinner **
Enter the Zombie **
Evil Night **
Feast of the Dead **
A Fistful of Flesh **
Forlorn ***
Graveyard ***
A Guy's Guide to Zombies ***
Half Life ***
The Hills Are Dead *
I Heart Zombie ***
I'll See You in My Dreams ***
Jesus H. Zombie **
Killzone **
Lawrence of Zombania **
Lover from Beyond the Grave **
Night of the Living Bread **
Oh, No! Zombies! **
Red State ***
Rigor Mortis ***
The Second Death **
The Secret of Zombie Mountain **
The Soldier ***
Strangers in the Night ***
Strike *
Summer Cabin **
Texas Fortune ***
To Maim a Mockingbird *
28 Seconds Later ***
Undead Ted **
Unsettled **
Uuugh! The Movie **
Wasted West **
What to Do In a Zombie Attack **
When Zombies Attack!! ***
Winter of the Dead ***
Zombie Christ *
Zombie Hunter (German) *
Zombie Hunter (Australian) ***
Zombie Killers **
Zombie Love ***
Zombie: The Mission *
Zombie Movie **
Zombie Prom ***
Zombies? ***
Zombie Warrior **
Zombiewestern: It Came from the West ***
Zombie Xtreme **
Zombie (Zero) **
Zomboy: Diary of a Teenage Zombie **


Zombie serials

Dead Patrol: Episode One ***
Deadscapes: Broken Road *
Deadscapes II ***
War of the Dead: Episode One ***
War of the Dead: Episode Two ***


Quasi-zombie movies

Blue Sunshine ***
The Boneyard ***
The Crazies ***
Day X ***
Electric Zombies BOMB!
The Ghouls ***
I Drink Your Blood ***
The Mad ***
Mulberry St. ***
Mutant **
Neon Maniacs **
The Newlydeads **
Nightmare at Noon **
Night of the Creeps ***
The Night of the Hunted ***
Office Outbreak **
Porno Holocaust *
The Rage **
The Ruining **
The Shadow Walkers *
Shivers ***
Slither ***
Toxic Zombies **
28 Days Later ***
28 Weeks Later ***
The Veil *
Warning Sign ***
Zombie High **
Zombie Town **


Zombie docs

The Dead Will Walk ***
Document of the Dead ***
The Unexplained: Zombies ***

[StephenA]

I love zombie movies. My favorites are Dead Alive/Braindead, Night Of The Living Dead(remake), Dawn Of The Dead(original), Return Of The Living Dead, and Zombie. I don't know why, but I never liked the original Night Of The Living Dead. My 2 favorite zombies are Bub from Day Of The Dead and severely rotted one from the small cemetary in Zombie.

I remember one time when I was about 15, a friend of mine, my cousin, and I watched Return Of The Living Dead part 3, which I think it was the unrated version. Right after we finished watching it, my mom came and told us it was dinner time. When we got to the table we saw it was spaghetti with hamburg and sauce, and we all started to gag.

[Inspector Hammer!]

I love virtually every zombie film ever made on some level or another, there hasn't been one yet that I have disliked.

Of course Romero's film's are among my favorites, and i'm seeing Land of the Dead at 3:00 today, hopefully it will make the cut. I would have to say that my three all time favorites are Return of the Living Dead (it's sequel isn't bad either) Night of the Living Dead 1990 (huge supporter of that one) and Dawn of the Dead 2004, although I still love the originals of the last two.

I really liked the clausterphobic atmosphere generated in Resident Evil and enjoyed Resident Evil Apocolypse alright, the best part about that film were the zombies for me.

Of course, we can't have a zombie appreciation thread without a brief analysis on why they are so frightening, and this may only apply to me, you of course may read something totally different into the whole issue...

Zombies, that is to say the reanimated dead, is really the only other thing left, besides ghost stories, that really terrify me. I hate the whole concept of them, there is something so sick and perverse about the idea of a dead human being, who was good, kind and of strong moral fiber in life, getting up and eating the living.

It's a level of hell that is just unimaginable, i've had many a nightmare about zombies, they are fearful, dirty, vicious creatures that tap into that part of my brain that still remembers all too well of being afraid of the unknown shadows in my room at night. They're groans and moans insult humanity and so does they're very exsistence, God has truly abandoned us in these films and the Earth is now a stinking rot.

These films tell me that we've royally fucked this planet up with our industries, cities and greed to the point where we are being punished for it by this plague. I cannot imagine a more terrifying fate for mankind than what is presented in these films, these people should be dead, but they walk with their hunger for us...what a filthy, truly Satanic end for humanity.

[SteveGon]

Yeah, I think the concept of a zombie, especially as envisioned in Romero's films, touches on our dread feelings concerning death and decay (not to mention our cultural aversion to cannibalism!). Also coming into play here are our inherent fears of being overwhelmed by something we can't control. Scary stuff as far as I'm concerned.

As for some of the films mentioned here, Lucio Fulci's Zombie doesn't do a whole lot for me, and of the RTOTLD trilogy, only part three is a favorite. I like the DOTD remake (and also the NOTLD remake). Resident Evil is a lot of fun and gets a bad rap (but the second one did suck).


Anyway:


Undead - From the land down under, this one is a little out there with its mix of aliens and zombies. Not too bad, but a couple of stupid scenes hurt it.

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


The Stink of Flesh - Indie undead outing that explores sex after the zombie holocaust. Gore and kinky sex - you want more than that? Amateurish and dumb at times, though it gets ahold of itself in the second half.

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


Dead Meat - Irish zombies! A new strain of mad cow disease causes an outbreak of zombies. Can the few survivors stranded in the countryside make it to safety? Doesn't really try anything new (or silly), just good ol' zombie madness.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


They Came Back - Interesting French twist on zombies: just what wouldj we do if the dead started returning? Would their loved ones want them around? Can they get their old jobs back? Do they still have to pay taxes and can they collect social security?

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: zero out of ****


King of the Zombies - silly, early forties B-movie about a mad scientist on a tropical island creating zombies for the Axis war effort. An enjoyable trifle.

** out of ****

Goreometer rating: zero out of ****


Land of the Dead - George Romero returns to the living dead genre in spectacular fashion. This time the zombies are getting smarter and can actually plan their attacks.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****

[Linda Thompson]

Don't forget the Evil Dead/EDII/AOD trilogy, Re-Animator, and Pet Semetery...all technically zombie (i.e. "dead come back to life") entries. These particular ones don't include the cannibalism angle, though, so they're a bit distinct from the ones already mentioned.

[MarcoBiscotti]

My favorites in order of preferance...

Carnival Of Souls, NOTLD, Original Dawn, Re-Animator (if that's considered a zombie flick), Day Of The Dead, Return Of The Living Dead, 28 Days Later and Dawn '04.


Haven't seen LOTD though I was greatly anticipating it's release, and am now expecting to be extremely underwhelmed and dissapointed.