Good Zombie Movies

[Dan Corson]

Crap, I forgot Fido,


GO SEE FIDO

YES! Fido is AWESOME!

[Archelon]

[*] Dead Space: Downfall (not bad for an anime)

It's not an anime. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), there aren't any anime that focus on zombies or zombie outbreaks. There are anime with zombies in them, such as Hellsing or Tokyo Majin, but the zombies aren't the focus.

[*] I am Legend

Aren't those supposed to be some kind of vampire?

[Darkmoon]

The one where the survivors hole up in the Big Brother house? Yes, I did. It was good, but the ending felt very forced, and several characters acting very stupidly to keep it going.

[Chimera]

Hey Dark,

Have you by chance seen Charlie Brooker's Dead Set TV mini-series? If not, I highly recommend that you do so.

[Harry Mason]

An older movie called Castle of the Walking Dead (1967) if I remember correctly kicks off with zombies.

[BLSR1]

Crap, I forgot Fido,


GO SEE FIDO

[Darkmoon]

28 Days Later takes what a zombie can be to a higher level and does it better, in my opinion. after all, the definition of a zombie is a "re-animated corpse or a mindless human being."

Exactly! The ones in 28 Days are neither reanimated nor mindless. Just really, really pissed off. You can even hear pone, the little boy in the burger place, snarl, 'I hate you!'

And ah, Blood and Cornettos. How we love you, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. How we love you. I do look forward to the third one, but I don't think there are any major details yet. Other than it's rumored that Nick Frost will be the lead this time.

Anyway, some good looking titles. I'm glad no one's mentioned any of the movies on my Never Speak Of Again list, such as the Zombie Diaries and Gangs of the Dead. Oh lord.

[Branden_Lucero]

^Yeah, I noticed that before. I was gonna say something about it but forgot.

Hot Fuzz was awesome, Simon Pegg is the freakin' man...but it's...not a zombie movie. At all.

its not "zombie" as in people are dead and brought back to life like your every day zombie film. its zombie as in, a group of people are controlled in a cult, or "a mindless drone", like RE4 in a way, which also uses a different meaning of the word zombie.

but i'll always include it, cause its a trilogy of films that Simon Pegg is doing, with the 3rd film titled "The World's End" coming maybe sometime in 2010..

[Project Omega]

I need to complete my Zombi collection. I have Zombi 3 and Zombi 4...

I heard wind of a new Romero movie coming out sometime this year... Survival of the Dead or something like that...

There's also World War Z coming out next year or something... That should be interesting...

My favorite zombie movies are :

• Day of the Dead (original)
• 28 Days Later
• Dawn of the Dead (remake)
• Dawn of the Dead (original)
• Night of the Dead (remake)
• Diary of the Dead
• Pet Cemetary
• Dead Space: Downfall (not bad for an anime)
• Quarantine (it was pretty good)
• Dead Alive (lol)
• Shaun of the Dead
• All Souls Day
• Fido
• I am Legend
• The Last Man on Earth (the original version of "I am Legend" which isn't so bad, just old.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWm7lD3V3lE
• King of the Zombies (an ooooooold movie, but worth a watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgS0ex6LTug

Stuff I wanted to watch, but can't find or too lazy to look for :

• The Plague
• The Serpent and the Rainbow (I've seen only bits and pieces of it)
• Undead

[Vector]

^Yeah, I noticed that before. I was gonna say something about it but forgot.

Hot Fuzz was awesome, Simon Pegg is the freakin' man...but it's...not a zombie movie. At all.

[Dan Corson]

*Finds the mention of Hot Fuzz to be hilarious.*

[BLSR1]

I prefer my zombies slow and in great numbers. Fast Zombie movies rely too much on Shock horror (see 28 weeks later). Its startling, but not the true horror slow zombies can provide. Return of the Living dead gave us truly horrifying fast zombies. When theres less shock horror and a writer / director really tries, a great fast zombie movie can be made.

Here are some good zombie movies.
Night of the Living Dead (remake) - Takes the horror classic and updates it with color and more gore
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Cemetery Man - an obscure Italian zombie movie that doesn't focus on zombies much, but makes up for it with trippy surreal psychological horror
Zombie 2 - cheesy, but disturbing
Return of the Living Dead - actually not the first fast zombie movie, but its a hilarious and scary film

[kevstah2004]

Tales from the Crypt

[Branden_Lucero]

28 Days Later takes what a zombie can be to a higher level and does it better, in my opinion. after all, the definition of a zombie is a "re-animated corpse or a mindless human being."

[Darkmoon]

I'm both proud and slightly depressed that I've seen almost all the suggestions so far, and own a good chunk on DVD. So far CODE is winning. There a couple in that list I've never seen.

On a technical note, 28 Days doesn't count as a zombie. The infected aren't dead, they don't eat people, etc. I do still count it because it has the same vibe as a zombie movie, but I like sounding smart and technical.