Released at most 1967-12-31, Zombies (Sorted by Year Ascending)
1. White Zombie (1932)
G | 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: 8,951
2. Chalta Purza (1932)
Action
Director: Balwant Bhatt | Stars: Jayant, Padmadevi, Umakant, Shirin Banu
3. The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
76 min | Mystery, Crime, Drama
A mad scientist devises a formula that puts people into a zombie-like trance to do his bidding.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall
Votes: 44
4. Maniac (1934)
14A | 51 min | Horror
A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller
Votes: 2,083
5. The Lost City (I) (1935)
80 min | Sci-Fi
An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell, Josef Swickard
Votes: 247
6. Ouanga (1936)
56 min | Horror
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.
Director: George Terwilliger | Stars: Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 55
7. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
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: 1,423
8. The Walking Dead (1936)
66 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 2,301
9. The Return of Doctor X (1939)
62 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 1,872
10. Wanli Xingshi (1939)
Horror
Directors: Toi Wong, Fok Yin | Stars: Nancy Wan-Seung Chan, Yik-Chi Tse, Kat Ngan-Tsoi, Ping Yao
11. Four Shall Die (1940)
Crime
Heiress Helen Fielding has dumped the shady Lew Covey for reporter Bill Summers. Chomping at the bit to get his hands on Helen's inheritance, Covey comes up with a scheme to do just that, ... See full summary »
Directors: William Beaudine, Leo C. Popkin | Stars: Niel Webster, Mantan Moreland, Laurence Criner, Dorothy Dandridge
12. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,917
13. King of the Zombies (1941)
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: 1,898
14. Spooks Run Wild (1941)
PG | 65 min | Horror, Comedy
The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger,... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall
Votes: 1,489
15. Bowery at Midnight (1942)
61 min | Crime, Thriller
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal
Votes: 934
16. Batman (1943)
260 min | Action, Crime
Japanese spymaster Prince Daka operates a covert espionage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo which turns American scientists into pliable zombies.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 1,779
17. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
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: 10,633
18. Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele
Votes: 567
19. Voodoo Man (1944)
62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion, attempting to revive his beautiful, but long-dead, wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Wanda McKay
Votes: 745
20. The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Smith (James Dunn), a Brooklyn police detective, arrives on a Caribbean island chasing a murderer..and wades his way through quicksand, swamps, alligators, corpses, clues, unusual suspects ... See full summary »
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Edward Ryan, Jackie Paley
Votes: 42
21. Zombies on Broadway (1945)
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: 700
22. The Face of Marble (1946)
72 min | Horror
Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with reanimating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Claudia Drake, Robert Shayne, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 286
23. The Man from Planet X (1951)
71 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert
Votes: 2,352
24. Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)
167 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The invaders come to Earth to create an H-bomb to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can take its place.
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Wilson Wood, Lane Bradford
Votes: 344
25. El monstruo resucitado (1953)
85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miroslava, Carlos Navarro, José María Linares-Rivas, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 89
26. Scared Stiff (1953)
108 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
Fleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda
Votes: 1,652
27. Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
69 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger
Votes: 961
28. Outer Space Jitters (1957)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The stooges accompany Professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Emil Sitka
Votes: 243
29. Quatermass 2 (1957)
85 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 3,292
30. Voodoo Island (1957)
76 min | Horror
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 743
31. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
70 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed?
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Autumn Russell, Joel Ashley
Votes: 802
32. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
PG | 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: 35,247
33. El ataúd del Vampiro (1958)
80 min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Graverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, Germán Robles, Yerye Beirute
Votes: 501
34. Misterios de la magia negra (1958)
86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The stage magician Eglé Elohim offers a show that is causing a sensation in an old archaeology professor who comes to see her in the theater, who is also a great specialist in the history of magic, witchcraft and ancient rituals.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Nadia Haro Oliva, Carlos Riquelme, Aldo Monti, Lulú Parga
Votes: 55
35. Womaneater (1958)
70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: George Coulouris, Vera Day, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Joyce Gregg
Votes: 469
36. I Bury the Living (1958)
77 min | Horror
Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Howard Smith
Votes: 2,405
37. The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
Votes: 3,375
38. Teenage Zombies (1959)
PG | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte, J.L.D. Morrison
Votes: 921
39. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
70 min | Horror, Mystery
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Henry Daniell
Votes: 842
40. Invisible Invaders (1959)
67 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,436
41. Night of the Ghouls (1959)
PG | 69 min | Horror
A phony spiritualist raises the dead.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Valda Hansen
Votes: 2,149
43. La casa del terror (1960)
82 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he ... See full summary »
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Yolanda Varela, Lon Chaney Jr., Yerye Beirute
Votes: 89
44. The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960 TV Movie)
69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a couple are killed in an auto accident their bodies are immediately inhabited by extraterrestrial beings. Taking refuge in an underground cave, the aliens attempt to sabotage the U.S.... See full summary »
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: Scott Peters, Linda Connell, Jason Johnson, Katherine Victor
Votes: 336
45. La maschera del demonio (1960)
87 min | Horror
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 13,073
46. Neutrón, el enmascarado negro (1960)
86 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Wolf Ruvinskis, Julio Alemán, Armando Silvestre, Roberto Ramírez Garza
Votes: 41
47. The Dead One (1961)
71 min | Horror
A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: John McKay, Linda Ormond, Monica Davis, Clyde Kelly
Votes: 181
48. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren
Votes: 693
49. Maciste contro il vampiro (1961)
89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Goliath must save the kidnapped women of his village from an evil zombie leader who needs their blood to feed his soldiers.
Directors: Sergio Corbucci, Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Gordon Scott, Leonora Ruffo, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 297
50. Muñecos infernales (1961)
81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 260