Zombies!!
by dgarling | created - 20 Sep 2014 | updated - 31 May 2017 | PublicWith hundreds of zombie films out there - many of them low-budget & low-quality - I'm documenting some of the best. It covers Voodoo zombies of the 30's and 40's, Alien enslaved zombies of the 50's, Romero style Living Dead and the Infected zombies of the 21st century. Most films have 5 or more stars, with a few campy ones thrown in that are fun to laugh at, a few for their historical significance, plus some documentaries on Zombie films.
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1. White Zombie (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Horror
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer
Votes: 11,663
Arguably the first zombie film (unless you count the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). It's solidly in the white folks afraid of black folks, voodoo hysteria tradition.
2. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Votes: 13,669
3. Invisible Invaders (1959)
Approved | 67 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Invisible aliens from the Moon invade the Earth by occupying the bodies of recently deceased humans but a scientist, his daughter and an army Major, try to fight them.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,960
One of two films with essentially identical plots released in 1959 - aliens come to earth and turn humans into their zombie slaves.
4. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore
Votes: 40,454
The more well known of two films with essentially identical plots released in 1959 - aliens come to earth and turn humans into their zombie slaves.
5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Votes: 139,230 | Gross: $0.09M
The film that changed zombies forever... despite the word not being used. Romero referred to the living dead as 'ghouls'. This is THE film to watch if you want to understand all the references in Shaun of the Dead.
6. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Unrated | 127 min | Horror, Thriller
During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross
Votes: 128,669 | Gross: $5.10M
Romero's follow-up to Night of the Living Dead, and an excellent comment on 1980's consumerism.
7. Zombie (1979)
R | 91 min | Horror
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver
Votes: 30,750
Lucio Fulci creates one of the greatest zombie film scenes ever that's worth watching the film to see it alone. Zombie shark underwater fight. Need I say more?
8. City of the Living Dead (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi
Votes: 19,372
9. Night of the Comet (1984)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 24,165 | Gross: $14.42M
Solidly 80's, the zombies in this flick result from a comet passing the earth. Remember Haley's comet?
10. Day of the Dead (1985)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy
Votes: 74,413 | Gross: $5.80M
A zombie film where you sympathize with the zombies... another Romero classic, this one with an epic helicopter scalping scene courtesy of horror makeup genius Tom Savini.
11. Re-Animator (1985)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale
Votes: 71,539 | Gross: $2.02M
12. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews
Votes: 68,958 | Gross: $14.24M
Punk rock zombies... and (if memory serves) the film that first featured zombies moaning "Braiiinns", establishing yet another zombie truth.
13. Night of the Creeps (1986)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Votes: 26,129 | Gross: $0.59M
14. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield
Votes: 27,654 | Gross: $19.60M
One of the few voodoo zombie films made after 1950. There's a scene with a chair and a spike and... ouch!
15. Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Curious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: James Karen, Thom Mathews, Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen
Votes: 21,570 | Gross: $9.21M
16. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 115,114 | Gross: $57.47M
The Ramones lend their music to this film about a pet cemetary where the buried return from the grave, a little bit worse for wear (and homicidal).
17. Braindead (1992)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin
Votes: 103,353 | Gross: $0.24M
18. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
R | 97 min | Horror
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: J. Trevor Edmond, Melinda Clarke, Kent McCord, James T. Callahan
Votes: 16,743 | Gross: $0.05M
One of my personal favorites - boy crashes motorcycle, boy's girlfriend dies in crash, boy takes body to his dad's secret government lab, girl becomes zombie, girl loves boy so much she doesn't want to eat him, girl piercers her body with glass, chains... anything she can find, to distract herself from the craving for brains. The perfect zombie for the era of body modification.
19. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
During a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 5,648
20. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 446,210 | Gross: $45.06M
Perhaps the first film of the 'infected' zombie genre, and one of the few to embrace fast zombies.
21. Resident Evil (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Votes: 288,628 | Gross: $40.12M
Milla Jovavich as an ass-kicking experiment battling zombie experiments gone wrong.
22. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
Votes: 594,348 | Gross: $13.54M
The first film I heard referred to as a ZomRomCom, Simon Pegg's love of zombie films is evident from this great movie. The coy nods to the genre (as when he's on the phone with his mother, Barbra, telling her they're coming to get her) are gems for zombie film fans.
23. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber
Votes: 272,627 | Gross: $59.02M
A very successful remake of Dawn of the Dead, with Modern Family's Ty Burrell playing a complete *beep*
24. Land of the Dead (2005)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 100,838 | Gross: $20.70M
A recent Romero offering, with (correct me if I'm wrong) zombies walking along the bottom of the sea, and a great zombie bite scene I didn't see coming.
25. Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A college student creates a drug called "Z" and sells it on campus, inadvertently resurrecting the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.
Director: Ellory Elkayem | Stars: Peter Coyote, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe
Votes: 4,722
Not the best of the franchise, but I love the unique concept of kids turning the zombie-inducing agent into a party drug, resulting in an outdoor rave going very wrong.
26. Fido (2006)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Currie | Stars: Kesun Loder, Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Kaye
Votes: 30,164 | Gross: $0.30M
Something totally different... Fido has a very 1950's idyllic suburban utopia feel, with zombies tamed thanks to a special collar. Another film where zombies tug at your heart strings.
27. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,851
The original Spanish film remade as 'Quarantine', about an outbreak in an apartment complex that gets captured by TV cameras following the local fire department.
28. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 294,022 | Gross: $28.64M
29. American Zombie (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Pic documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.
Director: Grace Lee | Stars: Austin Basis, Jane Edith Wilson, Al Vicente, Suzy Nakamura
Votes: 1,235
A mockumentary about zombies living and working in Los Angeles, and a very Burning Man-esque zombies only event.
30. Pontypool (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Votes: 35,506
Despite the weird title, a great film featuring possibly the most unique zombie-inducing agent ever.
31. Day of the Dead (2008 Video)
R | 86 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Michael Welch, AnnaLynne McCord
Votes: 21,802
32. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis wandering the streets of the city, until one day he auditions for a zombie film...
Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Jey Crisfar, Marcel Schlutt, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Keith Böhm
Votes: 2,070 | Gross: $0.01M
Borderline gay porn from director Bruce La Bruce, worth a viewing for its unique take on the zombie film.
33. Zombieland (2009)
R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America.
Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 621,786 | Gross: $75.59M
Zombies. Bill Murray. Zombie Bill Murray?
34. Dead Snow (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Geir Vegar Hoel
Votes: 70,041 | Gross: $0.04M
35. Survival of the Dead (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Joshua Peace
Votes: 22,539 | Gross: $0.10M
36. The Horde (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror
An end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.
Directors: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher | Stars: Claude Perron, Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 16,400
37. Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
R | 63 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin Kren | Stars: Michael Fuith, Theo Trebs, Anka Graczyk, Emily Cox
Votes: 5,923
An excellent German zombie film that really invokes the panic of a zombie outbreak in a relatable way.
38. The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan
Votes: 1,083,154
Leave it to TV to change zombie films forever. Instead of a 1-2 hour arc, the long format of the TV series allows us to get to know the people and their challenges like no film could. Arguably responsible for the huge popularity of zombie culture now.
39. State of Emergency (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to ... See full summary »
Director: Turner Clay | Stars: Jay Hayden, Tori White, Scott Lilly, Kathryn Todd Norman
Votes: 3,168
40. Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London.
Director: Matthias Hoene | Stars: Rasmus Hardiker, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Ashley Thomas
Votes: 20,278
41. A Little Bit Zombie (2012)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Infected by a virus, a mild mannered HR manager attempts to fulfill his overwhelming desire for brains, all while trying to keep it together so as not to incur the wrath of his bridezilla-to-be.
Director: Casey Walker | Stars: Kristopher Turner, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Shawn Roberts, Kristen Hager
Votes: 2,987
A campy film with an Evil Dead 2 look and feel, and a novel infection method for the lead zombie.
42. Cargo (2013)
7 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect his infant daughter.
Directors: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | Stars: Andy Rodoreda, Alison Gallagher, Ruth Venn, Yolanda Ramke
Votes: 4,226
43. World War Z (2013)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale
Votes: 719,933 | Gross: $202.36M
Fast zombies based in part on ants (they had an entomologist as a technical adviser).
44. Warm Bodies (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Lio Tipton
Votes: 243,697 | Gross: $66.38M
If someone can become a zombie, could they revert back to human, and what would it take? Another ZomRomCom.
45. The Returned (2013)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
Director: Manuel Carballo | Stars: Emily Hampshire, Kris Holden-Ried, Shawn Doyle, Claudia Bassols
Votes: 8,774
If a zombie infection could be reversed via medication, what happens if the supply runs low?
46. Life After Beth (2014)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.
Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon
Votes: 23,851 | Gross: $0.08M
47. Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Director: Rob Kuhns | Stars: George A. Romero, Fred Rogers, H. Rap Brown, Mark Harris
Votes: 1,787 | Gross: $0.01M
A great documentary about Night of the Living Dead that digs into the details of how and why it was made, and (most interesting to me) points out how the era it was made (Vietnam War, Civil Rights) impacted the story.
48. Doc of the Dead (2014)
TV-14 | 81 min | Documentary
The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe | Stars: Kyle William Bishop, Charlie Adlard, Joanna Angel, Steven Barton
Votes: 1,364
49. Diary of the Dead (2007)
R | 95 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Todd Schroeder
Votes: 49,255 | Gross: $0.96M
50. Dead of Night (1974)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe
Votes: 6,005 | Gross: $0.03M
51. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
R | 95 min | Horror
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
Director: Jorge Grau | Stars: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso
Votes: 9,322
The dead rise thanks to an attempt at pest control. But who's going to deal with the new pests?
52. Dead & Buried (1981)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield
Votes: 14,931 | Gross: $0.22M
53. My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann
Votes: 5,025 | Gross: $3.34M
54. Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
When Juliet, of noble Capulet birth, falls madly in love with Romeo, a zombie, the streets of fair Verona explode in an ancient feud. As the star crossed lovers struggle to overcome the ... See full summary »
Director: Ryan Denmark | Stars: Hannah Kauffmann, Jason Witter, Mark Chavez, Kate Schroeder
Votes: 89
55. Contracted (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD; but, it's actually something much worse.
Director: Eric England | Stars: Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams, Alice Macdonald, Matt Mercer
Votes: 16,471 | Gross: $0.00M
STD or zombie infection?
56. A Zombie Invasion (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
The inhabitants of a small town and it's very popular diner have to fend off a nasty infestation of hungry zombies.
Directors: Matt Green, Kely McClung | Stars: Robert Pralgo, Ted Huckabee, Stephen Caudill, Geoff McKnight
Votes: 139
57. My Fair Zombie (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Musical
In an alternate Edwardian England infested by zombies, a professor of phonetics attempts to teach a zombie woman to be a proper English lady - with hilarious and gore-soaked results! Based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Sacha Gabriel, Lawrence Evenchick, Barry Caiger, Jennifer Vallance
Votes: 149
58. Zombie Jamboree: The 25th Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead (1993 Video)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Zombie Jamboree, the 25th Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead convention that took place in 1993. Guests included numerous cast and crew of the Romero Living Dead ... See full summary »
Director: John A. Russo | Stars: David Waszak, Conrad Brooks, Lori Cardille, Mark A. France
Votes: 22
59. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Horror
An international expedition is sent into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that turns men into zombies.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Noland
Votes: 1,879
60. Zombie Hamlet (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
An ambitious filmmaker plots a re-imagining of Hamlet set during the American Civil War, but when he loses his large budget he has to accept much less money--which means making major script changes.
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Travis Wester, John Amos, A.J. Buckley, K.C. Clyde
Votes: 179
61.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode:
Zombie Nightmare
(1994)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank fool around with voodoo as Mike and the 'bots make Batman (1966) jokes in order to endure Zombie Nightmare (1987) with Adam West.
Director: Trace Beaulieu | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy
Votes: 662
62. The Zombie Vlogs (2013)
47 min | Horror
Trevor and Lucas are two friends on a road trip that takes a wrong turn when a flash-quarantine falls right on top of them, trapping them with a handful of walking corpses trying to kill them.
Director: J.C. Doler | Stars: Cory Craig, J.C. Doler, Ernst Anton Christian Krautwald, Justin Sheriff
Votes: 33
63. King of the Zombies (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor
Votes: 2,507
64. Creatures from the Pink Lagoon (2006)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Horror
In 1967, a chemical plant near a discreet roadside restroom causes an outbreak of gay zombies. At a near by beach cottage a group of best friends must fight off the undead.
Director: Chris Diani | Stars: Nick Garrison, Lowell Deo, Evan Mosher, Philip D. Clarke
Votes: 227
Campy film about gay zombies featuring several friends, so couldn't leave it off the list.
65. Planet Terror (2007)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton
Votes: 223,382
Quintin Tarantino does zombies.
66. Dance of the Dead (2008)
R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance.
Director: Gregg Bishop | Stars: Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, Carissa Fowler
Votes: 11,978
A ZomRomComProm? Yes! Best make-out scene ever.
67. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don't go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.
Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
Votes: 451,034 | Gross: $42.07M
Hillbilly zombies, among other terrors, befall a bunch of 20-somethings looking for a fun getaway in the woods. Not at all what I expected, in a good way.
68. Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After the death of Max's spouse, Lila, Max holds a funeral for her, but he has also reanimates her as a zombie. He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges him for control.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele
Votes: 826
69. Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi, Anne Jeffreys
Votes: 877
70. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby
Votes: 5,027
71. Shock Waves (1977)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Clarence Thomas, Brooke Adams, Luke Halpin, John Carradine
Votes: 6,296
72. Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
A group of college kids accidentally create, and then unleash, a curse that makes anyone they come into contact with kill themselves and then turn into zombie demons.
Director: April Mullen | Stars: Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, Christopher Lloyd, Brandon Jay McLaren
Votes: 4,275
If you can make out with these zombies, they'll do your bidding... just don't let them give you a hickey, cuz then you'll turn, too.
73. Doom (2005)
R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei
Votes: 118,766 | Gross: $28.21M
Not a classic zombie film, but definitely some dead coming back to life going on here... on Mars... with The Rock.
74. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998 Video)
TV-G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Mystery Gang reunite and visit Moonscar Island, a remote island with a dark secret. Daphne wants more than just a villain in a costume, and they get more than they ever expected.
Director: Jim Stenstrum | Stars: Scott Innes, Billy West, Mary Kay Bergman, Frank Welker
Votes: 18,050
Scooby-Doo does zombies.
75. In the Flesh (2013–2014)
TV-14 | 56 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Four years after the Rising, the government starts to rehabilitate the Undead for reentry into society, including teenager Kieren Walker, who returns to his small Lancashire village to face a hostile reception, as well as his own demons.
Stars: Luke Newberry, Harriet Cains, Marie Critchley, Steve Cooper
Votes: 13,932
British TV drama about a boy returning home after treatment for Partially Deceased Syndrome. Great story exploring a different side of the zombie world... as victims of prejudice.
76. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
Director: Alexander Witt | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr
Votes: 210,038 | Gross: $51.20M
77. Dead Meat Walking: A Zombie Walk Documentary (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
A real-life zombie epidemic is spreading. Inspired by the increasing popularity of zombie movies and television shows, men, women and children across the globe use gruesome makeup and ... See full summary »
Director: Omar J. Pineda | Stars: Tom Savini, Norman Reedus, John A. Russo, Judith O'Dea
Votes: 21
Documentary about the cultural obsession with zombies, and zombie walks in particular.
78. Deadheads (2011)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack, and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with its own agenda.
Directors: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce | Stars: Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Markus Taylor, Sebastian Galasso
Votes: 5,548
79. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A talented mechanic prepares to battle his way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters after his sister is kidnapped on the eve of a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner | Stars: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Keith Agius
Votes: 18,384
80. Maggie (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.
Director: Henry Hobson | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson, Laura Cayouette
Votes: 46,736 | Gross: $0.19M
81.
Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)
Episode:
Pilot
(2015)
TV-14 | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A highly dysfunctional blended family is forced together when they realize a reported virus is actually the onset of the undead apocalypse.
Director: Adam Davidson | Stars: Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey
Votes: 9,347
82. Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Still on the run from a group of Nazi zombies, a man seeks the aid of a group of American zombie enthusiasts, and discovers new techniques for fighting the zombies.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Geir Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr, Jocelyn DeBoer
Votes: 26,748
83. Bunks (2013 TV Movie)
PG | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
When two trouble-making brothers scam their way into an idyllic summer camp, they find themselves leading a rag tag cabin of boys into breaking every rule in the book. But the real trouble ... See full summary »
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Dylan Schmid, Aidan Shipley, Emilia McCarthy, Atticus Mitchell
Votes: 888
84. Cooties (2014)
R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer
Votes: 28,595 | Gross: $0.06M
85. Night of the Living Deb (2015)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
After a girls' night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. Pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door into a full-scale zombie apocalypse.
Director: Kyle Rankin | Stars: Maria Thayer, Michael Cassidy, Julie Brister, Nan'l Meiklejohn
Votes: 4,246
86. Aaah! Zombies!! (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
Turning the zombie film on its head, this film is an oddball comedy from the perspective of the brain munching monsters themselves.
Director: Matthew Kohnen | Stars: Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, Michael Grant Terry, Betsy Beutler
Votes: 3,510
87. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.
Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote
Votes: 60,464 | Gross: $10.91M
88. Amigo Undead (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
In this comic horror movie, two estranged brothers reunite at a birthday party in the woods but when the partygoers awaken an ancient demonic force, the brothers must find a way to put aside their differences in order to escape.
Director: Ryan Nagata | Stars: Eric Acosta, Steve Agee, David Clennon, Jeff Bryan Davis
Votes: 425
89. Freaks of Nature (2015)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers - one human, one vampire, and one zombie - have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Nicholas Braun, Mackenzie Davis, Josh Fadem, Denis Leary
Votes: 13,378
90. Train to Busan (2016)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an
Votes: 259,101 | Gross: $2.13M
91. The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Sennia Nanua, Fisayo Akinade, Dominique Tipper, Paddy Considine
Votes: 64,457
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