Zombies on Film: A Working Body Count of The Best and Worst
A list containing all the zombie films I have seen as of yet, ranked from the best to the worst. This list encompasses a broad definition of the genre in order to fully encapsulate its widespread influence on genre cinema as a whole (yes that means infected are included because they are influenced by the genre even if they do not fit the classic definition of a "zombie").
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- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.The towering behemoth. It gets better and better the more you watch it. It's not just a horror film; it's comic book, comedy, political allegory, adventure, disaster, etc. It's all already been said.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA 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.The induction rite by which all zombie films live. It is Prometheus, bringer of fire. Zombies may have existed before this, but zombie films, as we know them, most certainly did not.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter 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.It may not feel like a zombie film per se, but there's no denying that's exactly what this film is; just it's own Stuart Gordon-y version of one. The reanimated corpses may not be completely unfeeling (some can talk) but they all are all bloodthirsty and deranged. Madcap insanity, the precipice of madness and great amounts of fun. I may actually prefer this movie to "Night" (depends on the day) but "Night's" lasting influence is clearly more profound.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs 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.It's not perfect like "Dawn" and "Night". Romero's original vision for this probably would have been. This film is good, and weird and just plain different enough to warrant it's own notch in the canon.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon BakerThe 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.This is where things get tricky. I both love and hate that 4 Romero films own the top of this list, but when I get right down to it, they just do. I love "Land", maybe even more than "Day." It's bad rap is inexplicable. There's gorgeous nightmare imagery, political allegories and two decades of pent-up ideas and directorial innovation here. Embrace it.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.The best of the zombie comedies. Probably because it plays it so dry and straight (and British).
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsSarah PolleyVing RhamesMekhi PhiferA 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.This really is a great remake. Did it need to be one? Probably not. You can hate running zombies and infected all you want, but at least this flick knew it needed to innovate. Just looking at its influence on the genre as a whole its impact is substantial (I think more so than 28 Days Later, if only because it's more fun). The opening is still one of the most killer sequences ever filmed. Johnny Cash, one of the most perfect song choices.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollDavid WarbeckCinzia MonrealeA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.Gory, surreal and ultra weird. Only half a zombie flick, which holds it back, but still it counts.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.Along with the "Dawn" remake, the resuscitator of the zombie genre in the new century. I think the handheld digital compression hurts it, along with the avid editing and somewhat obvious ending metaphor. It thinks it's a bit better than it really is. Truly an innovator though.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers 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.A simple, exceptionally well-executed adventure voodoo zombie film. It's gore scenes legendary, not just because they were truly graphic, but because Fulci knew how to frame a shot like a nightmare. His later zombie films are more overtly surreal (especially City of the Living Dead), but he does have that spirit here too. It's tempered by more straight-forward plotting, which in some ways helps the film.
Just watch the eyeball scene again. The use of shadow as the door slides open, the lighting, the sound are true intrusions on the psyche, not just shock and awe. - DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsRose McGowanFreddy RodríguezJosh BrolinAfter 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.Really truly fun, better as a half of Grindhouse however. It's digital affectations are starting to show their age, but great popcorn midnight fare.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen 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.Great punk rock zombie flick. The best kind of zombie comedy (the kind we need more of nowadays), one where it's not a comedy so much as rollicking good time with big laughs, big gore, and big fun.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA 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.A splatter flick set to the tune of zombie. This has become the gold standard for most modern zombie "comedies" or whatever (effectively becoming it's own mini sub-genre). Contains an inventiveness and insanity that most films can only dream of.
- DirectorJaume BalagueróPaco PlazaStarsManuela VelascoFerran TerrazaJorge-Yamam SerranoA television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.The found footage zombie flick originator and it's damn good. Intense, confined-space terror.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsRupert EverettFrançois Hadji-LazaroAnna FalchiA cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.Existential ennui. Unique and indelible.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA 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.Surreal to the max. Zombie ghosts more like. Doesn't make much sense but I'm not sure it needed to. Just needed a better ending (that stake stabbing is pretty anti-climactic).
- DirectorJaume BalagueróPaco PlazaStarsJonathan D. MellorManuela VelascoÓscar ZafraIn order to ascertain the current situation inside, a supposed medical officer and a GEO team step into the quarantined and ill-fated apartment building.Nearly as good as the original. Finds just enough new ground to explore and the "twist" reveal of the zombie's origins is at least somewhat original for the genre.
- DirectorJorge GrauStarsCristina GalbóRay LovelockArthur KennedyA 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.It's a kind of hippies vs. establishment type zombie flick. The establishment has no care for the natural world and is inadvertently creating zombies out of normal folks with icky pesticides; the hippies are the only ones who can see this and save everyone before it's too late.
Fairly well-paced if not especially scary. Some solid special effects work by Fulci regular Gianetto de Rossi. - DirectorGary ShermanStarsJames FarentinoMelody AndersonJack AlbertsonSheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.Fun with some great scenes.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLane CarrollWill MacMillanHarold Wayne JonesThe military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.Not exactly a traditional zombie flick either. This is probably where the whole infected people zombies thing started, though no one says so because this film wasn't nearly as popular as Romero's true zombie films. "The Crazies" is even more overtly a political satire than his other works.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsMargie NewtonFranco GarofaloSelan KarayAfter an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.Ultra low-budget zombie film knockoff, however it's certainly much better than that. It has quite a lot of energy and fun and makes the most with the little it's given.
- DirectorFred DekkerStarsJason LivelyTom AtkinsSteve MarshallAlien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.Great fun, a party flick with alien parasite infected zombie types.
- DirectorLloyd KaufmanStarsJason YachaninKate GrahamAllyson SereboffZombified chickens attempt to kill the fast-food workers that cook them in a restaurant built on an ancient burial ground.Ridiculous. It's Troma, so what do you expect? It has that magic Troma touch where everything is so over-the-top and insane a kind of lucidity comes out of it. It's not like most modern flicks of the ilk, where it's numbing to the senses. It's the opposite, measured in a way.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsLone FlemingCésar BurnerMaría Elena ArpónMedieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.The Knights Templar (Blind Dead) are awesome to behold. They look incredibly real and invoke real terror. The movie is too languid for it's own good at times but the parts with the Dead are nightmarish.
- DirectorBrian YuznaStarsJ. Trevor EdmondMelinda ClarkeKent McCordHaving 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.I had a lot of fun with this one. It's a great crazy B-movie with no other pretensions. Not much of a RotLD flick though, but who cares?
- DirectorTom SaviniStarsTony ToddPatricia TallmanTom TowlesWhen the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.There's nothing exactly wrong with this Tom Savini remake, it's just that it doesn't seem to have much of it's own personality. It's good and it's mostly the same as the original with better special effects but the magic is missing here. It doesn't carve it's own niche.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsMichelle MorganJoshua CloseShawn RobertsA group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.Pretty good not great. It has it's moments but feels a bit empty overall.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert CarlyleSix 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.A solid sequel, that maybe doesn't completely capitalize on it's stellar opening.
- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsJesse EisenbergEmma StoneWoody HarrelsonA 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.Pretty funny. Great characters, not great zombies and too much CGI splatter. It's a comedy first though, so it's not a deal-breaker.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsHugo StiglitzLaura TrotterMaria Rosaria OmaggioAn airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.Well-paced, good midnight fun. Isn't special in any particular way, doesn't need to be.
- DirectorJeremy GardnerStarsJeremy GardnerAdam CronheimNiels BolleThe personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.Low-key zombie apocalypse blues. Good super low-budgeter more focused on character than zombie thrills.
- DirectorAndrea BianchiStarsKarin WellGianluigi ChirizziSimone MattioliAn archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.Absolutely insane and played oh so straight, or maybe it is serious? Doesn't matter. If the effects were better this would be one of the great zombie midnight thrill rides. Still needs to be seen to be believed (that ending...)
- DirectorMarcel SarmientoGadi HarelStarsShiloh FernandezNoah SeganCandice KingTwo high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.I was pretty taken with this film at times. It's not perfect, and it has a strange aloofness that both works for and against it. It's disturbing, which is good.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsStephen McHattieLisa HouleGeorgina ReillyA radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.I remember liking this film a lot when it came out, though I can't remember why now. Something with words and it's definitely original. I can scarcely remember an image from it. I need a rewatch on this one, it's sheer fade has dropped it in my book.
- DirectorLucio FulciClaudio FragassoBruno MatteiStarsDeran SarafianBeatrice RingOttaviano Dell'AcquaWhen a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.All over the place, still pretty fun.
- DirectorWilson YipStarsJordan ChanEmotion CheungSam LeeA group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak over runs their Hong Kong shopping center in the middle of the shopping day.Very Japanese, very good, a pretty good time.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsJeppe Beck LaursenCharlotte FrognerJenny SkavlanA ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.A little too enamored with itself and it's influences. It's very much Evil Dead with Nazi zombies. It's just not as clever and witty as it wants to be but it has some moments.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsBrad PittMireille EnosDaniella KerteszFormer 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.Big budget CGI Brad Pitt zombie flick. This is the mainstream breakthrough. It's actually a pretty good flick at times, though it's not for gorehounds or horror fanatics. This is an action movie through and through for the most part.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsJohn MarleyLynn CarlinRichard BackusA young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.Vietnam allegory from Bob Clark, that's interesting if a bit slow for it's subject matter.
- DirectorGregg BishopStarsJared KusnitzGreyson ChadwickChandler DarbyOn 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.Small scale, low budget, no frills. It's fun and has a good personality.
- DirectorJaume BalagueróStarsManuela VelascoPaco ManzanedoHéctor ColoméAn ill-fated television reporter is rescued and sent on a voyage across the ocean, but she is followed by the deadly virus that has plagued her and numerous others.Not as epic as it's title would lead you to believe. It's another confined space REC, without the handheld camera work the series is famous for. It was a smart choice, by this point that particular gimmick had run it's course. It's neither conclusive nor different enough to completely warrant it's existence.
- DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsBhaskar Roy ChowdhuryJadin WongRhonda FultzA group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.Super duper hippie satanic cultist zombies.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsAlan Van SprangKenneth WelshKathleen MunroeOn 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.Strange Romero zombie movie. It's pretty loose and carefree. The CGI is blasphemy.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsVíctor PetitMaría KostySandra MozarowskyIn this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-worshiping Templar Knights haunt the place.Absolute creepy as hell music. Some great images. Still super languid for good chunks of time as is the wont for most "Blind Dead" films.
- DirectorVictor HalperinStarsBela LugosiMadge BellamyJoseph CawthornA 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.Rob Zombie's first band! Nah just one of his fav flicks, I guess. Black and white cinematography is creepy but the plot is pretty simple.
- DirectorThom EberhardtStarsCatherine Mary StewartKelli MaroneyRobert BeltranA comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.Has a great premise and a lot of potential, doesn't quite deliver.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsTony KendallFernando SanchoEsperanza RoyIn this second startling film in the BLIND DEAD series, writer/director Amando de Ossorio returns to the horrific origin of the depraved Templar:More Blind Dead carnage! More action, less nightmare and atmosphere. Still doesn't find that delicate balance.
- DirectorRon LinkStarsVirginia MadsenRichard CoxKay E. KuterA college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.Watch this.
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Paul Feig, Virginia Madsen, and Sherilyn Fenn. Quite goofy. - DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsJennifer CarpenterSteve HarrisColumbus ShortA television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.Almost exactly like [REC], which worked in 2008 when that film hadn't been released stateside. Now this kinda looks half-assed.
- DirectorBreck EisnerStarsRadha MitchellTimothy OlyphantDanielle PanabakerAfter a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.A solid remake, one that contains almost none of the real DNA of the original. This is a straightforward action thriller.
- DirectorHoward J. FordJonathan FordStarsRob FreemanPrince David OseiDavid DontohAn American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.Mostly notable for having classic zombies and being a rather slower paced "older-school" zombie flick. It's still kinda boring at times.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskeyA 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.Alright video game adaptation. It's an action flick through and through.
- DirectorJ.R. BookwalterStarsPete FerryBogdan PecicMichael GrossiAn elite anti-Zombie team is assembled by the Government to cope with an ever-growing undead infection and the religious cult zealots who fanatically protect the festering foes.Shot on gloriously low-fi 8mm. Feels like a home movie, but a rather competently made and pretty fun one.
- DirectorSimon BarrettJason EisenerGareth EvansStarsLawrence Michael LevineKelsy AbbottAdam WingardSearching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.The segment by Eduardo Sanchez is a just simple genre exercise in the found footage aspect. Go-pro biker stumbles onto zombie hell. Fun if pointless.
- DirectorBrian YuznaStarsJeffrey CombsTommy Dean MussetJason BarryAfter 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.An alright, intermittently good third Re-Animator flick.
- DirectorChristopher LandonStarsTye SheridanLogan MillerJoey MorganThree scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.I quite enjoyed parts of this film. The boy scouts and boyhood bonding were really well-done, and the beginning promises a kind of zombie "Lost Boys" or "Fright Night" that never delivers. It gets pretty generic fast and is a bit tonally confused.
- DirectorMax KalmanowiczStarsMartin ShakarGil RogersGale GarnettA nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.Killer kid zombies. Sloppily made.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsAndré MorellDiane ClareBrook WilliamsDuring a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.Predates "Night", but not nearly as good. Not creepy, inventive or interesting enough but worth a look for history's sake.
- DirectorPaco PlazaStarsLeticia DoleraDiego MartínIsmael MartínezA couple's wedding day turns horrific as some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness.I get that this offshoot is supposed to be different than the others. It's more of comedy and no longer found footage. It's just not funny or enlightening enough (as a prequel) to justify it's existence.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsAlan OrmsbyValerie MamchesJeff GillenSix 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.Early Bob Clark, kinda fun.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn 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 has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.Bit of a one-joke movie.
- DirectorRob KuhnsStarsGeorge A. RomeroFred RogersH. Rap BrownA documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead (1968).Not very enlightening given the subject matter. It's like a recapsturbation of "Night."
- DirectorJonathan MilottCary MurnionStarsElijah WoodRainn WilsonAlison PillA 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.An over-the-top comedy, with gore and screaming kids. This isn't really a horror movie, this movie is played for laughs, situationally. The situation just happens to be rabid kids who ate bad chicken nuggets at lunch (like in Poultrygeist, except not nearly as insane). That's ultimately the problem with this movie. It's played as a comedy but without great set pieces or wit. And it sometimes thinks it's scary or tense, and it never really is. Still, Leigh Whannell steals the show (mostly known for his writing work) and shows a real knack for comedic timing.
- DirectorPaul MaslanskyStarsMarki BeyRobert QuarryDon Pedro ColleyWhen her boyfriend is murdered by mobsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD. She asks the voodoo priestess Mama Maitresse to summon Baron Samedi, the Lord of the Dead, to help her gain a gruesome revenge. In exchange for Sugar's soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who think they got away clean are about to find out that they are DEAD wrong.Blaxploitation zombie gang warfare. It's alright.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsClarence ThomasBrooke AdamsLuke HalpinVisitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.Nazi zombies on an island, should be great, not great. Perfectly ok.
- DirectorJordan RubinStarsRachel MelvinCortney PalmLexi AtkinsA fun weekend turns into madness and horror for a bunch of groupies looking for fun in a beaver infested swamp.Ridiculous premise and it knows it, thankfully. Still not funny or clever enough.
- DirectorYannick DahanBenjamin RocherStarsClaude PerronJean-Pierre MartinsEriq EbouaneyAn end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.The end of French new wave if you ask me. Just boundary pushing for it's sake without metaphor or substance.
- DirectorDavid BrucknerDan BushJacob GentryStarsAnessa RamseyJustin WelbornScott PoythressA horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.Doesn't make enough coherent sense to be engaging enough.
- DirectorBurr SteersStarsLily JamesSam RileyJack HustonFive sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.It's ok. Plays it totally straight which is great though.
- DirectorDavid PastorÀlex PastorStarsChris PinePiper PeraboLou Taylor PucciAs a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.Infected road trip movie. Doesn't offer anything new.
- DirectorHenry HobsonStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerAbigail BreslinJoely RichardsonA 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.Way too portentous and full of itself. Tries and fails to cure cancer before your very eyes.
- DirectorMakoto KamiyaStarsPaul MercierAlyson CourtLaura BaileyLeon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.Some kind of CGI video game spinoff. Better than most of the live action adaptations. Still mediocre.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsJeff StrykerCandice DalyMassimo VanniA woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose.Actually ok. Not good or bad, just, you know, ok.
- DirectorJonathan LevineStarsNicholas HoultTeresa PalmerJohn MalkovichAfter 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.Really not very good. It's not good at anything it attempts, it's all obvious, and lacking good sense.
- DirectorMakoto KamiyaStarsMatthew MercerDave WittenbergWendee LeeSpecial Agent Leon S.Kennedy goes against his superior's orders and works to destroy a series of biological weapons being used in a war zone in Europe.Another mediocre CGI RE adaptation.
- DirectorJeff BaenaStarsAubrey PlazaDane DeHaanJohn C. ReillyA young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.Just not funny or clever or witty or anything of the sort. It's so pointless.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterWentworth MillerWhile still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.Not very good, but better than some of the other RE sequels.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsMaria PerschyJack TaylorBárbara ReyThe living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.The worst of the "Blind Dead" films. Boring by any other name.
- DirectorApril MullenStarsDevon BostickMartha MacIsaacChristopher LloydA 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.Incompetent, but good-natured.
- DirectorRobert ScottStarsMichael St. MichaelsThaddeus GolasDouglass BellA family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.Pretty terrible, ugly and stupid.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryMichelle RodriguezAlice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.Really great music, pretty bad mind-numbing film.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiStarsIan McCullochAlexandra Delli ColliSherry BuchananAn expedition in the East Indies, encounters not only the cannibals they were looking for, but also an evil scientist and his zombie army.This is mostly an awful cannibal movie, with a few zombies at the end. Dr. Butcher is the way to go here. Just watch the trailer. That's magic.
- DirectorAlexander WittStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryEric MabiusAlice 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.Incoherent, sloppy and terrible.
- DirectorJ.S. CardoneStarsLori HeuringScout Taylor-ComptonChloë Grace MoretzKaren, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.Inept and lifeless.
- DirectorKevin HamedaniStarsJanette ArmandDoug FahlCooper HopkinsLife is wonderful for the people in the quiet, island town of Port Gamble....until a zombie virus outbreak.RED-STATE jokes. Zombies. Genius. Yeah, no.
- DirectorKiah Roache-TurnerStarsJay GallagherBianca BradeyLeon BurchillA 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.A movie that wants to be a cult classic without understanding an ounce of what it takes.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsGeir Vegar HoelØrjan GamstMartin StarrStill 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.Awful, listless sequel. I'm pretty sure everyone involved was checked out. It's ugly and there's nothing but jokey intestine pulling scenes ad nauseum.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsJames KarenThom MathewsMichael KenworthyCurious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm.Do not know the point of this. Please help.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsMena SuvariNick CannonMichael WelchWhen 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.I had the honor of falling asleep to this in 3D.
- DirectorClaudio LattanziJoe D'AmatoStarsLara WendelRobert VaughnTimothy W. WattsA group of college students go into the woods to study birds. They encounter a strange blind man who's connected to the killer zombies that prowl a dilapidated house deep in the forest.Great idea guys, execution a bit lacking. Sarcasm for everyone.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterOded FehrSurvivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.Seriously, this film is heinous. It has defenders and I can't even begin to figure out why.
- DirectorJean RollinJulian de LasernaStarsHoward VernonPierre-Marie EscourrouAnouchkaIn a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.So boring and so bad. It's not even a parody of a bad movie, it's actually just a bad movie. Like lots of terrible actors doing terrible talking while nothing good happens.
- DirectorSakichi SatoStarsTadanobu AsanoShô AikawaErika OkudaA horror-comedy about two blue-collar factory workers (who happen to be jiu-jitsu experts) dealing with a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie uprising in Tokyo.For the pure wtfery it's almost worth seeing. But it's so so so bad. It's an actual audio-visual assault on your brain cells. I'm pretty sure this is what Alex DeLarge was shown during his Ludovico scenes in "A Clockwork Orange."
- DirectorUwe BollStarsJonathan CherryTyron LeitsoClint HowardA group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.I mean, it's Uwe Boll's first film. Before he learned the craft. Hehe.